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Startup to commercialise fast charging lithium sulfur battery
An Australian startup is commercialising a lightweight, fast charging lithium sulfur battery developed at Monash University.With rapid charging times, the lightweight Li-S batteries could soon power drones, with electric aircraft a future possibility. Researchers at Monash aim to demonstrate the technology in commercial...
Two push for wireless inductive charging standard
InductEV and ENRX have signed a deal to align global technical standards for compatibility of high power inductive wireless charging systems.Philadelphia-based InductEV has a focus on electric vehicles used in commercial fleets, while ENRX in Skein, Norway has 75 years of experience in...
France to buy Atos supercomputing, quantum business for €1.1bn
The French government has made a €1.125bn offer for the supercomputing and quantum computing business of Atos.The debt-laden business is undergoing a strategic restructuring and the French government tis offering €500m for the supercomputing unit with another €625m for earn out condition.Exclusivity...
Tower ports silicon photonics to 300mm wafers
Analog foundry Tower Semiconductor Ltd. (Migdal, Haemek, Israel) has announced it has migrated its PH18 manufacturing process to 300mm-diameter wafers.PH18 provides silicon and silicon-nitride waveguides, germanium PIN diodes and avalanche photodiodes, on-chip heaters in a CMOS-compatible 180nm process with an aluminum back-end.It’s...
Lauterbach supports latest TI C29x microcontroller
Lauterbach in Germany has added development tool support for the latest C29x microcontroller from Texas Instrument.The Lauterbach TRACE32 development tools now support the TI F29H85x real time microcontroller. The support includes debugging of the C29x and all of the other cores as...
Research project releases multilingual open source LLM
The OpenGPT-X research project has made available its “Teuken-7B” large language model available for download on Hugging Face. The large language model (LLM) has been trained from scratch in all 24 official languages of the European Union (EU) and contains seven billion...
ADI puts a brave face on 2024 drop, looks to 2025 recovery.
Analog Devices has seen revenue down by a quarter in 2024 but expects to see recovery in 2025.The company saw revenues of $9.4bn, down 23% on the $12.3bn posted in 2023, although this was above expectations. Net income was down 51% at...
30-tesla graphene magnetic sensor comes in 3mm package
Paragraf Ltd. (Somersham, England) has announced a family of cryogenic graphene-based Hall effect magnetic field sensors offered in 3mm by 3mm packages with an accompanying compatible data acquisition unit.Cryogenic graphene Hall effect sensors (GHS) take advantage of graphene’s superior thermal robustness and...
Valeo taps Rohm SiC for next generation powertrain
Tier One supplier Valeo is to use a silicon carbide (SiC) module from Rohm Semiconductor for its next generation of power modules for EV motor inverters.The two will propose and optimize the modules, starting with Rohm’s 2-in-1 TRCDRIVE pack SiC molded module.Valeo...
DC-DC converters adds 50W, 100W, and 150W quarter brick models
TDK has expanded its industrial DC-DC converter range with 50W, 100W, and 150W rated quarter-brick models with 2.5kV isolation.The quarter brick DC-DC converters operate from a wide input voltage of 43 to 160Vdc, the converters are compatible with 72Vdc or 110Vdc nominal...
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