X-fab has enhanced its silicon carbide (SiC) process in Lubbock, Texas, for foundry customers.The Belgian foundry has improved the capability of the lithography, deposition and etch tools and made major process flow changes from the previous generation for the XSICM03 next-generation XbloX...
ARM has lost its court case against Qualcomm for license infringement marks a key moment for the IP industry in several ways. Late on Friday a jury ruled against ARM on two of the three counts, and was undecided on a third charge....
A jury in Wilmington, Delaware, has found that Qualcomm’s latest AI-PC processors – based on the ARM instruction set – are properly licensed, say Reuters and Bloomberg reports.The court thereby rejected ARM’s call that the intellectual property should be destroyed or that...
The European Commission has approved a €1.3 billion subsidy from the Italian government to Silicon Box for its advanced packaging and testing facility in Novara, in the Piedmont region.The plant will support chiplet-style manufacturing of components on panels, rather than at wafer...
A South Korean academic body has floated the idea of the government helping to create a logic foundry modelled after Taiwan’s TSMC, according to The Korea Bizwire.The plan for the formation of the Korea Semiconductor Manufacturing Company was discussed at a seminar...
Memory chip maker Micron Technology Inc. (Boise, Idaho) enjoyed record revenue in its first quarter of fiscal 2025 but saw its share price lose 15 percent on weak guidance given for 2FQ25.The chip maker reported revenue of US$8.71 billion versus US$7.75 billion...
The AI boom is hiding a number of serious issues for the semiconductor industry.The demand for GPUs, accelerators, memory and interconnect chips for the rollout of AI in data centres has driven the industry to boom levels, elevating companies such as Nvidia...
A microcontroller developed by XMOS in the UK is at the heart of the first open source voice-enabled Home Assistant.The open source hardware and software supports the voice assistant built into the Home Assistant software for natural language processing.The Preview kit is...
Dracula Technologies in France is working with the CoolR Group for light-powered cameras in retail applications.The deal will see Dracula Technologies integrate its LAYER Organic Photovoltaic (OPV) modules into the CoolR VistaZ cellular camera for real time inventory management.Europe’s largest OPV plant with inkjet printingInkjet printed...
The march of the RISC-V architecture continued through 2024, with neuromorphic computing from Innatera in the Netherlands and a universal processor that combines the functions of the CPU, GPU, and DSP from Ubitium in Dusseldorf which has raised $3.7m for the chip...
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