The UK government is backing the Compound Semiconductor Centre and Newport Wafer Fab to develop a 200mm Gallium Nitride power transistor foundry process. Both these organisations are inside the compound semiconductor cluster in South Wales. Coordinated jointly by the Centre and Fab, the intention is to deliver a 650V GaN-on-silicon HEMTs (all GaN power transistors are high electron mobility transistors) ...
Hynix has completed its $3.5 billion M16 EUV DRAM fab – the company’s largest and the first to use EUV. “I was worried when we decided to build M16 two years ago as the overall semiconductor memory was amid downturn back then,” said Hynixx chairman Chey Tae-won at the opening ceremony, “however, as the industry anticipates positive market condition upcoming ...
A European project has been set up to further improve the reliability of electronics. Called Intelligent Reliability 4.0 (iRel40), it is coordinated by Infineon and has 75 science and industry partners from 13 countries. “Enhancing electronics performance through miniaturisation and integrating more and more functions is progressing steadily,” said Infineon CEO Reinhard Ploss. “Performance and complexity are increasing, as the ...
Pat Gelsinger (pictured) spooked Wall Street on Friday by saying he’s committed to Intel regaining process technology leadership when he takes over on February 15th. “Clearly, we’re not interested in just closing gaps,” said Gelsinger, “we’re interested in resuming that position of the unquestioned leader in process technology, and that’s our commitment.” The financial community had pushed up Intel’s shares on ...
German Economy Minister Peter Altmaier has sent a letter to Taiwan’s Minister for Economic Affairs Wang Mei-hua asking her to help solve the chip shortage being suffered by the German car makers. “I would be pleased if you could take on this matter and underline the importance of additional semiconductor capacities for the German automotive industry to TSMC,” wrote Altmaier. TSMC ...
Samsung is planning to build a $10 billion 3nm fab alongside its existing fab in Austin Texas, reports Bloomberg. The plan involves financial help from the new US administration which is said to be currently under negotiation. The plan is to start building this year with manufacturing equipment to be installed in 2022 and first wafers to be run in ...
Infra-red detectors produced by Leonardo in Southampton are currently travelling through space with Bennu, the 2bn year old asteroid, which is calculated to have a 1 in 3,000 chance of hitting Earth late in the 22nd century, according to the company. Arizona State University (ASU) selected Leonardo’s infra-red sensors (pictured) for their Osiris-Rex thermal emission spectrometer (OTES) instrument, which allowed ...
UK specialist connector maker Intelliconnect (Europe) has moved to a larger facility at the Corby Innovation Hub following 30% sales growth in 2020. “After a year of exceptional sales growth, we have relocated our sales, engineering and production facilities to larger premises and will be recruiting new staff at all levels including offering apprenticeships,” said MD Roy Phillips. The 6,400ft2 ...
Californian public display maker Ideum has chosen Zytronic of Newcastle to supply touch screen sensors for its next-generation Pano Duo 49” interactive touch table. Zytronic’s proprietary technology, branded ZyBrid, is multi-touch projected capacitive. “The crucial difference between the first generation Pano Duo 49” table and Ideum’s new one is the transition from an infra-red touch frame to Zytronic’s all-glass printed ...
Dublin-based Benetel has integrated its Radio Unit with Radisys’ 5G NR OpenRAN software for OpenRAN deployments in communication, industrial and private networks. The two companies have also made a licensing agreement for Radisys’ LTE software to allow its distribution with Benetel’s eNodeB radio platforms. Pre-integrated, the hardware and software can be deployed in both non-standalone (NSA) and standalone (SA) 5G ...
