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Samsung breaks ground on $15 billion chip R&D center
Samsung breaks ground on $15 billion chip R&D center
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Samsung Electronics has broken ground on a semiconductor R&D facility in Giheung, Korea, where it plans to spend KRW 20…
Rockley quits datacomms as losses rise
Rockley quits datacomms as losses rise
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Oxford-based Rockley Photonics has exited the datacommunications market to focus on health monitoring and posted a net loss of US$121.8…
Wearable graphene sweat sensor gives continuous monitoring
Wearable graphene sweat sensor gives continuous monitoring
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Researchers in the US have developed a graphene-based wearable sensor that can continuously detect a wide range of chemicals in…
Nordic moves into Wi-Fi to fulfil Matter protocol needs
Nordic moves into Wi-Fi to fulfil Matter protocol needs
New Products |
The nRF7002 is a dual-band Wi-Fi 6 companion IC from Nordic Semiconductor that is aimed at the wireless IoT market.

Rockley’s losses triple as it exits datacomm, reduces guidance
Rockley’s losses triple as it exits datacomm, reduces guidance
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Signs of market headwinds in 2022 and 2023 were evident as Rockley Photonics Holdings Ltd. (Oxford, England) posted a net loss of US$121.8 million on revenues of $1.5 million in…
Printed perovskite solar cell and battery combo for wearables
Printed perovskite solar cell and battery combo for wearables
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Researchers at the University of Surrey in the UK have printed a flexible zinc-ion battery alongside a perovskite solar cell to power wearable devices. The Advanced Technology Institute (ATI) printed…
Flexible device harvests thermal energy to power wearables
Flexible device harvests thermal energy to power wearables
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Researchers at the University of Washington say they have developed a first-of-its kind flexible, wearable thermoelectric device that converts body heat to electricity.
Fall in global chip market growth accelerates
Fall in global chip market growth accelerates
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The annual growth of the global chip market stood at 13.3 percent in June, according to the Semiconductor Industry Association, but it is down from 18.0 percent in May. As…
Chinese invasion of Taiwan would make TSMC ‘not operable’, says chairman
Chinese invasion of Taiwan would make TSMC ‘not operable’, says chairman
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Mark Liu, chairman of foundry Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co. Ltd., has said that a Chinese invasion of Taiwan would render the foundry “not operable.” TSMC is a leading chip manufacturer…
Wearable ultrasound patch works for 48hrs – video
Wearable ultrasound patch works for 48hrs – video
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Engineers at MIT in the US have developed a wearable ultrasound patch that can easily monitor patients for up to two days. The stamp-sized patch uses a rigid array of…
CEO interview: Americo Lemos of IQE on scaling up
CEO interview: Americo Lemos of IQE on scaling up
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eeNews Europe talks to Americo Lemos, newly appointed CEO of wafer maker IQE in Wales. Lemos has been in post for six months having joined IQE from Globalfoundries in January…
US chip suppliers dominate R&D spending
US chip suppliers dominate R&D spending
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The US and Asia-Pacific have increased their share of global semiconductor R&D over the last ten years at the expense of Europe and Japan, according to IC Insights. Despite political…
IQE has vision for billion-pound foundry in Newport
IQE has vision for billion-pound foundry in Newport
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IQE plc (Cardiff, Wales), a leading supplier of engineered wafers, wants UK government support to help it create the “TSMC of compound semiconductors” in South Wales. Americo Lemos, the CEO…
CEO interview: The scale-up vision of IQE’s Americo Lemos
CEO interview: The scale-up vision of IQE’s Americo Lemos
Interviews |
eeNews Europe visited the Newport manufacturing site of IQE plc (Cardiff, Wales), a leading supplier of compound semiconductor engineered wafers and substrates, to interview CEO Americo Lemos. Lemos has been…
Wearable platforms extend battery life, performance
Wearable platforms extend battery life, performance
New Products |
Wireless technology company Qualcomm Technologies has announced the latest additions to its suite of premium wearable platforms designed for next-generation connected wearables.
Google tests new AR smart glasses design
Google tests new AR smart glasses design
Technology News |
Google is starting testing of a new generation of augmented reality (AR) smart glasses. The company has been shipping variant of its Google Glass technology into businesses since its launch…
€50m smart glasses lab for Milan
€50m smart glasses lab for Milan
Technology News |
Politecnico di Milano has signed an agreement with French group EssilorLuxottica for a joint Smart Eyewear Laboratory. The lab in Milan will host R&D activities for the next generation of…
Tsinghua Unigroup buy-out keeps Unisoc alive with Foxconn tie
Tsinghua Unigroup buy-out keeps Unisoc alive with Foxconn tie
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Tsinghua Unigroup has been acquired by Beijing Zhiguangxin Holding in a move that gives its chip making subsidiaries Unisoc – the merger of Spreadtrum Communications and RDA Microelectronics – and…
Agile Analog boosts engineer recruitment drive
Agile Analog boosts engineer recruitment drive
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Agile Analog Ltd., licensor of analog intellectual property cores, is moving offices to accommodate a major recruitment drive in Cambridge, England. The drive comes just weeks after the company announced…
Nordic taps GF, Silterra as capacity limits growth
Nordic taps GF, Silterra as capacity limits growth
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Nordic Semiconductor in Norway is aiming for US$1 billion revenue in 2023 with a view to further doubling revenue by 2026. However, the wafer allocation at foundry TSMC is limiting…
VR art museum displays stolen masterpieces
VR art museum displays stolen masterpieces
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Digital transformation company Compass UOL has announced the opening of the first metaverse museum that displays major works of art that have been stolen or are missing.
Tsinghua Unigroup buy-out keeps chip firms alive
Tsinghua Unigroup buy-out keeps chip firms alive
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Debt-ridden Tsinghua Unigroup, one of China’s largest semiconductor conglomerates, has been acquired by Beijing Zhiguangxin Holding. The new parent brings an equity-for-debt plan and a 60 billion yuan (about US$8.9…
Second generation silicon capacitors boost performance
Second generation silicon capacitors boost performance
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Empower Semiconductor has launched its second generation of silicon capacitor to take on multi-layer ceramic capacitor (MLCC) devices in wearable and IoT designs. The e-cap silicon capacitors are built with…
Nordic asks GloFo, Silterra to help it reach billion-dollar revenue
Nordic asks GloFo, Silterra to help it reach billion-dollar revenue
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Wireless chip company Nordic Semiconductor ASA (Trondheim, Norway) has said it is on course to achieve US$1 billion revenue in 2023 with a view to further doubling revenue by 2026.
Monitor, response parts of European Chips Act misguided, says think tank
Monitor, response parts of European Chips Act misguided, says think tank
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The European Commission’s proposed use of national governments to monitor and respond to the semiconductor supply chain won’t work, according to Stiftung Neue Verantwortung eV, an independent, non-profit think tank…
Foundries see cancellations as consumer spending slows
Foundries see cancellations as consumer spending slows
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Foundries have seen a wave of order cancellations, mainly behind the leading edge of production, and the chip manufacturing capacity utilization rate has started fall, according to market research firm…
Newport chip foundry still possible says Nexperia
Newport chip foundry still possible says Nexperia
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A foundry at the Newport wafer fab in Wales, UK, is still possible, a senior executive from Nexperia has told UK law makers. Toni Versluijs, UK country manager at Nexperia,…
Foundries face order cancellations as consumer spending slows
Foundries face order cancellations as consumer spending slows
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Foundries have seen a wave of order cancellations, mainly behind the leading edge of production, and the chip manufacturing capacity utilization rate has started fall, according to TrendForce. The market…


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