Manufacturing

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 ...

At the 75th IEDM from December 3rd to the 7th in San Francisco, TSMC is giving a paper on a 2D nanosheet GAA transistor. The transistor with a 40nm gate width produced a drive current of 410microamps per micron at Vds of 1V. TSMC uses a transition-metal dichalcogenide monolayer for the semiconducting channel in a nanosheet transistor. TSMC has integrated ...

Telford-based iconsys has a contract to deliver variable speed motor controllers and other equipment to an un-named company for an un-named marine application. Described as “around 30 variable speed drives” by ABB, whose drive cabinets are being supplied, they are to be joined by drive-trains, programmable controllers, sub-sea connection boxes, sub-sea motors and gearboxes, said ABB. It includes the installation ...

Micledi Microdisplays, a spin-put of Belgian semiconductor lab Imec, has revealed a year-long collaboration with augmented reality glasses maker Kura Technologies. AR glasses need far brighter displays than VR goggles, and displays made from arrays of miniaturised conventional III-V LEDs are a contender for this application. Multiple partnerships are racing towards this goal. In this case, it will result in ...

STMicroelectronics is planning integrated silicon carbide substrate manufacturing facility on the Italian island of Sicily to support demand for SiC ICs from automotive and industrial customers. “Production is expected to start in 2023, enabling a balanced supply of SiC substrate between internal and merchant supply,” said the company, which is planning to reach 40% internal substrate sourcing by 2024. To ...

Micron plans to build “the largest semiconductor fabrication facility in the history of the United States”. The fab will  create nearly 50,000 New York jobs, including approximately 9,000 Micron jobs. Micron intends to invest up to $100 billion over the next 20-plus years to construct a fab in Clay, New York, with the first phase investment of $20 billion planned by ...

Nottingham-based SFN (Search for the Next) has characterised its novel transistor-based logic, and claims that it matches CMOS performance even when made in older fabs. It would “enable chip designers to produce ICs in older 180nm, and even one micron, geometry fabs with the equivalent performance of CMOS devices made in state-of-the-art plants”, according to the company. “For example, a ...

Marl International has started delivering LED lighting for Bakerloo line rolling stock, operated by Transport for London (TfL). A 50% energy saving is expected compared with existing fluorescent lighting. The fleet has 4,906 lighting units, including 512 power supply units, according to Marl, which is based in Cumbria. That adds up to a million LEDs and more than three million components ...

Intel has picked Vigasio, near Verona, in Italy’s north east region of Veneto to be the site of its new European packaging plant according to Reuters. The plant will cost €4.5 billion and is expected to employ 1,500 direct jobs and create 3,500 indirect jobs. It is due to come online in 2025-7. The Vigasio site is part of an ...

The first anchor has been installed for CorPower’s 9m diameter 300kW C4 wave power converter. The custom anchor, dubbed Umack, has been installed 4km off the coast of northern Portugal at Aguçadoura, where the giant buoy will be part of the HiWave-5 wave power demonstration project. C4 generates power by bobbing up and down along the axis of its single ...