Credit to NASA for this Picture of the Day - what a stunning image of the SpaceX Crew Dragon Endeavour, on the Crew-2 mission.

Intel CEO Pat Gelsinger (pictured) is reported to have asked EC Internal Market Commissioner Thierry Breton for $9.7 billion to build a fab in Europe during their meeting in Brussels this morning. “What we’re asking from both the U.S. and the European governments is to make it competitive for us to do it here compared to in Asia,” Gelsinger told ...

When you think of the virulence with which scientists can dismiss the work of others or respond to criticism of their work, the reaction of Benjamin Franklin to being told that his findings were being questioned is a fine example of how to behave: “I have never entered into any controversy in defence of my philosophical opinions; I leave them ...

Infineon has introduced 2.3kV isolated gate drivers for IGBTs and mosfets with on-the-fly switchable dual slew-rates. Branded ‘2L-SRC Compact’ and numbered ‘1ED32xx’, 10 and 18A versions are available (see table), with or without Miller clamps. Dual slew-rates are controlled by a single pin (/INF). All members of the family have two complete output stages: ‘OUT’ is always active, while the ...

There's Globalfoundries moving its HQ to Malta (New York), EU talks about fabs, Imec's work on near transparent perovskite solar cells, Orange to exclusively deploy O-RAN from 2025 and TSMC building a huge water treatment plant...

Cambridge Quantum Computing (CQC) has partnered with the German Aerospace Centre (Deutsches Zentrum für Luftund Raumfahrt; DLR) to explore how quantum computing could help create better simulation models for battery development to aid future energy utilisation. The collaboration will see DLR – the national aeronautics and space research centre of the Federal Republic of Germany – use CQC’s quantum algorithms ...

Recom’s RPMH-1.5 series non-isolated switching regulators are 3.75 mm high and can supply 1.5A across -40 to +100°C without derating. Versions with nominal output voltages of 3.3, 5, 12, 15, or 24V are available, each accepting input voltages up to 60V. “Switching regulators are particularly suitable for applications where the efficient handling of high ambient temperatures plays a role in safe ...

Alarmed by a brain drain to China, the Taiwan government has told employment agencies to drop job ads for China-located companies, reports the Nikkei. Taiwan’s Labour Ministry has told agencies not to list China-located jobs especially those in the chip industry. “Due to geopolitical tension between the U.S. and China, China’s semiconductor development has suffered some setbacks and as a ...

Vodafone and Qualcomm are to join forces to develop the technical blueprint for more equipment suppliers to help build 5G networks using O-RAN. The move aims to lower the entry barrier for many companies and drive diversification of network equipment vendors. In particular, the reference designs will be designed to support emerging and established network infrastructure vendors develop high-performance, virtualised, ...

Samsung’s foundry business expects to improve profitability and sales in H2 after the disruption of production at its Austin fab (pictured). There was  a major snow storm and a cold snap in Texas on February 6. “This caused power and water outage,” says the svp at Samsung Foundry, Seung Hoon Han, “this caused us to stop the operation of our Austin ...