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Weebit Nano signs onsemi for ReRAM license
Weebit Nano in Israel has licensed its resistive random access memory (ReRAM) technology to tier-1 semiconductor supplier onsemi.Onsemi is the first chip maker to license the IP, joining foundries eFabless and DB Hitek which are offering the ReRAM technology. This is key...
Air taxi maker Volocopter files for bankruptcy
Air taxi developer Volocopter in Germany has filed an application to open insolvency proceedings.The Karlsruhe Local Court has began the provisional insolvency administration and appointed Tobias Wahl at Anchor Rechtsanwältegesellschaft mbH as its administrator.Volocopter, founded in 2011 with Intel as a backer,...
Automotive trends for 2025
The automotive industry was perhaps the saving grace of the European semiconductor industry in 2023, but reality has hit hard in 2024.The European Commission will start talks in the New Year on the future of the industry in the region as sales...
Samsung accelerates move into humanoid robots
Samsung Electronics has acquired Korean startup Rainbow Robotics to accelerate the development of humanoid robots.Rainbow Robotics was founded in 2011 by researchers from the Korea Advanced Institute of Science & Technology’s (KAIST) Humanoid Robot Research Centre who developed the first two-legged walking...
Wingtech sells off manufacturing to focus on power semiconductors
Wingtech, one of the leading contract manufacturers in China, has signed a deal to transfer the equity and operating assets of the majority of its manufacturing subsidiaries to Luxshare Precision Industry.The move would allow Wingtech, which owns Nexperia in the Netherlands, to...
China takes another scalp at Imagination
The fallout from the acquisition of UK chip designer Imagination Technologies continues, with CEO Simon Beresford-Wylie reported to be stepping down over the company’s links to China.The move comes after an employment tribunal that pitted the company against its former CEO, Ron...
SoftBank’s Izanagi AI processor could arrive in 2025, says report
A prototype Izanagi AI processor from SoftBank Group Corp. could be available as early as the summer of 2025, according to a Bloomberg report.The report – which references sources involved with SoftBank and Project Izanagi – states that Masayoshi Son, the company’s...
Littelfuse takes over Elmos Dortmund fab
Littelfuse has completed the acquisition of the 200mm wafer fab located in Dortmund, Germany from Elmos Semiconductor.The completion of the €93m fab acquisition at the Elmos headquarters in Dortmund boosts power semiconductor capacity across a broad base of industrial end markets including...
Inspire Semi goes private to boost RISC-V AI chip funding
Canadian RISC-V AI chip designer Inspire Semiconductor Holdings is to de-list from the TSXV Venture Exchange in Toronto today, following a move to go private.Inspire has design centres in Vancouver, Canada and Austin, Texas, and is developing a 12nm AI chip with...
Sidus Space plans for 2025
Sidus Space in the US has completed design work on a Dutch laser satellite and plans to launched its latest LizzieSat early next year.The company, which raised $37m in 2024, launched LizzieSat-1 in March and LizzieSat-2 in December, establishing a micro-constellation for...
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