In this year’s Global Retirement Index by investment bank Natixis, Norway takes first place. 44 countries worldwide were assessed according to factors such as health, finances in retirement, quality of life and material wellbeing in old age. An index score was then assigned, with 100 points the best possible result. Iceland is one of the …

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Samsung Foundry has certified Siemens Digital’s Aprisa IC design software for its 4nm FinFET technology node. Aprisa users can design projects at 4nm with fully certified technology that supports all the design rules and features of Samsung Foundry’s most advanced FinFET process technology platform.

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Exobotics, a UK satellite start-up, is collaborating with Simera Sense for the manufacture of a high-resolution hyperspectral imager, which will be launched into low-Earth orbit (LEO). It will be launched aboard a nano-satellite later this year, for commercial use within the space industry, for example monitoring and forecasting crop welfare, measuring emissions and object detection. …

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Power transistor sales are on pace to grow 11% in 2022 and expected to reach a sixth-straight record high level, totaling $24.5 billion this year, primarily because of the highest increase in the ASP for products in this large discrete semiconductor segment in more than a decade, says IC Insights, with the ASP for power …

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According to the Korean newspaper JoonAng, Softbank CEO Masa Son did not make any suggestion that Samsung should buy, or invest in, Arm when they met earlier this week. Earlier Samsung’s Vice Chairman, Jay Y. Lee, had said that Son “may make a proposal” at the meeting. Arm CEO Rene Haas was also at the meeting, reports …

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IQE is partnering with MICLEDI Microdisplays (“MICLEDI”) for large-scale commercialisation of microLED technology. MICLEDI is a fabless semiconductor design and technology company developing microLED displays with a primary focus on augmented reality (“AR”) products. Under this agreement, IQE will provide MICLEDI with a 200mm (8-inch) platform to scale and commercialise this technology to achieve high-volume production …

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Micledi Microdisplays, a spin-put of Belgian semiconductor lab Imec, has revealed a year-long collaboration with augmented reality glasses maker Kura Technologies. AR glasses need far brighter displays than VR goggles, and displays made from arrays of miniaturised conventional III-V LEDs are a contender for this application. Multiple partnerships are racing towards this goal. In this …

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Trexon, a portfolio company of Audax Private Equity, announces that it has bought Intelliconnect, the 19 year-old Chelmsford supplier of RF connectors, adapters, and cable assemblies. “Adding Intelliconnect to the Engineered Products portfolio builds on our current expertise in RF products designed for highly engineered systems for a range of applications,” says Trexon’s Nildeep Patel, …

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Cadence has announced artificial intelligence driven verification applications that use ‘big data’ to “optimise verification workloads, boost coverage and accelerate root cause analysis of bugs”, according to the company. Together called the Verisium platfom, the suits are is built on another of the company’s platforms: JedAI (joint enterprise data and AI). “The release of Verisium …

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Nexperia has introduced more clip-bonded surface-mount diodes for industrial and automotive applications. There are 32 planar Schottky diodes and eight hyperfast recovery rectifiers, with some AEC-Q101 ‘Q’ types for automotive, all in the company’s 5.8 x 4.3 x 0.95mm CFP15B package (also SOT1289B). “Using the smaller CFP15B instead of DPAK or SMB/C packages can save …

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