The Ferrocene Rust toolchain developed by Ferrous Systems in Germany is the first to be qualified to the IEC 62304 Class C standard for medical device software.Rust is rapidly gaining traction in the medical device industry due to its robust memory safety...
Published on: January 15, 2025
Mitsubishi Electric is to start sampling a 1200V IGBT power module for industrial applications.The LV100 will start sampling on 15th February for solar and other renewable-energy power-supply systems such as storage battery inverters. It uses an eighth-generation insulated gate bipolar transistor (IGBT)...
Published on: January 15, 2025
u-blox in Switzerland is pulling out of the cellular IoT business after failing to find a buyer.The company has lost CHF15m ($16.5m) in the first half of the year on revenue of CHF27m ($29.5m) on the business and will instead focus on...
Published on: January 15, 2025
Apple has been voted onto the board of the Ultra Accelerator Link (UALink) Consortium which is developing a standard for the interconnect for chips in datacentres.Apple joins with new board members Synopsys, which supplies UALink IP, and Chinese hyperscaler Alibaba Cloud Computing. Since...
Published on: January 15, 2025
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 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
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
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
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 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