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Marvell is to sell its Automotive Ethernet  division to Infineon for $2.5 billion in cash. The division expects sales of $225-$250 million this year at a 60% gross margin. The acquisition includes Marvell’s Brightlane Automotive Ethernet portfolio comprising PHY transceivers, switches and bridges supports network data rates ranging from today’s 100 Mbps up to 10 Gbps. The division has a ...

The MoD will put £200 million into the old Newton Aycliffe fab built by Fujitsu which it bought last September for a reported £27 million and renamed Octric Semiconductors. The investment will be used to produce GaAs and GaN ICs for military systems, radar systems and power electronics. The MoD says it is open to offers to share ownership of ...

The Satellite Applications Catapult has upgraded its In-Orbit Servicing, Assembly and Manufacturing (ISAM) facility to add a gravity offload system. The large steel structure – to simulate microgravity here on Earth – is located at the Catapult’s site in Westcott, Buckinghamshire, with construction and testing now finished. Funded by the UK Space Agency, the new facilities mark the conclusion of ...

Synthetic diamond manufacturer Element Six and Bosch have set up a jv for quantum sensor production jv called Bosch Quantum Sensing. Element Six will take a 25% stake in the jv having collaborated  with Bosch on the technology since 2023. Element Six’s specially developed synthetic diamond is a key component to Bosch quantum sensors making them portable, less expensive to ...

STMicroelectronics has announced a series of AI-enabled and security-enabled industrial and IoT microcontrollers: STM32MP235. The parts have dual Arm Cortex-A35 cores (1.3 or 1.5GHz depending on version), a 400MHz Cortex-M33 and an 0.6Top/s neural network accelerator. On board is a 400MHz VeriSilicon GC8000UL 3D GPU capable of up to 66.5Mtriangle/s or 400Mpixel/s, Open GL ES 3.2.8 or Vulkan 1.2. This ...

Phoenix Contact has created a wire-to-board connector whose wires are initially installed using push-in action. Called the DD31PS series, they are effectively two connectors in one, with a end to match the on-board receptacle at one end, and push-in wire sockets at the other. They are all double-row connectors with a 3.81mm pitch and 4 to 20 positions. “The push-in ...

Aiming at factory automation, Binder has announced D-coded M8 panel connectors with pre-installed single wires. “We supply the single wires untwisted, allowing customers to twist them according to their application needs to achieve better transmission results,” said Binder product manager Guido Werner. “M8-D-coded connectors enable communication between controllers, sensors and actuators in manufacturing and process plants.” There are three versions, ...

Financial analysts have poured cold water on the proposal for TSMC to run Intel’s fabs in a jv. “We do not believe TSMC operating/forming a JV with Intel would work given differences in manufacturing and operations,” says Citi, “we also question the wisdom of fabless companies investing in this JV.” It was suggested that Broadcom, Qualcomm and AMD might invest ...

Taiwan has cracked down on SMIC and other mainland China tech companies trying to poach Taiwan’s engineers, reports the Nikkei. Taiwan’s Investigation Bureau, part of the Ministry of Justice, says that eleven mainland China companies, modtly semiconductor p-relatrd, have illigally set up offices in Taiwan to recruit Taiwanese engineersInvestigators found that SMIC used a Samoan company to hire Taiwanese engineers. ...

Q1’25 saw global venture funding rise to $121 billion — the highest quarterly total since Q2’22 — driven by OpenAI’s $40 billion raise, which values the company at $300 billion, says CB zinsights. This ties OpenAI with ByteDance as the second-highest-valued private company globally (behind SpaceX at $350 billion. The OpenAI funding round — led by SoftBank and backed by ...