SatVu, the London-based thermal infrared satellite specialist, has raised £30m ($40m) in its latest funding round, lead by the NATO Innovation Fund. This brings its total equity funding to £60m ($80m) as it bids to provide thermal intelligence previously unavailable from commercial sources. For example, it can provide heat signatures associated with activities in buildings. As mentioned, the latest investors ...
Electron projection lithography (EPL) is moving out of the R&D lab and into manufacturing evaluation sites, according to chip consortiums International Sematechr and Selete. That’s the word from the 2003 annual workshop on the technology, held in Cambridge and sponsored by Austin-based Sematech and Tsukuba, Japan-based Selete. Forum participants revised the technology’s top ten technical challenges, which include a mix ...
Rohm is using its new HPLF5060 package (4.9mm × 6.0mm) to expand its lineup of low-voltage (40V/60V) MOSFETs for automotive applications. For example, main inverter control circuits, electric pumps, and LED headlights. Parts include the AG040FGS4FRA, the AG142FGS4FRA and AG543EGS4FRA, under the company’s EcoMOS brand. HPLF5060 package Rohm highlights the trend for automotive low-voltage MOSFETs moving towards smaller packages. It ...
Looking at only those written in the last seven days, the most read stories cover Kioxia sampling UFS 5.0 NAND, Wayve funding its robotaxi roll-out, and Apple leading the way in Europe.
Qualcomm has announced that Kevin O’Buckley will join the company on 2 March as executive vice-president of global operations and supply chain. O’Buckley is currently senior vice-president and general manager of Intel Foundry Services (IFS) and has previously held leadership roles at IBM, GlobalFoundries and Marvell. At Qualcomm, O’Buckley will lead global semiconductor operations across manufacturing engineering, foundry and supplier ...
Yesterday OpenAI said London would be its largest research hub outside the US. “We are excited to establish London as a major research hub for OpenAI, building on the leading work our London team is already doing to support our latest breakthroughs,” said Mark Chen (pictured), OpenAI’s chief research officer, “the UK brings together world class talent and leading scientific ...
The Tensor Robocar, a Level 4 ADAS vehicle being launched this year, has 433 safety-capable, power-efficient Arm-based cores in each vehicle. The San Jose car company is defining its vehicle around Arm’s compute intelligence rather than fitting ADAS technology onto legacy platforms. The Robocar claims to have the world’s most vertically integrated Level 4 autonomy stack, a sensor suite of ...
Lane Motorsport. the specialist division of Lane Electronics, has signed a UK- and Ireland-wide distribution agreement with Axon’ Cable. Axon’ have been manufacturing high performance miniature connectors and complex cable assemblies since 1965 and the agreement signals a move by the company to develop new business within the motorsport market. The Axon’ connector ranges are designed and manufactured for high-performance ...
The global semiconductor market in 2025 was $792 billion, according to WSTS. 2025 was up 25.6% from 2024, the strongest growth since 26.2% in the COVID recovery year 2021, reports Semiconductor Intelligence. The increase was driven by AI, with Nvidia revenues up 65%. The major memory companies (Samsung, SK Hynix, Micron Technology, Kioxia and Sandisk) all cited AI as the ...
The global smartphone market will contract 12.9% in 2026 due to the memory chip shortage, says IDC. “The tariffs and pandemic crisis seem a joke compared to this,” said IDC Senior Research Director Nabila Popal. “The smartphone market will witness a seismic shift by the time this crisis is over — in size, average selling prices and competitive landscape. We ...
