Nexperia, an expert in essential semiconductors, has announced an extension to its portfolio of extremely low clamping and ultra-low capacitance ESD protection diodes. This portfolio is designed to protect high-speed data lines such as USB 3.2, HDMI 2.0, LVDS, automotive A/V Monitors, displays and cameras. Additionally, this portfolio also aims to address the upcoming high-speed video-links as well as the OPEN Alliance MGbit ethernet applications.

Toshiba Electronic Devices & Storage Corporation (Toshiba) has launched silicon carbide (SiC) MOSFETs, the "TWxxxZxxxC series,” that use a four-pin TO-247-4L(X) package that reduces switching loss with the company’s latest1) 3rd generation SiC MOSFETs chip for industrial equipment. Volume shipments of ten products, five with 650V ratings and five with 1200V, start today.

Cambridge GaN Devices (CGD), a University of Cambridge fabless semiconductor spinout company that was founded in 2016 in Cambridge’s Department of Engineering, has raised a substantial amount of funding to expand its GaN-based product portfolio and double its staff count.

This year's PCIM Europe is recording record figures - both for the exhibition area and for the presentations at the conference. From 9 - 11 May 2023, the power electronics industry will be meeting in Nuremberg to exchange information on innovative products, the latest trends and current research results.

According to a joint study by the European Patent Office and the International Energy Agency, patents for batteries and other electricity storage technologies are growing worldwide at an average annual rate of 14%, four times faster than the average for all other technology areas.

Siemens Digital Industries Software has announced that Chipletz, a fabless substrate startup, has selected Siemens as its strategic electronic design automation (EDA) provider for the development of its Smart Substrate products.

The European Commission has set out its plans for the energy system of the future and clean hydrogen. If Europe is to reach its goal of carbon neutrality by 2050, it needs to completely transform its energy system, which currently accounts for 75% of the EU’s greenhouse gas emissions.

Intel has announced the release of its newest quantum research chip, Tunnel Falls, a 12-qubit silicon chip, and it is making the chip available to the quantum research community. In addition, Intel is collaborating with the Laboratory for Physical Sciences (LPS) at the University of Maryland, College Park’s Qubit Collaboratory (LQC), a national-level Quantum Information Sciences (QIS) Research Center, to advance quantum computing research.

The entire power electronics industry and the manufacturers of various components are aware of the importance of using eco-friendly and sustainable materials. This important topic will also play a special role at this year's PCIM Europe from 9 – 11.5.2023 in Nuremberg, Germany.

Researchers at the University of Eastern Finland have reportedly combined mesoporous silicon microparticles made from organic waste with carbon nanotubes to improve the performance of silicon anodes in lithium-ion batteries.