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Quadric and MegaChips hook up

Quadric, the  processor IP licensor, and MegaChips of Japan are partnering to deliver ASICs and SoCs built on Quadric’s  edge AI processor architecture. MegaChips announced an equity stake in Quadric in January 2022 and is also a major investor in a $21M Series B funding round announced in March through their MegaChips LSI USA Corporation ...

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Common-mode filters with 10.7GHz differential bandwidth

New common-mode filters from ST have a differential bandwidth of 10.7GHz to protect antenna sensitivity in adjacent wireless circuitry from the latest serial digital interfaces. The 2-channel ECMF2-40A100N10 and 4-channel ECMF4-40A100N10 are compatible with high-speed interface standards including USB 3.2 Gen 2, USB4, HDMI 2.1, and DisplayPort. With a serial resistance of  3Ω, which minimizes ...

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Broadcom reported to be in talks with VMware

Broadcom is reported by Reuters to be talking to VMware about taking it over. Broadcom has been diversifying away from ICs in the last four years with an $18.9 billion takeover of CA Technologies and a $10.7 billion acquisition Symantec’s security division. VMware, which develops enterprise cloud and networking software, has a market cap of ...

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Battery Challenge offers £25m

Today the Faraday Battery Chalkenge is launched offering up to £25 million for battery R&D particulsrly in automotive. Part of UK Research & Innovation (UKRI), the Faraday Battery Challenge the Faraday Battery Challenge will particularly  support technologies with the potential to enter the automotive market within the next decade Organisations seeking funding are required to ...

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Imec solid-state Li battery spin-off raises €10m

SOLiTHOR , the Imec battery spin-off and part of EnergyVille the.  Brussels energy R&D hub, has raised €10 million to  develop, manufacture and commercialise osolid-state lithium (Li) battery cell technology to reliably and economically offer high-energy storage solutions. Lthe funding came in a seed investment round led by imec.xpand supported by an investment syndicate including LRM, Nuhma and ...

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IEDM call for papers

The 68th IEEE International Electron Devices Meeting (IEDM) has announced its  2022 Call for Papers IEDM takes place as an in-person event at the Hilton San Francisco Union Square Hotel from December 3-7, 2022, with on-demand access to content available afterward. The paper-submission deadline is July 14, and the deadline for submission of late news ...

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Image sensor wafer capacity to grow 13% this year

Wafer capacity for image sensors was one million 200mm-equivalent wafers per month at the end of 2021 and is expected to grow 13% this year, according to Knometa Research’s Global Wafer Capacity 2022 By the end of 2026, installed capacity for image sensors is projected to be 1.8 million 200mm-equiv. wafers per month. That’s an average ...

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Infineon LED controller integrates MCU

Infineon has added to its LITIX LED controller portfolio with the dual-channel, stand-alone DC-DC controller TLD6098-2ES. The controller is the first product that can drive a full LED headlamp by itself without an additional microcontroller. It can also operate the four standard LED front light functions: High Beam (HB), Low Beam (LB), Daytime Running Lights ...

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Automated driving company gets €8m loan

The European Investment Bank (EIB) has granted an €8 million loan to Sensible 4 of Finland which has developed Level 4 automated driving software enabling any vehicle to operate under challenging weather conditions, including snow, heavy rain, fog and sandstorms. The loan is part of the European Guarantee Fund’s venture debt product to provide liquidity ...

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Picocom and Radisys delivering O-RAN platforms to customer

Picocom, the 5G Open RAN baseband semiconductor and software specialist, announced that through close partnership with Radisys, they are delivering joint 5G Open RAN platforms to customers based on Picocom’s PC802 small cell System-on-Chip (SoC) and Radisys’ Connect RAN 5G software. The PC802 flexible, low power device empowers the innovation of a new breed of ...

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