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ROHM and TSMC collaborate on GaN for automotive
ROHM and TSMC have entered a strategic partnership on development and volume production of gallium nitride (GaN) power devices for electric vehicle applications.The partnership will integrate ROHM’s device development technology with TSMC’s industry-leading GaN-on-silicon process technology to meet the growing demand for...
Quobly shows spin qubits on FD-SOI CMOS process
French quantum computing startup Quobly has shown spin qubits for quantum gates built on mainstream CMOS FD-SOI process technology.Quobly, previously Siquance, is a spin out of the CEA-Leti research labs in Grenoble developing spin qubits for quantum computing, integrating quantum and classical...
TSMC’s November sales up by 34 percent year-on-year
November sales at TSMC, the world’s leading foundry, were NT$276.06 billion (about US$8.48 billion, a sequential drop of 12. 2 percent but up year-on-year by 34.0 percent.Sequential drops in revenue are not so significant as sales can be lumpy within a quarter....
Compact tri-radio Wi-Fi 6 modules offer BLE and Thread
Murata Manufacturing Co., Ltd is expanding its innovative wireless communication module lineup by introducing the Type 2FR/2FP and Type 2KL/2LL Wi-Fi 6 modules.Designed to support the next generation of wireless connectivity across smart home, smart building, and industrial IoT applications, these compact...
Magnesium electrolyte sparks next generation battery design
University of Waterloo researchers have made a key breakthrough in developing next-generation batteries that are made using magnesium instead of lithiumWhen the idea to create batteries using magnesium was first shared in a seminal academic paper in 2000, that novel design didn’t...
Infineon adds SAE 21434 security to Traveo MCUs
Infineon Technologies is retrofitting SAE 21434 cybersecurity to its Traveo T2G body and cluster microcontrollers.The increasing connectivity of road vehicles leads to a growing need for cybersecurity. OEMs need a valid type approval certificate and implement cybersecurity practices throughout the supply chain...
Kioxia announces low-power, high density OCTRAM technology
Kioxia Corporation has announced the development of OCTRAM (Oxide-Semiconductor Channel Transistor DRAM), a new type of 4F2 DRAM, comprised of an oxide-semiconductor transistor that has a high ON current, and an ultra-low OFF current, simultaneously.This memory technology is expected to realise a...
Battery Pack Monitoring Technology for Electric Vehicles
This IC can help protect high-voltage batteries from overcurrent by constantly monitoring the battery current and slope every eight microsecondsNXP® Semiconductors today announced the MC33777, the world’s first battery junction box IC that integrates critical pack-level functions into a single device. Unlike...
Google shows 105 qubit quantum processor with real time error correction
Google has shown a quantum processor with 105qubits and real time error correction that allows a scalable quantum computer.The Willow quantum processor uses superconducting metals to form resonant circuits with capacitance and inductance coupled with Josephson junctions as nonlinear elements. By carefully...
The Wind of Change is in the Willow – Google’s new AI chip
Google Quantum AI’s new chip promises error correction and performance that paves the way to a useful, large-scale quantum computerThe first is that Willow can reduce errors exponentially as we scale up using more qubits. This cracks a key challenge in quantum...
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