A UK consortium is setting up the Virtual Reality Semiconductor Fabrication Training Facility (VRSFT), funded by a £500,000 Innovate UK grant. It is being delivered by a partnership of: semiconductor IP source Semiwise, industry body TechWorks and NMI (National Microelectronics Institute), plus Pragmatic Semiconductor as a consultant. “In the UK, we have numerous small to medium sized specialist chip companies ...
The North East Advanced Material Electronics (NEAME) cluster has been formerly launched by companies in the UK’s North East, with “a mission to highlight and promote the region as a centre of excellence for advanced compound semiconductor technology design and manufacture”, according to NEAME. The cluster led by CEOs and other senior people within the North East’s electronics industry, and ...
PragmatIC Semiconductor is building a second fabrication line for its flexible integrated circuits in County Durham, this time on a brown-field site in Meadowfield near Durham. ‘PragmatIC Park’ as it will be known, is starting with a 175,000ft2 (~16,300m2) building on the St John’s road industrial estate, the site of multiple re-developments. “We chose this site for a number of reasons,” ...
The fastest bendable 8bit thin-film microcontroller was describe at the International Solid-State Circuits Conference this week. Designed by Belgian research lab Imec and nearby university KU Leuven, it was made by UK-based PragmatIC Semiconductor. Called Flex6502, is has 16,000 0.8µm gate-length IGZO (indium gallium zinc oxide) transistors over a 4.5 x 5.5mm active area (see photo, which includes some test circuits ...
PragmatIC Semiconductor has raised $80m to build a second manufacturing line in the North East of England. “This Series C round is a testament to the potential for our technology,” said CEO Scott White. “Our FlexLogIC-002 fab will deliver significantly higher capacity than our first line. In addition to supporting our commercial ramp, it provides a template for rolling out ...
Canadian thin-film display company Ynvisible Interactive and the UK-based printed electronics company PragmatIC Semiconductor are to develop integrated flexible display modules. The non-binding technology partnership and supply agreement will last for three years, with services and deliverables of up to $2m. The reflective displays are very thin and take little power, needing only a pulse every few minutes to prevent ...
Cambridge-based flexible electronics company PragmatIC has been awarded a £1.3m by the UK Government Sustainable Innovation Fund for a recycling scheme based on NFC tags. “PragmatIC consider this to be a commercial pilot, with the next step being commercial rollouts with global partners,” company chief commercial officer Alastair Hanlon told Electronics Weekly. In the year-long scheme, called Sprite (sustainable plastics recycling ...
PragmatIC, the Cambridge flexible circuit specialist, has announced the first products in its ConnectIC family, the PR1101 and PR1102 flexible integrated circuits (FlexICs), designed for use in closed HF RFID systems. ConnectICs are ultra-thin and flexible and suitable for embedding into a wide range of substrates, including paper and plastic. They have a typical price point of under one cent ...
PragmatIC, the flexible electronics firm, claims it has developed a printable tag technology which will bring RFID and near field communications (NFC) to mass market consumer goods applications. The basis of this is PragmatIC’s FlexLogIC “fab-in-a-box” that has the capability to scale production to meet such high-volume use cases, with the first system on track to be commissioned in January ...
Cambridge printable electronics firm PragmatIC is to install its first FlexLogIC fab-in-a-box system at the Centre for Process Innovation.
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