Silicon anode material licenced from Nexeon

Oxfordshire silicon anode firm Nexeon has has licensed its NSP-1 material to Korean giant SKC, an investor in Nexeon. “Silicon-graphite hybrid electrodes are now delivering superior performance in hybrid and EV vehicles,” said SKC v-p Junghwan Shin. This arrangement follows the investment and strategic partnership announced between the two companies in January, and represents further ...

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NEC Converged Core available to facilitate O-RAN

NEC has announced the general availability of its 4G/5G Converged Core for 4G and 5G in standalone (SA) and non-standalone (NSA) configurations. The NEC Converged Core uses a cloud-native, fully containerised microservice architecture and can be deployed in a traditional private core, on premise, or in the cloud via public cloud or hybrid scenarios. NEC is helping to lead ...

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Government earmarks £7m for new storage technologies

Today £6.7  million of government funding has been announced by the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy to fund projects across the UK to support the development of new energy storage technologies.p is 24 projects based across the UK have been awarded the first round of funding through the ‘Longer Duration Energy Storage competition’, ...

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NXP launches S32G GoldVIP pre-integrated software for EV development

NXP Semiconductors has launched the S32G GoldVIP to help address real-time and application development challenges of software-defined vehicles using S32G vehicle network processors. This vehicle integration platform offers multiple value propositions for S32G processor evaluation, software development and rapid prototyping efforts. Users can observe S32G performance out-of-the-box with real-time use cases and resource monitoring. Pre-integration ...

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Space Scotland seeking Space Sustainability and Net Zero Roadmap

Space Scotland is producing a Space Sustainability and Net Zero Roadmap, with the goal of making Scotland’s space progress as green as possible. In collaboration with AstroAgency and Optimat, and supported by Scottish Enterprise, Space Scotland expects the roadmap to be endorsed by commercial, governmental and academic partners in the space industry. “From greener rocket ...

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ISSCC 2022: Machine learning processors

It takes a lot of effort to avoid machine learning processors at this year’s IEEE International Solid-State Circuits Conference, as they popped up not only amongst digital processing papers, but also next to memory and analogue papers. For example, of all the thousands of companies designing ICs around the world, only four were invited to ...

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Isolated gate driver works up to 2.3kV

Infineon has created a family of single-channel isolated gate driver for IGBTs and silicon carbide mosfets with up to 300kV/μs common-mode transient immunity and up to +6  and -8.5 A typical peak current. Called 1ED332x, and branded ‘F3 Enhanced’, they come in 300mil wide DSO 16 packaging with 8mm creepage distance. Operation is expected with devices ...

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Connector sales hit record high, says ITSA

UK connector sales hit record numbers in 2021, as the sector enjoyed what has been described as “a bumper year,” by John Biggs, Chairman of the Interconnect Technology Suppliers Association (ITSA). On average ITSA members reported 2021 sales up over 17% on 2020, and revenues back at 5% over pre-pandemic levels. Outstanding revenue growth of ...

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