Fleet of US coal power stations coverted to solar and batteries

In the US state of Illionois, nine coal power stations are being converted into batteries, some with local solar generation. The sites were aquired by a Texas company called Vista in 2018, and coal burning is being terminated for a variety of reasons including running costs and legal decision over pollution. Power station  Net coal ...

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sureCore memory IP in Semidynamics’ RIS-V chip

SureCore, the Sheffield low-power memory IP house, has designed a power and area efficient, high performance, multi-port, embedded memory solution for Semidynamics’ new RISC-V-based, tensor processing chip. Semidynamics is developing a high bandwidth, vector processing unit optimised for tensor processing aimed at AI applications. In order for AI to realise its full performance potential, the ...

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Imec battery spin-off raises €4m

Battery start-up LionVolt, a spin-off from Imec affiliate Holst Centre, has closed a seed round of €4 million, bringing its total funding this year to more than €5 million. The round was led by thevVC  Innovation Industries and joined by Brabantse Ontwikkelingsmaatschappij (Brabant Development Agency, BOM) and  Sake Bosch. LionVolt spun off last year from ...

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Top 25 semi companies’ sales to grow 23%

The annual revenue growth of the top 25 semiconductor companies is to rocket, says IC Insights, driven by AI, ML and 5G. AMD, MediaTek, Nvidia, and Qualcomm lead the growth with declines at Intel and Sony. The semiconductor market is forecast to increase 23% this year.  A 20% increase in unit shipments coupled with a ...

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NEC to be systems integrator for disaggregate networks

NEC has joined the Telecom Infra Project’s (TIP) Phoenix initiative which is developing a 400G transponder for open and disaggregated high-capacity DWDM networks. NEC will take the role of a system integrator within the OOPT Project Group and the Phoenix initiative to realize a fully disaggregated architecture.Optical transmission systems are used in backhauls that connecttelecommunications carriers’ base stations with core communication ...

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Net Zero Space initiative launches from Paris conference

Eutelsat and Arianespace are among the companies and organisations that have grouped together for a “Net Zero Space” initiative, to help achieve a sustainable use of outer space by 2030. Including satellite operators, launchers, space agencies, academic and civil bodies, those taking part are committed to taking concrete actions to tackle reducing the debris orbiting ...

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Toray sampling film for transparent 5G components

Toray Industries of Tokyo says it is sampling a new film for making 5G devices with good transparency, heat-resistance, flame-retardancy, and dielectric performance. Applications include transparent 5G antennas, transparent flexible PCBs, transparent heater substrate materials, and other electronic components. They would also encompass construction materials that benefit from the film’s transparency and flame retardancy, and process ...

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