Replacing copper in semiconductor packaging with microLED optical links increases data rates and speed while resolving the issues of heat generation encountered by more traditional designs. Singapore’s NSC (New Silicon Corporation) exhibited its latest project at Asia Photonics Expo 2026. Using silicon nitride waveguides and micro LEDs to connect, for example a GPU and high bandwidth memory results in 32Tbps/mm ...
A competition launched by the IEEE offers six student teams the chance to attend next year’s Electronic Components and Technology Conference in Orlando, Florida. There are three challenges, each dealing with a critical aspect of simulation and reliability in electronic packaging. The first is for BSc and MSc students: to define a low-cost robust thermal solution for a high power ...
At Microelectronics UK (24-25 September), Kanishka Narayan, Minister of State for semiconductors, emerging technology, AI and online safety announced investment designed to support the UK semiconductor industry. The exhibition and conference for the microlectronics supply chain was held in London’s Excel Centre. In his keynote, the minister highlighted that the government is investing £10m in a new initiative with Innovate ...
At DAC 2024, Efabless celebrated a milestone of 40 commercial companies designed chips using its chipIgnite and Google-sponsored OpenMPW programme. Of these, some are ready for production volumes, the majority are at the prototype/proof of concept stage, said CEO, Michael Wishart. The platform allows start-ups and smaller companies to prototype designs and innovate without having to buy a license, he ...
NI has set out its stall for AI in the test industry. Following the announcement of LabView AI assistant at the end of last year (currently in beta testing), CTO of technology and innovation, Kevin Shultz spoke to Electronics Weekly about what will be the role of AI in test. He explained that the increasing complexity of products being tested ...
Melexis is encouraging innovation and drawing on the rich pool of local technology graduates at its newly-opened Innovation Lab. Positioned in the Swiss canton of Neuchâtel, the Melexis Innovation Lab is the latest addition to the Belgian company’s site in Bevaix, near Geneva. The lab was opened in December 2022 and is a centre for pre-development of sensor technology products ...
EDA company, Mentor, has joined Nano 2022, the latest project to promote the French electronics manufacturing industry. It covers components, connectors and PCBs, to design and assembly, distribution, embedded software and software tools. The project is part of the European Commission’s Important Project of Common European Interest (IPCEI) to promote research and innovation in power ICs, sensors, optical equipment and ...
Photonics has been called one of the fastest developing areas in healthcare.
Three UK universities are to take part in a £11m programme for the development of nanotechnology for electronics. Imperial College London and the Universities of Southampton and Manchester, will work with industrial partners on the project to replace traditional transistors with memristors as the basis of electronic circuits. Today all ICs are built from vast numbers of transistors (electronic switches). ...
A professor at the University of Sussex has been given the job of making the UK a world-leader in sound shaping technology. Professor Sriram Subramanian has been named a Royal Academy of Engineering (RAEng) chair for the development of novel acoustic interfaces. This is one of a ten areas of development emerging technology being created by the RAEng, which is ...
