What’s in the October Issue?

Each issue of Semiconductor Digest has articles found only in the magazine. Click on the links to read the articles in the October issue.

SurplusGLOBAL Appoints Dr. Benjamin Jeong as Chief AI Officer

SurplusGLOBAL, a platform company specializing in semiconductor equipment and parts, is accelerating innovation in the semiconductor distribution industry by incorporating artificial intelligence (AI) technology.

Seoul Semiconductor’s Patent Enforcement Leads to LED Sales Ban of Infringing Products in Eight European Countries

Seoul Semiconductor Co., Ltd. and its affiliate Seoul Viosys announces that the Unified Patent Court has issued a judgment ordering a sales ban, recall and destruction of products infringing Seoul’s “No Wire” (WICOP) patent in eight European countries.

What’s in the October Issue?

Each issue of Semiconductor Digest has articles found only in the magazine. Click on the links to read the articles in the October issue.

Mouser Electronics Celebrates Its 2024 Best-in-Class Award Winners

Mouser Electronics, Inc. announced the 2024 recipients of the Mouser Best-in-Class Awards. The annual awards event occurred on October 10 near the global distributor’s corporate headquarters in the Dallas/Fort Worth Metroplex.

SEMICON Europa 2024 to Explore Innovations in Advanced Packaging and Fab Management for a Sustainable Future

Semiconductor industry experts will convene at SEMICON Europa 2024, November 12-15 at Messe München in Munich, to explore the latest trends and innovations in advanced packaging and fab management.

SEMIFIVE Concluded Mass Production Contract for AI Chip with HyperAccel

SEMIFIVE, a design solution provider and pioneer of platform-based custom silicon solutions, has announced the conclusion of a contract with HyperAccel to develop a generative AI chip, Bertha, for mass production.

Lattice Announces CFO Transition

Lattice Semiconductor today announced the resignation of its Chief Financial Officer (CFO), Sherri Luther, effective immediately, to pursue a new opportunity.

UCSB Researchers Create the First Ever Visualization of Photoexcited Charges Traveling Across the Interface of Two Semiconductor Materials

UC Santa Barbara researchers have achieved the first-ever “movie” of electric charges traveling across the interface of two different semiconductor materials.

Engineering Perovskite Materials at the Atomic Level Paves Way for New Lasers, LEDs

Researchers have developed and demonstrated a technique that allows them to engineer a class of materials called layered hybrid perovskites (LHPs) down to the atomic level, which dictates precisely how the materials convert electrical charge into light.

Energetiq Technology Unveils Next-Generation Electrodeless Z-Pinch EUV Light Source for Metrology

Energetiq Technology announced the launch of the EQS-10 Electrodeless Z-Pinch EUV Light Source.

IMEC Announces Commitments to Automotive Chiplet Program

This week, at an exclusive gathering in Detroit (MI), bringing together the global automotive ecosystem to discuss the evolution towards chiplets in cars (Automotive Chiplet Forum 2024), imec announced that Arm, ASE, BMW Group, Bosch, Cadence Design Systems, Inc., Siemens, SiliconAuto, Synopsys, Tenstorrent and Valeo are the first that have committed to join its Automotive Chiplet Program (ACP).

SEALSQ Getting Ready for the Arrival of Quantum Computers

As quantum-computing brings a paradigm shift in computational power by harnessing the principles of quantum mechanics, the need for enhanced security has never been greater.

Lantronix Announces Five New System-in-Package Solutions Powered by Qualcomm

Lantronix Inc. today announced its powerful new System-in-Package (SiP) solutions powered by Qualcomm Technologies’ chipsets that reinforce Lantronix’s position in industrial and enterprise IoT innovation, bringing advanced Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Machine Learning (ML) capabilities to the edge.

Infineon and AWL-Electricity Partner to Improve Wireless Power with GaN Power Semiconductors

Infineon Technologies AG today announced a partnership with Canada-based AWL-Electricity Inc., a pioneer in MHz resonant capacitive coupling power transfer technology.

Ceramic Equipment Components Growth Trend 2025

Semiconductor equipment components market to grow in support of chip expansions.

Keysight Unveils 3kV High Voltage Wafer Test System for Power Semiconductors

Increased productivity and efficiency with one-pass test enabled by a high-voltage switching matrix.

Research to Use Machine Learning to ’Reverse-Engineer’ New Composite Materials

Professors receive NSF grant for deep-learning model that can customize microarchitecture based on specific needs.

ROHM’s New PWM Controller ICs with SOP Package for Power Supplies in a Wide Variety of Industrial Applications

ROHM Semiconductor today announced new external FET-type controller ICs utilizing PWM current control mode optimized for AC-DC power supplies in various industrial applications.

Silicon Labs and Kudelski IoT Partner to Accelerate Matter Device Certification

Silicon Labs, in partnership with Kudelski IoT, a division of the Kudelski Group, today announced a new solution to accelerate the time to market for Matter-certified IoT devices.

Iridium to Collaborate with Nordic Semiconductor on Iridium NTN Direct integration

Iridium Communications Inc. (NASDAQ: IRDM), a provider of global voice and data satellite communications, today announced its collaboration with Nordic Semiconductor for early integration of its Iridium NTN Direct service into Nordic’s LTE-M/NB-IoT modules and chipsets.

Quantum Register Reaches 1200 Neutral Atoms in Continuous Operation

A Munich Quantum Valley (MQV) research team, led by the Max Planck Institute of Quantum Optics (MPQ) in collaboration with the quantum computing start-up planqc, has succeeded in running a register of 1200 atoms continuously for over an hour – a breakthrough on the way to scalable quantum computers.

2024 IEEE IEDM Spotlights Advances in Critical Semiconductor Technologies

Since it began in 1955, the IEEE International Electron Devices Meeting (IEDM) has been where the world’s best and brightest electronics technologists go to learn about the latest breakthroughs in semiconductor and related technologies.

Accelerating Clean Energy Adoption in Singapore’s Semiconductor Industry

Roundtable hosted by SEMI and the Asia Clean Energy Coalition.

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