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Seoul Semi LED patent sales ban will have implications across Europe
A judgement by the Unified Patent Court will see a sales ban and destruction of products infringing a key LED patent from Seoul Semiconductor in eight European countries.The decision on the “No Wire” (WICOP) LED patent will have wider implications for automotive...
Silicon photonic platform supports room-temp quantum computing
Artilux Inc. (Zhubei, Taiwan) has collaborated with academic Richard Soref from The University of Massachusetts to investigate quantum information processing on an integrated silicon photonics platform.Artilux, founded in 2014, has been a pioneer of germanium-silicon photonics and CMOS-based SWIR (short-wavelength infrared) single...
SemiFive, HyperAccel complete design of LLM processor
Contract design work on HyperAccel’s a 4nm generative AI processor IP called ‘Bertha’ has been completed with silicon IP now targeting mass production in 1Q26.HyperAccel Co. Ltd. (Seoul, South Korea) is a 2023 startup that has developed a large language model processing...
IEDM: Samsung speeds selection of selector-only memory materials
Samsung has used computer modelling to accelerate the selection of a material system for selector-only-memory (SOM). Researchers are due to present a paper on the work at this year’s International Electron Devices Meeting (IEDM) coming up in December, in San Francisco.SOM is...
September foundry sales: a tale of differing fortunes
Strong demand for foundry TSMC’s leading-edge wafer processing continued in September allowing the company to beat the sales guidance it gave for 3Q24 back in July.In September TSMC’s net revenue was NT$251.87 billion (about US$7.83 billion), up 0.4 percent sequentially but up...
Tesla robot cars aren’t coming quite yet
Tesla’s plans for a fully driverless ‘cybercab’ in 2026 is optimistic to say the least. This is not because the technology is not advancing, as Honda and Mercedes are both demonstrating.Tesla is also planning an unsupervised version of its Full Self Driving...
Nissan to launch bi-directional charging for V2G first in the UK
Nissan is planning to launch affordable bi-directional charging on selected electric vehicles in 2026 for vehicle to grid (V2G) applications starting in the UK.The Nissan Leaf had bi-directional charging and has been a key electric vehicle for testing V2G technology in over...
Portable test chassis for VNX+
Elma Electronic has released a portable development chassis that accelerates the development and testing of VNX+ plugin cards (PICs).The VNX+ standard defines an extremely compact footprint that reduces per-slot size by up to 70% over 3U VPX, making it ideal for space constrained...
Battery prices set to fall to $80/kWh by 2026
Research by Goldman Sachs is predicting the cost of EV batteries will fall to 480 per kilowatt hour in the next two years.Global average battery prices declined from $153 per kilowatt-hour (kWh) in 2022 to $149 in 2023, and Goldman Sachs Research...
Large area fingerprint sensors for automotive designs
Infineon Technologies has launched two new automotive-qualified fingerprint sensors optimized for its Traveo T2G microcontroller family.The sensors offer fingerprint identification and authentication capabilities for in-vehicle personalization and payment authentication, such as charging, parking or other services, as well as for authentication and...
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