Benedetto Vigna leaves ST to be CEO of Ferrari

Benedetto Vigna, President of  ST’s Analog, MEMS and Sensors Group, has is to leave the company on August 31, 2021 to become the CEO of Ferrari. “Benedetto started his career in ST 26 years ago,” says ST CEO Jean-Marc Chery, “He established ST’s leadership in MEMS sensors and then in a wider range of sensors ...

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Cambridge Quantum Computing merges with Honeywell

Honeywell and Cambridge Quantum Computing (CQC) are to form a jv consisting of Honeywell’s quantum operation and CQC. Honeywell will own 54% of the jv and CQC and it’s investors, which include IBM, will own 46%. Honeywell CEO Darius Adamczyk will be chairman of the jv and CQC CEO Ilyas Khan will be CEO. Honeywell, ...

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Siemens Digital buys proFPGA prototyping technologies

Siemens Digital Industries Software has bought the proFPGA desktop prototyping technologies product suite from Pro Design Electronic. proFPGA technology is already part of Siemens’ Xcelerstor portfolio as part of its EDA IC verification products. Bringing the proFPGA technology and team in-house can allow Siemens to more fully integrate and optimize the scalable, high-performance prototyping platform ...

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Memory ASPs on the rise

Q3 DRAM prices will rise  by 3-8% QoQ and NAND prices will increase by 5-10%, says TrendForce. DRAM suppliers and NAND Flash suppliers are averaging 3-4 weeks and 4-5 weeks, respectively The YoY growth rate of  global smartphone production in 2021is estimated at 8.5%.  Presently, smartphone brands are carrying 8-10 weeks of inventory on average ...

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LeoLabs tracks new financing to address LEO “Data Deficit”

The Californian-based LeoLabs, a commercial provider of low Earth orbit (LEO) mapping and Space Situational Awareness (SSA) services, has raised further funding. Specifically, the company has closed a $65 million Series B financing round jointly led by Insight Partners and existing investor Velvet Sea Ventures. It is seeking to improve its services for tracking small ...

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Power MOSFETs in TOLL package

With the TO-Leadless (TOLL) package, Infineon offers two more OptiMO power MOSFET packages in the TOLx family: TOLG (TO-Leaded with Gullwing leads) and TOLT (TO-Leaded Top-side cooling). Together, the TOLx family offers  low R DS(on) and a high-current rating over 300 A to increase system efficiency in high-power density designs. The TOLG package combines features of TOLL and ...

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Synopsys acquires Code DX to gain insight into security testing

EDA company, Synopsys has acquired New York-based Code Dx, which developed an application security software tool, Code Dx Enterprise. The application security orchestration and correlation tool Code Dx automates many of the most labour-intensive processes in software security, namely test orchestration, correlation of security findings from a variety of application security (AppSec) testing techniques, triage of ...

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Starter set for AI-accelerated embedded vision

Congatec has created a starter set for AI-accelerated embedded vision. Based on a SMARC computer-on-module with an i.MX 8M Plus processor, it allows users to get acquainted with NXP’s neural processing unit (NPU). Delivering up to 2.3Top/s for deep learning based artificial intelligence, it can run inference engines and libraries such as Arm Neural Network and TensorFlow Lite, ...

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