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LATEST NEWS

ARM, IBM team on low power analog AI chip Technology News | September 9, 2022 Researchers at ARM and IBM have developed a 14nm analog compute in memory chip for low power machine learning… Dolpin Design teams for RISC-V headphone 3.0 chips Business news | September 9, 2022 Dolphin Design has teamed up with Sonical in the US on the design of next generation headphones … Computational packaging boost for quantum photonic chips Technology News | September 9, 2022 Wave Photonics in Cambridge is leading a UK project to develop new packaging techniques for quantum photonic integrated circuits (QPICs). £2m for Nexeon to ramp silicon battery material production Business news | September 8, 2022 Nexeon has raised an additional £2m (€2.3m) for to boost high volume manufacture of silicon materials for high performance batteries.

EENEWS POWER

Navitas integrates GaN half bridge in single package Technology News | September 9, 2022 Navitas Semiconductor has integrated a complete GaN half bridge with drivers into a single package… AMTE Power CEO steps down Business news | September 8, 2022 Kevin Brundish, CEO and founder of UK battery maker AMTE Power, stepping down  II-VI confirms name change to Coherent Business news | September 8, 2022 II-VI has officially changed its name to Coherent after a bruising takeover battle Atmosic teams for Exeger’s IoT solar cells Business news | September 9, 2022 Swedish solar cell developer Exeger has teamed with energy harvesting chip maker Atmosic Technologies XP Power starts its third factory in Asia Business news | September 9, 2022 XP Power has started construction of a manufacturing plant in Perak, Malaysia, its third in the region Funds for pilot plant for UK lithium production Business news | September 9, 2022 Cornish Lithium has secured additional funding to build a pilot lithium production plant in St Austell AI power management DC-DC regulator adds fast PWM engine New Products | September 9, 2022 Infineon Technologies has launched its next generation of point of load DC-DC regulator for AI chips … 2400W AC-DC supply has 96% efficiency New Products | September 8, 2022 Advanced Energy Industries (AEI) has launched a 2400W AC-DC power supply for data centres  Ilika scales up for UK solid state battery production Business news | September 8, 2022 UK battery developer Ilika is running trials of equipment to scale up production of its silicon solid state battery cells 200V MOSFETs target light electric vehicles New Products | September 8, 2022 Magnachip Semiconductor in Korea has introduced its third-generation 200V Medium Voltage (MV) MOSFETs  Vestas taps TTTech for world’s first 15 MW wind turbine Business news | September 7, 2022 TTTech Industrial is supplying its distributed real time Ethernet control technology to Vestas wind turbines €2.3m to scale up indoor solar cell production in Europe Business news | September 7, 2022 Epishine in Sweden  has received a grant of SEK 25m (€2.3m) to scale up production of indoor solar cells Flexible 1200V SiC power modules simplify inverter designs New Products | September 6, 2022 STMicroelectronics has launched two STPOWER modules with 1200V silicon-carbide (SiC) MOSFETs in popular configurations. Self-charging headphones use flexible solar cells Technology News | September 5, 2022 Adidas Headphones has developed self-charging headphones using solar cells from Swedish supplier Exeger.

OTHER NEWS

Segger teams to support Geehy APM32 MCU Business news | September 9, 2022 Segger is supporting the APM32 ARM-based microcontroller from Chinese chip maker Geehy Semiconductor  Graph AI chip challengers drive AI as a service Feature articles | September 9, 2022 The challenge of breaking into the data centre to provide AI services is driving chip makers to new business models First RISC-V chip optimised for motor control New Products | September 8, 2022 Renesas Electronics has developed the industry’s first RISC-V MCU specifically optimized for motor control