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Einride raises $25 million series A to accelerate commercialization of its autonomous, electric transport system

Oct 11, 2019 | I-Micronews

Einride, the autonomous, all-electric transport provider announced its $25 million Series A round. The investment was co-led by the EQT Ventures fund (“EQT Ventures“), the European multistage VC fund with commitments of over €566 million and NordicNinja VC, a deep tech focused €101 million Nordic & Baltic fund backed by Panasonic, Honda, Omron and the […]

FeetMe the provider of real-world setting gait assessment and rehabilitation solutions announces the closing of a Series A round to develop new digital health services and accelerate its commercial activities

Oct 11, 2019 | I-Micronews

FeetMe, a medical device company that produces smart medical wearables and digital health services to improve mobility, announced it has raised € 9.4 million in Series A funding. The investment round was led by LBO France, with additional investment from existing investors Kurma Diagnostics, the fund Paris Saclay seed fund, Idinvest Partners, Seventure and SOSV. […]

Fitbit is pulling manufacturing out of China to avoid tariffs

Oct 11, 2019 | I-Micronews

In a rare move for a US tech company, Fitbit is pulling nearly all of its device manufacturing out of China amid a trade war between the world’s two largest economies. The company announced that “effectively all trackers and smartwatches” starting in January “will not be of Chinese origin” as a result of US tariffs. […]

FormFactor acquires FRT GMBH

Oct 11, 2019 | I-Micronews

Expands test and measurement leadership in high-growth Advanced Packaging and MEMS applications (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — FormFactor, (FORM) announced the acquisition of FRT, based in Germany. FRT is the one of the fastest growing metrology suppliers in the semiconductor industry, with revenues expanding at more than 75% compounded annual growth rate since its inception in 2016 […]

GLOBALFOUNDRIES brings new level of security and protection on 22FDX platform for connected systems

Oct 11, 2019 | I-Micronews

22FDX security solution aims to protect against physical tampering and attacks for cellular Internet of Things (IoT) devices GLOBALFOUNDRIES® (GF®), the world’s specialty foundry, announced that it is working with Arm® to offer secure system-on-chip (SoC) solutions on GF’s 22FDX® platform, based on FD-SOI, for cellular IoT applications. With the growing threat of reverse engineering […]

Palindromic Digital Clocks

Oct 11, 2019 | Max’s Cool Beans

Have you ever stayed awake at night pondering palindromic digital clock posers?

Watching Energy Transport Through Biomimetic Nanotubes

Oct 11, 2019 | Semiconductor Digest

Scientists from the University of Groningen (the Netherlands) and the University of Würzburg (Germany) have investigated a simple biomimetic light-harvesting system using advanced spectroscopy combined with a microfluidic platform. The double-walled nanotubes work very efficiently at low light intensities, while they are able to get rid of excess energy at high intensities. These properties are […]

Growth of Near Field Communication (NFC) Chips Market to Be Impacted by the Increasing Demand for Smart Parking

Oct 11, 2019 | Semiconductor Digest

The report, NFC chips market 2019-2023, has been added to Technavio’s catalog. It provides a comprehensive analysis of the market, including its global and regional market share as well as market segmentation based on product (smartphones, smart wearables, POS terminals, and others) and geography (APAC, Americas, and EMEA) for the forecast period 2019-2023. The post […]

2019 Microprocessor Slump Snaps Nine Years of Record Sales

Oct 11, 2019 | Semiconductor Digest

The microprocessor market’s string of nine straight record-high annual sales between 2010 and 2018 is expected to end this year with worldwide MPU revenue dropping 4% to about $77.3 billion because of weakness in smartphone shipments, excess inventories in data center computers, and the global fallout from the U.S.-China trade war, according to IC Insights’ […]

Radiation Detector with the Lowest Noise in the World Boosts Quantum Work

Oct 11, 2019 | Semiconductor Digest

Researchers from Aalto University and VTT Technical Research Centre of Finland have built a super-sensitive bolometer, a type of thermal radiation detector. The new radiation detector, made of a gold-palladium mixture makes it easier to measure the strength of electromagnetic radiation in real time. Bolometers are used widely in thermal cameras in the construction industry […]

II-VI unveils first 200mm semi-insulating SiC substrates for RF power amplifiers in 5G antennas

Oct 11, 2019 | Semiconductor Today

Engineered materials and optoelectronic component maker II-VI Inc of Saxonburg, PA, USA, which provides silicon carbide (SiC) substrates for power electronics, has introduced what it says are the first prototype 200mm-diameter semi-insulating silicon carbide substrates for RF power amplifiers in 5G wireless base-station antennas and other high-performance RF applications…

Week In Review: Manufacturing, Test

Oct 11, 2019 | SemiEngineering

Packaging project; 5nm; 3D chips; neural-net-on-a-chip. The post Week In Review: Manufacturing, Test appeared first on Semiconductor Engineering.

Monitoring Heat On AI Chips

Oct 11, 2019 | SemiEngineering

How to reduce margin and improve performance on very large devices. The post Monitoring Heat On AI Chips appeared first on Semiconductor Engineering.

Week In Review: Design, Low Power

Oct 11, 2019 | SemiEngineering

Arm adds custom instructions; Synopsys’ functional safety verification; 5nm certifications; CCIX spec; Adesto’s satellite deal. The post Week In Review: Design, Low Power appeared first on Semiconductor Engineering.

Week in Review – IoT, Security, Autos

Oct 11, 2019 | SemiEngineering

Arm TechCon; broken security; Nissan CEO. The post Week in Review – IoT, Security, Autos appeared first on Semiconductor Engineering.

Auto Architecture and the Need for Speed

Oct 11, 2019 | SemiWiki.com

Automotive makers and their suppliers are jacking up the processing power being introduced to cars along with higher speed wireless external connections. These high speed systems promise to collect, process, interpret and transmit sensor data for the purpose of enabling advanced collision avoidance and, ultimately, automated … Read More

My Top Three Reasons to Attend IEDM 2019

Oct 11, 2019 | SemiWiki.com

Image RemovedThe International Electron Devices Meeting is a premier event to learn about the latest in semiconductor process technology. Held every year in early December is San Francisco this years conference will be held  from Decembers 7th through December 11th. You can learn more about the conference at their web site here… Read More