The verge of bankruptcy

Nexperia saves NWF in 2021

On July 5, 2021, Nexperia announced that it had signed a relevant acquisition agreement with NEPTUNE6, the parent company of British chip manufacturer NWF, and its shareholders. After the completion of this transaction, Nexperia holds 100% equity in NEPTUNE6 and holds 100% equity in NWF through NEPTUNE6. Information shows that NEPTUNE6 company’s total assets at the end of fiscal year 2020 were 44.7076 million pounds, and its net assets were -5.1773 million pounds. It was already insolvent and on the verge of bankruptcy at the time of acquisition.

Since the acquisition, Nexperia has formulated a long-term business development plan for NWF, making additional investments to upgrade machinery and equipment and expand personnel. Nexperia’s acquisition saved NWF, which was underfunded and on the verge of bankruptcy.

In the name of national security

British government mandates divestment in 2022

As soon as the news of Nexperia’s acquisition of NWF was disclosed, it immediately aroused resistance and doubts from many foreign parties, believing that NWF’s acquisition by Nexperia would pose a threat to British national security.

In May 2022, relevant British government departments exercised their statutory powers to retrospectively review the NWF acquisition in accordance with the newly effective British National Security and Investment Act, and finally required Nexperia to divest NWF in November 2022 on the grounds that it may endanger national security. After receiving the notification from the British government, Nexperia made it clear that it was dissatisfied with the decision and is still in the appeal process.

Forced sale

Fully reflect the responsibility of the management team

After Nexperia’s acquisition of NWF was reviewed by the British government, Nexperia was attacked by many parties in the geopolitical environment. As the CEO of Nexperia, Zhang Xuezheng and his management team are under tremendous pressure from all parties. On the one hand, they have to deal with the British government’s geopolitical security review and actively seek to publicly address the concerns raised by all parties; on the other hand, they must give priority to NWF’s impact. employees and reduce the negative impact on customers; at the same time, we must continue to promote Nexperia’s globalization strategy, safeguard the interests of local industries, and protect the interests of shareholders.

Due to the British government’s mandatory divestment of NWF, Nexperia was forced to stop its investment planning in NWF. In order to protect the interests of employees and customers, properly entrust the future of NWF, reduce the impact on the local semiconductor industry, and better protect the interests of shareholders, Nexperia chose Vishay as the undertaker to sell NFW equity. From the acquisition to the forced sale, Nexperia’s management team was unfairly treated in geopolitics and experienced many setbacks and challenges. It actively sought solutions for NWF and avoided the British government’s divestiture requirements that would impose negative consequences on NWF’s employees, customers, and Further losses have been caused to local industries and shareholders, which fully reflects the responsibility of Nexperia management under the leadership of Zhang Xuezheng. Especially in the face of the pressure from the British government to divest, the company still attached great importance to employees and customers and took into account the interests of local industries and shareholders during the forced sale process, which fully reflected the corporate values of Nexperia management and set a model for the industry.

In its M3H product group, Toshiba now offers four code flash options and combinations of seven different packages.
Existing features such as an ARM Cortex-M3 core running up to 120MHz and 32KB data flash with 100K program/erase cycle endurance are retained.

These MCUs also offer a variety of interface and motor control options, including UART, I2C, encoders, and programmable motor drivers (PMDs).

The 1MB code Flash is implemented as two independent regions of 512KB each, allowing instructions to be read and executed from one region while updating code is programmed into the other. The zone swap feature supports firmware rotation – a key advance (along with increased memory) for these new devices.

These devices include UART, I2C, TSPI, two cell DMAC and LCD controller.
The new devices support a variety of sensing applications with high-speed, high-precision 12-bit analog-to-digital converters (ADCs), allowing two types of sample-and-hold (S&H) time input channels to be set for each of the 21 ADCs.
They are also suitable for controlling AC motors and brushless DC (BLDC) motors in combination with advanced PMD circuits that can operate synchronously with high-speed, high-precision ADCs.

The self-diagnostic functions of flash memory, RAM, ADC and clock included in the device help customers achieve IEC60730 Class B functional safety certification.

During the development phase, Infineon will provide eleQtron with three generations of progressively improved ion traps and the expertise required to adapt them to the MAGIC concept.

Using a co-design strategy, Infineon will enable eleQtron to build ion trap-based quantum computers with increasing capabilities. These quantum computers will then also be made available to industrial and scientific users via cloud access.

Pushing that number lower, however, has an unintended consequence: increased spike levels when the MOSFET is turned on or off, increasing the amount of electromagnetic interference (EMI) generated.

Once it was determined that this was an emerging problem, Nexperia began investigating how other process technology parameters could be modified to help resolve the issue.

These efforts culminated in Nexperia releasing NextPower 80/100 V MOSFETs with lower Q rr (reverse recovery charge), allowing them to significantly reduce the amount of spikes during switching transitions while exhibiting the same high efficiency performance as competing MOSFETs, But EMI is lower.

By offering these high-efficiency, low-spike NextPower 80/100 V MOSFETs in the LFPAK56 and LFPAK88, Nexperia not only enables designers to shrink their application size and benefit from the enhanced robustness of the copper clip package, but also provides design engineers with new and customers looking to find additional sources for their existing designs.

It can also be used to provide safety boundaries for industrial cameras, support the control of robot motion and enable more advanced machine vision.

The key to the MLX75027RTI is back-illuminated (BSI) imaging technology. It combines Melexis automotive expertise with Sony’s proprietary DepthSense® ToF pixels. The MLX75027RTI delivers 135 depth frames per second.

The sensor package is much smaller than the current generation of devices, with a 50% reduction in size. Therefore, more compact imaging systems can be developed. The optimization of the chief ray angle of the integrated MLA (microlens array) simplifies the entire optical system.
The new MLX75027 is available in automotive and industrial versions.
The MLX75027RTI is designed for automotive applications with a temperature range of -40°C to +105°C, while the MLX75027STI is suitable for industrial applications with a temperature range of -20°C to +85°C.

Another feature of the MLX75027 series is its proven sunlight robustness, which means that the signal quality is not affected by the external environment.

To help engineers design and implement their ASIL/SIL systems, Melexis provides a dedicated safety integration guide.

Emerging NCAP regulations will boost the use of in-vehicle monitoring in safety applications. It will also become increasingly important in industrial and mass market applications. Melexis’ range of time-of-flight sensors are already in widespread use.

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 as other markets such as communications, which require simple bridging and customers in these segments need extended product , typically requiring a 15-year product life cycle, many of which are supported for much longer. So AMD’s support for Spartan 6 FPGAs will be extended through at least 2030, and all speed and temperature grades are included. Some customers are still using Spartan 6 in a variety of applications, are happy with the product, and don’t want to be forced to change their design. Therefore, AMD is ensuring product availability until at least 2030.

AMD is addressing recent supply chain issues with the aim of boosting customer confidence in its Xilinx lineup with formal supply commitments.

Late last year, AMD committed to at least 2035 supply of Xilinx 7 series FPGAs and SoCs, including all speed and temperature grades: Spartan-7, Artix-7, Kintex-7, Virtex-7 and Zynq-7000.