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ITRI launches AIoT certification center with Arm
ITRI launches AIoT certification center with Arm
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The lab aims to advance AIoT certification for Taiwan and Asia particularly in device manufacturing, through standardization.
Tesla signs Indian chip supply deal with Tata, says report
Tesla signs Indian chip supply deal with Tata, says report
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Electric vehicle maker Tesla Inc. (Austin, Texas) has signed a deal with India’s Tata Electronics to supply semiconductor chips, according…
Falcomm gets seed funding for ‘dual-drive’ power amplifier
Falcomm gets seed funding for ‘dual-drive’ power amplifier
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Fabless chip startup Falcomm Inc. (Atlanta, Georgia) has raised US$4 million in seed funding to develop its dual-drive silicon-based power…
Hamamatsu Photonics teams for European ‘pilot lines’
Hamamatsu Photonics teams for European ‘pilot lines’
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Hamamatsu Photonics has partnered with Vrije Universiteit Brussel (VUB) to boost the development of photonic chips around Europe. The alliance…

SweGaN sees RF strategic backing, joint product development 
SweGaN sees RF strategic backing, joint product development 
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GaN-on-SiC wafer developer SweGaN has signed a strategic investment and product development deal with RFHIC in South Korea. The deal will see joint R&D and product development with RFHIC around…
Microchip buys Neuronix AI Labs to boost neural network capabilities
Microchip buys Neuronix AI Labs to boost neural network capabilities
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Innovative technology enhances AI-enabled intelligent edge systems and increases neural networking capabilities.
Rapidus opens sales office in Silicon Valley
Rapidus opens sales office in Silicon Valley
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Japan’s advanced logic foundry Rapidus Corp. has formed a US subsidiary, Rapidus Design Solutions (RDS), and appointed Henri Richard as general manager. Rapidus Design Solutions is located in Santa Clara,…
Nexperia falls victim to cyberattack
Nexperia falls victim to cyberattack
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China-owned semiconductor company Nexperia BV (Nijmegen, The Netherlands) has reported that hackers gained unauthorized access to its computer systems in March 2024. According to local news reports Nexperia sensitive information…
TSMC’s sales soar in March
TSMC’s sales soar in March
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Revenue in March at leading foundry TSMC was a third larger than in the same month a year before while at UMC sales increased by 2.7 percent. TSMC’s revenue in…
Moffett AI raises more funds for sparse computing
Moffett AI raises more funds for sparse computing
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Moxin Artificial Intelligence Technology (Shanghai) Co. Ltd., otherwise known as Moffett AI or Ink Core, has announced it has closed two rounds of financing each worth hundreds of million yuan.
Lockheed Martin backs wiring automation startup Q5D
Lockheed Martin backs wiring automation startup Q5D
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Q5D Technologies Ltd. (Bristol, England), a company that provides tooling to automate wiring harness manufacture, has raised US$3.0 million in funding. The company was founded in 2018 and the funding…
ByteDance invests in China’s ReRAM startup
ByteDance invests in China’s ReRAM startup
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ByteDance Ltd. (Beijing, China), the owner of video-sharing app provider TikTok, has invested in InnoStar Semiconductor (Shanghai, China), a Chinese startup developing resistive RAM technology. The deal was conducted by…
Change at the top at Helio Display Materials
Change at the top at Helio Display Materials
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Helio Display Materials Ltd. (Oxford, England) has formed a partnership with Haylo Ventures to focus on displays for AR/VR headsets and appointed David Hayes as executive chairman. Simon Jones, previously…
Second ST energy deal highlights sustainable fabs challenge
Second ST energy deal highlights sustainable fabs challenge
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STMicroelectronics has signed a long term renewable energy supply deal with Centrica Energy in Denmark that highlights the challenges of sustainable fabs The 10 year deal with Centrica is the…
Tektronix buys EA Elektro-Automatik for power supplies and loads
Tektronix buys EA Elektro-Automatik for power supplies and loads
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Tektronix has bought EA Elektro-Automatik in Germany for its high-efficiency regenerative power supplies. EA Elektro-Automatik in Viersen, Germany supplies high-power power supplies and electronic loads to be combined with the…
Renesas officially re-opens Kofu 300mm power fab
Renesas officially re-opens Kofu 300mm power fab
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Renesas Electronics has officially re-opened its Kofu Factory in Kai City, Yamanashi Prefecture, Japan following its conversion to 300mm operation. The 300mm Kofu fab aims to double the Renesas production…
Williams opens up its F1 tech to the wider industry
Williams opens up its F1 tech to the wider industry
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Williams is launching a company house to apply the cutting-edge innovation and development technologies developed for Formula One for engineering challenges in other sectors. Williams Grand Prix Technologies sit alongside…
First commercial lithium production in Europe
First commercial lithium production in Europe
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Vulcan Energy Resources has started production of Lithium Chloride (LiCl), the first in Europe and a key part of the battery supply chain for electric vehicles. Vulcan is producing lithium chloride…
RS launches embedded software service
RS launches embedded software service
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Distributor RS is delivering software development tools digitally and instantly through suppliers Matrix and Segger. The embedded software application was launched by RS subsidiary Okdo at the Embedded World show in Germany…
£1.6m power device packaging facility for the UK
£1.6m power device packaging facility for the UK
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A £1.6m packaging facility for power devices has officially opened at the Compound Semiconductor Applications (CSA) Catapult in Newport, South Wales. The power packaging facility is the first of…
Lauterbach adds debug/trace support for Arm® CoreSight Wire Protocol
Lauterbach adds debug/trace support for Arm® CoreSight Wire Protocol
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Users can use existing functional interfaces such as USB, Ethernet, or PCIe with CSWP for debug and trace instead of JTAG and Serial Wire Debug interfaces.
Qualcomm buys Foundries.io
Qualcomm buys Foundries.io
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Qualcomm has bought UK-based embedded software developer Foundries.io for an undisclosed sum. Back at Embedded World 2022, Foundries.io talked about the potential for a billion dollar IPO. Now it has…
Valens, Sony team for A-PHY integrated camera sensor
Valens, Sony team for A-PHY integrated camera sensor
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Valens Semiconductor is working with Sony Semiconductor to complete Electromagnetic Compatibility (EMC) testing of a multi-vendor A-PHY link that will be used for a Sony A-PHY-integrated image sensor. The Sony…
Autotalks, Secure-IC team for secure V2X chipset
Autotalks, Secure-IC team for secure V2X chipset
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Autotalks is working with end-to-end cybersecurity developer Secure-IC to enhance the security of its V2X communication chipset. The companies showed a working V2X module equipped with the Autotalks TEKTON3…
Advantech and Qualcomm to collaborate on edge AI computing
Advantech and Qualcomm to collaborate on edge AI computing
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The collaboration aims to establish an open and diverse edge AI ecosystem that targets AIoT applications and ensure interoperability.
Cloud based design platform enables real-time code optimization
Cloud based design platform enables real-time code optimization
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The cloud-based system design platform enables rapid prototypes, remote debugging and co-optimization of software and hardware.
Intel aims at Nvidia with Gaudi 3 AI chip
Intel aims at Nvidia with Gaudi 3 AI chip
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A year after tapeout, Intel has launched its Gaudi 3 AI accelerator chip to take on Nvidia’s H100 systems. The Gaudi 3 chip has been re-directed to support the memory-bound…
Optiva, GDi partnership to deliver integrated BSS and OSS
Optiva, GDi partnership to deliver integrated BSS and OSS
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Integrated BSS and OSS enable telecoms to leverage data and GenAI for faster time to market and new digital customer experiences.


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