Electronic Breaking News

Toshiba and MIKROE introduce BLDC motor driver board

Toshiba and MIKROE introduce BLDC motor driver board

Toshiba Electronics Europe GmbH has partnered with MIKROE to integrate its Smart Motor Control Driver IC (SmartMCD™) into the SmartMCD TB9M003FG board, streamlining the prototyping phase for automotive BLDC motor applications.With a focus on performance, flexibility and ease of integration, the AEC-Q100...

Published on: October 29, 2024

Keysight, ADI team on GMSL test

Keysight, ADI team on GMSL test

Keysight Technologies and  Analog Devices (ADI) are developing a comprehensive test system for Gigabit Multimedia Serial Link (GMSL2) SerDes devices in automotive designs.The partnership focuses on developing Physical Medium Attachment (PMA) test methods and capabilities for the GMSL2 interface for emerging Advanced...

Published on: October 29, 2024

Ambiq expands Zephyr RTOS support for SoCs/MCUs

Ambiq expands Zephyr RTOS support for SoCs/MCUs

Ambiq® has expanded its support for the open-sourced Zephyr Project® Real-Time Operating System (RTOS).The Zephyr RTOS is now available on the Apollo3 Family SoCs, Apollo4 Plus, Apollo4 Blue Plus, and the upcoming Apollo510 MCU, for high-performing AI at the edge.  Manufacturers running Zephyr on...

Published on: October 29, 2024

$4m for US neuromorphic AI centre

$4m for US neuromorphic AI centre

The MATRIX AI Consortium at the University of Texas at San Antonio (UTSA) has received a $4 million grant to fund the Neuromorphic Commons (THOR) project.The multi-university THOR project offers researchers access to a large-scale neuromorphic computing system that is the first-of-its-kind. THOR...

Published on: October 29, 2024

IQE’s CEO departs amidst C-level shuffle

IQE’s CEO departs amidst C-level shuffle

Compound semiconductor wafer supplier IQE plc (Cardiff, Wales) has announced that CEO Americo Lemos has left the company with immediate effect.Jutta Meier, who joined the company from Intel in January 2024 will take up the position of interim CEO while continuing as...

Published on: October 29, 2024

Solid state megawatt power controller for electric aircraft

Solid state megawatt power controller for electric aircraft

Collins Aerospace has completed prototype development of a solid-state power controller and power distribution panel as part of the European SWITCH project for an electric aircraft demonstrator.The megawatt-class power distribution components were developed and produced in Nördlingen, Germany and will now be...

Published on: October 29, 2024

Orca launches PT-2 quantum-enhanced generative AI system

Orca launches PT-2 quantum-enhanced generative AI system

UK quantum computer startup Orca Computing has developed a quantum computer system with generative AI capabilities.The PT-2 combines its photonic quantum computer GPUs running the Nvidia CUDA-Q development platform to provide the genAI.This builds on the PT-1 quantum computer which is being...

Published on: October 29, 2024

Alchip announces tape-out for 2nm process

Alchip announces tape-out for 2nm process

Alchip Technologies Ltd. (Taipei, Taiwan) has said it has taped out a 2nm test chip and expects to see silicon back in the 1Q25.The company also reports that it is actively engaged with customers on 2nm ASIC designs.Alchip did not name the...

Published on: October 29, 2024

Industry veteran Charlie Sporck dies

Industry veteran Charlie Sporck dies

Charles Sporck, long time CEO of National Semiconductor, has died at the age of 96 in Sunnyvale, California.He worked at Fairchild, starting out as manufacturing plant manager with Bob Noyce and Gordon Moore, who went on to found Intel, and Jerry Sanders,...

Published on: October 29, 2024

BoS Semi plans automotive AI chiplet

BoS Semi plans automotive AI chiplet

BoS Semiconductors in Korea is planning to launch an automotive neural network accelerator (NPU) chiplet at CES in January 2025.BoS Semi has joined the UCIe Consortium which is building an ecosystem for chiplet interconnects. The BoS AI chiplet will be used alongside a...

Published on: October 29, 2024