The success of electromobility to date is primarily due to a special customer group, the so-called innovators and early adopters, mostly technology enthusiasts, ecologically orientated men with above-average incomes. This is now changing.

The specialty IC foundry service provider VIS and the semiconductor manufacturer NXP plan to establish a joint venture for building and operating a new 300mm fab in Singapore. The cost of the initial build is anticipated to be .8 billion. The fab will be operated by VIS.

The iC-PXL3212 from iC-Haus is an optical, reflective, lensless encoder IC with integrated HD phased-array photo sensors and a blue LED chip. For the latest generation of these encoder ICs, the chip designers have used the advanced 180-nanometer technology in the CMOS process for the first time.

SiPearl, the company building the high-performance low-power European microprocessor for supercomputing and AI inference, announces the appointment of Christophe Ménard as Chief Commercial Officer.

Advantest launches the DC Scale XHC32 power supply for the V93000 EXA Scale SoC test platform. It offers 32 channels with an unprecedented single-instrument total current of up to 640A, enabling the card to address the rapidly rising power requirements for AI accelerators, HPCs, GPUs, etc.

MIPS Technologies has been through some turbulent times. In 2021, "MIPS Technologies" became "MIPS" and the focus shifted to RISC-V IP cores. In an interview with Markt & Technik, Sameer Wasson, CEO of MIPS, is convinced that the company is on a path of success.

As a response to the rise of AI-embedded applications the Swiss semiconductor startup Synthara wants to integrate computing capabilities into conventional on-chip memories. To achieve this the startup raised over million in funding and Hermann Hauser joined the company as an advisor.

Edmund Optics and Quartus Engineering announce a new strategic partnership to offer highly integrated and complex precision opto-mechanical solutions.

LEM announces that its CFO Andrea Borla will step down at the end of November 2024 after nine years as Chief Financial Officer and Member of the Executive Board.