Aledia in France has opened a $200m production line for its 3D nanowire microLED displays for augmented reality (AR).The Grenoble-based company has raised €600m over the last ten years with Intel and Ikea as investors and has a €100m pilot line for...
                            
                                Published on: January 08, 2025
                                
                             
                            
                            
                         
                                            
                            
                            
                                
                            
                            Amazon Web Services has announced that Honda Motor Company is collaborating with AWS to transition the company’s automobiles from hardware-based into software-defined vehicles (SDVs).Honda will use its Digital Proving Ground (DPG) platform, a vehicle development environment built on AWS, to help build...
                            
                                Published on: January 08, 2025
                                
                             
                            
                            
                         
                                            
                            
                            
                                
                            
                            HaiLa Technologies in Canada has launched a development platform for ultra low power WiFi using passive backscatter technology.The EVAL2000 development board uses the HaiLa BSC2000 Passive Backscatter on WiFi chip combined with the low power STM32U0 microcontroller from ST Microelectronics.The BSC2000, developed...
                            
                                Published on: January 08, 2025
                                
                             
                            
                            
                         
                                            
                            
                            
                                
                            
                            The semiconductor industry is expected to start the construction of 18 fabs in 2025 according to the latest data from Semi.The new projects in Semi’s latest quarterly World Fab Forecast include fifteen 300mm and three 200mm facilities, the majority of which are expected...
                            
                                Published on: January 08, 2025
                                
                             
                            
                            
                         
                                            
                            
                            
                                
                            
                            Reneas Electronics is developing a 100W chiplet-based central controller for the next generation of Honda’s driverless car.The chip will combine a 3nm Renesas R-car X5 processor and multiple chiplets, including a custom AI device developed by Honda to provide a performance of...
                            
                                Published on: January 08, 2025
                                
                             
                            
                            
                         
                                            
                            
                            
                                
                            
                            Intel has expanded its range of automotive chips to provide what it says is a whole platform for electric software defined vehicles.The company has also signed a deal with Amazon Web Services (AWS) for a virtual design environment running on Intel Xeon...
                            
                                Published on: January 07, 2025
                                
                             
                            
                            
                         
                                            
                            
                            
                                
                            
                            NXP Semiconductor has cut the power consumption of its latest MCX microcontroller by a factor of three by using dual power domains for the first time.The dual core MCX L series MCUs use an independent low power sensor management domain for smart...
                            
                                Published on: January 07, 2025
                                
                             
                            
                            
                         
                                            
                            
                            
                                
                            
                            Vector Informatik in Germany is bringing TTTech Auto into its development with QNX of a stack for software defined vehicles (SDV).However this multi-year agreement comes as TTTech Auto in Austria is to be acquired by NXP Semiconductor and brought inhouse, although both...
                            
                                Published on: January 07, 2025
                                
                             
                            
                            
                         
                                            
                            
                            
                                
                            
                            Hexagon has agreed to acquire Septentrio NV, a market leader and OEM provider of Global Navigation Satellite System (GNSS) technologies, to drive innovation and expand the Resilient Assured Positioning market.The combination of the pioneering GNSS platform developed by Septentrio with Hexagon’s extensive...
                            
                                Published on: January 07, 2025
                                
                             
                            
                            
                         
                                            
                            
                            
                                
                            
                            Ambiq Inc. (Austin, Texas) is offering AI-based audio and graphics processing models combined with its sub-threshold voltage logic chips.A neural network based speech de-noiser (NNSD) uses a real-time learning model to analyse audio and isolate speech and remove background audio.A neural-network based...
                            
                                Published on: January 07, 2025