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Silicon Catalyst is partnering with Arm on the Arm Flexible Access for Startups Contest. The contest is directed towards early-stage entrepreneurial teams developing a system-on-chip (SoC) design using Arm processor IP. The 2024 Arm Flexible Access for Startups Contest is open to privately owned startup companies in pre-seed, seed and Series A funding that have raised a maximum of $20 ...

Three year-old Singapore chiplet startup Silicon Box will invest €3.2 billion in Italy to build a packaging plant in northern Italy, according to Italy’s industry minister Adolfo Urso. ‘Recent global upheavals highlight the need to build a more resilient supply chain for semiconductors in Europe,” said Urso yesterday. The move comes after negotiations between Intel and the Italian government about ...

World-renowned semiconductor research lab Imec has named Lisa Su, chair and CEO of AMD, as the winner of the 2024 Imec Innovation Award. “Since taking the helm of AMD in 2014, Dr Su’s technological acumen and leadership have propelled the company to the forefront of semiconductor technology development,” said Imec CEO Luc Van den hove. “Under her leadership, AMD has ...

Infineon’s 750V G1 discrete CoolSiC MOSFET aims at industrial and automotive power applications. The product family includes both industrial-graded and automotive-graded SiC MOSFETs that are optimized for totem-pole PFC, T-type, LLC/CLLC, dual active bridge (DAB), HERIC, buck/boost, and phase-shifted full bridge (PSFB) topologies. The MOSFETs are suitable for use in both typical industrial applications, such as electric vehicle charging, industrial ...

2023, foundry revenues hit $117.47 billion, with TSMC taking a  60% share, says TrendForce, 2024 revenues are expected to be around $131.65 billion with TSMC’s share at 62%. The much-anticipated opening of TSMC’s Kumamoto Plant (JASM) in Japan on the 24th marks TSMC’s debut factory in Japan (Fab-23), signaling a bold step into the future. TrendForce forecasts the plant’s total ...

Picocom, the 5G Open RAN baseband semiconductor and software specialist, announces that Wave Electronics, a developer and manufacturer of 5G base station equipment, has designed-in Picocom’s PC802system-on-chip (SoC) into its latest Open RAN product, the WEH47-TM24B radio unit (O-RU). In conjunction with Wave Electronics, Picocom will showcase the new deployment-ready O-RU in a live end-to-end demonstration at MWC Barcelona 2024 ...

63 years ago EEV, then as now, was making electronic components in Chelmsford as this ad from Electronics Weekly’s edition of February 1 1961 shows:

The MX-Q Series 2 is the updated version of the MX series DC power supply by Aim-TTi. The quad-channel power supply has a larger colour panel, with colour-coded outputs. It also includes a TripLink feature, which allows the user to define assigned outputs for over-voltage protection and over-current protection. Aim-TTi says it has also enhanced power sharing between outputs. The ...

Renesas is to buy the Australian software company Altium for $5.9 billion. The price is 33% more than Altium’s market cap before the offer. Altium’s software tools enable the design of PCBs and the acquisition is seen as adding a broader electronics industry capability to the Renesas product portfolio “Addition of Altium will enable us to deliver an integrated and ...

AccelerComm, the Layer 1 5G IP specialists, has joined the Open Compute Project Foundation (OCP) and will be collaborating on the Evenstar modular O-RAN reference design project. AccelerComm’s optimised IP for Equalisation and Estimation can be implemented into the Radio Unit (RU) as part of the Evenstar modular reference platform delivering significant performance improvements and showcasing the potential for the IP ...