Sumco is to spend $2 billion to expand production of 300 mm silicon wafers, reports the Nikkei. “With our existing manufacturing facilities, supply can’t keep up with demand,” says Chairman Mayuki Hashimoto. Helping to pay for the expansion will be an issue of 60 million new shares – representing a fifth of its outstanding stock ...
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While the car industry expects to lose 7.7 million vehicle sales at a cost of $210 billion, Tesla shrugged off chip shortages to deliver a record number of cars in Q3. Tesla has handled chip supplies better than the rest of the car industry. Sales have increased every quarter for six successive quarters. Q3 sales ...
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Annual GaN power devices revenue for 2021 will reach $83 million – a 73% YoY increase, says TrendForce. Navitas is projected to obtain a 29% market share (measured by total shipment) and overtake Power Integrations (PI) for the top position this year. Thanks to Navitas’ proprietary GaNFast power IC design and great relationships with ...
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Eutelsat Communications, the Paris-based satellite operator, has confirmed it has received, and rejected, an unsolicited takeover bid. The relevant governance bodies of the company have unanimously decided not to engage in discussions based on the terms of a proposal from Mr. Patrick Drahi, it said. Drahi’s bid priced Eutelsat at 12.10 euros per share, for “a ...
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Responding to visitor number increases due to the Pandemic, the Cairngorms National Park Authority it to installed a network of IoT sensors to monitor foot fall, route usage and vehicle parking. The network will also be available to local businesses to deploy data gathering sensors, providing them with the opportunity to gain key data and insights on ...
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STMicroelectronics has announced STM32Cube software packs and tools, as well as evaluation boards, for the low-power cyber-secured STM32U5 microcontrollers it announced in February, and are now available through distribution. Built around Arm’s Cortex-M33 core on a 40nm process, the devices have a new mode (low-power background autonomous – LPBAM – mode) that lets direct memory access and ...
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Renesas plans to boost capacity for high-end MCUs by 50% to the equivalent of 40,000 200mm wafers a month, mainly by securing more foundry capacity. It plans to increase capacity for low-end MCUs by about 70% to over 30,000 wafers per month, mainly by expanding in-house facilities. “We have been increasing supply, but demand has also been strong as manufacturers make ...
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Researchers at Yokohama National University have created a liquid-based tilt sensor that only needs simple interface electronics – some 10MΩ resistors and a Microchip ATmega microcontroller in the demonstrator. Although simple in theory – an air bubble and conductive liquid sealed in a chamber surrounded by electrodes – electronic levels are more complex in practice. ...
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Weebit Nano and CEA-Leti have demonstrated production-level parameters of Weebit’s ReRAM technology in a 28nm process. Demonstrating production level parameters of Weebit’s ReRAM technology at 28nm is a key step toward productisation of embedded Non-Volatile Memory (NVM). Weebit and CEA-Leti jointly tested, characterised and measured functional 1 Megabit (Mb) ReRAM arrays in a 28nm process ...
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Renesas has introduced a family of ICs for automotive pressure sensing systems. The devices provide amplification and sensor-specific correction of signals in automotive xEV/EV/FCEV pressure sensing braking, transmission and HVAC systems. The RAA2S425x Product Family features high integration and advanced digital and analog functionality that significantly ease the design cycle and reduce customers’ system BOM ...
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