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Yesterday, Schneider Electric, supported by Intel and Applied Materials, launched Catalyze, a  partnership programme aimed at accelerating access to renewable energy across the global semiconductor value chain. Intel and Applied are the inaugural corporate sponsors of the Catalyze programme and will, together with Schneider Electric, encourage suppliers from throughout the semiconductor industry ecosystem to join the Catalyze programme and help ...

A standard for LiFi has been released – IEEE 802.11bb. By harnessing the light spectrum, LiFi can deliver faster, more reliable and more secure wireless communications compared to WiFi and 5G. The Light Communications 802.11bb Task Group was formed in 2018 chaired by pureLiFi and supported by Fraunhofer HHI. Both organisations aim to see accelerated adoption and interoperability not only ...

Yamaichi Electronics has come up with  online overview for is customised connecters One of the most important benefits of custom connectors is the potential for economic savings, says Yamaichi, with the investments required for development, tooling and equipment leading to improved product performance, optimisation of design and functionality, reduction of material scrap, increased efficiency and reduced costs. Investing in custom ...

Nordic Semiconductor has launched a PMIC with two buck converters, two LDOs and integrated battery charging. The  nPM1300 is suitable for battery-operated applications. It reduces an end-product’s BoM by combining circuitry that typically requires five or more discrete components into a single chip. The launch is accompanied by the introduction of the nPM1300 Evaluation Kit (EK) and the nPM PowerUP ...

Algorithmiq of Finland which develops quantum algorithms has raised $15 million in a Series A funding round. It  was founded in 2020 by co-founder and CEO Professor Sabrina Maniscalco (pictured). The company aims to leverage the potential of quantum software so that new drugs can be discovered, invented and brought to market quickly, efficiently and cost-effectively, leading to precise medical ...

Swave Photonics, the specialist in holography for augmented reality, has secured €3 million in a seed round bringing its total funds raised to €10 million. Reinvestment came from imec.xpand, Flanders Future Techfund (FFTF), a Belgian/Flemish public investment fund, and QBIC, a Belgian inter-university VC fund. New investors  are Acequia Capital of Seattle, and Luminate NY of Rochester New York State. ...

Micron is delivering qualification samples of its UFS 4.0 mobile NAND, built on a 232-layer process. The memory comes in capacities up to 1TB  and is being shipped to selected smartphone manufacturers and chipset vendors. It is Micron’s first mobile memory built on the 232-layer TLC process. It is also the first UFS 4.0 memory to use six-plane NAND architecture, ...

Yesterday Cisco said that its SiliconOne series networking ICs are being evaluated by five of the six major cloud providers. ‘Cisco SiliconOne is the only unifying architecture enabling customers to deploy the best-of-breed silicon from Top of Rack (TOR) switches all the way through web scale data centres and across service provider, enterprise networks, and data centres with a fully ...

Imec and AT&S – the PCB and IC substrate manufacturer – have made a major step towards realising a novel system integration approach, whereby D-Band chips and waveguides are integrated into low-cost, mass-manufacturable PCBs. This new approach paves the way for the development of compact, cost-effective, and high-performance 140 GHz (automotive) radar and 6G mobile communications systems, offering significantly lower ...

Marvell has announced a family  of central Automotive Ethernet switches in a new category of devices for enabling computing architectures to improve safety and deliver software-defined services for automobiles. A shift from architectures built around domain networking schemes (where switches manage devices linked to particular applications such as infotainment or safety) andq point-to-point connections to zonal networking architectures built around ...