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More than 100 companies in China, led by CATL and BYD, are mass producing thin, light-weight perovskite solar cells, reports the Nikkei. Last year, UtmoLight started up what is intended to be a 1GW factory making 1.8 million cells a year with a conversion efficiency of 17.44%.  Hangzhou Microquanta Semiconductor Technology has been in production for four years with a ...

Guerrilla RF is going for the SatCom market with low-noise small-signal devices through to high-power RF power amplifiers. Guerrilla now has over 100 devices for mission-critical SatCom applications across ground-based and spaceborne infrastructure, Guerrilla RF ICs address both the uplink and downlink paths of satellite communication architectures including: • MUOS Tactical Radios — UHF satellite communications for military manpack and ...

element14 has launched its latest design competition, inviting engineers, makers and technology enthusiasts to develop smart industry projects focused on production monitoring, uptime optimisation and product testing. Selected participants will design and build a prototype or test rig using a kit of components from leading suppliers. Entries will be judged on creativity and the imaginative use of component features. The ...

At Embedded World 2026 we caught up with Don Cantow, General Manager of Altium, as part of our promotional coverage for the event. He shares the advances that Octopart Discover, the latest iteration of Octopart, is bringing to users and the industry. And he also explains how Octopart Discover can accelerate product-to-market time by helping engineers identify complete solutions, not ...

At Embedded World 2026 we caught up with Coby Hanoch, CEO of Weebit Nano, as part of our promotional coverage for the event. He explains why we need a new kind of NVM (Non-Volatile Memory), which big companies are using, and how it enables new embedded applications in AI, compute in memory and neuromorphic. Thank you to Coby for his ...

AI is creeping into orbit and being used to predict where emergency services will be needed, accelerating responses compared to traditional satellite monitoring, said Dr Rajan Bedi, CEO and founder of Spacechips. In the latest episode of Electronics Weekly’s CHIIPs podcast, Bedi explains orbit AI machine learning is a focus for the company which designs and develops hardware for satellites ...

Open Cosmos, the UK satellite manufacturer and operator, has officially unveiled its global space‑based IoT service. It will be combining ground IoT sensor data with satellite imagery. The system, to deliver real‑time intelligence from devices in the field, was announced at SATShow in Washington DC. The service is aimed at both governments and companies. “Our existing Earth observation satellites already ...

Alibaba’s research arm, Damo Academy, has launched a Risc-V based CPU for AI inference, which can be customised to a user’s workload and is claimed to be the highest-performing Risc-V processor in the world. Called the XuanTie C950, it is a 5nm, 3.2GHz processor aimed at competing in the worldwide AI chip market. Alibaba CEO Eddie Wu says he is ...

Semiconductor wafer demand (12” equivalent) reached 8.7 million wpm last year, says Yole Group, with the foundry industry earning 47% of all wafer manufacturing revenue, worth $181bn, last year Foundry manufacturing capacity continues to grow and is projected to reach 15.25 million wpm by 2031. The CAGR should be 4% from 2025 to 2031 However, over-investment in manufacturing capacity saw ...

Researchers at the University of Cambridge have proposed an answer to escalating energy consumption of  AI hardware – multicomponent p-type Hf(Sr,Ti)O2 thin films for memristor-based neuromorphic devices. ‘Neuromorphic computing offers promises to drastically reduce this footprint,’ say the researchers, ‘here, we introduce multicomponent p-type Hf(Sr,Ti)O2 thin films for energy-efficient, resistive switching–based neuromorphic devices. We demonstrate interfacial memristors with ultralow switching ...