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Soitec, GF team on 300mm RF-SOI
GlobalFoundries (GF) is to use 300mm silicon on insulator wafers from Soitec in France for its 9SW RF process technology.The deal provides supply of advanced RF-SOI engineered substrates required for 5G, 5G-Advanced, Wi-Fi, and other smart mobile device Radio Frequency Front-End (RFFE)...
Cadence aids AST in advancing space-based cellular broadband
Cadence Design Systems and AST SpaceMobile have teamed up to advance AST SpaceMobile’s mission to eliminate connectivity gaps and connect people around the world with high-speed, space-based broadband internet access.The result is the AST5000 ASIC, a custom, low-power architecture that is the...
Proof-of-concept NFC Digital Product Passport or NDPP mobile reader
A proof-of-concept mobile reader application for Android and iOS that can read on-product NFC Digital Product Passport (NDPP) data has been launched by the NFC Forum. It was one of a wide variety of demonstrations of DPP-enabled products at the recent Vision...
COSEL picks ROHM EcoSiC™ technology for 3.5 kW AC-DC PSUs
A leading power supply manufacturer in Japan, COSEL has adopted EcoSiC™ products from ROHM in the HFA/HCA series of 3.5 kW output AC-DC power supply units (PSUs) for 3-phase applications.Incorporating ROHM SiC MOSFETs and SiC Schottky barrier diodes (SBDs) into the forced...
Škoda tops 1m battery systems, expands Czech plant
Škoda Auto is expanding its battery plant in Mladá Boleslav in the Czech Republic with a third line as it produces its millionth battery system.The carmaker has been manufacturing high voltage traction batteries since 2019, when it launched battery production for the...
Global alliance for THz comms tech
A $100m global alliance has been formed to develop next-generation ultra-high-speed wireless communication technologies in the 300GHz, or THz, band.The alliance of 10 research institutes and universities spun out of a project in Japan and is led by Professor Minoru Fujishima of Hiroshima University’s Graduate...
Q5D raises £2m for automated wiring robot
Q5D Technologies has raised £2m for the development of its automated wireless harness tools.The funding for the UK startup comes from the British Business Bank’s South West Investment Fund and includes £500,00 from UK fund Maven Equity Finance which also backed millimetre wave...
World’s first vehicle with niobium batteries
Switch Technologies has launched the world’s first vehicle to be powered by niobium-based fast charging battery cells.The cells use a niobium material developed by Echion Technologies in the UK and are built by Li-Fun. Switch used the cells for a parallel-hybrid drive...
Bending standard for flexible solar panels
Researchers in Spain have developed a standard test for flexible photovoltaic solar cells used in a wide variety of applications.The FlexPV cells, often based on perovskite materials, are used in applications from wearable technology and intelligent fabrics to curved surfaces such as...
Microchip to close fab as inventory hits
The newly returned CEO of Microchip Technology has cited a significant inventory overhang for his decision to close a fab in the US.The decision by Steve San? To close Fab 2 in Temple, Arizona, also hits proposed funding of $192m under the...
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