Nexperia, the Chinese-owned former standards product division of NXP, has bought the 40 year-old former Inmos fab in Newport. Nexperia is a foundry customer of the fab now called Newport Wafer Fab and became its second largest shareholder in 2019. Current capacity is over 35,000 200 mm wpm covering a wide range of semiconductor technologies ...
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Inspired by the way certain insects grip surfaces, Engineers at the University of California, Berkeley have added electrostatic adhesion to the feet of their insect-scale robot. In 2019, the team demonstrated an externally-powered layered piezoelectric flexing cockroach-sized mini-machine that could scurry forwards at 20 body lengths per second (~1.5mph). Part of its secret is that it ...
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Designed to be the solution for an AI compute device right at the Edge, Sondrel’s new SFA 100 IP reference platform makes creating high-performance, battery-powered IoT devices easy and fast. The design has an onboard Arm CPU to locally process data gathered from its associated sensors for onward transmission via wire or wireless connection for ...
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Geothermal Engineering Ltd (GEL) will build four more geothermal power plants in Cornwall after producing geothermal steam using 175degC water from 5km underground at its United Downs plant. Each of the four new plants is expected to supply 5MW of electricity to the National Grid and 20MW of heat to the local area. The electricity ...
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The market for CMOS image sensors (CIS) will enjoy a 5.4% CAGR over the next five years to reach a total market of $28.4 million in 2026, says Yole Développement, last year it rose 7.3% to reach $20.7 billion. Long production cycles and demand from markets such as consumer, automotive, security, and industrial led to challenges in CIS ...
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When a female engineer working at aerospace company Leonardo couldn’t find a dynamic network to propel her professional career forward, she decided to start one herself. AeroWomen21 has been formed by Olivia Gribler, who works at Leonardo’s Yeovil site at Lysander Road. And it has just held its inaugural event attracting students and some of ...
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According to Strategy Analytics, half the world’s population – some 4 billion people – use a smartphone today. It has taken 27 years to reach this milestone. Yiwen Wu, Senior Analyst at Strategy Analytics, said, “We estimate the global smartphone user base has risen dramatically from just 30k people in 1994 to 1.00 billion in ...
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