Accenture Acquires Excelmax Technologies to Expand Silicon Design and Engineering Capabilities
Accenture (NYSE: ACN) has acquired Excelmax Technologies, a Bangalore, India-based semiconductor design services provider. The acquisition further enhances Accenture’s growing silicon design and engineering capabilities. Terms of the transaction were not disclosed. Excelmax provides custom silicon solutions used in consumer devices, data centres, artificial intelligence (AI) and computational platforms that enable edge AI deployments, to clients […]
indie Semiconductor announces strategic investment in Expedera
indie Semiconductor, Inc. (Nasdaq: INDI), an Autotech solutions innovator, yesterday announced a strategic investment in Expedera Inc, a leading provider of scalable Neural Processing Unit (NPU) semiconductor intellectual property (IP). The partnership will deliver customized artificial intelligence (AI) enabled processing capabilities for sensing solutions targeting Advanced Driver Assistance Systems (ADAS) and includes a commercial agreement […]
Mitsubishi Electric Partners With Nexperia For SiC Power Semiconductors
Mitsubishi Electric Corporation announced recently that it will enter into a strategic partnership with Nexperia B.V. to jointly develop silicon carbide (SiC) power semiconductors for the power electronics market. Industry sources added that Mitsubishi Electric will leverage its wide-bandgap semiconductor technologies to develop and supply SiC MOSFET chips that Nexperia will use to develop SiC discrete […]
FPT and Silvaco announces partners with Deal
FPT Semiconductor, a subsidiary of FPT Corporation, yesterday announced its partnership with Silvaco, US-based leading provider of TCAD, EDA software, and Design IP, aiming at fostering workforce and business growth in the semiconductor sector. The partnership signing ceremony took place during Vietnam Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh’s visit to the United States. This partnership focuses […]
SolarEdge appoints Dana Gross as Director to Its Board
SolarEdge Technologies, Inc. (“SolarEdge” or the “Company”), a global leader in smart energy technology, recently announced the appointment of Ms. Dana Gross as a member of its Board of Directors, effective July 5, 2023. Dana Gross joins SolarEdge as a well-seasoned board member. She will serve on the Board’s Audit Committee and qualifies as an […]
Airbus Ventures announces its investment in the Startup, Zero-Error Systems
Airbus Ventures announces its investment in Zero-Error Systems (ZES), specializing in high-reliability semiconductor solutions for space and power management applications. With participation from the Dart Family Office and Airbus Ventures, among others, this oversubscribed USD $7.5M Series A funding round will expand the company’s global sales and marketing efforts, as well as accelerate its product […]
UBILITE onboards Peter L. Gammel as CEO
UBILITE recently announced that Peter L. Gammel has joined the company as its new CEO. Mr. Gammel most recently held the position of vice president and CTO of the Mobile and Wireless Infrastructure Business Unit at GlobalFoundries. Previously, he was the CTO of Skyworks Solutions, Inc. and also served as CTO and vice president of […]
Toshiba Develops SiC MOSFET with Embedded Schottky Barrier Diode
Toshiba Electronic Devices & Storage Corporation and Toshiba Corporation (collectively “Toshiba”) have developed an SiC metal oxide semiconductor field effect transistor (MOSFET) that arranges embedded Schottky barrier diodes (SBD) in a check pattern (check-pattern embedded SBD) to realize both low on-resistance and high reliability. Toshiba has confirmed that the design secures an approximately 20% reduction in on-resistance (RonA) against […]
Edigo expands to proven operational and strategic leadership
Edgio, Inc. one of the platform of choice to power unmatched speed, security and simplicity at the edge, recently announced the appointment of Stephen Cumming as chief financial officer and Rich Diegnan as chief legal officer. “We are excited to have Stephen and Rich join us. Their proven operational and strategic leadership will help us […]
