"So, I now have full remote control of over 25 Tesla's in 13 countries and there seems to be no way to find the owners and report it to them..." reads a January 10, 2022 tweet from Tesla hacker David Colombo. To warn owners, the 19-year-old IT security expert turned to social media.

To meet the increasing electricity demand, Switzerland relies on electricity imports, which, however, often have a large carbon footprint, as they come from gas or coal-fired power plants, for example. In a new study, researchers from Empa and the University of Geneva sketch out various scenarios to show how Switzerland can reduce these CO2-emitting electricity imports by diversifying the expansion of renewables.

More than 10 years ago, we started seeing lots of SiC and GaN activities and an influx of new product launches, aiming to dethrone the incumbent silicon IGBT and Power MOSFET solutions that have been on the market for more than 50 years. This will take longer than anticipated as these existing solutions are in every power electronics engineer’s design.

In its continuing efforts to discover and develop innovative technologies for the packaging industry, Amcor has announced its strategic investment in PragmatIC Semiconductor, a global specialist in ultra, low-cost electronics. The companies will work together to explore ways to integrate FlexICs into Amcor's portfolio of sustainable packaging solutions.

A research team led by Chemnitz University of Technology with the participation of IFW Dresden and Changchun Institute of Applied Chemistry present an application-oriented method for an unsolved problem in microelectronics.

In a cooperation between the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT) and the University of Ulm, a radically new paradigm for battery material development is being pursued at the POLiS Cluster of Excellence and the Helmholtz Institute Ulm (HIU): in the final stage of expansion, the now completed facility will be able to build batteries around the clock, analyze thousands of interfaces, evaluate them using artificial intelligence (AI) methods, and plan new experiments.

Northvolt and Stora Enso have announced the signing of a letter of intent on a purchase of the Kvarnsveden Mill and the surrounding industrial area in Borlänge, Sweden. Northvolt will develop the site into a manufacturing plant for active material and battery cells, reusing and refurbishing much of the existing facilities and site infrastructure.

Renesas Electronics Corporation, a supplier of advanced semiconductor solutions, has announced the expansion of its collaboration with Honda in the field of advanced driver-assistance systems (ADAS).

Siemens Digital Industries Software has announced that its Analog FastSPICE (AFS) platform is now certified for United Microelectronics Corporation’s (UMC) 28nm high-performance, low-power process technology. Customers using Siemens‘ AFS platform can now leverage the performance enhancement and power efficiency of UMC‘s proven 28HPC U+ process for their next-generation analog/mixed-signal designs.

Infotainment, ADAS or autonomous driving: Buses in vehicles must provide ever-higher data rates and become safer at the same time. The industry intends to launch the prototypes of an improved 10GBASE-SR standard by 2021.