Chinese power chip maker Innoscience Technology has introduced four top-side cooled gallium nitride (GaN) transistors that reduce the junction temperature by 25%.The 100V to 150V GaN-on-Silicon enhancement mode high electron mobility transistors (HEMT) in the newly released Innoscience En-FCQFN top-side cooling package...
Published on: December 05, 2024
GlobalFoundries (GF) is to use 300mm silicon on insulator wafers from Soitec in France for its 9SW RF process technology.The deal provides supply of advanced RF-SOI engineered substrates required for 5G, 5G-Advanced, Wi-Fi, and other smart mobile device Radio Frequency Front-End (RFFE)...
Published on: December 05, 2024
Cadence Design Systems and AST SpaceMobile have teamed up to advance AST SpaceMobile’s mission to eliminate connectivity gaps and connect people around the world with high-speed, space-based broadband internet access.The result is the AST5000 ASIC, a custom, low-power architecture that is the...
Published on: December 05, 2024
A proof-of-concept mobile reader application for Android and iOS that can read on-product NFC Digital Product Passport (NDPP) data has been launched by the NFC Forum. It was one of a wide variety of demonstrations of DPP-enabled products at the recent Vision...
Published on: December 04, 2024
A leading power supply manufacturer in Japan, COSEL has adopted EcoSiC™ products from ROHM in the HFA/HCA series of 3.5 kW output AC-DC power supply units (PSUs) for 3-phase applications.Incorporating ROHM SiC MOSFETs and SiC Schottky barrier diodes (SBDs) into the forced...
Published on: December 04, 2024
Škoda Auto is expanding its battery plant in Mladá Boleslav in the Czech Republic with a third line as it produces its millionth battery system.The carmaker has been manufacturing high voltage traction batteries since 2019, when it launched battery production for the...
Published on: December 04, 2024
A $100m global alliance has been formed to develop next-generation ultra-high-speed wireless communication technologies in the 300GHz, or THz, band.The alliance of 10 research institutes and universities spun out of a project in Japan and is led by Professor Minoru Fujishima of Hiroshima University’s Graduate...
Published on: December 04, 2024
Q5D Technologies has raised £2m for the development of its automated wireless harness tools.The funding for the UK startup comes from the British Business Bank’s South West Investment Fund and includes £500,00 from UK fund Maven Equity Finance which also backed millimetre wave...
Published on: December 04, 2024
Switch Technologies has launched the world’s first vehicle to be powered by niobium-based fast charging battery cells.The cells use a niobium material developed by Echion Technologies in the UK and are built by Li-Fun. Switch used the cells for a parallel-hybrid drive...
Published on: December 04, 2024
Researchers in Spain have developed a standard test for flexible photovoltaic solar cells used in a wide variety of applications.The FlexPV cells, often based on perovskite materials, are used in applications from wearable technology and intelligent fabrics to curved surfaces such as...
Published on: December 04, 2024