Tower Semiconductor, the Israeli foundry, is to share a 300mm fab with ST in Agrate. “The key parameter for industrial and economic performance of a fab is its utilization,” says ST CEO Jean-Marc Chery (pictured), “with Tower we have a great partner for analogue, power and mixed-signal volume manufacturing that will enable us to qualify ...
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University of Cambridge micro-LED spin-out Porotech has raised £3m towards the development of its production technique and to develop its own supply chain ecosystem to help develop and produce products. Despite only spinning out in January 2020, Porotech claims to have been generating revenue for 10 months and be “working with some of the biggest global names in ...
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A new lab to speed up the development of 5G communication kit and help Britain diversify its supply chains will be launched today. The government-backed £1 million SONIC Labs will help accelerate the adoption of ‘Open RAN’ technology which is a major pillar of the government’s 5G Diversification Strategy. The strategy aims to build a ...
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Monitoring and tackling climate change and tracking endangered wildlife are among the features of three UK-built satellites set to launch on a SpaceX rocket tomorrow. UK companies have received nearly £15 million from the UK Space Agency, through the European Space Agency’s Pioneer Partnership Programme, to develop the trio of satellites due to lift off ...
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Fujitsu says it has used the world’s fastest supercomputer, Fugaku, to demonstrate the feasibility of high performance, large-scale, very high-definition analyses with commercial applications widely used in the industrial field for simulations including fluid dynamics. The trials were conducted in collaboration with a number of application vendors between November 2020 and May 2021. Fujitsu and ...
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Filtronic, the RF, microwave, and mmWave specialist, says it has re-shored from China to the USA the manufacturing of a critical communications product for the US public safety market. Working with its leading OEM client, Filtronic was able to re-shore product assembly and supply chain from China to Salisbury, Maryland, USA to improve equipment lead-times. “Reshoring ...
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An invitation from the European Space Agency (ESA) – it is looking for applications to join its Space App Camp 2021. It is inviting up to 25 mobile app developers and specialists in artificial and machine learning related to observing Earth from space to sign up for its annual Space App Camp programme. It will ...
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Engineers at Columbia University are defending memory against hackers by adding defensive commands to processor instruction sets. “Memory safety has been a problem for nearly 40 years and numerous solutions have been proposed, according to Columbia computer scientist Simha Sethumadhavan. “We believe that memory safety continues to be a problem because it does not distribute the ...
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IAR Systems has added support for AndeStar V5 Risc-V Performance Extension to Embedded Workbench for Risc-V. The toolchain supports all 32bit Andes V5 Risc-V cores, including N22, N25F, D25F, A25, A27, N45, D45 and A45. Risc-V Packed SIMD/DSP extension specification (RVP draft) and the corresponding intrinsic functions as well as Andes DSP libraries are supported. “AndeStar ...
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Power Integrations has announced a 600V 12A diode with a typical reverse recovery charge (Qrr) of 14nC at 25°C, claiming this as an industry best. “The Qrr of these new Qspeed diodes is half that of the next best ultra-fast silicon diodes, resulting in high system efficiency,” according to company marketing manager Edward Ong. “This is particularly ...
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