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, 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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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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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 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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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 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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Diodes has introduced a digital stereo audio amplifier with built-in boost converter that allows 8+8W to be delivered from one Li-ion cell and 12+12W from two cells in series. Called PAM8965, more detailed figures are: One cell (Vbatt = 3.7V) 8W/channel at 10% THD+N (6Ω load 1kHz) 6.4W/channel at 1% THD+N (6Ω load 1kHz) 20mA ...
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TI is to start building two new 300mm fabs in Sherman, Texas next year. The Sherman site has the potential for up to four fabs to meet demand over time. “TI’s future analogue and embedded processing 300-mm fabs at the Sherman site are part of our long-term capacity planning to continue to strengthen our manufacturing ...
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Congatec and RTOS company Sysgo have teamed up to provide Arm and x86 platforms tailored for functional safety and cybersecurity requirements. “This cooperation makes great sense for both partners, now that the latest platforms from NXP and Intel make it possible to develop functional safety-critical systems without additional hardware,” said Congatec marketing director Christian Eder. ...
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