Ayar Labs raises $35m Series B

Ayar Labs, the optical interconnect specialist, has completed a $35 million Series B financing co-led by Downing Ventures and BlueSky Capital. New investors include Applied Ventures, LLC, Castor Ventures, Downing Ventures (U.K.), and SGInnovate (Singapore), expanding Ayar Labs’ investor base with strategic ecosystem and global investors. Existing investor participation includes BlueSky Capital, Founders Fund, GLOBALFOUNDRIES, ...

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Qorvo gets US government contract to build advanced packaging centre

Qorvo has been selected by the US government to create a State-of-the-Art (SOTA) Heterogeneous Integrated Packaging (SHIP) RF production and prototyping center. The SHIP program will ensure that microelectronics packaging expertise and leadership is available for both U.S. defense contractors and commercial clients that require design, validation, assembly, test and manufacturing of next-generation RF components. The ...

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Face recognition on an MCU

NXP has announced its latest NXP EdgeReady IoT solution for secure face recognition that enables original equipment manufacturers (OEMs) to quickly, easily and inexpensively add vision-based touchless access control. NXP’s turnkey solution includes the i.MX RT106F crossover MCU and license to AI/ML-based face recognition software, which makes possible face recognition with liveness checking using infrared ...

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Record 300mm fab spend in 2020

300mm fab investments in 2020 will grow by 13% y-o-y to eclipse the previous record high set in 2018, says SEMI. “The COVID-19 pandemic is accelerating a digital transformation sweeping across nearly every industry imaginable to reshape the way we work and live,” says SEMI CEO Ajit Manocha,  “the projected record spending and 38 new ...

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GloFo signs RF-SOI wafer supply deal with Soitec

Globalfoundries has signed a multi-year supply deal for RF-SOI wafers with Soitec. The primary driver of this wafer supply agreement is demand for GloFo’s 8SW RF SOI platform. The RF front-end-module platform with switches and low noise amplifiers, is optimized to deliver the differentiated combination of performance, power efficiency, and digital integration required by the ...

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3D printed EMC shielding and radar absorber

Hexcel has launched an electrically-conductive high-performance thermoplastic for 3D printing using selective laser sintering (SLS). Applications in  EMC shielding, static dissipation and radar absorption are foreseen. Called HexPEKK EM, it is a polyetherketoneketone (PEKK) and carbon fibre composite for flight-ready parts in commercial aerospace, defence and military sectors. Surface resistivity is ~8×104Ω/sq and volume resistivity ~4×103Ωcm. ...

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External fan save space inside equipment racks

Pfannenberg has created a series of external fans to save space inside equipment racks. “Datawind Filterfan has been designed specifically for IT racks with rails that get in the way of a traditional filterfan, and removes the need to sacrifice rack space to achieve needed cooling,” according to the company. The fans are certified for ...

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Network software for Tessent TestKompress simplifies DFT flow

To meet the increasing size of ICs, required to accommodate the integration of billions of transistors in order to deliver the performance required for tasks such as  AI and autonomous vehicles, Mentor has announced Tessent Streaming Scan Network software for its Tessent TestKompress scan test tool. The larger IC design sizes and increased complexity has ...

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400W medical PSU gets seven output options from 12V to 48V

TDK has added a wider choice of output voltages to its CUS400M range of 400Wmax medical power supplies, originally only available in 12V or 24V. The new options 15, 19, 28, 36 or 48V. 400W is available with forced cooling (30 minutes, 40°C ambient, 230Vac in, 50% duty). “The duration period of that peak is considerably ...

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Robotic snakes on a plane

Rolls Royce has announced a three-year project – dubbed REINSTATE – to develop innovative technologies for use in servicing and maintenance of jet engines, such as robotic snakes. These “snake robots” could travel within the systems to access complex parts, says the company. Acknowledging that it sounds like something out of science fiction, or a ...

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