Sivers Announces 5G/6G ICs
Sivers Semiconductors has launched the Daybreak 7‑15 GHz beamforming ICs, now generally available for emerging 5G‑Advanced and 6G FR3 applications and defense arrays. The chips deliver industry‑leading broadband transmit power, high efficiency and a low receiver noise figure, while supporting external front‑end modules. Market analysts project a $1.3 billion serviceable addressable market for FR3 by 2030, and Sivers’ product is positioned to capture a share as standards evolve. Development was funded by a $6 million U.S. Department of Defense program with Raytheon and Ericsson as partners.
£10.4m UK Project Will Grow Next-Gen Materials
The UK’s Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council has awarded £10.4 million to a five‑year EXPRESS programme led by the Universities of Warwick and Southampton. The project will develop electrochemical electrodeposition techniques, guided by bespoke precursor chemistry, to grow high‑quality transition...
Silvaco Announces SiC Partnership with APEC
Silvaco Group announced an expanded strategic partnership with Taiwan‑based Advanced Power Electronics Corp. (APEC) to deepen the use of its Victory Device, Gateway, and SmartSpice solutions. APEC will deploy these tools across its silicon and silicon‑carbide (SiC) product lines, aiming...
Onsemi Powers Sineng's Solar and Energy Storage Systems
Onsemi’s latest hybrid power integrated modules, combining FS7 IGBTs with EliteSiC diodes in an F5BP package, have been selected for Sineng Electric’s next‑generation 430 kW liquid‑cooled string energy storage system and its 320 kW utility‑scale solar inverter. The modules deliver up to...
EPC Space Adds Half-Bridge Buck Platforms
EPC Space introduced two new eGaN half‑bridge buck evaluation boards, the EPC7C010 and EPC7C011, targeting aerospace and industrial power applications. The EPC7C010 delivers 100 V/20 A at up to 94.7% efficiency, while the EPC7C011 offers 200 V/10 A with a peak 96.6% efficiency. Both...
Audi Q3 Now Comes with Adaptive Projection Lighting
Audi equips the new Q3 with AMS Osram’s EVIYOS HD25 micro‑LED matrix, a digital lighting system containing over 25,000 individually addressable pixels. The solution modulates light in real time using sensor data, projecting lane‑keeping cues, blind‑spot alerts, ice warnings and construction‑zone...
Unlocking 29.76% Efficiency for Perovskite Tandems
A Chinese research team introduced a colloidal chemistry approach that synchronises the crystallisation of wide‑bandgap and narrow‑bandgap subcells in all‑perovskite tandem solar cells, achieving a record 29.76% power conversion efficiency (PCE). The strategy employs graded carboxylate modulators—tartrate for the WBG...
UK Semiconductor Centre Appoints Two New Directors
The UK Semiconductor Centre (UKSC) has hired Martin O’Sullivan as Director of Investment and Steve Taylor as Director of Strategic Marketing. O’Sullivan, a PhD‑trained semiconductor physicist with a background in equity research and capital markets, will streamline investor relations and...
NextGen Nano Plans £300m Agrivoltaics Programme
NextGen Nano Limited announced a £300 million agrivoltaics programme to pilot its transparent organic photovoltaic film, PolyPower, in West Africa. The flexible, 85 percent efficient panels will be integrated into greenhouse and tunnel structures to grow nutrient‑dense crops while generating off‑grid renewable...
Tiny Laser Array Could Offer Faster, Greener Indoor Wireless
British researchers have built a sub‑millimetre chip that integrates a 5 × 5 infrared VCSEL array with custom beam‑shaping optics, creating a compact optical wireless transmitter. Individual lasers deliver 13‑19 Gbps, and together they achieve a record‑breaking 362.7 Gbps over a two‑metre free‑space link....