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Future Horizons lifts 2025 forecast for a ‘fragile’ chip market

Future Horizons lifts 2025 forecast for a ‘fragile’ chip market

Malcolm Penn, founder and chief analyst with Future Horizons, has raised his forecast for global chip market growth in 2025 to 15 percent, plus or minus 4 percent.This is a jump from Penn’s prediction made in September 2024 of a market up...

Published on: January 14, 2025

Mitsubishi, AWS team for power analytics

Mitsubishi, AWS team for power analytics

Mitsubishi Electric has signed a memorandum of understanding (MOU) with Amazon Web Services (AWS) to collaborate in data centre and cloud services businesses.Mitsubishi Electric will work on the development of AI platforms for integration into its Serendie digital platform and use AWS educational...

Published on: January 14, 2025

A High-Performance Optical Amplifier for Microdevices

A High-Performance Optical Amplifier for Microdevices

Researchers at DESY have developed a millimeter-sized high-power amplifier with an output power of more than one watt on silicon-based optical microchipsThis output power is a many times higher than what was previously achievable on this tiny scale and enables the use...

Published on: January 14, 2025

40 pogo pin connector models

40 pogo pin connector models

Same Sky’s Interconnect Group (formerly CUI Devices) has launched 40 new models in an expansion of its pogo pins connectors.The CPG family of pogo pins offers gold plated contacts for high reliability with mating cycle ratings now up to 20,000 cycles.Housed in surface mount, wire mount,...

Published on: January 14, 2025

Mitsubishi Electric to sample 1.2-kV IGBT modules

Mitsubishi Electric to sample 1.2-kV IGBT modules

Starting February 15th, Mitsubishi Electric Corporation will begin sampling its latest LV100-type 1.2-kV IGBT module as an industrial-use power semiconductor module for solar and other renewable-energy power-supply systems.Equipped with an eighth-generation insulated gate bipolar transistor (IGBT), the module minimizes power loss and...

Published on: January 14, 2025

Startup Indichip backed to create Indian SiC wafer fab

Startup Indichip backed to create Indian SiC wafer fab

Startup Indichip Semiconductors Ltd. has agreed to build a wafer fab making silicon-carbide power chips in the Indian state of Andhra Pradesh with an investment of 140 billion rupees (about US$1.6 billion).Indichip was founded in 2020 and the deal was aided by...

Published on: January 14, 2025

US backs $23m GaN tech hub in Vermont

US backs $23m GaN tech hub in Vermont

The University of Vermont in the US is to host a $23m research and development hub for gallium nitride (GaN) power technologies close to a semiconductor foundry.The V-GaN Tech Hub aims to help companies develop high-power, high-frequency electronic devices using GaN with...

Published on: January 14, 2025

Infineon breaks ground on power module assembly plant in Thailand

Infineon breaks ground on power module assembly plant in Thailand

Infineon Technologies has started construction of a new highly automated backend plant in Samut Prakan, south of Bangkok for power modules.The first building is planned to be ready for operations at the beginning of 2026, but the company is not yet providing...

Published on: January 14, 2025

Europe joins protests against Bidens’ AI chip sales restrictions

Europe joins protests against Bidens’ AI chip sales restrictions

The European Commission has joined the protests against the US government’s just-introduced Interim Final Rule (IFR) that caps the sale of AI and GPU chips around the world.The IFR is set to be one of the last acts of the outgoing Biden...

Published on: January 14, 2025

Discovery makes organic solar cells more efficient and stable

Discovery makes organic solar cells more efficient and stable

Researchers at Åbo Akademi University have identified and eliminated a previously unknown loss mechanism in organic solar cells that makes them more efficient and gives them a longer lifetime. The results provide new insight into how efficiency and stability can be increased...

Published on: January 14, 2025