This morning, Kioxia set a valuation target of $4.9 billion to $5.5 billion for an IPO on December 18th on the Tokyo Stock Exchange. In October, it had been hoped to complete an IPO at a valuation of $10.3 billion, but investors thought otherwise and, in November, the valuation was reduced to $6.5 billion. Kioxia’s valuation has been on a ...
The UK Space Agency will be issuing up to £3.5 million in funding to boost hybrid connectivity in the hard-to-reach areas across the UK. Working with the Department for Science, Innovation and Technology (DSIT) and the European Space Agency’s (ESA) the new funding call aims to select partners for three projects focused on delivering future satellite services. This initiative is ...
Yokogawa has updated its WT1800 precision power analyser, first introduced in 2011. Called WT1800R, the new version can take simultaneous 16bit measurements on up to six inputs at 2Msample/s (right, with optional PD2 on top). For field-oriented controlled permanent magnet synchronous motors, the instrument can calculate dq-axis parameters Ld and Lq, and record Vd, Vq, Id and Iq. It “has ...
I bought a small nth-hand milling machine a few years ago, as a challenge to see if I could ‘CNC’ it. It is a Clarke CMD10, one of the many re-badged versions of X1 made by Sieg in China And after getting most of the way there, using 3d printed stepper mounts that I am rather proud of, other things ...
Japan is still figuring out how to pay for Rapidus – its 2nm chip factory. $32 billion is needed to get the company into production by 2027 and the question is: How does it find the outstanding $25.7 billion? Next year the Japanese government is to put before parliament a proposal to take a $1.3 billion stake in Rapidus in ...
Kioxia will get listing approval from the Tokyo stock exchange tomorrow at a valuation of $4.84 billion, reports Reuters. The price for Kioxia has been dropping sharply. Before its cancelled October IPO it was looking for a valuation of $10.3 billion. Earlier this month it said it was looking for a $6.5 billion valuation at a listing next year. In ...
ST has introduced 40V STripFET F8 MOSFETs with standard threshold voltage (VGS(th)), combining the advantages of the enhanced trench gate technology with superior noise immunity for applications with non-logic-level control. The industrial-grade STL300N4F8 and automotive-grade STL305N4F8AG MOSFETs have a drain current rating above 300A and maximum RDS(on) of 1mΩ for efficiency in high-power applications. Enhancing dynamic performance, the total gate ...
AMD is to lay off 1000 people representing 4% of its 26,000 worldwide employees as it focusses on its biggest market – AI ICs. AMD’s Q3 saw revenue up 18% y-o-y at $6.8 billion and profit up 158% y-o-y at $771 million. Q3 R&D expenses were up 9% and total cost of sales was up 11%. While its Q3 , ...
lowRISC C.I.C.(Community Interest Company), the open silicon ecosystem non-profit, and SCI Semiconductor, a CHERI specialist, are collaborating to tape out the Sonata design with a view to moving CHERI technology to commercial adoption. The collaboration will focus on realising a new open source top-level design — with publicly available design verification (DV) dashboards — based on lowRISC’s Sonata platform (which ...
Intel’s Chips Act funding may be safe under the upcoming change in the administration in the US reports a contributor to SemiWiki “Intel CEO Pat Gelsinger (pictured) told employees Friday that he has texted with Vice President-elect JD Vance since the election and that Gelsinger is optimistic that the incoming Trump administration will support efforts to boost the domestic semiconductor ...
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