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Toshiba Electronics Europe GmbH has started test-sample shipments of the TW007D120E 1200V trench-gate SiC MOSFET, which is primarily intended for power supply systems in AI data centers...

Toshiba Electronics Europe GmbH has started test-sample shipments of the TW007D120E 1200V trench-gate SiC MOSFET, which is primarily intended for power supply systems in AI data centers...

Coordinated by Infineon Technologies AG of Munich, Germany, the European semiconductor R&D project Moore4Power (More than Moore for Disruptive Innovations in Power Electronics) has been officially launched...

BluGlass Ltd of Silverwater, Australia has demonstrated-record gallium nitride (GaN) laser single-mode performance – achieving 1.9W of peak output power from a single-spatial-mode 450nm-wavelength blue GaN laser in a single monolithic chip. This is a 52% improvement over its previous record of 1.25W of single-spatial-mode power...

Modelithics Inc of Tampa, FL, USA, which provides RF and microwave simulation models for electronic design automation (EDA), says that new high-power gallium nitride GaN models from Guerrilla RF Inc (GRF) of Greensboro, NC, USA — which provides radio-frequency integrated circuits (RFICs) and monolithic microwave integrated circuits (MMICs) for wireless applications — have been added to the Modelithics COMPLETE Library. These new nonlinear models were developed through Guerrilla RF’s collaboration with Modelithics via the Sponsoring MVP (Modelithics Vendor Partner) Program...

The UK’s Compound Semiconductor Applications (CSA) Catapult says that it is a core technology partner in project SONATA, which is funded by the ATI Programme, to develop an on-aircraft electric taxi system with regenerative braking and energy recovery...

ams OSRAM AG of Premstaetten, Austria, and Munich, Germany has sold its CMOS Image Sensor business to Automotive semiconductor and software platform provider indie Semiconductor Inc of Aliso Viejo, CA, USA for €40m, comprising €35m in cash and a €5m seller’s note payable after two years...

Specialty analog foundry Tower Semiconductor Ltd of Migdal Haemek, Israel has signed silicon photonics (SiPho) contracts for $1.3bn for 2027 revenue with its largest customers, and the receipt of $290m in customers’ prepayments for capacity reservation. This initial commitment is further reinforced by an even larger contractual wafer commitment for 2028, for which additional associated prepayments are due by January 2027...

Malta Government Venture Capital (MGVC) has approved investment under its co-investment framework to support the growth of Quinas Technology Ltd of London, UK (which was spun off from Lancaster University in early 2023)...

Cohu Inc of San Diego, CA, USA (a supplier of equipment and services optimizing semiconductor manufacturing yield and productivity) says that a leading semiconductor manufacturer has placed multiple orders totaling about $5m for the DiamondX platform, delivering high-current capability, ultra-low resistance measurement accuracy and scalable multi-site throughput...

Building on more than 30 years of collaboration, process equipment maker Applied Materials Inc of Santa Clara, CA, USA has announced a new innovation partnership with foundry Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company Ltd (TSMC) to accelerate the development and commercialization of semiconductor technologies required for the next era of AI. Working together at Applied’s EPIC Center in Silicon Valley, the companies will co-innovate to advance materials engineering, equipment innovation, and process integration technologies designed to deliver energy-efficient performance from the data center to the edge...