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EU looks at ban on non-rechargeable batteries
EU looks at ban on non-rechargeable batteries
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The European Commission has been told to look at a ban on all non-rechargeable batteries. The proposal is included in…
Top articles in December on eeNews Europe
Top articles in December on eeNews Europe
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News that Renesas is taping out a chip with a spiking neural network from BrainChip emerged from an interview with…
Tyndall joins Silicon Catalyst to scale semiconductor start-ups
Tyndall joins Silicon Catalyst to scale semiconductor start-ups
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The Tyndall National Institute in Ireland has joined US incubator Silicon Catalyst to provide In-Kind support to semiconductor start-ups. Tyndall has…
BMW to build solid state battery line in Germany
BMW to build solid state battery line in Germany
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Solid Power in the US has expanded its Joint Development Agreement with BMW, granting the group a $20m research…

First industrial plant to produce CO2-neutral fuels goes on stream
First industrial plant to produce CO2-neutral fuels goes on stream
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eFuels add an interesting aspect to the drive discussion…
Lightwave Logic boosts photonic chips with UK buy
Lightwave Logic boosts photonic chips with UK buy
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Lightwave Logic in the US has moved to atomic layer deposition (ALD) for photonic chips following the acquisition of Chromosol in the UK. “We achieved our goals with foundries in…
Nanomesh electrode in 100x battery boost
Nanomesh electrode in 100x battery boost
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imec and KU Leuven in Belgium have developed a 3D structure of interconnected nanowires that can boost the current density in batteries, fuel cells and hydrogen electrolysers by as much…
Lhyfe, Schaeffler partner to build green hydrogen plant
Lhyfe, Schaeffler partner to build green hydrogen plant
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Alternative to battery electric drive gains momentum…
Isolation boost for 20V MOSFET in chip scale package
Isolation boost for 20V MOSFET in chip scale package
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Rohm has developed a 20V n-channel MOSFET in a new chip scale package for wearable, hearable and smartphone designs. The RA1C030LD is offered in the DSN1006-3 wafer-level, chip-size package that measures 1.0mm…
Toshiba to build MOSFET back end plant in Japan
Toshiba to build MOSFET back end plant in Japan
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Toshiba Electronic Devices & Storage is to build a new back-end assembly plant for its MOSFET power semiconductors at its Himeji site in Japan. This is part of a move…
Infineon in 1700V IGBT boost
Infineon in 1700V IGBT boost
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Infineon Technologies has completed its project €74m project to built 1700V IGBT power transistors on 300mm silicon wafers. The Power2Power project brought together 43 partners from industry and research in…
Automated robotic platform yields insights into 3D-printed metal
Automated robotic platform yields insights into 3D-printed metal
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Researchers at the Department of Energy’s (DOE’s) Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) have created a one-of-a-kind automated robotic platform that allows them to study the microscopic behavior of additive metal…
Texas Instruments’ Lehi wafer fab starts production
Texas Instruments’ Lehi wafer fab starts production
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LFAB, Texas Instruments’ 300mm wafer fab in Lehi, Utah, has started production a year after its acquisition from Micron Technology Inc. LFAB is TI’s second 300mm wafer fab to start…
US intelligence VC invests in Pragmatic
US intelligence VC invests in Pragmatic
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Flexible chip maker Pragmatic Semiconductor Ltd. (Cambridge, England) has raised an additional US$35 million bringing its Series C round to US$125 million. The new investors include In-Q-Tel, the investment arm…
Rapidus seeks billions of dollars to use IBM’s 2nm process
Rapidus seeks billions of dollars to use IBM’s 2nm process
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As expected Rapidus, the newly formed advanced logic foundry, has said it will make use of IBM’s semiconductor expertise and 2nm manufacturing process. Rapidus CEO Atsuyoshi Koike announded a joint…
Chipmaking equipment sales to slip in 2023
Chipmaking equipment sales to slip in 2023
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Global OEM sales of semiconductor manufacturing equipment are set to reach a record high in 2022 before slipping back in 2023, according to industry organization SEMI. The market will reach…
China preps $143 billion chip support action, goes to WTO
China preps $143 billion chip support action, goes to WTO
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China is preparing a five-year support package for its chip sector worth more than 1 trillion yuan (US$143 billion), according to reports. The move reinforces the decoupling of China from…
Reports: Nuclear fusion net energy gain breakthrough achieved
Reports: Nuclear fusion net energy gain breakthrough achieved
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A breakthrough in nuclear fusion energy generation has been achieved by scientists at the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory in California, according to the Financial Times and other reports. The reports…
Startups develop diamond-based quantum computers
Startups develop diamond-based quantum computers
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Long-term goal: Compact, mobile quantum computers…
Ultrathin fabric solar cells can turn any surface into a power source
Ultrathin fabric solar cells can turn any surface into a power source
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Researchers at MIT say they have developed ultralight fabric solar cells that can quickly and easily turn any surface into a power source.
Global chip manufacturing is in transition, say ATREG, Yole CEOs
Global chip manufacturing is in transition, say ATREG, Yole CEOs
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Global chip manufacturing has entered a transition phase, according to an overview of the challenges and opportunities for 2023, written by Stephen Rothrock, CEO of wafer fab broker ATREG and…
Canon prepares to ramp nano-imprint lithography
Canon prepares to ramp nano-imprint lithography
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After eight year of R&D and limited sales Canon is preparing to ramp production of nanoimprint lithography chip manufacturing equipment for the market. Canon is building a factory in Utsunomiya,…
XMOS recruits veteran chip exec Bagherli
XMOS recruits veteran chip exec Bagherli
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Edge processor and microcontroller vendor XMOS (Bristol, England) has appointed Jalal Bagherli as a special advisor to support funding and development. Bagherli has a long and successful history in UK…
IEDM papers present FDSOI for quantum computing
IEDM papers present FDSOI for quantum computing
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The possibility of quantum computing based on fully-depleted silicon-on-insulator (FDSOI) transistors was presented in a plenary talk and two other papers at the International Electron Devices Meeting, held his week…
TSMC’s sales growth stays high as UMC’s dips
TSMC’s sales growth stays high as UMC’s dips
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TSMC’s sales in November were more than 50 percent above the same month a year before as the world’s leading foundry continued to defy the slowdown in the global chip…
0508 shunt resistor reaches 1W for smaller designs
0508 shunt resistor reaches 1W for smaller designs
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Rohm has developed a 1W wide terminal shunt resistor in a smaller 0508 form factor for automotive, industrial, and consumer designs. The LTR10L series delivers the industry’s highest rated power…
ST SiC power modules for Hyundai EV platform
ST SiC power modules for Hyundai EV platform
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Silicon carbide (SiC) modules form STMicroelectronics are being used for an electric vehicle platform shared by a number of car makers. Five new SiC-MOSFET based power modules provide flexible choices for vehicle…
Phlux Technology raises £4m to be the ‘Nvidia of LiDAR sensors’
Phlux Technology raises £4m to be the ‘Nvidia of LiDAR sensors’
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UK startup Phlux Technology has raised £4m (€4.6m) to develop mass market laser sensors based on antimony rather than silicon. This opens up the 1550nm frequency band for sensors that…


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