Europe’s pilot line for fully depleted silicon-on-insulator technology (FAMES) has seen support from 44 companies across the continent. This follows the launch of the pilot line in January.The €830m pilot line is developing 10nm and 7nm FD-SOI process technology for applications with...
                            
                                Published on: February 10, 2025
                                
                             
                            
                            
                         
                                            
                            
                            
                                
                            
                            Brookfield Asset Management has announced a €20 billion infrastructure investment programme for AI datacentre infrastructure in France.$15bn will fund a tripling of AI datacentres across the country with $5bn for data transfer, chip storage and energy generation.The datacentre investment will be led...
                            
                                Published on: February 10, 2025
                                
                             
                            
                            
                         
                                            
                            
                            
                                
                            
                            Intelligent power and sensing chip company OnSemi has reported falling sales and profits in its 4Q24 and talked of “streamlining” the business during 2025 without providing further details.OnSemi is heavily exposed to automotive and industrial sectors and this has driven sales downwards....
                            
                                Published on: February 10, 2025
                                
                             
                            
                            
                         
                                            
                            
                            
                                
                            
                            Startup OpenAI, best known as the developer of the generative AI chatbot ChatGPT, will finish the design of an in-house chip for AI processing within a few months, according to Reuters.The design will be sent to foundry TSMC for fabrication and this...
                            
                                Published on: February 10, 2025
                                
                             
                            
                            
                         
                                            
                            
                            
                                
                            
                            The AIST Group and NGK INSULATORS are jointly researching validation methods for evaluating thermal diffusivity of silicon nitride ceramic substrates used for power semiconductor components and other such applications.The research aims to develop the highest accuracy methods for evaluating cutting-edge products and...
                            
                                Published on: February 10, 2025
                                
                             
                            
                            
                         
                                            
                            
                            
                                
                            
                            NXP Semiconductors is to buy US edge AI chip startup Kinara for $307m in cash.Kinara was a spinout of Stanford University in 2014 called Deep Vision and developed low power neural network processors that can run many types of AI model at...
                            
                                Published on: February 10, 2025
                                
                             
                            
                            
                         
                                            
                            
                            
                                
                            
                            Mixed-signal, power and photonics foundry Tower Semiconductor Ltd. (Migdal Haemek, Israel) has announced sales up sequentially and annually in 4Q24 and forecast that growth would resume in 2025 and accelerate in the 2H25.Tower made a net profit of US$55 million on revenues...
                            
                                Published on: February 10, 2025
                                
                             
                            
                            
                         
                                            
                            
                            
                                
                            
                            Researchers in Pakistan have used fuzzy logic on an Arduino Uno board to tackle the problem of partial shading that hits photovoltaic (PV) solar panels.Partial shading of a PV panel at different times of the day not only reduces the power output...
                            
                                Published on: February 10, 2025
                                
                             
                            
                            
                         
                                            
                            
                            
                                
                            
                            Cellid has announced that it has raised a total of USD 13 million (JPY 2 billion) through a private placement with the Development Bank of Japan as the lead investor to advance its core business of developing displays for AR glasses and...
                            
                                Published on: February 10, 2025
                                
                             
                            
                            
                         
                                            
                            
                            
                                
                            
                            December global chip sales completed a year of strong market expansion but showed declining growth in China and other geographic regions and increased European chip market contraction.In the Americas region a phenomenal boom continued to accelerate, according to numbers from the Semiconductor...
                            
                                Published on: February 10, 2025