Category: News
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Photon Bridge has secured InP foundry backing for laser engines. The deal with CPFC supports its roadmap for multi-wavelength external laser sources targeting AI infrastructure and advanced sensing applications.
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Sheffield is leading a new national semiconductor design centre. The £12.5 million programme will focus on heterogeneous systems, advanced integration, and shared design infrastructure for UK electronic systems development.
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PLS has widened MCU runtime profiling beyond dedicated trace hardware. UDE 2026 adds CPU-load sampling through the debug interface, opening analysis to microcontrollers where trace support is limited or absent.
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Keysight has extended optical component validation to 220 GHz. The new platform targets the measurement bottlenecks emerging around 1.6T and 3.2T optical transceiver development for AI and data centre interconnects.
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UKBIC has opened a pilot line for battery scale-up trials. The Coventry facility is intended to help developers prove chemistries, formats, and processes before committing to industrial-scale manufacture.
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Element has opened a faster UK route into U.S. certification. Its Skelmersdale laboratory can now test and certify hazardous-location equipment for the U.S. market directly from one site, cutting overseas hand-offs and shortening approval timelines.
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CEA-Leti and NcodiN are taking optical interconnects wafer-scale. Their collaboration moves nanolaser-based photonic interposers onto a 300 mm silicon photonics process aimed at future AI and high-bandwidth computing packages.
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Advanced Energy is targeting tighter mechanical envelopes in medical electronics. Its new 200W LPP200 open-frame series combines a 19mm profile with medical and industrial approvals for compact embedded systems.
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Keysight and 3dB Labs have linked RF tools more tightly. The integration brings Keysight spectrum and FieldFox analysers into Sceptre, creating a unified workflow for signal monitoring, recording, playback, and post-event analysis.
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Sfera Labs has widened Strato Pi Max’s edge deployment reach. Its new M.2 LTE expansion board adds cellular backhaul and GNSS while preserving the platform’s modular DIN-rail architecture.