Automakers Toyota and Mazda and auto components supplier Denso have signed a joint technology development contract for electric vehicles. The new company has been named EV C.A. Spirit Corporation to efficiently implement joint ...
Tags: Toyota, Mazda, Electric Vehicles
Automated Packaging Systems (APS) has launched a new fully-integrated counter and bag packaging system for high speed counting and packaging of small products. The Data Count U 162 Counter from DATA Detection Technologies has been ...
“The SiC power business is concrete and real, with a promising outlook,” said Yole Développement in 2016. The trend has not changed in 2017, and the SiC industry is going even further as industrial players have increasing ...
Tags: SiC power, SiC devices
HTC Corp., a Taiwanese consumer electronics company manufacturing devices such as mobile phones and tablets, confirmed to sell its mobile business division to Google, an American multinational technology company that specializes in ...
Tags: HTC, Smartphone
The hybrid LED provides smart headlighting with more than 1000 individually controllable pixels. Osram Opto Semiconductors GmbH of Regensburg, Germany claims that its newly developed Eviyos prototype is the first hybrid LED, representing ...
Tags: hybrid LED, LEDs
Nitride Semiconductor Co Ltd of Tokushima, Japan has filed a patent infringement lawsuit with the US District Court for the District of Minnesota against Digi-Key Corp (trading as Digi-Key Electronics), which sells ultraviolet ...
State University of New York (SUNY) Polytechnic Institute says that associate professor of nanoengineering Dr Woongje Sung has been selected to receive $750,000 in federal funding from the US Department of Energy (DOE) to develop silicon ...
Tags: Power Electronics Chips, Suny Poly
Chinese search engine giant Baidu has created a new CNY10bn ($1.5bn) Apollo Fund to invest in more than 100 new and emerging autonomous driving projects in the next three years. The company has also released Apollo 1.5, its latest ...
Tags: Autonomous Driving, Apollo
The automotive LIDAR (light detection and ranging) system market is growing from $230m in 2016 to $2.5bn in 2026, with LIDAR semiconductor revenue rising from $103m to $1.8bn, according to a report by IHS Markit. The current generation of ...
Tags: semiconductor, cameras
At the International Conference on Silicon Carbide and Related Materials (ICSCRM 2017) in Washington DC (17-22 September), Tokyo-based Mitsubishi Electric Corp unveiled a silicon carbide (SiC) metal-oxide-semiconductor field-effect ...
Tags: Power Device, Mitsubishi, SiC Mosfet
Nikola Motor, a start-up company which ventured into developing electric long-haul trucks, has partnered with Bosch to develop commercial vehicle powertrain. The partnership will help in bringing to market fuel cell and commercial vehicle ...
Tags: commercial vehicle, Bosch
To keep pace with the dramatic size and weight reductions in laptop designs over the last 10 years, Navitas Semiconductor Inc of El Segundo, CA, USA has launched what it claims is the smallest 65W USB-PD (Type C) adapter reference design. ...
Tags: GaN Power, Laptop Adapter
Swiss cosmetics brand Valmont Cosmetics is using Thinfilm’s NFC solutions to transform beauty products into consumer beauty experiences. A partnership and related market trial has been formed by Thin Film Electronics with ...
Tags: Thinfilm, beauty product
As part of the Special Session program at the IEEE Energy Conversion Congress & Expo (ECCE 2017) in Cincinnati, OH (1–5 October), the Power Electronics Industry Collaborative (PEIC) – a national, industry-focused member-based ...
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End-to-end optoelectronics component maker Accelink Technologies Co Ltd of Wuhan, China has introduced a 1550nm 100Gb/s PSM4 transceiver based on the silicon photonics optical engine of Mellanox Technologies Ltd of Sunnyvale, CA, USA and ...