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Although China has robotaxis operating in seven cities with Baidu, Pony.ai and WeRide providing most of the rides, the US has only one company, Waymo, offering a commercial, fully autonomous, robotaxi service with paying passengers and only in four cities – San Francisco, LA, Phoenix and Austin. However Waymo is running at about the same level of robotaxi rides as ...

Leading figures in the Space industry will appear before a cross-party Lords Committee on Monday June 23 to discuss the Space economy, and issues around domestic launch capability and implications for national security. The latest evidence session of the Lords UK Engagement with Space Committee will take place from 3.35pm in Committee Room 2, Palace of Westminster, and can be ...

The 2024 MEMS market grew 5% y-o-y to reach $15.4 billion, says Yole, and has a 3.7% CAGR 2024-30 to reach $19.2 billion after a difficult 2023 marked by excessive inventories. “After a challenging correction cycle, MEMS companies have emerged more resilient and strategically aligned,” says Yole’s Clyde Midelet, “MEMS leaders are leveraging diversified portfolios, smart sensing technologies, and targeted ...

Bath University has shared details of its TOPCAT II payload featuring a multi-frequency GPS receiver, for the Orpheus space weather mission. The Orpheus mission has two aims: to measure space weather and support Space Domain Awareness (SDA). Specifically, to characterise the ionosphere (the ionised portion of Earth’s upper atmosphere) And also to capture image data to support Space Domain Awareness. ...

The UK’s Defence Science and Technology Laboratory (Dstl) is highlighting successful trials of uncrewed robotic systems detecting and classifying threats. Specifically, a single remote operator controlled three uncrewed air and land vehicles. The trials were to prove that robotic and autonomous systems (RAS) can be integrated into and controlled from crewed command vehicles. Uncrewed It is described as a UK ...

TSMC’s 2nm yield has passed 60%, the level required for stable high volume manufacturing, reports the Taiwan Economic Daily. Samsung’s 2nm yield is reported to be 40%.  The disparity has pushed big clients like AMD, Mediatek, Qualcomm, Nvidia ,Apple and Google to reserve capacity at TSMC. No major customers have been reported for Samsung 2nm and there are claims that ...

Electronics production in key Asian countries has been steady to increasing in the last several months, says Semiconductor Intelligence. In April 2025, China electronics production three-month-average change versus a year ago (3/12) was 11.5%, up from 9.5% in January but below the average 3/12 of 12% in 2024. India showed the strongest growth, with 3/12 of 15% in March, up ...

Memory market revenue was $170 billion last year with DRAM sales of $97 billion and NAND sales of $68 billion, says Yole, which forecasts 2025 memory revenue of $200 billion, with DRAM sales of $129 billion and NAND sales of $65 billion. NAND has been affected by weaker-than-expected consumer demand and high inventory levels which prompted leading suppliers to reduce ...

Imec has extended its strategic partnership with Tokyo Electron (TEL) to deepen their joint R&D efforts in patterning, advanced logic device processing, memory development, and 3D integration – all aimed at developing semiconductor nodes beyond 2nm. Since 1995, imec and TEL have partnered to drive advances in patterning, logic, memory, and 3D integration. Their long-standing collaboration has led to key ...

Greenerwave, the Paris-based satcoms specialist, has won a €10 million contract to help provide French armed forces with satellite connectivity. It is part of a wider contract from the French Defence Procurement Agency (Direction Générale de l’Armement – DGA). This is led by Airbus Defence and Space and also involves the satellite operator Eutelsat OneWeb. Greenerwave will play a role ...