AMD showcased the latest innovations across the high-performance computing ecosystem in late May. In her keynote at COMPUTEX 2021, AMD President and CEO Dr. Lisa Su showcased the latest AMD technologies developed in-house and collaborated with partners to power the game consoles, PCs, and data centers of the future.

From June 22 to 24, 2021, EBV Elektronik, a semiconductor specialist, will host its second Power Fair with the theme "Robotics - outside of the box". The three-day event offers a comprehensive program with numerous players from the electronics industry.

Powerful, durable, and safe: these properties, combined with a low price, could soon secure batteries “Made in Germany” a place among the best in the world. This will be realized by including advanced approaches to quality assurance and analytics in production, which are now being developed and tested at KIT.

Solar energy is expected to play an increasingly important role in the global energy infrastructure. According to a research report by Mordor Intelligence LLP, the global solar energy installed capacity is registered to be 728 GW and is estimated to grow to 1645 gigawatts (GW) in 2026, while growing at a CAGR of 13.78% from 2021 to 2026.

Nexperia, the expert in essential semiconductors, has announced the latest stage of its global growth strategy, confirming a $700 million investment over the next 12-15 months at its European wafer fabs, assembly factories in Asia and global R&D sites.

The latest step in the electric strategy: Porsche is investing a high double-digit million amount in the new company Cellforce Group GmbH. The move marks an extension of the sports car manufacturer’s technological leadership role in the field of electric mobility. Porsche and joint venture partner Customcells today announced the launch of production of high-performance battery cells at the Weissach Development Centre.

Experts from industry and academia in the power electronics industry are invited to apply to be a speaker at the PCIM Europe Conference 2022 with a short abstract. The Call for Papers will be open until 15 October 2021. The event will be taking place once again on-site in Nuremberg from 10 – 12 May 2022.

ReNew Power, India's leading renewable energy company, today announced a collaboration agreement with the Precourt Institute for Energy at Stanford University and its StorageX Initiative ("StorageX"). StorageX is an academic-industry-government initiative that aims to solve the most pressing real-world challenges in battery storage.

GreenCore and Loop Energy announced a partnership to develop and build hydrogen powered EV charging stations. The parties anticipate the first pilot installation to be completed within calendar year of 2021 with more than 1,500 EV charging and hydrogen refueling stations by the end of 2026. This follows both companies' recent announcements of partnerships with BayoTech, a leading provider of modular, scalable, and rapidly deployable hydrogen production systems.

In a bid to overcome U.S. restrictions on its Arm designs, Huawei's HiSilicon has turned to the open-source RISC-V architecture and has released its first RISC-V board for Harmony OS developers.