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ClearSpace is celebrating the completing Phase 2 of CLEAR, the UK Space Agency’s active debris removal (ADR) mission. The mission will demonstrate the feasibility of providing disposal services in space. Basically, offering potential solutions to the technical and operational challenges involved. Phase 2 The London-based company has highlighted a number of technological milestones in Phase 2. The spacecraft’s robotic capture ...

The US is banning everyone, anywhere from using certain Huawei AI chips. The Bureau of Industry and Security (BIS), part of the US Department of Commerce, said that Huawei’s Ascend 910B, 910C (pictured) and 910D ICs are likely to have been “designed with certain US software or technology or produced with semiconductor manufacturing equipment that is the direct produce of ...

The former chairman of Tsinghua Unigroup, once China’s biggest chip company, has been sentenced to death. Zhao Weiguo (pictured) was convicted of abusing power, illegally acquiring state assets and arranging improper transactions and the Intermediate People’s Court in the northeastern city of Jilin has sentenced him to death. The good news for Zhao is that he’s been granted a two-year ...

Imec and TNO have launched the Holst Centre Photonics Lab forphotonics research and development in the Netherlands. By advancing photonics research and fostering collaboration between industry and academia, the lab aims to bridge the gap between innovation and industrialization for applications in sectors such as automotive, healthcare, and data communications. The new lab is located at High Tech Campus Eindhoven ...

The European Space Agency is celebrating its Proba-3 space mission successfully achieving precise formation flying. The space craft involved are on a journey to investigate the Sun’s corona. The agency highlights that, for the first time, two spacecraft in orbit were aligned in formation with millimetre precision. They maintained their relative position for several hours without any control from the ...

A gloomy picture of the semiconductor industry was painted by Malcolm Penn (pictured) CEO of Future Horizons at IFS 2025 yesterday. “We’re still pretty much in recession,” concluded Penn. Although the market grew around 25% last year, the growth was driven by ASP and not by units. Unit shipments of 6.8 billion per week is 16% below the long-term trend ...

AWS, AMD and Nvidia are to collaborate with Humain – a new entity established by Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman ahead of President Trump’s visit to Saudi Arabia. Humain, a subsidiary of the country’s Public Investment Fund, aims to create an AI value chain in the country. AWS is to invest $5 billion-plus  to build an “AI Zone”. The Zone ...

Leonardo UK has formed a partnership with an AI company to develop AI-driven defence capabilities. Expected areas of work include Cognitive Intelligent Sensing (CoInS) and Electronic Warfare. London-based Faculty AI will work with the UK arm of defence and security company. And the collaboration will involve joint product development, to achieve AI-based performance improvements. CoInS CoInS, for example, will use ...

2024 revenue of the top 10 OSAT companies was up 3% y-o-t  at $41.56 billion, says TrendForce ASE led the ranking with revenue of $18.54 billion with nearly a 45% share. Amkor wasc second with $6.32 billion in revenue (-2.8% YoY). JCET took third place with $5 billion in revenue (+19.3% YoY). Fourth-ranked Tongfu Microelectronics recorded $3.32 billion  in revenue ...

To address the fall in first-time silicon success rates, Siemens Digital Industries Software has announced the Questa One software suite. Consisting of four tools, the suite targets productivity in IC design using AI-powered automation to accelerate verification. According to Abhi Kolpekwar, vice president and general manager, Digital Verification Technologies, Siemens EDA, the increased complexity of asic and FPGA design means ...