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Excess inventory hits Silicon Labs

Excess inventory hits Silicon Labs

Silicon Labs has been hit by the downturn in the industry with a fall of 29% in 2024 to $584m, down from $782m in 2023. This was down to excess inventory at customers that are slowly easing, and is taking a cautious view...

Published on: February 05, 2025

Dial ‘M’ for Moon – Nokia’s cellular network on the moon’s South Pole

Dial ‘M’ for Moon – Nokia’s cellular network on the moon’s South Pole

Nokia Bell Labs will deploy the first cellular 4G/LTE network on the Moon’s South Pole during Intuitive Machines’ IM-2 mission scheduled for this yearWhile the mission is complex, the goal is simple. Nokia intends to prove that terrestrial cellular technologies that connect...

Published on: February 05, 2025

Universal Verification Methodology for Mixed-Signal designs approved  

Universal Verification Methodology for Mixed-Signal designs approved   

The Accellera Systems Initiative has approved the Universal Verification Methodology for Mixed-Signal (UVM-MS) 1.0 standard and made it available to download free of charge (see link below). The UVM-MS 1.0 standard is a comprehensive and unified analog/mixed-signal (AMS) verification methodology based on the...

Published on: February 05, 2025

Tennant brings its robotics manufacturing back to Europe

Tennant brings its robotics manufacturing back to Europe

The prospects of tariffs and a US-EU trade war has prompted a US robotics manufacturer to set up manufacturing in the Netherlands.Tennant, based in Minnesota, US, is to build its T16AMR autonomous cleaning robots at a new factory in Uden, Netherlands, for...

Published on: February 04, 2025

Samsung hosts OpenAI, Softbank CEOs to discuss AI alliance

Samsung hosts OpenAI, Softbank CEOs to discuss AI alliance

Lee Jae-yong, the chair of Samsung Electronics, has hosted a meeting with Sam Altman and Masayoshi Son, the CEOs of OpenAI and SoftBank Group respectively, in Seoul, Korea.The three leaders met in Samsung’s Seocho office building to discuss plans for a Korea-US-Japan...

Published on: February 04, 2025

Small area lamp boosts high speed adhesive curing

Small area lamp boosts high speed adhesive curing

DELO Industrial Adhesives has developed a curing lamp with a higher peak intensity with improved homogeneity for LED packages and automotive packages.The Delolux 30 is the replacement for the Delolux 80 series of curing lamps with a higher peak intensity of up...

Published on: February 04, 2025

Rust port to ST’s Stellar microcontrollers for safer software defined vehicles

Rust port to ST’s Stellar microcontrollers for safer software defined vehicles

HighTec EDV-Systeme in Germany is supporting the use of the Rust language on Stellar microcontrollers from STMicroelectronics for safer software defined vehicle developments.Using HighTec’s ISO26262 ASIL D Rust compiler on ST’s Stellar 28nm microcontrollers allows developers to integrate Rust along alongside the...

Published on: February 04, 2025

TSMC plans for 1nm-capable gigafab in Tainan, says report

TSMC plans for 1nm-capable gigafab in Tainan, says report

The world’s leading foundry TSMC has selected Shalun near Tainan in Taiwan as the location for Fab25, its 1nm gigafab, according to Taiwan’s United Daily News.The plan is to build a gigafab that can accommodate six 300mm production lines, the publication said...

Published on: February 04, 2025

Executives from Infineon, NXP join Dolphin’s board

Executives from Infineon, NXP join Dolphin’s board

Semiconductor IP licensor Dolphin Semiconductor SAS (Meylan, France) has appointed former senior Infineon executive Robert LeFort as chair and Shelly Van Dyke, a senior executive at NXP, as an independent director.LeFort retired as President of Infineon Technologies North America in July 2023....

Published on: February 04, 2025

CEO interview: Walter Goodwin, Fractile AI

CEO interview: Walter Goodwin, Fractile AI

UK chip designer Fractile is on the way to producing AI chips for datacentres. The company is developing an in-memory compute (IMC) architecture for AI inference in the datacentre with RISC-V technology and is taping out test chips from its teams in...

Published on: February 04, 2025