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Silicon Catalyst expands chip startup support in UK
Silicon Catalyst expands chip startup support in UK
Business news | - By Nick Flaherty
Incubator Silicon Catalyst has added three key companies to its support network to help chip design startups get to market faster. The new In-Kind Partner (IKP) companies are all based in the UK and p...
Ericsson to set up 6G research centre in UK
Ericsson to set up 6G research centre in UK
Technology News | - By Nick Flaherty
Ericsson is to set up a 6G research unit in the UK as part of a multi-million-pound investment over the next ten years. The centre will focus on 6G research, including network resilience and security,...
Ambarella’s AI chips power cabin monitoring systems
Ambarella’s AI chips power cabin monitoring systems
Partners | - By Christoph Hammerschmidt
Continental and Chinese Tier One INVO use SoCs from Ambarella....
Dublin rolls out free open source public WiFi
Dublin rolls out free open source public WiFi
Technology News | - By Nick Flaherty
The city of Dublin is running a trial of an open source WiFi6 system to provide free connectivity. The council is working with Virgin Media  on a network that is compliant with the WiFi4EU specificati...
Leti, Intel look to quadruple hybrid bonding speeds
Leti, Intel look to quadruple hybrid bonding speeds
Technology News |
CEA-Leti in France has been working with Intel on a hybrid die-to-wafer process that could quadruple production speeds for chiplet-based packages. The process developed with…
Infineon, TSMC to introduce RRAM for automotive
Infineon, TSMC to introduce RRAM for automotive
Technology News |
Infineon Technologies is preparing to launch TSMC’s Resistive RAM (RRAM) Non-Volatile Memory (NVM) technology in its next generation of automotive microcontrollers. RRAM is an emerging…

eeNews Analog
WSTS lowers chip market forecast for 2022, 2023
WSTS lowers chip market forecast for 2022, 2023
Market news |
The World Semiconductor Trade Statistics (WSTS) organization has lowered its forecasts for the global chip market in 2022 and 2023. As recently as August WSTS…
Global chip market to fall 5% in 2023, says IC Insights
Global chip market to fall 5% in 2023, says IC Insights
Market news |
Another market analyst has dropped forecasts for the size of the chip market in 2022 and 2023, but not by much. IC Insights reckons the…
eeNews Power
Battery-free methane detector project tackles global heating
Battery-free methane detector project tackles global heating
Technology News |
Scottish startup AlbaSense is developing a battery-free methane sensor using a high efficiency solar cell from Lightricity and LoRa wireless networking. Methane is a significant…
Finnish startup raises €2.5m for cloud-controlled second-life Tesla batteries
Finnish startup raises €2.5m for cloud-controlled second-life Tesla batteries
Business news |
Energy storage startup Cactos has raised €2.5m in equity and debt to boost production of its systems based on ‘second life’ batteries from Tesla electric…
eeNews Automotive
Ultra-fast recovery rectifiers target automotive applications
Ultra-fast recovery rectifiers target automotive applications
New Products |
Onboard chargers, EV inverters benefit from fast soft switching…
Automotive pressure sensor makes combustion engines greener
Automotive pressure sensor makes combustion engines greener
New Products |
PCB-less MEMS-based IC solution is factory calibrated and highly precise with low drift over lifetime…
Boards & embedded cards
Functional safety boost for COM-HPC
Functional safety boost for COM-HPC
Technology News |
The COM-HPC high performance embedded board specification has been boosted with extensions for functional safety. PICMG, the consortium that oversees the development of open embedded…
By Nick Flaherty
Functional safety boost for COM-HPC

The COM-HPC high performance embedded board specification has been boosted…
OpenVPX backplane tops 100GbE

Pixus Technologies has developed a high performance OpenVPX backplane with…
Nitrate sensing reference design for UV-C LEDs

Ultraviolet UV-C LEDs from Silanna UV are being used in…
Congatec boosts TSN for smart factories

German board maker congatec has launched an ecosystem for time…
COM Express adds high speed serial support for USB4, PCIe4.0

PICMG has updated the COM Express specification to support high-speed…
Eenews Embedded
SCHC certification test tool enables IPv6 over LoRaWAN
SCHC certification test tool enables IPv6 over LoRaWAN
Technology News |
LoRaWAN certification tool now enables testing for end device using static context header compression, enabling IPv6 over LoRaWAN.
AVP test environment for autonomous driving use cases 
AVP test environment for autonomous driving use cases 
Business news |
AVP test environment evaluate QoS management and impairment effects in the IP layer as well as wireless connectivity.
News
Renault creates industrial digital twin ‘metaverse’
Renault creates industrial digital twin ‘metaverse’
News |
French car maker Renault has connected all its production lines to create a real time digital twin of its processes in a system it calls…
TI to build distribution centre in Frankfurt
TI to build distribution centre in Frankfurt
News |
Texas Instruments is to build a product distribution center (PDC) in Frankfurt, Germany, to serve its European customers with same-day and next-day deliveries by the…
Consortium forms Rapidus to get Japan back into chip race at 2nm
Consortium forms Rapidus to get Japan back into chip race at 2nm
News |
A consortium of eight Japanese companies have formed Rapidus, a company that the Japanese government hopes can help the country get back into advanced chip…
Risc-v
RISC-V microcontroller cores for easy migration
RISC-V microcontroller cores for easy migration
New Products |
French IP developer Cortus has launched two families of 32bit RISC-V microcontroller (MCU) cores. The Lotus cores are designed for ease of use, and to…
By Nick Flaherty
RISC-V microcontroller cores for easy migration

French IP developer Cortus has launched two families of 32bit…
Sequans teams for world’s smallest LTE-M/NB-IoT RISC-V System-in-Package

Sequans Communications has worked with Skyworks Solutions to develop the world’s…
Codasip in Bristol IoT security buy for RISC-V

RISC-V core developer Codasip has acquired Bristol, UK-based Cerberus Security…
Codasip, SiliconArts team on RISC-V ray tracing graphics IP

A high end ray tracing graphics core is shipping with…
SiFive aims for ARM with high performance RISC-V vector cores

SiFIve has developed two families of RISC-V cores with vector…
Eenews Wireless
CTIA study finds additional mid-band spectrum key to 5G
CTIA study finds additional mid-band spectrum key to 5G
Market news |
Study finds hundreds of megahertz of additional mid-band spectrum with exclusive licenses, full power and wide channels needed to fuel 5G innovation.
Report shows economic benefits of 5G in emerging markets
Report shows economic benefits of 5G in emerging markets
Market news |
5G report shows potential GDP economic benefits vastly outweigh investment costs, with governments, regulators and policy playing a key enabling role.
Technology news
£484m as UK waits to join EU Horizon research programme
£484m as UK waits to join EU Horizon research programme
Technology News |
The UK government has announced £484m of funding for a number of research programmes that are struggling with the delay in joining the Horizon Europe…
Record efficiency of 26.81% for large silicon solar cells
Record efficiency of 26.81% for large silicon solar cells
Technology News |
Chinese solar cell developer Longi Green Energy Technology is claiming a new record efficiency for its full sized monocrystalline silicon wafers at 26.81%. This is…
ZF downsizes e-drives – and boosts performance
ZF downsizes e-drives – and boosts performance
Technology News |
ZF Friedrichshafen has presented a new generation of electric drives for passenger cars and light commercial vehicles. With the motors, inverters and mechanical…
Authentication & encryption
Infineon moves smartcard chip to 28nm to tackle shortages
Infineon moves smartcard chip to 28nm to tackle shortages
Business news |
Infineon Technologies has developed a security processor for payment smartcard to TSMC’s 28nm process technology, the first such chip to do so. The 28nm process…
By Nick Flaherty
Infineon moves smartcard chip to 28nm to tackle shortages

Infineon Technologies has developed a security processor for payment smartcard…
Silicon Catalyst expands chip startup support in UK

Incubator Silicon Catalyst has added three key companies to its…
Infineon, Fingerprints team for biometric payment cards

Infineon Technologies has signed a key development and commercialization deal…
Infineon strengthens protection against cyber attacks against vehicles

Semiconductor products and defence structures are ISO/SAE 21434 certified.
Downloadable ‘softSIM’ aims to boost IoT deployments

Danish startup Onomondo has developed a SIM that can be…
Smart 2.0
Edge Impulse, Renesas team to lower barrier to ML app development
Edge Impulse, Renesas team to lower barrier to ML app development
New Products |
Embedded machine learning development platform Edge Impulse has announced a joint initiative with semiconductor manufacturer Renesas to advance professional machine learning implementation by bringing Renesas'…
AI racing agent ups its game in latest demonstration
AI racing agent ups its game in latest demonstration
Market news |
Sony AI, the AI and robotics subsidiary of multinational conglomerate Sony, has showcased the newest evolution of its breakthrough superhuman autonomous AI racing agent, which…
Feature articles
GaN power semiconductor 2023 predictions
GaN power semiconductor 2023 predictions
Feature articles |
GaN Systems has made its predictions for 2023, covering the supply chain for power semiconductors to increasing sustainability regulations in data centres and electric vehicles.
European tech on SLS moon rocket launch
European tech on SLS moon rocket launch
Feature articles |
The US is aiming to return to the Moon with the successful launch of its long delayed Artemis 1 rocket early this morning. The Artemis…
PC digitizers search for dark matter
PC digitizers search for dark matter
Feature articles |
A high speed PCIe digitizer from Spectrum Instrumentation in Germany is helping search for dark matter in experiments at the Institute for Basic Science (IBS)…
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