Category: News
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UC Berkeley will join Applied Materials’ EPIC semiconductor research centre. Researchers will gain access to industry-scale process equipment intended to shorten the route between university materials research and chip manufacturing.
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LX Semicon has begun mass production of its automotive MCU. The 40MHz Cortex-M3 device will enter Hyundai and Kia vehicles after around three years of development, qualification, and supply-chain preparation.
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Altera has expanded Agilex memory support through Quartus 26.1.1 software. The update adds DDR5-6400 and LPDDR5-6400 on Agilex 7 M-Series devices, alongside broader low-power memory options elsewhere in the portfolio.
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Microchip has reduced its PolarFire Ethernet sensor bridge by 60%. Rev 2.0 supports four MIPI CSI-2 cameras, dual 10Gb Ethernet, and on-board latency measurement for NVIDIA Jetson and IGX edge systems.
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OpenLight has brought its PH18DA photonics PDK into Cadence tools. The design kit targets Tower Semiconductor’s InP-on-silicon platform, linking photonic IP, foundry process rules, and mainstream EDA workflows.
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The QPS201 scanner rollout will cover five Thai airports initially. Rohde & Schwarz says the millimetre-wave systems will support aviation security checkpoints, including Bangkok Suvarnabhumi.
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Nordic’s nRF9151 simplifies satellite and cellular IoT product development workflows. LooUQ’s certified embedded modem carries Skylo NTN approval downstream while reducing integration and certification work for device manufacturers.
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Researchers have demonstrated a 60V current sensor for fast PWM. Dynamic body biasing improves front-end linearity while rejecting high-voltage common-mode switching at frequencies reaching 2MHz.
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Researchers have demonstrated a 28nm SRAM compute-in-memory macro for edge-AI. The design targets signed arithmetic, routing congestion, and switching overhead while supporting INT8 and BF16 computation.
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Hanyang researchers have developed a vertically integrated dual-gate tactile transistor. The architecture combines triboelectric sensing with an ITZO thin-film transistor to improve sensitivity control and sensor-array density.