Angela Merkel visited Infineon’s Dresden fab today and discussed the political framework for a competitive development and production in Germany with CEO Reinhard Ploss. Infineon runs its largest and most modern manufacturing and technology development centre in Dresden with roughly 2,000 employees. The Chancellor was given a view into Industrial 4.0 production via a live broadcast into the factory. This ...
Yorkshire-based touch sensing firm Peratech has completed a £1m funding round for more engineering and sales staff. Investment came from existing shareholders, including Finance Yorkshire, and “enables Peratech to accelerate and expand prototyping and other commercial services to its customers”, said Peratech. The firm’ product is a force-sensing elastomer called QTC. The latest QTC-enabled product to be revealed is Flitchio ...
Weightless-N Smart City networks from Nwave Technologies have been deployed in Copenhagen and Esbjerg, Denmark. Operating in sub-1GHz, licence-exempt ISM spectrum using ultra narrow band (UNB) technology, Weightless-N offers a range of several kilometres, even in c urban environments. Very low power consumption provides for exceptionally long battery life measured in years from small conventional cells. It is the first ...
Smart sensor firm ams is going from strength to strength. With a number of high-profile design-ins in the mobile and wearables markets, including the Apple Watch, the Austria-based semiconductor company has expanded is presence in the Asian market. It has opened a new office in Pangyo, South Korea to address the growing market for mobile and biotech. This follows the ...
Nujira’s life as an independent company seems to have ended. A report in Business Weekly, which broke the story two weeks ago says that the Cambridge-based developer of mobile power optimisation technology has been bought by US mobile chip giant Qualcomm for $50m. Nujira’s website has effectively closed down and an unconfirmed report says the CEO and a number of ...
Plessey Semiconductors has started its £1.3m government-funded project to accelerate GaN-on-Si LED production at its Devon site. “This project supports the work we have on-going with Aixtron and Bruker to increase the yield of our GaN-on-Silicon process,” said Plessey CTO Dr Keith Strickland. “These improvements are required as part of our move to 200mm silicon substrates. 200mm wafers will almost ...
Year-on-year PC shipments fell 11.8% in Q2, to 66.8 million units, says IDC, after a 6.7% decline in Q1. Gartner puts the decline at 9.5% to 68.4 million. For the full year IDC sees a 4.4% decline and Gartner a low-to-mid single-digit decline. Lenovo is number one supplier with a 20.3% share, followed by HP with 19.4%, Dell with 14.5%, Acer ...
Cree has bought APEI, the power modules and power electronics specialist, to extend its power and RF business and accelerate the market for SiC power modules. The companies already collaborate on multiple government contracts. “Extending our research and development capabilities with APEI, a leader in wide bandgap power R&D, will help us accelerate delivery of a full spectrum of SiC ...
UltraSoC, the embedded systems debug specialist, has appointed Gajinder (“Gadge”) Panesar as its CTO, succeeding UltraSoC co-founder Dr Andrew Hopkins. Panesar joins UltraSoC from Nvidia. Before Nvidia he was Chief Architect at Picochip and Mindspeed and has worked at ST, Inmos and Acorn. He holds 20 patents. “Gadge is one of the foremost SoC architects in Europe, combining profound technical ...
IBM, GloFo and Samsung have produced a 7nm test chip with functional transistors using SiGe and EUV. The chip was built at the IBM/SUNY (State University of New York) Polytechnic 300mm research facility in Albany. The finfet transistors using SiGe in the channel. were fabricated using self-aligned quadruple patterning (SAQR) and EUV lithography is used. Density improvement over 10nm is ...
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