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The November 2023 edition of EE Times Europe Magazine explores the latest developments in research, innovation, policy and industry initiatives to power the and industry with a -first approach.
https://www.eetimes.eu/ee-times-europe-magazine-november-2023/
The November 2023 Issue of EE Times Europe Magazine explores how to fuel the semiconductor industry with a sustainability-first approach.
At this week's SEMICON® Europa, ’s president Ajit Manocha said the 94 fabs coming online between 2022-2026 won’t be enough to reach the industry’s vision of becoming a trillion-dollar industry by 2030.
https://www.eetimes.eu/semicon-europa-building-a-sustainable-1t-semiconductor-industry/
Nitin Dahad
Semi Europe | SEMI Americas
SEMI's president Ajit Manocha said the 94 fabs coming online between 2022-2026 won’t be enough to reach the industry’s vision of becoming a trillion-dollar industry by 2030.
The industry is resource-intensive in , , and materials. imec has developed the imec.netzero virtual fab to simulate high-volume , for current and future nodes, and to identify the processes with the highest contributions. Lars-Åke Ragnarsson, program director at imec, told us why imec is now making it freely accessible.
https://www.eetimes.eu/imec-virtual-fab-goes-public-to-speed-ic-manufacturing-decarbonization/
Semi Europe
Imec has built a virtual fab to better assess the energy consumption, water use and greenhouse gas emissions of logic CMOS technologies.
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In November, Finland-based small manufacturer Kuva Space raised €16.6 million in funds to hone its imaging tech, launch an -based platform to process the Earth observation it collects and launch more satellites. Rebecca Pool has interviewed Jarkko Antila, CEO of Kuva Space, and Aravind Ravichandran, founder of advisory firm TerraWatch Space.
https://www.eetimes.eu/investment-frenzy-for-small-satellites/
Maxar Technologies
It has been a whirlwind of a year for small satellite startups – but will the excitement, and funds, last?
Some of the companies are effectively battling the headwinds and are doing quite well, and the emergence of a couple of promising indicates continued interest in growing the industry. In a column, Egil Juliussen, principal analyst at VSI Labs, analyzes recent activities and reviews key companies in the industry.
https://www.eetimes.eu/how-are-robotrucks-doing/
Aurora Innovation | Gatik | Kodiak Robotics | TuSimple | Waymo | Torc Robotics | Einride | | Stack AV | Plus
Advancements in robotaxis and robotrucks are plentiful, but their complexity is such that they are mostly tested with safety drivers.
European RISC-V provider Semidynamics Technology Services said it has recently collaborated with SIgnature IP to field a fully tested RISC-V, environment and coherent hub interface ( ) interconnect for the development of . Saumitra Jagdale has interviewed ' CEO Roger Espasa to learn more about their collaboration.
https://www.eetimes.eu/semidynamics-releases-risc-v-tensor-unit-for-ai/
RISC-V (Official)
Semidynamics' collaboration with Signature IP yields multicore environment and CHI interconnect customizable for performance.
After SiFive announced it would downsize its staff, Robert Huntley caught up with David Miller, head of corporate communications at SiFive, to understand the reasons for the , the impact on the RISC-V ecosystem, the resonance in Europe and what's next.
https://www.eetimes.eu/risc-v-pioneer-sifive-takes-stock-realigns-moves-forward/
RISC-V (Official)
EE Times Europe caught up with SiFive's Dave Miller to understand why layoffs are happening and what's next.
"Making the possible calls for a platform approach. Much of the today runs on a broad spectrum of dedicated distributed around the , arranged in many subsystems. Currently, this software changes infrequently. Looking ahead, to allow future functional upgrades via software, these functions need to be consolidated into a smaller number of high-performance ." Check out this perspective piece by Andrew Birnie, senior director, solutions and applications engineering, , at NXP Semiconductors.
https://www.eetimes.eu/shift-left-and-stretch-right-is-the-future-of-sdvs/
OEMs are embracing software-defined vehicles (SDVs) which are designed to be enhanced over its entire lifetime.
Two years after releasing the , a 4G/5G for disaggregated small-cell platforms, presents the , a purpose-designed PHY for 5G NR and LTE small-cell Open RAN radio unit (O-RU) architectures. Robert Huntley spoke with Picocom’s president Peter Claydon and VP of marketing Oliver Davies to learn more about the new device.
https://www.eetimes.eu/picocom-cuts-costs-removes-5g-small-cell-implementation-barriers-with-pc805-5g-ru-soc/
GSMA, Inc.
Picocom has introduced the PC805, a purpose-designed PHY for 5G NR and LTE small-cell O-RU RAN architectures.
Ships, airplanes and virtually every other transportation type use to determine their position accurately. But are we over-dependent on ? How to mitigate the threat of and ? Is a viable alternative to satellite-based , and ( ). To answer these questions, Robert Huntley spoke to Philipp Richter, senior architect at u-blox, Calum Dalmeny, technical director of Chronos Technology Ltd, and Randy Brudzinski, VP and business unit manager at Microchip FTS.
https://www.eetimes.eu/are-we-over-dependent-on-gnss/
Microchip Technology Inc.
The success of GNSS has established its use for a wide range of positioning, navigation and timing (PNT) applications.
Microchip Technology Inc. has introduced a new family of 32-bit PIC32CZ CA featuring a 300-MHz Arm Cortex-M7 , an integrated module ( ) and a range of and options for enhanced flexibility. Maurizio Di Paolo Emilio spoke to David Arnold, senior product marketing manager of Microchip Technology Inc.
https://www.eetimes.eu/microchip-introduces-pic32cz-ca-mcus-with-integrated-hardware-security/
Microchip Technology has introduced a new family of 32-bit PIC32CZ CA MCUs featuring a 300-MHz Arm Cortex-M7 processor
‘Monolithic hybrid’ prototype integrates PPD into the TFT structure to lower the cost of light detection in the nonvisible range, with improved noise performance.
To understand imec's approach to develop a better , Saumitra Jagdale has interviewed Pawel Malinowski, Pixel Innovations program manager at imec.
https://www.eetimes.eu/imec-taps-pinned-photodiode-to-build-a-better-swir-sensor/
Interuniversity Microelectronics Centre
Researchers at imec integrated a PPD structure into a thin-film–transistor (TFT) image sensor to yield a hybrid prototype.
A fund from of The Netherlands launched this Summer with the clear aim of ‘super-charging’ early-stage across Europe. The fund has already raised €60M and expects to raise €100M by the start of 2024. Rebecca Pool talked to Pieter Klinkert, co-founder and partner of .
https://www.eetimes.eu/photonventures-e100m-fund-to-super-charge-photonics/
| SMART Photonics | International | | PHIX Photonics Assembly
PhotonVentures' massive venture capital investment for early-stage startups signals good times for integrated photonics across Europe.
MATLAB EXPO U.K. is an annual U.K. event for MATLAB and users. Robert Huntley caught up with Richard Rovner, VP of marketing, and Jos Martin, director of engineering at MathWorks, to learn how embedded developers increasingly use ’ products.
https://www.eetimes.eu/matlab-expo-increasing-development-productivity-through-modeling-and-simulation/
Coding Matlab
Matlab and Simulink for Modeling and Control
Matlab Simulink
EE Times Europe caught up with two executives to learn how embedded developers increasingly use MathWorks’ products.
Finwave Semiconductor, an MIT-founded startup that first developed , recently announced it has named Pierre-Yves Lesaicherre as its CEO. In an interview with Maurizio Di Paolo Emilio, Pierre-Yves Lesaicherre explains how Finwave’s technology strives to revolutionize energy-efficient , , and .
https://www.eetimes.eu/finwave-to-push-gan-technology-boundaries/
Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)
Finwave has named Pierre-Yves Lesaicherre, a seasoned executive in the semiconductor industry, as its CEO.
The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences has awarded the Nobel Prize in to three European scientists who have made significant contributions to the field of generation and measurement. What is an attosecond? What have Anne L'Huillier, Pierre Agostini and Ferenc Krausz discovered through their research? Why are attoseconds so important?
https://www.eetimes.eu/nobel-physicists-lay-attosecond-groundwork-for-quantum-discovery/
Commissariat à l'énergie atomique et aux énergies alternatives
CEA Paris-Saclay
Lund University
Vienna University of Technology
The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences awarded this year’s Nobel Prize in Physics to three European scientists who have made significant contributions to the field of attosecond generation and measurement.
The market for power GaN devices is expected to exceed $28M by 2028, with a 26% CAGR from 2022 to 2028, according to Intelligence. In a discussion with Maurizio Di Paolo Emilio, technology and market analysts Taha Ayari, PhD and Aymen Ghorbel explain how New Space—the low Earth orbit mission segment, with a typical lifespan of three to five years and lower requirements—is driving adoption.
https://www.eetimes.eu/gan-in-space-unlocking-efficiency-and-performance-in-satellite-systems/
Yole Group
EPC Space | STMicroelectronics NV | GaN Systems Inc.
Gallium Semiconductor | SweGaN AB | MACOM | Altum RF | Ampleon | UMS
ESA - European Space Agency
Yole Intelligence technology analysts Taha Ayari and Aymen Ghorbel explain how New Space has become a focal point for GaN adoption.
"In order to capitalize on the Chips Act and innovate its way into a leadership role in the global semiconductor industry, the EU must become a champion of novel and advanced ," Jonathan Friedmann, co-founder and CEO of Speedata.io, writes in an op-ed titled 'U.S. vs. EU Chips Act: Same Name, Different Game".
https://www.eetimes.eu/u-s-vs-eu-chips-act-same-name-different-game/
To capitalize on the Chips Act and innovate in the global semiconductor industry, the EU must become a champion of advanced chip design.
Incorporating a commercially available open-source single board computer into an end product saves considerable time.
Whether can be truly commercialized remains an open question, given the changes this would bring to the mature industry and the need for collaboration within the . For Leo Charlton, technology analyst at IDTechEx, optical I/O will be commercialized but that the use cases will be largely restricted to use.
https://www.eetimes.eu/road-to-commercialization-for-optical-chip-to-chip-interconnects/
The use of optical interconnects is a solution to the resistance in electrical traces and reduced speed of signal transmission between chips.
Space company Astrobotic Technology has joined NASA - National Aeronautics and Space Administration Flight Opportunities program and Future Engineers in this year’s TechRise Student Challenge, a competition for students in sixth through 12th grade.
https://www.eetimes.eu/astrobotic-partners-with-nasa-for-techrise-student-challenge/
Astrobotic has joined NASA’s Flight Opportunities program and Future Engineers in this year’s TechRise Student Challenge.
In order to achieve zero-defect , Laura Matz, chief science & technology officer of Merck KGaA and CEO of , calls for collaboration and along the value chain.
https://www.eetimes.eu/how-data-sharing-advances-zero-defect-semiconductor-manufacturing/
Merck KGaA
In order to achieve zero-defect semiconductor manufacturing, Athinia CEO Laura Matz calls for collaboration and data sharing along the value chain.
Led by silicon chip foundry X-FAB and including big names like Nokia, NVIDIA, , and CEA-Leti: Laboratoire d'électronique des technologies de l'information, the EU-funded project aims to drive product innovation forward while laying a clear path to high-volume manufacturing. Dr Rebecca Pool has interviewed Joni Mellin, X-FAB's product marketing manager responsible for and business development.
https://www.eetimes.eu/a-silicon-photonics-supply-chain-for-europe/
EPFL
Luceda Photonics | X-Celeprint | SMART Photonics | PHIX Photonics Assembly | Aryballe | Brolis Sensor Technology | PhotonFirst
The pieces for an industrial-scale integrated photonics supply chain are being put into place—and some might add that it’s about time.
In an interview with EE Times Europe's Robert Huntley, Rado Šušteršič, principal product marketing manager, Product Center Cellular at u-bloxpresents the recently launched SARA-S520M10L multi-mode and with embedded positioning.
https://www.eetimes.eu/u-blox-launches-first-multi-mode-cellular-and-satellite-iot-module/
Rado Šušteršič, principal product marketing manager, Product Center Cellular at u-blox, presents the recently launched SARA-S520M10L multi-mode cellular and satellite IoT module with embedded GNSS positioning.
Swiss startup Terra Quantum explores hybrid . It is collaborating with HSBC to illustrate the possibility of a hybrid quantum solution for optimization challenges, which are a pervasive and very complex suite of problems in the financial services industry. Terra Quantum is also partnering with Honda Research Institute Europe to create a solution for optimizing escape routes during disaster scenarios.
Maurizio Di Paolo Emilio spoke to Terra Quantum CEO Markus Pflitsch.
The September 2023 edition of Magazine sheds light on the promise and pitfalls of transmitting data via . It also covers topics such as RISC-V developments, for greener and the U.K.’s National Strategy.
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With the reintroduction of integration into system development, standards-based promise more efficient, cost-effective designs. In an opinion piece, Ravi Thummarukudy, CEO of Mobiveil Inc.., explains how chiplets open up new business opportunities.
https://www.eetimes.eu/off-the-shelf-chiplets-open-new-market-opportunities/
With the reintroduction of semiconductor integration into system development, standards-based chiplets promise more efficient, cost-effective designs.
As venture-capital funding for semiconductor startups declines, some startups are launching, some are collapsing and some are gearing up for the next boom. For Mike Noonen, CEO of Swave Photonics and former chairman and co-founder of semiconductor incubator Silicon Catalyst, there will always be funding for companies with truly differentiating technologies.
https://www.eetimes.eu/swave-photonics-to-unveil-holographic-chip-at-ces-2024/
VUB - Vrije Universiteit Brussel | imec.xpand | imec | Flanders Investment & Trade (FIT) | Qbic Fund | Venture Capital | Acequia Capital | Luminate Accelerator
Swave Photonics has taken another step toward commercializing holographic chips based on proprietary diffractive optics technology.
While machine learning looks set to form an increasing part of our embedded systems, how do you feel about trusting it to select components for your next design? Robert Huntley, MIET spoke to Tomide Adesanmi, co-founder and CEO of Circuit Mind.
https://www.eetimes.eu/trusting-ai-with-your-electronics-design-decisions/
Farnell Electronics | element14 Electronics
Will 2023 be remembered as the year that AI and machine learning went viral? Probably.
In order to achieve zero-defect , CEO Laura Matz calls for collaboration and along the value chain.
https://www.eetimes.eu/how-data-sharing-advances-zero-defect-semiconductor-manufacturing/
In order to achieve zero-defect semiconductor manufacturing, Athinia CEO Laura Matz calls for collaboration and data sharing along the value chain.
What's in the U.K.'s National Semiconductor Strategy?
Why a £1B envelope?
The U.K.’s objectives are somewhat different from those of other countries. For a start, it is not trying to onshore the entire .
Don’t miss the column by Andrew Thompson, U.K. and European attorney at patent law firm .
https://www.eetimes.eu/assessing-the-u-k-national-semiconductor-strategy/
While the strategy’s vision should be broadly welcomed by the U.K. semiconductor sector, there are definite winners and losers.
Silicon can make way for "electronic nose" products.
Aryballe and CEA-Leti co-designed a system with 64 Mach-Zehnder interferometers working in parallel. Read more about their product.
: https://eetimes.eu/the-electronic-nose-knows-thanks-to-silicon-photonics/
CEA-Leti: Laboratoire d'électronique des technologies de l'information
One of the advantages of silicon photonics is that multiple sensors can be placed in parallel on a piece of silicon.
Swave Photonics, a spinoff of VUB - Vrije Universiteit Brussel and
, has taken another step toward commercializing based on proprietary technology.
https://eetimes.eu/swave-photonics-to-unveil-holographic-chip-at-ces-2024/
Swave Photonics has taken another step toward commercializing holographic chips based on proprietary diffractive optics technology.
Join us at AutoSens Brussels on Sept. 20! We will address system validation challenges.
AspenCore | EE Times Europe
With a distributed that maximizes , Hailo-8 beats NVIDIA on ResNet 50 benchmark. Read Saumitra Jagdale's interview of Orr Danon, CEO at Technologies.
https://www.eetimes.eu/hailo-expands-hailo-8-accelerator-lineup-for-entry-level-edge-ai/
With a distributed architecture that maximizes power efficiency, Hailo-8 beats Nvidia on ResNet 50 benchmark.
"Picture a world where artificial-intelligence systems operate on the same energy budget as a butterfly. It’s a dream that seems light years away when we look at the gargantuan energy appetite of today’s AI systems."
Read this opinion piece by Roman Orus, an Ikerbasque - Basque Foundation for Science research professor at the Donostia International Physics Center in San Sebastián, Spain, and co-founder and CSO of Multiverse Computing.
https://www.eetimes.eu/how-quantum-computing-can-help-make-ai-greener/
Just as nature uses quantum effects in photosynthesis, we can leverage quantum computing to run AI systems on a fraction of the energy.
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