IC chip factory news
On November 8, Nexperia signed an agreement with Vishay, a company listed on the New York Stock Exchange, to sell NEPTUNE6 LIMITED (hereinafter referred to as “NEPTUNE6”), the parent company of Newport Wafer Fab (hereinafter referred to as NWF) in the UK, for US$177 million. . From Nexperia’s announcement of the completion of the acquisition […]
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Toshiba has started mass production of a new MCU (TMPM3HxF10xx) of the TXZ series advanced-grade M3H group, fabricated on a 40nm process. In recent years, the demand for larger program capacity and support for FOTA (firmware over the air) updates has grown significantly. The new MCU expands the maximum code flash memory capacity of the
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Infineon and eleQtronm, Germany’s oldest quantum computing company, will jointly develop a trapped-ion quantum processor unit (QPU) for scalable quantum computers. eleQtron began as a research group at the Department of Quantum Optics at Siegen University and was founded in 2020 as a company dedicated to making quantum computers usable for real-world applications. The company’s
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Nexperia has announced the expansion of packaging options for its NextPower 80/100 V MOSFET portfolio, previously available only in the LFPAK56E package, and now also in the LFPAK56 and LFPAK88 packages. These devices are designed to combine high efficiency with reduced spike behavior in telecom, server computing, industrial, power supply, fast charging, USB-PD, and motor
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Melexis has added the MLX75027RTI VGA resolution ToF sensor to its ToF series, which is ASIL capable and suitable for safety critical systems requiring ASIL or SIL certification. The device has a physical spatial resolution of 307kpixel. The main use cases for this sensor are dynamic airbag suppression (so that airbags do not deploy unnecessarily),
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AMD announced that it will continue to supply Spartan 6 FPGAs until at least 2030. AMD Spartan 6 FPGA extended life, programmable IC originally introduced in 2009. Spartan 6 devices, with their high IO-to-logic ratio in small packages, continue to be well suited for customers in the industrial, medical, vision and automotive markets, as well
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