Acquisition enables Ecolab’s water circularity offerings and support for customers in the rapidly growing global high tech industry Ecolab Inc. has closed on its previously announced acquisition of Ovivo’s electronics business, a leading and fast-growing global provider of breakthrough ultrapure water technologies for semiconductor manufacturing. The acquisition extends E...
Littelfuse, Inc. (NASDAQ: LFUS), a leader in developing smart solutions that enable safe and efficient electrical energy transfer, announced the completion of its previously announced acquisition of Basler Electric Company (“Basler”), further strengthening the company’s high-power application capabilities. Basler is a leading designer and manufacturer of innovative elect...
VisIC Technologies Ltd., a pioneer in Gallium Nitride (GaN) power semiconductors for electric mobility, announced the successful second closing of its Round B funding, securing $26 million. The round was led by a global semiconductor leader, with HKMC joining as a strategic investor. This milestone reinforces VisIC's position at the forefront of GaN innovation for EV traction inverters and...
VisIC Technologies Ltd., a pioneer in Gallium Nitride (GaN) power semiconductors for electric mobility, announced the successful second closing of its Round B funding, securing $26 million. The round was led by a global semiconductor leader, with HKMC joining as a strategic investor. This milestone reinforces VisIC's position at the forefront of GaN innovation for EV traction inverters and...
In a significant step for autonomous driving in Europe, Ruter, the public transport agency of Oslo, Norway, and Holo, a company specialized in the operation of autonomous vehicles, have announced they are partnering with MOIA to deploy the ID. Buzz AD, to be equipped with the Mobileye Drive™ self-driving system, planned for as early as spring 2026. This step follows extensive testing by Ru...
Underscores Wolfspeed’s leadership in silicon carbide power solutions, advancing Toyota’s global electrification strategy with enhanced efficiency and performance for battery electric vehicles. --Wolfspeed Inc. (NYSE: WOLF), a global leader in innovative silicon carbide power solutions, announced that its automotive MOSFETs will power onboard charger systems for Toyo...
-Dai Nippon Printing Co., Ltd. announced the development of a nanoimprint lithography (NIL) template featuring a circuit line width of 10 nanometers (nm: 10-9 meter). The new template enables patterning for logic semiconductors equivalent to the 1.4nm generation and meets the miniaturization needs of cutting-edge logic semiconductors. Background and Aims In line with the shift to more sophisti...
Linear Integrated Systems, Inc., a designer and manufacturer of precision discrete semiconductors, announces the release of the LSBF862, a low noise N-channel JFET engineered to replace and outperform the discontinued NXP BF862. When NXP discontinued the BF862, a popular low-noise N-channel JFET, customers faced lost support for legacy systems, the need to requalify new components, and unplan...
Micro-Precision Technologies, Inc. a leader in complex micro-electronics, is thrilled to announce its acquisition of Stellar Manufacturing (“Stellar”), a provider of printed circuit board assemblies (PCBA). MPT partnered with private equity investment firm, Great River Capital Partners in mid-2024, with add-on acquisitions considered as one path to drive continued growth for th...
Mitsubishi Electric Corporation (TOKYO: 6503) announced that it has developed the world’s first technology to generate millimeter-scale flow within a channel by using microbubbles with a diameter of 10μm as the driving source. Developed through joint research with Suzuki & Namura Laboratory at Faculty of Engineering and Graduate School of Engineering, Kyoto University, this te...
-Alpha and Omega Semiconductor Limited (AOS) (Nasdaq: AOSL), a designer, developer, and global supplier of a broad range of discrete power devices, wide band gap power devices, power management ICs, and modules, today announced its AOLV66935 a 100V High Safe Operating Area (SOA) MOSFET in an LFPAK 8x8 package. AOS’ latest MOSFET is designed as an ideal solution for 48V Hot Swap architectur...
-Cree LED, a Penguin Solutions brand (Nasdaq: PENG), and SANlight GmbH, Schruns, Austria, announced a partnership under which SANlight will use Cree LED’s J Series® products in its new STIXX-Series luminaires. Developed for applications with limited space, the STIXX fixtures feature a slim, space-saving design with module efficiency of up to 3.1 μmol/J. Backed by LM-80 testing with...
As part of its commitment towards a more sustainable future, Kioxia Corporation (“Kioxia”) today announced a collaborative initiative with Google LLC (“Google”) to boost its use of the clean electricity generated by a hydropower retrofit project in Japan's Chubu region. This project, owned by the Chubu Electric Power group, is expected to increase annual clean energy gene...
Suchi Semicon, one of India’s emerging semiconductor-backend manufacturers, announced the launch of its new QFN (Quad Flat No-Lead) package series and an expanded advanced power-package portfolio, marking a significant milestone in the country’s semiconductor-packaging capabilities. The new lineup strengthens India’s domestic OSAT (Outsourced Semiconductor Assembly and Test) e...
Samsung Electronics and SK Hynix, the world’s leading memory chip manufacturers, are set to benefit from a significant surge in global demand for high-bandwidth memory (HBM), driven by the rapid expansion of artificial intelligence workloads and Google’s latest deployment of its advanced Tensor Processing Units (TPUs). As hyperscalers and cloud service providers scale up infrastruct...
STRATIO, a deep-tech company operating between Silicon Valley and Seoul, officially launched its LS SWIR SDK with the world’s first Germanium (Ge)-based short-wave infrared (SWIR) sensor. This milestone furthers the company’s vision “Advance Vision with Infrared-AI™” — a new way of seeing beyond human and conventional visible sensor limits. Unlike traditiona...
TDK Corporation and Nippon Chemical Industrial Co., Ltd. have announced the signing of an agreement to begin formal discussions toward establishing a joint venture dedicated to next generation electronic component materials. The proposed venture would focus on the co development and manufacturing of ceramic materials for multilayer capacitors as well as other high value materials essential to se...
Soitec has announced that its SmartSiC technology has successfully completed formal validation for use in next generation silicon carbide power devices, marking a major milestone for the company’s rapidly expanding power electronics business. The validation confirms that SmartSiC substrates meet strict performance, reliability and manufacturability requirements demanded by leading device m...
W. L. Gore & Associates announced the opening of its Battery Lab in Shanghai, China, expanding its global R&D capabilities to accelerate advanced battery materials development for customers worldwide. The lab is dedicated to the development, characterization, and rigorous testing of critical materials for battery cells and packs—spanning membranes, venting solutions, moisture and con...
The global Electronic Design Automation (EDA) Market continues its robust expansion, propelled by accelerating semiconductor innovation, growing adoption of advanced electronics across industries, and increasing design complexity requiring automated, high-precision tools. According to the latest industry analysis, the market was valued at USD 541 million in 2023 and is projected to grow to USD 8...