The latest news, developments and announcements from around the electronics industry.
APEC: Efficient Power Conversion (EPC) has introduced the EPC91121 motor drive inverter evaluation board, built around the Gen-7 EPC2366 40V eGaN power transistor. Measuring 79x80mm, the EPC91121 is engineered for rapid prototyping of advanced motor drive architectures in applications such as drones, robotics, industrial automation, handheld power tools and other compact electromechanical systems where high efficiency and power density are ...
Nisshinbo Micro Devices has announced the NT9000/NT9001/NT9002/ NT9003 series of dual diode devices designed for Wireless Power Transfer (WPT). The new series utilises the company’s proprietary GaAs wafer process technology and is designed to support highly efficient rectification in WPT systems by combining low forward voltage with high DC withstand voltage, enabling improved conversion efficiency over a wide dynamic range. ...
Teradyne is introducing Omnyx, a manufacturing test platform for detecting operational defects in printed circuit board assemblies (PCBA). It’s aimed at AI servers and data center systems and the company says it combines structural, parametric, high-speed interconnect and functional testing. The ideal is to allow manufacturers to identify defects earlier in the production process. This would improve yield and quality ...
The UK Space Agency (UKSA) is making funding of up to £14.7 million available to UK companies to develop “cutting-edge space technologies”. The agency says the goal is strengthen the UK’s industrial capability. And the funding will officially be made available through the European Space Agency’s (ESA) General Support Technology Programme (GSTP). This is the ESA’s flagship programme for maturing ...
APEC 2026: Power Integrations has implemented its GaN technology in its TOPSwitch flyback ICs to increase the power range to 400W. The company’s PowiGaN technology means that the flyback converters more than double power output to extend the power range above the conventional 250W to 440W for faster charging for e-bikes, mobility devices and industrial applications. They also exceed ErP ...
The Eclipse Foundation announced updates to the Open VSX Registry, its vendor-neutral extension registry for tools built on the VS Code extension API. The registry is used in AI-enabled and cloud-based developer platforms, including Amazon’s Kiro, Google’s Antigravity, Cursor, IBM’s Bob, VSCodium, Windsurf and Ona (formerly Gitpod). A new pre-publication verification network will identify security risks. The framework enables the ...
China’s dancing, jumping, performing humanoid robots are fun but useless, said TSMC CEO C C Wei (pictured) when accepting a doctorate from Asia University at the weekend. “It’s useless — just for show,” commented Wei pointing out that, to be useful, robots needed brains and 95% of all humanoid robots’ brains are made by TSMC. He added that he hopes ...
Sansung plans to invest $73 billion this year to keep up with TSMC in the chip business. TSMC expects to spend $52-56 billion on capex and $7 billion on R&D this year. Intel’s capex budget is expected to be around $9 billion this year with an R&D budget of around $16 billion Samsung is working to get its 2nm process ...
PC units will fall 11.3% this year and tablet units will fall 7.6%, says the IDC Worldwide Quarterly Personal Computing Device Tracker. These reductions are driven by memory shortages, rising component prices, and broader supply constraints, all of which are expected to limit production well into 2027. However higher ASPs are expected to lift total market value, with PCs growing ...
Global foundry revenue is projected to grow 24.8% y-o-y to approximately $218.8bn, with TSMC expected to post the largest increase of around 32% y-o-y, says TrendForce. Demand for advanced nodes will continue to be driven by AI GPUs, with Google, AWS, Meta, OpenAI and Groq accelerating the development of their own AI chips. Many of these designs are expected to ...
