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Q.Ant will demonstrate of native analogue photonic processing at ISC 2025, the high-performance computing conference. “For the first time, attendees will be able to interact directly with functional photonic computing, witnessing how light can drive energy and computational efficiency for AI, physics simulations, and other complex scientific workloads”. according to the company. “Q.Ant is attacking two of the biggest challenges ...

Alphawave Semi has taped out of one of the industry’s first UCIe IP subsystem on TSMC’s N2 process, supporting 36G die-to-die data rates. The design is  integrated with TSMC’s Chip-on-Wafer-on-Substrate (CoWoS) packaging technology. This chip builds on the recent release of the Alphawave Semi AI Platform, proving readiness to support the future of disaggregated SoCs and scale-up infrastructure for hyperscale ...

This is the world’s first x-ray image sensor to directly convert radiation into electronic signals using quantum dots on a CMOS IC, according to Swiss innovation center CSEM, which made it with Dutch nano particle start-up QDI Systems. The IC is a custom transistor array sensitive to carriers released by the coating. Designed to be spray-applied, the active parts of ...

Grants awarded under the $250 billion US Chips and Science Act are being re-negotiated. “Are we renegotiating? Absolutely – for the benefit of the American taxpayer, for sure. We’re getting more value for the same dollars,” US Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick told the Senate Appropriations Committee adding that some of the awards “seemed overly generous, and we’ve been able to ...

ST will not be split into its French and Italian components, the Italian industry minister Adolfo Urso, told reporters yesterday. “Our intention is to strengthen STMicro on an international level and certainly not to tear it apart,” said Urso, according to Bloomberg. Urso denied a story in La Stampa saying that the management of ST would be split between the ...

The top 5 NAND suppliers saw q-o-q falls of 15% for ASP, 7%  for units and 24% for revenues, says TrendForce. TrendForce expects Q2 revenues to rise 10% from Q1’s combined total of  $12.02 billion. Q-o-q revenue falls were 25% for Samsung, 35.5% for Hynix, 11% for  Micron and 27.9% for Kioxia. SanDisk (post-split from WDC) recorded slight declines in ...

Launch services company Rocket Lab is to acquire Geost, which specialises in advanced electro-optical and infrared (EO/IR) sensor systems for missile warning and tracking. Geost’s payload systems enable space vehicles to detect, interpret, and respond to situational changes in real time. The headline value of the deal is $275 million. This involves a mix of $125 million of cash and ...

ST has started mass-production start of its ST67W611M1 combined Wi-Fi 6 and BLE  5.4 module. The module is the first product of ST’s collaboration with Qualcomm  to simplify implementing wireless connectivity in systems containing STM32 MCUs. The ST67W module is ready to integrate with any STM32 MCU and contains a Qualcomm multiprotocol network coprocessor and 2.4GHz radio. All RF front-end ...

Arm has pre-integrated intellectual property for designers of AI-defined vehicle ICs. “Capabilities like real-time driver monitoring, predictive maintenance and adaptive in-vehicle infotainment, that were once limited to premium models, are becoming the standard across all tiers of new vehicles,” according to the company. “At the same time, automotive development complexity continues to grow, with evolving safety requirements and increasing demands ...

Sony Semiconductor has created a nerve cell sensing array with over 200,000 electrodes spread over a few square millimetres. Aimed at drug research, it allows experiments on nerve cells outside of a human or animal. Made in CMOS, it has 236 880 electrodes in a ~480 x 500 array across 5.5 x 5.9mm. The pixel spacing – 11.22μm square pixels ...