Alphawave is to suspend its shares on the LSE from next Tuesday  after its shares fell 20% this morning following an admission that KPMG had delayed issuing its accounts. It is the second time the company has delayed issuing its accounts, the first time was last April. The company has a market cap of around  £700 million. The company’s shares ...

In the Bible of hi-tec marketing, ‘Marketing High Technology’, Bill Davidow tells a yarn which exemplifies the importance of the salesman. “One clever instrumentation salesman I knew discovered a very important service he could offer his government laboratory customers,” writes Davidow, “he found the procurement procedures to be so complex that government engineers themselves did not understand them or have ...

The Japanese government will provide Rapidus with an additional $1.94 billion to add to the $2.5 billion  it has already received, reports the Nikkei. The total project to get 2nm chips into volume production will cost $37 billion. Rapidus aims to begin mass production of 2nm ICs  in the late 2020s. It took a technology licence from IBM in 2022 ...

Pinecone Systems of New York has raised $100 million in a funding round that values the company at $750 million. Investors were Andreessen Horowitz, Iconiq, Menlo Ventures and Wing Venture Capital. The proceeds will be used for R&D, hiring and scaling up the business, according to CEO Edo Liberty (pictured). At its Series A in February 2022 it raised $28 ...

The automotive radar market is expected to be worth $13.6 billion in 2028 with a CAGR 22-28 of 12%, says Yole Developpement. With Continental, Aptiv, Bosch, Hella (now Forvia), Denso and Veoneer (soon Magna) the automotive radar market is already large and still growing at Tier-1 and semiconductor levels. Multiple developments include a switch from 24 GHz to 77 GHz, ...

Guerrilla RF has announced the production release of the GRF2010 and GRF2011, two high linearity gain blocks targeting infrastructure applications such as 5G/4G base stations, automotive telematics, and cellular repeaters/DAS. These new cores extend the gain coverage for GRF’s existing portfolio of general-purpose RF/microwave gain blocks. When used in conjunction with the GRF2013, customers can now choose from a family ...

Datasound Laboratories Ltd (DSL) has announced the winner of its inaugural Design Academy 2023 award, a competition run in local schools and colleges to identify young engineering excellence, promote STEM and encourage a new generation of design engineers. The Letchworth-based electronic design consultancy selected Jemima Hewitt, of St Francis’ College, as the winner. She was chosen out of hundreds of ...

Before the end of the decade, the world will see the first construction megaproject with a cost exceeding $1 trillion, reckons construction software company 1Build Right now, there are several $100 billion+ projects underway. Out of all nine ongoing megaprojects identified by 1Build, International Construction Magazine and Construction Review to cost $100 billion or more, four were being built in ...

For example, our technology editor says it is good to hear that the House of Lords is looking into the use of artificial intelligence in warfare - he hopes a deep and thorough public report is likely to emerge.

Infineon Technologies is aiming at 1,200V 10kW loads with a family of half-bridge gate drivers for IGBTs and silicon carbide mosfets. Called the 2ED132xS12x family, they are ruggedised by protection against negative voltage transient, shoot-through and automatic (±5%) over-current shut-down, and have under-voltage lock-out. Over-current detection to output shut-down, can be as short at 1μs. The use of a silicon-on-insulator ...