Belgian research lab Imec has launched a chip design accelerator with the State Government of Baden-Württemberg. ACDA (Advanced Chip Design Accelerator) will be based at the Innovation Park Artificial Intelligence, in Heilbronn, north of Stuttgart. Part of Imec’s automotive chiplet program, it will develop chiplets, packaging, sensing and edge AI technology. “By adding this complementary expertise to Imec’s existing automotive ...

Infineon has revealed a 1.5mΩ protected load switch for 24V and 48V automotive systems. “With more than 1,000,000 switching cycles, the switches far exceed the average of conventional relays,” claimed Infineon. Called BTH50015-1LUA, it is functional across 12 to 54V, will work from 8 to 60V with some restrictions, and can survive over -0.3 to +70V. 1.5mΩ is a typical ...

At Embedded World 2025 we caught up with Sumit Shah, Head of Product Management and Marketing at AMD, as part of our promotional coverage for the event He introduces the new AMD EPYC Embedded 9005 processor, a cutting-edge solution offering leadership core counts, expansive connectivity, and embedded features built for industrial, networking, and storage applications. Thank you to Sumit for ...

At Embedded World 2025 we caught up with Wayne Lyons, senior marketing director of the automotive business at AMD, as part of our promotional coverage for the event. He describes how AMD technologies are transforming automotive ADAS and in-vehicle experiences, from driver assist and driver monitoring features to AAA gaming and entertainment in the car. Thank you to Wayne for ...

One to note: you have a new option for powering your remote Raspberry Pi application with the introduction of the Raspberry Pi PoE+ Injector.

Taylor Swift was the most-streamed artist in the world on Spotify and Apple Music, had the best-selling album in the United States  and her “Eras Tour” became the first ever to gross more than $2 billion. IFPI, the governing body of the global music industry, announced that Swift was also the biggest-selling recording artist in the world last year, making ...

Texas Instruments is aiming at robot motor control up to 60V with a series of isolated ADCs that include 200V barriers and come in 8pad 3.5 x 2.7mm VSON packaging. Each has a ΣΔ ADC on the hot side, an isolation barrier, then a digital interface on the cool side. The output is a modulated bit stream synchronised to an ...

Swansea University in Wales has installed gallium tri-oxide (Ga2O3) deposition equipment at its Centre for Integrated Semiconductor Materials (CISM). In the β crystal form, Ga2O3 is an ultra-wide bandgap semiconductor (~4.8eV), suiting it to high voltage semiconductors. The semiconductor can also be used in ultra-violet detectors. CISM has an MOCVD (metal-organic chemical vapour deposition) laboratory built around Aixtron equipment, to ...

A sluggish EV market and Chinese competition is hitting Western power semiconductor manufacturers  hard, with a cumulative job losses number nearly 9,000, reports TrendForce. Renesas plans to cut about 5% of its 21,000 workforce amounting to 1,050 people and postponing mass production at its Kofu plant. Infineon is to cut 1,400 jobs worldwide and relocate another 1,400. ST plans to ...

Tl says it  has come up with “the first functional isolated modulators”, helping designers achieve more precise motor control in compact robot designs. The AMC0106M05, AMC0136 and AMC0106M25 isolated modulators enable increased precision and higher resolution of 12 to 14 effective number of bits (ENOB) for accurate and reliable phase current sensing and DC voltage sensing measurements. Offered in a ...