Cree LED is aiming at portable lighting with a 16,500 lumen multi-die LED in a 10 x 10mm package with a 9mm primary lens (right). Called XFL10K, it has two cousins: the 14,247 lm XFL08K which comes in the same package, but with an 8.5mm lens, and the 7 x 7mm 8,335 lm XFL05K with a 6mm lens. These are ...

When times are tight,  the fab is fully loaded and customers are clamouring for more wafers, what do you do? At its 2004 Technology Symposium in San Jose, TSMC said the answer is to run fab utilisation at over 100%, TSMC’s fabs were reaching more than 100 per cent utilisation rate, said Genda Hu, v-p of marketing. The rate was ...

Cambridge electric vehicle battery start-up Nyobolt has revealed a purpose-built testing and demonstration car, created with Callum Automotive of Warwick. “Whilst the priority use for this Nyobolt EV is showcasing and testing the battery technology, Callum’s team has engineered it so that low volume production, for road or track use, is possible,” according to Nyobolt. “Nyobolt’s battery assembly plans are ...

Synspective, the Tokyo based SAR (synthetic aperture radar) satellite data specialist, has raised ¥7 billion ($43.5 million) in a Series C funding round. The company says it will use the new capital to develop, manufacture, launch, and operate the SAR satellites for its constellation. It will also prepare mass production facilities, develop its satellite data systems, and look to expand ...

The most popular new stories involve BAE and GlobalFoundries, a European pilot line for 7nm FD-SOI, SiFive's 4th gen RISC-V CPU cores, and indications that the automotive semiconductor market is flagging...

CEA-Leti  is to build an FD-SOI pilot line costing €830 million. It will be one of four  semiconductor pilot line projects designated by the European chip consortium Chip JU. The other three are for packaging, wide bandgap devices and 2nm process technology. Half the money comes from the Chip JU and half from participating member states. The FD-SOI pilot line ...

The automotive processor market generated $20 billion in revenues last year with $7.8 billion from APUs (Application Processing Units) and FPGAs, and$12.2 billion from MCUs, according to Yole Group. APU and FPGA processors were divided between ADAS with $4.1 billion, and cockpit applications with $3.7 billion. ADAS and active safety applications are projected to grow robustly, while infotainment and telematics ...

LeoLabs has been has been selected by AFWERX to develop next-generation radar technology to counter security threats in space. The SBIR (Small Business Innovation Research) Phase II contract is worth $1.2 million. AFWERX – part of the U.S. Department of the Air Force (DAF) and working with the Air Force Research Laboratory (AFRL) – is described as an innovation programme, ...

Nexperia is to invest $200 million to develop SiC and GaN processes its Hamburg site and add capacity for silicon diodes and transistors. All three technologies (SiC, GaN, and Si) will be developed and produced in Germany starting in June 2024. . “Our Hamburg fab will cover the complete range of WBG semiconductors while still being the largest factory for ...

The telecoms industry has had its Gerald Ratner moment. Network bosses are saying the network is crap. We all knew that, and we all know it’s getting worse because connections are slower, and we all know why – because investment in infrastructure is declining.  We all assumed the industry intended to sort it eventually, but it seems not.  “The absence ...