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Indie Semi launches ASIL-D supervisory chip

Indie Semi launches ASIL-D supervisory chip

indie Semiconductor has launched a supervisory chip with ASIL-D safety for powertrain designs.The ASIL-D chip provides critical safety monitor and supervision functionality for mission-critical powertrain operation and was developed with a European Tier 1 automotive system integrator.This is a step away from...

Published on: November 26, 2024

Startup to commercialise fast charging lithium sulfur battery

Startup to commercialise fast charging lithium sulfur battery

An Australian startup is commercialising a lightweight, fast charging lithium sulfur battery developed at Monash University.With rapid charging times, the lightweight Li-S batteries could soon power drones, with electric aircraft a future possibility.  Researchers at Monash aim to demonstrate the technology in commercial...

Published on: November 26, 2024

Two push for wireless inductive charging standard

Two push for wireless inductive charging standard

InductEV and ENRX have signed a deal to align global technical standards for compatibility of high power inductive wireless charging systems.Philadelphia-based InductEV has a focus on electric vehicles used in commercial fleets, while ENRX in Skein, Norway has 75 years of experience in...

Published on: November 26, 2024

France to buy Atos supercomputing, quantum business for €1.1bn

France to buy Atos supercomputing, quantum business for €1.1bn

The French government has made a €1.125bn offer for the supercomputing and quantum computing business of Atos.The debt-laden business is undergoing a strategic restructuring and the French government tis offering €500m for the supercomputing unit with another €625m for earn out condition.Exclusivity...

Published on: November 26, 2024

Tower ports silicon photonics to 300mm wafers

Tower ports silicon photonics to 300mm wafers

Analog foundry Tower Semiconductor Ltd. (Migdal, Haemek, Israel) has announced it has migrated its PH18 manufacturing process to 300mm-diameter wafers.PH18 provides silicon and silicon-nitride waveguides, germanium PIN diodes and avalanche photodiodes, on-chip heaters in a CMOS-compatible 180nm process with an aluminum back-end.It’s...

Published on: November 26, 2024

Lauterbach supports latest TI C29x microcontroller

Lauterbach supports latest TI C29x microcontroller

Lauterbach in Germany has added development tool support for the latest C29x microcontroller from Texas Instrument.The Lauterbach TRACE32 development tools now support the TI F29H85x real time microcontroller. The support includes debugging of the C29x and all of the other cores as...

Published on: November 26, 2024

Research project releases multilingual open source LLM

Research project releases multilingual open source LLM

The OpenGPT-X research project has made available its “Teuken-7B” large language model available for download on Hugging Face. The large language model (LLM) has been trained from scratch in all 24 official languages of the European Union (EU) and contains seven billion...

Published on: November 26, 2024

ADI puts a brave face on 2024 drop, looks to 2025 recovery.

ADI puts a brave face on 2024 drop, looks to 2025 recovery.

Analog Devices has seen revenue down by a quarter in 2024 but expects to see recovery in 2025.The company saw revenues of $9.4bn, down 23% on the $12.3bn posted in 2023, although this was above expectations. Net income was down 51% at...

Published on: November 26, 2024

30-tesla graphene magnetic sensor comes in 3mm package

30-tesla graphene magnetic sensor comes in 3mm package

Paragraf Ltd. (Somersham, England) has announced a family of cryogenic graphene-based Hall effect magnetic field sensors offered in 3mm by 3mm packages with an accompanying compatible data acquisition unit.Cryogenic graphene Hall effect sensors (GHS) take advantage of graphene’s superior thermal robustness and...

Published on: November 26, 2024

Valeo taps Rohm SiC for next generation powertrain

Valeo taps Rohm SiC for next generation powertrain

Tier One supplier Valeo is to use a silicon carbide (SiC) module from Rohm Semiconductor for its next generation of power modules for EV motor inverters.The two will propose and optimize the modules, starting with Rohm’s 2-in-1 TRCDRIVE pack SiC molded module.Valeo...

Published on: November 26, 2024