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Electronic components

Solution-Sheared Organic Semiconductor Films Show Promise in Electronics Research

Researchers at Yamagata University have successfully fabricated organic semiconductor films using hydrophobic banks, yielding high crystallinities and patterning. The films, composed of the iodine-containing material 2-iodoanthra [2, 3-b] thieno [2, 3-d] thiophene (I-ATT), exhibited enhanced performance in organic thin-film transistors, with a respective mobility, threshold potential, and on/off ratio

International trade

Global Car Production at Risk as Nexperia Trade Dispute Intensifies

A growing trade dispute involving Nexperia, a Dutch chipmaker, threatens to disrupt global car production and push vehicle prices even higher. The company's essential automotive components, including transistors and diodes, are shipped to millions of vehicles worldwide. With over 110 billion products shipped annually and 12,500 employees

International trade

Global Car Production at Risk as Nexperia Trade Dispute Intensifies

Semiconductor industry

Dutch Chipmaker Nexperia Denies Unpaid Salaries for Chinese Employees, Contradicting Earlier Statement

A dispute has erupted between Nexperia, a Dutch chipmaker, and its Chinese unit after the company denied that employees in China have not received their salaries. Nexperia stated that it is aware of a message circulating among its employees falsely claiming that the company and the Dutch government have abandoned

Cyberterrorism

Soitec and CEA Advance Automotive Cybersecurity with FD-SOI Substrate Technology

Research conducted at CEA-Leti laboratories, in collaboration with Soitec, has demonstrated the effectiveness of Fully Depleted Silicon-on-Insulator (FD-SOI) technology in delivering strong intrinsic protection against hardware-level cyber attacks targeting modern connected vehicles. The study found that FD-SOI substrates require up to 150 times greater effort and higher laser power to

Data centers

GigaDevice and Navitas Semiconductor Launch Digital Power Joint Lab for Intelligent and High-Efficiency Power Solutions

The Digital Power Joint Lab, launched by GigaDevice Semiconductor Inc. and Navitas Semiconductor, aims to provide intelligent and high-efficiency digital power solutions for emerging markets such as AI data centers, photovoltaic inverters, energy storage systems, charging infrastructure, and electric vehicles. The lab combines GigaDevice's expertise in 32-bit microcontrollers

Data centers

Vertical Semiconductor Secures $11 Million in Seed Funding to Advance AI Chip Power Delivery

Vertical Semiconductor, a Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) spin-off, has received $11 million in seed funding from Playground Global to accelerate the development of vertical GaN transistors, a breakthrough technology enabling more efficient power delivery for AI chips in data centers. The company's vertical GaN transistors reduce energy

Data centers

Renesas Electronics Corporation Supports Efficient Power Conversion for NVIDIA's 800 Volt Direct Current Power Architecture

Renesas Electronics Corporation, a premier supplier of advanced semiconductor solutions, is supporting the efficient power conversion and distribution for the 800 Volt Direct Current power architecture announced by NVIDIA. This collaboration will fuel the next wave of smarter, faster AI infrastructure, which requires power architectures that are both energy optimized

Semiconductor industry

Dutch Government Takes Control of Chinese-Owned Chipmaker Nexperia over Security Concerns

The Dutch government has intervened in the business of Nexperia, a Chinese-owned chipmaker based in the Netherlands, citing concerns over corporate governance and potential risks to European economic security. The move has sparked a geopolitical incident, with Wingtech, Nexperia's owner, firmly opposing the intervention as an "excessive&

Data centers

OpenAI to Design and Deploy Its Own Chips After Signing Billion-Dollar Deals

OpenAI is planning to design and deploy its own chips as part of its efforts to expand its artificial intelligence capabilities. This move comes after the company signed multibillion-dollar agreements with Nvidia and AMD to use their chips. OpenAI will be collaborating with Broadcom to develop its own chips, which

Data centers

ROHM Unveils Advanced Power Solutions for AI Data Centers with 800 VDC Architecture

ROHM, a leading semiconductor industry player, has released a new white paper detailing optimal power strategies for AI data centers based on the novel 800 VDC architecture. This architecture represents a highly efficient, scalable power delivery system poised to transform data center design by enabling gigawatt-scale AI factories. The white

Semiconductor industry

SK hynix Takes Lead in AI-Specific Memory Race with HBM4 Completion

Chipmaker SK hynix has completed the development of high-bandwidth memory 4 (HBM4), a next-generation memory for artificial intelligence (AI) accelerators, and is now ready for mass production. This marks a milestone in the semiconductor industry, and SK hynix is poised to maintain a competitive position in the market. The company&

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