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IGBT inventor wins $1m prize
IGBT inventor wins $1m prize
Feature articles | - By Nick Flaherty
The 2024 Millennium Technology Prize has been awarded to Professor Bantval Jayant Baliga of North Carolina State University for the invention of the Insulated Gate Bipolar Transistor (IBGT). Since its...
Glass substrate alliance for AI chiplets
Glass substrate alliance for AI chiplets
Business news | - By Nick Flaherty
An alliance of companies is aiming to boost the use of glass substrates for more complex AI chips and chiplets. The E-Core Alliance is led by E&R Engineering in Taiwan and brings together over 15 ...
300mm wafer for GaN devices
300mm wafer for GaN devices
Technology News | - By Nick Flaherty
Shin-Etsu Chemical in Japan has created a 300mm (12in) substrate for GaN epitaxial growth and recently started supplying samples. The QST 300mm wafer from Shin-Etsu have the same coefficient of therma...
theion opens solid state sulfur battery centre
theion opens solid state sulfur battery centre
Business news | - By Nick Flaherty
German battery company theion has opened a Technology Centre in Berlin as it starts customer evaluation of its sulfur battery cells. The theion centre in the science and technology park in Adlershof i...
Thread 1.4 boost for IoT
Thread 1.4 boost for IoT
Business news | - By Nick Flaherty
The latest version of the Thread protocol aims to boost interoperability and extend network reliability, reach, and performance in the Internet of Things (IoT). The…
Custom ASIC for 14bit precision oscilloscope
Custom ASIC for 14bit precision oscilloscope
New Products | - By Nick Flaherty
Keysight Technologies has developed a custom ASIC for its 14-bit analogue-to-digital converter (ADC) oscilloscope to provide four times the signal resolution and half the noise…

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ESIA calls for more funds and support from European Chips Act 2.0
ESIA calls for more funds and support from European Chips Act 2.0
News | - By Peter Clarke
The European Semiconductor Industry Association (ESIA) has asked the European Union to create a Chips Act 2.0, speed up the distribution of subsidies and create…
Europe’s chip market nose-dives while America’s booms
Europe’s chip market nose-dives while America’s booms
Market news | - By Peter Clarke
Europe’s chip market was down 12.0 percent in July compared with a year before in a global chip market that achieved 18.7 percent annual growth,…
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IGBT inventor wins $1m prize
IGBT inventor wins $1m prize
Feature articles | - By Nick Flaherty
The 2024 Millennium Technology Prize has been awarded to Professor Bantval Jayant Baliga of North Carolina State University for the invention of the Insulated Gate…
300mm wafer for GaN devices
300mm wafer for GaN devices
Technology News | - By Nick Flaherty
Shin-Etsu Chemical in Japan has created a 300mm (12in) substrate for GaN epitaxial growth and recently started supplying samples. The QST 300mm wafer from Shin-Etsu…
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Stellantis, Foxconn joint venture signs Siemens tools
Stellantis, Foxconn joint venture signs Siemens tools
Business news | - By Nick Flaherty
SiliconAuto has adopted PAVE360 software from Siemens Digital Industries Software to help reduce development time for its automotive chips. SiliconAuto, a joint venture of European…
Volvo to use Blackwell GPU in software-defined cars
Volvo to use Blackwell GPU in software-defined cars
Technology News | - By Nick Flaherty
Volvo Cars launched its first software defined vehicle this week using the Orin processor from Nvidia and plans to use the Blackwell GPU architecture. Volvo…
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ROHM and UAES sign SiC power device agreement
ROHM and UAES sign SiC power device agreement
Business news | - By Jean-Pierre Joosting
Building on a long-standing technical partnership, the agreement ensures UAES has a long term sulky of SiC devices for the Chinese market.
4G gateways simplify industrial network integration
4G gateways simplify industrial network integration
New Products | - By Jean-Pierre Joosting
Reliable and cost-effective 4G gateways enable seamless connectivity of Ethernet devices and serial buses to LTE cellular networks.
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Nokia and CommScope deliver AI-driven Wi-Fi and fiber connectivity
Nokia and CommScope deliver AI-driven Wi-Fi and fiber connectivity
Business news | - By Jean-Pierre Joosting
Nokia and RUCKUS Networks, a CommScope brand, collaborate on integrated Wi-Fi and fiber to deliver purpose-driven end-user experience in key industry verticals.
Broadband platform for seamless deployment of Wi-Fi 7
Broadband platform for seamless deployment of Wi-Fi 7
New Products | - By Jean-Pierre Joosting
Broadband platform enables Wi-Fi 7 to be deployed immediately without dealing with a long implementation process.
Smart2.0
Researchers Crack the Code to Boost Solar Cell Efficiency
Researchers Crack the Code to Boost Solar Cell Efficiency
Technology News | - By Wisse Hettinga
Researchers at the School of Engineering of the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (HKUST) have developed a molecular treatment that significantly enhances the…
Mobile Test Platform for Offshore Wind Turbines
Mobile Test Platform for Offshore Wind Turbines
Technology News | - By Wisse Hettinga
Researchers at the Fraunhofer Institute for Wind Energy Systems IWES have developed a mobile test platform that enables realistic tests to be performed at full…
Energy harvesting
Meyer Burger restructuring sees German cell factory stay open
Meyer Burger restructuring sees German cell factory stay open
Business news |
Swiss solar cell and module maker Meyer Burger is to restructure its business in a move that will keep its German cell factory open and…
By Nick Flaherty
Meyer Burger restructuring sees German cell factory stay open

Swiss solar cell and module maker Meyer Burger is to…
Spinout plans 140x boost for TENG nanogenerator

Researchers in the UK have developed a highly efficient, flexible…
Flexible multijunction solar cell looks to 45% efficiency

Researchers in the UK have developed a multijunction solar cell…
TJ Rodgers at heart of US solar panel consolidation

The founder of Cypress Semiconductor, TJ Rodgers, has emerged as…
Coating boost for tandem perovskite solar cell

Researchers in China have developed two different ways of protecting…
Technology news
Researchers Crack the Code to Boost Solar Cell Efficiency
Researchers Crack the Code to Boost Solar Cell Efficiency
Technology News | - By Wisse Hettinga
Researchers at the School of Engineering of the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (HKUST) have developed a molecular treatment that significantly enhances the…
Mobile Test Platform for Offshore Wind Turbines
Mobile Test Platform for Offshore Wind Turbines
Technology News | - By Wisse Hettinga
Researchers at the Fraunhofer Institute for Wind Energy Systems IWES have developed a mobile test platform that enables realistic tests to be performed at full…
Biohybrid robots controlled by electrical impulses — in mushrooms
Biohybrid robots controlled by electrical impulses — in mushrooms
News | - By Wisse Hettinga
In creating a pair of new robots, Cornell researchers cultivated an unlikely component, one found not in the lab but on the forest floor: fungal…
Materials & processes
Glass substrate alliance for AI chiplets
Glass substrate alliance for AI chiplets
Business news |
An alliance of companies is aiming to boost the use of glass substrates for more complex AI chips and chiplets. The E-Core Alliance is led…
By Nick Flaherty
Glass substrate alliance for AI chiplets

An alliance of companies is aiming to boost the use…
300mm wafer for GaN devices

Shin-Etsu Chemical in Japan has created a 300mm (12in) substrate…
theion opens solid state sulfur battery centre

German battery company theion has opened a Technology Centre in…
BMW, Toyota to launch hydrogen cars in 2028

BMW plans to launch its first-ever series production hydrogen fuel…
Scrona teams for digital ink

Swiss MEMS print head developer Scrona is working with Electroninks…
Feature articles
The external power adapter Is dead
The external power adapter Is dead
Feature articles | - By Nick Flaherty
The market for external power supplies for mobile phones and laptops is set to transition over the next 12 months to a new form factor…
Tech makes millions of connections in a square millimeter of silicon
Tech makes millions of connections in a square millimeter of silicon
Feature articles | - By Wisse Hettinga
Read the IEEE report on new technologies Hybrid Bonding and 3d chip design Chipmakers continue to claw for every spare nanometer to continue scaling…
Automating PCB trace selection in signal integrity simulation
Automating PCB trace selection in signal integrity simulation
Feature articles | - By Nick Flaherty
Antmicro has developed an open source automated workflow for selecting key PCB traces for board simulation tools. Antmicro offers end-to-end hardware design services based on…
Optoelectronics
Sivers to spin out photonics division into a SPAC
Sivers to spin out photonics division into a SPAC
Business news |
Sivers Semiconductors in Sweden is looking to spin out its photonics division into a special purpose acquisition company (SPAC) to take advantage of the hype…
By Nick Flaherty
Sivers to spin out photonics division into a SPAC

Sivers Semiconductors in Sweden is looking to spin out its…
LightSolver looks to €12.5m for optical supercomputer

Israeli startup LightSolver has raised €2.5m in a European grant…
A low power programmable network for optical AI

Researchers in Switzerland have developed a low power non-linear neural…
Fraunhofer team creates small ‘green’ hydrogen cell

Three Fraunhofer institutes have teamed up to develop a modular,…
Nokia heads into the data centre with $2.3bn Infinera buy  

Nokia is to acquire US optical networking specialist Infinera in…
Market news
Automotive memory solutions lineup
Automotive memory solutions lineup
Market news | - By Wisse Hettinga
Samsung Announces Work With Qualcomm To Support Premium In-Vehicle Infotainment and Advanced Driver Assistance Systems Samsung Electronics, the world leader in advanced memory technology, today…
Analyst shaves 2024 chip market growth forecast
Analyst shaves 2024 chip market growth forecast
Market news | - By Peter Clarke
Market researcher Semiconductor Intelligence has shaved its prediction for chip market growth in 2024 over 2023 to 17 percent, down from 18 percent given in…
Mobile Core Network market hits historic low in 2Q 2024
Mobile Core Network market hits historic low in 2Q 2024
Market news | - By Jean-Pierre Joosting
Overall Mobile Core Network market declined 15 percent, while the 5G growth rate stalled for the first time, declining eight percent.
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