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$575m for Bosch US SiC plant
Bosch has signed a preliminary deal with the US government for $225m of direct funding and $350m of loans for its silicon carbide plant in Roseville, California.The preliminary memorandum of terms (PMT) under the CHIPS and Science Act will support the $1.9bn...
Tunable ultrasound propagation in microscale metamaterials
New framework advances experimental capabilities, including design and characterization, of microscale acoustic metamaterials – MITAcoustic metamaterials — architected materials that have tailored geometries designed to control the propagation of acoustic or elastic waves through a medium — have been studied extensively through...
The keeper of Moore’s Law
IEDM is always eye opening for the advances of device technology. The 2024 meeting in San Francisco this week has not only shown the latest 2nm CMOS process technologies, but way beyond.TSMC is discussing the technology for its A16 node at the...
France’s Biomemory raises Series A for DNA-based storage
DNA-based storage company Biomemory SA (Paris, France) has raised US$18 million in a Series A round of funding led by Credit Mutuel Innovation.The round included the participation existing investor the French Tech Seed fund managed on behalf of the French state by...
Silver nanocubes form miniature laser
Researchers in Lithuania have developed a nanolaser constructed from a series of silver nanocubes without the need for accurate alignment.Working with a partner n Japan, the researchers at the Kaunas University of Technology (KTU) developed the nanolaser with the silver nanocubes arranged...
Click board for ML models for vibration analysis
MikroE has launched a Click board that helps the development and training of AI models for vibration analysis for machine health monitoring..The MikroE ML Vibro Sens Click uses the FXLS8974CF 3-axis low-g accelerometer from NXP Semiconductors which has ultra-low-power operation alongside high-performance...
Segger supports ST’s AI microcontroller
Segger is Germany has announced support for the STM32N6, STMicroelectronics first microcontroller with a neural processing unit (NPU) for AI and machine learning designs.A wide range of Segger’s industry-leading tools, such as the J-Link and J-Trace debug and trace probes, Flasher in-system programmers, SystemView real-time analysis tool, embOS real-time...
India’s Netrasemi raises funds for edge AI processors
Netrasemi Pvt Ltd. (Thiruvananthapuram, Kerala, India) has raised 100 million rupees (about US$1.2 million) in seed round of funding to build system chips aimed at edge AI.Netrasemi was founded in 2020 by Jyothis Indirabhai, Sreejith Varma and Deepa Geetha and the funding...
Marvell partners with Micron, Samsung, SK Hynix on custom HBM
Marvell has said it has been working with the three leading memory chip makers – Micron, Samsung and SK Hynix – on a custom-HBM that improves the performance of its XPU AI accelerator.Marvell has said that working with – Micron, Samsung and...
Qualcomm backs Swiss robotics firm Anybotics in $60m round
ANYbotics in Zurich has raised $60m for its four legged industrial inspection robots.The round was led by Qualcomm Ventures and Supernova Invest, with participation from TDK Ventures and other new investors, and brings the total raised to $130m.The company is backed by...
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