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Syntiant completes $150m buy of Knowles consumer MEMS microphone business

Embedded AI processor and sensor designer Syntiant has completed the acquisition of the consumer MEMS microphone business of Knowles.The $150m deal is the final step in the restructuring at Knowles first announced in September 2023. The division generated $256m in revenue in...

Published on: January 02, 2025

Weebit Nano signs onsemi for ReRAM license

Weebit Nano in Israel has licensed its resistive random access memory (ReRAM) technology to tier-1 semiconductor supplier onsemi.Onsemi is the first chip maker to license the IP, joining foundries eFabless and DB Hitek which are offering the ReRAM technology. This is key...

Published on: January 01, 2025

Air taxi maker Volocopter files for bankruptcy

Air taxi developer Volocopter in Germany has filed an application to open insolvency proceedings.The Karlsruhe Local Court has began the provisional insolvency administration and appointed Tobias Wahl at Anchor Rechtsanwältegesellschaft mbH as its administrator.Volocopter, founded in 2011 with Intel as a backer,...

Published on: January 01, 2025

Automotive trends for 2025

The automotive industry was perhaps the saving grace of the European semiconductor industry in 2023, but reality has hit hard in 2024.The European Commission will start talks in the New Year on the future of the industry in the region as sales...

Published on: January 01, 2025

Samsung accelerates move into humanoid robots

Samsung Electronics has acquired Korean startup Rainbow Robotics to accelerate the development of humanoid robots.Rainbow Robotics was founded in 2011 by researchers from the Korea Advanced Institute of Science & Technology’s (KAIST) Humanoid Robot Research Centre who developed the first two-legged walking...

Published on: January 01, 2025

Wingtech sells off manufacturing to focus on power semiconductors

Wingtech, one of the leading contract manufacturers in China, has signed a deal to transfer the equity and operating assets of the majority of its manufacturing subsidiaries to Luxshare Precision Industry.The move would allow Wingtech, which owns Nexperia in the Netherlands, to...