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Measuring the condition of the Earth’s forests from space, the Women Leaders In Electronics Awards 2025, NXP Semiconductors getting a new CEO, the EU "urgently needs a reality check", and Huawei sampling its Ascend 910D AI processor...
Kurt Sievers (pictured right) CEO of NXP Semiconductors is to resign on October 28th and hand over to Rafael Sotomayor (pictured left). Sievers joined NXP in 1995 and became CEO in 2020. He has been a member of NXP’s executive management team since 2009. He lead the strategy development for intelligent edge systems in automotive and Industrial & IoT. In ...
At Embedded World 2025 we caught up with Manuel Alves, of SVP Automotive Microcontrollers at NXP Semiconductors, as part of our promotional coverage for the event. The interview showcases the recently announced S32K5 microcontrollers family and its pivotal role in the automotive industry’s transformation toward software-defined vehicles (SDVs). Manuel highlights the key features and benefits that set the MCU family apart ...
Radar is at the heart of transformation of autonomous driving systems, with radar sensors deployed to add functionality, say Kees Gehrels and Andrew Robertson. According to research consultancy Markets and Markets, the ADAS (advanced driver assistance systems) sector is expected to grow from 334 million units in 2024 to 655 million units in 2030. As more radar sensors are added, ...
A multi-orbit, multi-beam satellite antenna, DARPA's in-space assembly project, an FPGA-based approach to AI chips, OpenAI tapes-out its first chip at TSMC, and NXP buying Kinara...
We're talking about an NXP acquisition, Kioxia finally IPO-ing, Google Android XR bringing Gemini AI to headsets and glasses, and the British Army firing high-energy laser weapons...
Variscite is developing a 55 x 30mm system-on-module around NXP’s i.MX 91 processor IC, which has a 1.4GHz Cortex-A55 core. Named DART-MX91, the board will be equipped LPDDR4 memory between 512 Mbyte and 2Gbyte depending on options selected, and eMMC storage between 8 and 64Gbyte. Interfaces include: dual CAN-FD, dual Gigabit Ethernet, dual USB, Bluetooth 5.4 and Wi-Fi6 802.11 ax/ac/a/b/g/n. ...
At the Electronica Forum yesterday the CEOs of Europe’s Top Three chip companies gave their take on the difficulties of doing business in China under the US restrictions. ST CEO Jean-Marc Chery said China “is about 30 per cent of our total revenue, and this is the market we do not want to escape, we want to continue to support. ...
Avnet Silica has outlined its strategy for supporting customers’ compliance with the EU’s Cyber Resilience Act (CRA), which is due to be formally adopted this year. The company highlighted the range of device management and provisioning services it provides at its Logistics Centre – in Poing, Bavaria – to help enable secure and compliant product deployment. It will also be ...
NXP is aiming at ASIL D safety approval with a vehicle battery junction box controller IC, intended to fire the pyrotechnic disconnect switch during a serious fault, as well as report faults over a serial bus. MC33777A, as it will be known, redundantly measures currents, voltages and temperatures, then deduces situations – a short circuit or a crash, for example ...
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