Tag Archives: Wales

A bit of fun for a Friday, trying to make official the rather random journalistic units of measurement we all come across. The thought was provoked by a story about the Flex Power Modules' 80A BMR510 that is sugar-cube-sized...

 Bombora Wave Power has completed indoor water tank testing of a floating energy platform that combines support for a wind turbine with wave energy harvesting. Evaluated at the University of Edinburgh’s FloWave facility, “the integrated platform was tested under a wide range of conditions, including extreme waves”, said Bombora head of loads and modelling Peter Arnold. “Analysis is currently underway, where ...

The Translational Research Hub (TRH), designed to foster collaboration between industry and scientists, has officially opened at Cardif University. It is the home of the Institute for Compound Semiconductors (ICS) and Cardiff Catalysis Institute (CCI), and was funded by UK and Welsh governments – including £17.3m through UKRPIF, £12m from Welsh Government, £13.1m in European funding administered by WEFO and ...

Another investigation on national security grounds is to be held into the sale of Newport Wafer Fab to Nexperia which is a subsidiary of the Chinese company Wingtech. Kwasi Kwarteng, Secretary of State for Business, Energy, and Industrial Strategy announced the investigation via a tweet. “There will now be a full assessment under the new National Security and Investment Act,”  ...

IQE, the compound semiconductor wafer supplier, claims to have the world’s first commercially available 200 mm (8”) VCSEL epiwafer. The wafers will be used in the wireless, sensing and display markets. IQE’s 200mm epiwafers will enable a step-change in unit economics for compound semiconductors, leading to the expansion of the market for IQE. The increase in wafer size will expand ...

GCHQ’s National Cyber Security Centre is hosting a conference on cyber security in South Wales next week – 10-11 May – with an exhibition running alongside. Held in-person at ICC Wales in Newport, CyberUK 2022 has the overarching theme of ‘cyber security for the whole of society’, and according to NCSC will interest cyber security leaders and professionals, risk owners, and ...

 Nine members of the US House of Representatives have protested about the sale of Newport Wafer Fab to the Chinese company Wingtech – the owner of Nexperia. “The UK is a valued ally of the United States, and we hope it will decide to change course,” the congressmen wrote in a letter to President Joe Biden, “it is in the ...

The government has decided not to intervene in the takeover of Newport Wafer Fab by quietly approving the controversial sale of a Welsh microchip factory to a Chinese-owned firm. Nexperia, the Amsterdam-headquartered spin-off from NXP owned by Wingtech of Shanghai, took a 15% share in Newport Wafer Fab in 2019. Nexperia was a customer of Newport Wafer Fab. Nexperia got ...

Boris Johnson has asked Sir Stephen Lovegrove, the UK’s National Security Adviser, to look at the takeover of Newport Wafer Fab by Chinese-owned Nexperia, “We have to judge whether the stuff that they are making is of real intellectual property value and interest to China, whether there are real security implications,” the PM told MPs, “we are looking into it. I ...

Nexperia, the Chinese-owned former standards product division of NXP, has bought the 40 year-old former Inmos fab in Newport. Nexperia is a foundry customer of the fab now called Newport Wafer Fab and became its second largest shareholder in 2019.  Current capacity is over 35,000 200 mm wpm covering a wide range of semiconductor technologies ranging from MOSFETs and Trench ...