Electronic Breaking News

First view of VR fab to tackle the UK skills gap

First view of VR fab to tackle the UK skills gap

Semiwise in Glasgow is building a Virtual Reality Semiconductor Fabrication Training Facility (VRSFT) to tackle the industry skills gap.The £500,000 project, announced this time last year, is being developed with the TechWorks National Microelectronics Institute (NMI) and UK 300mm fab operator Pragmatic...

Published on: December 04, 2024

Accenture acquires AOX in software-defined vehicles push

Accenture acquires AOX in software-defined vehicles push

Accenture has agreed to acquire AOX, a German company specializing in embedded software for carmakers and their suppliers. The acquisition will help automotive clients solve challenges they are facing in their transition to software-defined vehicles.AOX designs and develops the complex system architectures...

Published on: December 04, 2024

Wi-Fi 6/Bluetooth modules deliver breakthrough power efficiency

Wi-Fi 6/Bluetooth modules deliver breakthrough power efficiency

An extension of the successful Series 2 platform, the SiWx917Y ultra-low power Wi-Fi® 6 and Bluetooth® Low Energy (LE) 5.4 modules from Silicon Labs are designed to help device makers streamline the complex development and certification process for Wi-Fi 6 devices.The new...

Published on: December 04, 2024

VSMC breaks ground on 300mm Singapore fab

VSMC breaks ground on 300mm Singapore fab

VisionPower Semiconductor Manufacturing Company (VSMC) has started building its 300mm wafer manufacturing facility in Tampines, Singapore.VSMC is a joint venture between Vanguard International Semiconductor (VIS) NXP Semiconductors toThe fab, with a $7.8bn investment. will adopt a fully automated production model, integrating an Automated...

Published on: December 04, 2024

Micron to close fab as inventory hits

Micron to close fab as inventory hits

The newly returned CEO of Microchip Technology has cited a significant inventory overhang for his decision to close a fab in the US.The decision by Steve San? To close Fab 2 in Temple, Arizona, also hits proposed funding of $192m under the...

Published on: December 04, 2024

Moving prosthetics without implants using quantum sensors

Moving prosthetics without implants using quantum sensors

A multidisciplinary consortium, QHMI in Stuttgart, Germany, is using quantum sensors to detect incredibly small and fast nerve signals required to control prosthetics non invasively.To control prosthetics, nerve signals must be detected to move the artificial limb. Currently, implanting electrodes is the...

Published on: December 04, 2024

‘Compact’ hard X-ray machine works!

‘Compact’ hard X-ray machine works!

What started as the desire to look better into paintings with so-called hard X-rays, with wavelengths smaller than a nanometer, now leads to an incredible achievement by a team of researchers led by Jom Luiten and Peter Mutsaers. With their compact ‘synchrotron’,...

Published on: December 04, 2024

First 1.6Tbit/s PAM4 DSP on 3nm process

First 1.6Tbit/s PAM4 DSP on 3nm process

Marvell Technology has launched the industry’s first 3nm 1.6 Tbit/s PAM4 interconnect platform for datacentre AI.The Ara platform uses 200 Gbit/s SERDES electrical and optical interfaces and builds on the Nova 2 DSP, a 1.6 Tbit/s PAM4 DSP built on a 5nm...

Published on: December 03, 2024

Marvell, AWS partner for EDA-in-the-cloud

Marvell, AWS partner for EDA-in-the-cloud

Marvell Technology Inc. (Santa Clara, Calif.) has signed a five-year deal extend its strategic relationship as a supplier to Amazon Web Services.As part of the deal Marvell is expanding its relationship with AWS to include EDA-in-the-cloud to help it develop chips.The latest...

Published on: December 03, 2024

Low power SoM with AI capabilities in limited sampling

Low power SoM with AI capabilities in limited sampling

SECO has made available early engineering samples for its SOM-SMARC-QCS5430, starting in mid-December, enabling early adopters to evaluate the advanced capabilities of this high-performance System on Module (SoM).The SoM combines state-of-the-art processing, AI capabilities, and low power consumption to address the requirements...

Published on: December 03, 2024