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Cadence tries again with £2.5m design centre in Wales
Cadence tries again with £2.5m design centre in Wales
Business news | - By Nick Flaherty
US EDA company Cadence Design Systems is setting up a semiconductor design centre in Wales with backing from the Compound Semiconductor Applications (CSA) Catapult and £2.5m (€3m) from Welsh governmen...
Siemens to cut a third of jobs in EV charging business
Siemens to cut a third of jobs in EV charging business
Business news | - By Nick Flaherty
Siemens is planning to cut a third of its electric vehicle charging business as part of 5600 job cuts in its industrial automation business. There will be 450 job cuts in the newly formed EV charging ...
BlueHalo advances long-haul laser communication capability
BlueHalo advances long-haul laser communication capability
Technology News | - By Jean-Pierre Joosting
Space-based laser communication capability is orders of magnitude greater than existing technology in orbit today....
High-power LTE-M/NB-IoT module targets private LTE and utilities
High-power LTE-M/NB-IoT module targets private LTE and utilities
New Products | - By Jean-Pierre Joosting
LTE-M/NB-IoT module delivers unprecedented transmit power of up to 28 dBm for LTE-M and 30 dBm for NB-IoT....
SEEQC builds first quantum GPU interface
SEEQC builds first quantum GPU interface
Technology News | - By Nick Flaherty
US startup SEEQC has built the first digital interface to connect quantum chips to GPUs for real-time error correction. SEEQC has demonstrated an end-to-end interface…
Infineon adds six protocols to XMC7000 microcontroller 
Infineon adds six protocols to XMC7000 microcontroller 
Business news | - By Nick Flaherty
Infineon Technologies and RT-Labs have integrated six Fieldbus and Ethernet-based protocols into the firmware of the triple core XMC7000 industrial microcontroller. The firmware is available…

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European Chips Act funds persuade ChipFlow to relocate to Spain
European Chips Act funds persuade ChipFlow to relocate to Spain
Business news | - By Peter Clarke
ChipFlow Ltd. (Cambridge, England), a startup developing an open source semiconductor chip design platform, is moving to Spain to benefit from European Chips Act grants…
‘Zero Eye Skew’ demonstration planned for PCIe7
‘Zero Eye Skew’ demonstration planned for PCIe7
Technology News | - By Peter Clarke
Fabless mixed-signal chip company Thine Electronics Inc. (Tokyo, Japan) has announced an optical technology for use with linear pluggable optical interconnect. The technology is called…
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Nvidia looks to silicon photonics to cut datacentre AI power
Nvidia looks to silicon photonics to cut datacentre AI power
Technology News | - By Nick Flaherty
Nvidia has worked with foundry TSMC for high speed optical interconnect to reduce the power consumption of AI datacentres with millions of GPUs. “We are…
Consortium to develop open AI models for the power grid
Consortium to develop open AI models for the power grid
Business news | - By Nick Flaherty
In a somewhat circular move, US energy research group EPRI has set up a consortium to build open AI models to address the power challenges…
eeNews Automotive
Tackling deaths on European roads
Tackling deaths on European roads
Market news | - By Nick Flaherty
The European Commission has just released the latest figures for deaths on its roads, showing just a slight decline. Around 19,800 people were killed in…
Nvidia launches AI safety framework for driverless cars
Nvidia launches AI safety framework for driverless cars
Business news | - By Nick Flaherty
Nvidia has launched a safety framework for driverless cars that combines training, simulation and deployment as GM signs up for its technology. Halos spans platform,…
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D-Wave quantum blockchain boosts security and efficiency
D-Wave quantum blockchain boosts security and efficiency
Technology News | - By Jean-Pierre Joosting
Utilising quantum computation to generate and validate blockchain hashes rather than classical computing could decrease electricity consumption by a factor of 1000.
Clarinox and Insight SIP partner on embedded wireless
Clarinox and Insight SIP partner on embedded wireless
Business news | - By Jean-Pierre Joosting
Partnership to combine ClarinoxWiFi and ClarinoxBlue protocol stacks with cutting-edge RF modules from Insight SIP.
eeNews Wireless
BlueHalo advances long-haul laser communication capability
BlueHalo advances long-haul laser communication capability
Technology News | - By Jean-Pierre Joosting
Space-based laser communication capability is orders of magnitude greater than existing technology in orbit today.
High-power LTE-M/NB-IoT module targets private LTE and utilities
High-power LTE-M/NB-IoT module targets private LTE and utilities
New Products | - By Jean-Pierre Joosting
LTE-M/NB-IoT module delivers unprecedented transmit power of up to 28 dBm for LTE-M and 30 dBm for NB-IoT.
Smart2.0
Integrated electronics can assemble complex, functional devices
Integrated electronics can assemble complex, functional devices
News | - By Wisse Hettinga
MIT researchers developed platform that utilizes reconfigurable building blocks with integrated electronics that can be assembled into complex, functional devices MIT report: These…
Lightning fast internet where fibre fails
Lightning fast internet where fibre fails
News | - By Wisse Hettinga
Taara Lightbridge brings high speed, light-based internet access to areas where it’s too difficult or expensive to install traditional fibre From the Taara team:…
Semiconductor
Quantum computing shows strong growth into the datacenter
Quantum computing shows strong growth into the datacenter
Market news |
The market for quantum computing, communications and sensing technology was worth US$954 million in 2024 and will grow by about 15 percent to about US$1.1…
By Peter Clarke
Quantum computing shows strong growth into the datacenter

The market for quantum computing, communications and sensing technology was…
What Intel CEO Lip-Bu Tan could earn

Lip-Bu Tan’s baseline annual salary as CEO at Intel is…
How Nvidia dominated the 2024 fabless chip market

In 2024 market leader Nvidia was as big as the…
Electrons go spiral with this organic semiconductor

This development could improve the efficiency of OLED displays in…
TSMC grabs two-thirds of the foundry market

TSMC raised its share of the global pure-play foundry market…
Feature articles
The sunset of Northvolt
The sunset of Northvolt
Feature articles | - By Nick Flaherty
Having potentially raised $15bn in various grants, incentives and investment to provide battery production in Europe, Northvolt has approximately 6,600 employees across seven countries. It…
From AI to satellite: Mobile World Congress 2025
From AI to satellite: Mobile World Congress 2025
Feature articles | - By Nick Flaherty
The telecoms industry came to Barcelona in Spain this week for Mobile World Congress 2025. Over 109,000 attendees from 209 countries came to see the…
Top ten articles in February
Top ten articles in February
Feature articles | - By Nick Flaherty
A boosted low cost microcontroller, chip-free RF tag, Nvidia record results and cuts at ST, onsemi and NXP all dominated the top ten news articles…
Software & embedded tools
Infineon adds six protocols to XMC7000 microcontroller 
Infineon adds six protocols to XMC7000 microcontroller 
Business news |
Infineon Technologies and RT-Labs have integrated six Fieldbus and Ethernet-based protocols into the firmware of the triple core XMC7000 industrial microcontroller. The firmware is available…
By Nick Flaherty
Infineon adds six protocols to XMC7000 microcontroller 

Infineon Technologies and RT-Labs have integrated six Fieldbus and Ethernet-based…
2025 Automotive report highlights code quality, AI and safety

The latest survey of automotive software developers shows the focus…
Multicore and Worst-Case Execution Time (WCET) support for RISC-V

LDRA in the UK has added support for multicore processors…
OPmobility taps Siemens for digital production backbone

OPmobility in France is adopting Teamcenter X, the cloud-enabled Product…
Three team for I/O aggregator gateway

Green Hills Software has worked with Infineon Technologies and Cetitec to…
Business news
Nvidia accelerates Feynman chip design, manufacture on Blackwell GPU
Nvidia accelerates Feynman chip design, manufacture on Blackwell GPU
Business news | - By Nick Flaherty
Nvidia is using its own Blackwell GPUs to accelerate the design and manufacturing of its next generation Vera, Rubin and Feynman chips. EDA vendors…
World’s first 12 layer HBM4 DRAM chip for AI
World’s first 12 layer HBM4 DRAM chip for AI
Business news | - By Nick Flaherty
sk Hynix is sampling the world’s first 12 layer stack of HBM4 memory chips to AI system developers six months earlier than expected HBM4 is…
Hexagon completes acquisition of Septentrio
Hexagon completes acquisition of Septentrio
Business news | - By Nick Flaherty
Hexagon in Sweden has completed the acquisition of Belgian positioning system maker Septentrio announced in January. The combined portfolios will accelerate the adoption of…
Wearables
Nanopower looks to chipscale power management
Nanopower looks to chipscale power management
Business news |
Nanopower in Norway is planning a chip-scale version of its power controller for wearable and implantable medical devices. The nPZero power controller is currently in…
By Nick Flaherty
Nanopower looks to chipscale power management

Nanopower in Norway is planning a chip-scale version of its…
AI-driven near-threshold design for low power microcontroller

STMicroelectronics has used near-threshold design to reduce the energy consumption…
Magnetism lab boosts medical sensor development

The University of Glasgow has opened a medical magnetics research…
Akida neuromorphic AI chip for epileptic smartglasses

BrainChip is working with Onsor Technologies to use its Akida…
2-in-1 MEMS accelerometer for wearables and trackers

STMicroelectronics has combined two MEMS accelerometer structures for more accurate…
New products
Lithium-Ion battery gauge chips add pre-validated management firmware
Lithium-Ion battery gauge chips add pre-validated management firmware
New Products | - By Nick Flaherty
Renesas Electronics has launched an all in one battery management system for its fuel gauge chips in consumer designs such as e-bikes, vacuum cleaners, robotics…
Switcher ICs for high-efficiency power supplies deliver 175 W
Switcher ICs for high-efficiency power supplies deliver 175 W
New Products | - By Jean-Pierre Joosting
The switcher ICs deliver 92 percent efficiency in a classic flyback architecture to comply with the European light-load consumption limit of 300 mW.
Microwave antenna covers EMI measurements in the FR2 range
Microwave antenna covers EMI measurements in the FR2 range
New Products | - By Jean-Pierre Joosting
Microwave antenna addresses the trend to higher frequencies and simplifies the testing of large objects in smaller chambers.
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