Wolfspeed and Jaguar Land Rover have announced a strategic supply partnership for silicon carbide electric vehicle power train semiconductors. “Wolfspeed’s silicon carbide technology will be used specifically in the vehicles’ inverter, managing the transfer of power from the battery to the electric motors,” according to the car company. “The first Range Rover vehicles with this technology will be available from ...

The US has been either very witty or very lucky in its strategy of denying China an advanced chip industry. The US sat idly by as China spent hundreds of billions of dollars – $170 billion alone in the National Integrated Circuit Fund – on  subsidising fabs and startups. Then it set to picking off these investments one by one ...

Recom is aiming at what it calls ‘cost-sensitive’ medical, industrial and IT applications with 130W open-frame ac-dc power supplies. “Safety certifications include 2MOPP/250Vac medical for ‘B’ or ‘BF’ applications to IEC/EN/ANSI/AAMI ES 60601-1, as well as IEC/EN 62368-1, IEC/EN 60335-1 and IEC/EN 61558-1 for industrial, test and measurement, IT and household use, all to 4000m altitude,” it said, adding: “EN ...

Infineon Technologies is taking orders for 8 and 16Mbit FRAM (ferroelectric RAM) aimed at automotive and industrial non-volatile data-logging. “The memories feature operation from 1.71V to 3.6V, support up to 54Mbit/s of throughput over a low-pin count interface and are available in a RoHS-compliant, 24ball FBGA package,” according to the company. “These products combine low-power operation with instant nonvolatility and ...

The Compact Camera Module (CCM) market is expected to reach about $60.2 billion in 2027, says Yole Developpement. CCM is driven by innovations in mobile handsets, the adoption of multiple cameras in cars, and emerging consumer applications. Some of the CCM applications are now slowly moving from imaging to sensing. In CCM manufacturing, China and South Korea together have a ...

Using the wafer backside for power delivery to the devices is the next major performance booster that will be introduced, writes Sri Samavedam, senior vice president of CMOS technologies at imec. The conventional metal layers on the frontside of the wafer will be used for routing signals, while the metal layers at the back of the wafer will be used ...

GaN Systems has extended its Class D GaN-powered Audio portfolio with two complete Class-D high-performance GaN FET amplifier boards and two complete audio boost converter solutions for marine, auto, and battery-powered vehicles. GaN Systems now provides a product offering comprised of turnkey amplifier designs, power supplies, and boost converters—allowing audio systems designers across auto, home, and professional markets to mix and ...

ESA is planning an in-orbit demonstration with new navigation satellites that will orbit just a few hundred kilometres up in space. It is part of its FutureNAV initiative. The long-term goal is to bring satnav closer to Earth, by extending GNSS and supporting positional navigation and timing (PNT) services from low Earth orbit (LEO) . The mini-constellation will eventually supplement ...

My extensive brown-nosing of every conceivable candidate for the leadership has saved my place in the Cabinet, Ed confides to his diary, with the revised portfolio of Science, Technology and Digital Commerce. It should have potential for extracting some acceptable emoluments for the enhancement of my post-Ministerial life-style. My first proposal at the opening Cabinet of the new regime was ...

20 years ago, China’s semiconductor industry looked in better shape than it does now. At that time, the strength of the emerging semiconductor industry in mainland China looked likely to be in design and development rather than manufacturing. “We have a team in mainland China trying to understand market needs and the requirements of the fabless companies,” Dr FC Tseng, ...