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France joins the AI datacentre express with $20bn deal
Brookfield Asset Management has announced a €20 billion infrastructure investment programme for AI datacentre infrastructure in France.$15bn will fund a tripling of AI datacentres across the country with $5bn for data transfer, chip storage and energy generation.The datacentre investment will be led...
OnSemi’s announces poor Q4 results with hints of cuts
Intelligent power and sensing chip company OnSemi has reported falling sales and profits in its 4Q24 and talked of “streamlining” the business during 2025 without providing further details.OnSemi is heavily exposed to automotive and industrial sectors and this has driven sales downwards....
OpenAI preps tape-out of custom AI processor, says report
Startup OpenAI, best known as the developer of the generative AI chatbot ChatGPT, will finish the design of an in-house chip for AI processing within a few months, according to Reuters.The design will be sent to foundry TSMC for fabrication and this...
Research to standardise the evaluation of silicon nitride ceramic substrates
The AIST Group and NGK INSULATORS are jointly researching validation methods for evaluating thermal diffusivity of silicon nitride ceramic substrates used for power semiconductor components and other such applications.The research aims to develop the highest accuracy methods for evaluating cutting-edge products and...
NXP to buy US edge AI chip startup Kinara for $307m
NXP Semiconductors is to buy US edge AI chip startup Kinara for $307m in cash.Kinara was a spinout of Stanford University in 2014 called Deep Vision and developed low power neural network processors that can run many types of AI model at...
Foundry Tower’s results, outlook indicate growth ahead
Mixed-signal, power and photonics foundry Tower Semiconductor Ltd. (Migdal Haemek, Israel) has announced sales up sequentially and annually in 4Q24 and forecast that growth would resume in 2025 and accelerate in the 2H25.Tower made a net profit of US$55 million on revenues...
Fuzzy logic Arduino boost for shaded PV panels
Researchers in Pakistan have used fuzzy logic on an Arduino Uno board to tackle the problem of partial shading that hits photovoltaic (PV) solar panels.Partial shading of a PV panel at different times of the day not only reduces the power output...
Startup raises funds to accelerate development of AR glasses displays
Cellid has announced that it has raised a total of USD 13 million (JPY 2 billion) through a private placement with the Development Bank of Japan as the lead investor to advance its core business of developing displays for AR glasses and...
Americas’ boom continues as China falters in global chip market
December global chip sales completed a year of strong market expansion but showed declining growth in China and other geographic regions and increased European chip market contraction.In the Americas region a phenomenal boom continued to accelerate, according to numbers from the Semiconductor...
Foxconn circles Nissan as Honda deal collapses
Contract manufacturer Foxconn is said to be looking at investing in Japanese car maker Nissan as a proposed merger with Honda collapses.Nissan and Honda are set to make an announcement later this week about the end of the deal, which came about...
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