Nick Flaherty

Bristol

Editor-in-Chief and Power Editor at E&E News

Technology Editor at E-Mobility Engineering

Technology journalist, editor in chief and power editor @eeNewsEurope, tech editor at Uncrewed Systems Technology mag and e-mobility engineering

Articles

Renesas holds fire on SiC production

2 days ago | eenewseurope.com | Nick Flaherty

Renesas Electronics has suspended the development of silicon carbide (SiC) power devices in Japan but is not pulling out of the market despite recent reports, says the company. It has disbanded its SiC production team at its 150mm Takasaki fab in Gunma Prefecture but is continuing the design of devices that could be built at partner foundries. “We have temporarily suspended SiC development, but this is not a decision to abandon or withdraw from the market,” the company tells eeNews Europe.
Nvidia drives Ada and SPARK into driverless cars

3 days ago | eenewseurope.com | Nick Flaherty

AdaCore and Nvidia have developed an open source reference flow for the Ada and SPARK programming languages in safety critical automotive software, particularly for driverless cars. The flow enables faster development of ISO26262 software on top of the Nvidia DriveOS operating system. Nvidia developed DriveOS with 7m lines of codes using SPARK alongside the certification flow for applications on its DRIVE AGX-based hardware.
16 core ARM sub-system for AI-defined vehicles

3 days ago | eenewseurope.com | Nick Flaherty

ARM has developed a compute sub-system (CSS) with 16 high performance processors to speed up the development of the next generation of AI chips for automotive designs. This is the first use of the Zena branding and provides 16 Cortex A720AE automotive processor cores with Cortex-R82AE real time microcontroller cores. A key difference is that the Mali GPU is optional, as is an AI accelerator, indicating that ARM expects chip makers to add additional IP, whether in the chip as RTL or as a chiplet.
Top ten articles on eeNews Europe in May

3 days ago | eenewseurope.com | Nick Flaherty

Printed Circuit Board production is a ticking timebomb for Europe, says Dirk Stans of Eurocircuits. In our first Leaders Talk, one of the top ten articles in May on eeNews Europe, he highlights the risk of cheap PCBs from China, not just for sovereign production but also for vital IP protection. He also points to ways to address the issues and make sure European companies protect themselves and their customers from the risks.
Bringing diamond into the semiconductor supply chain

4 days ago | eenewseurope.com | Nick Flaherty

As Quantum Brilliance starts delivery of its diamond-based room temperature quantum computer systems, it is working with European research group imec on ways to integrate more technology on chip. “We are in delivery mode now, to the Fraunhofer IAF, then we will focus on shipping three systems to Oak Ridge in the US,” Andrew Dunn, chief operating officer at Quantum Brilliance tells eeNews Europe.
sk Hynix dépasse Samsung dans les DRAM

4 days ago | ecinews.fr | Nick Flaherty |A Delapalisse

Marché | 3 juin 2025 Par Nick Flaherty, A Delapalisse DRAM DDR5 HBM DRAM Les difficultés de Samsung dans le domaine des semi-conducteurs se poursuivent, la société étant dépassée par Sk Hynix en tant que premier fournisseur mondial de puces de mémoire DRAM.
sk Hynix overtakes Samsung as DRAM revenue drops 5.5% in Q1

4 days ago | eenewseurope.com | Nick Flaherty

Samsung’s semiconductor challenges continue as it is overtaken by sk Hynix as the world’s largest supplier of DRAM memory chips. The latest data from TrendForce shows that the global revenue for the DRAM industry reached US$27.01 billion in 1Q25, down 5.5% on the last quarter as a result of inventory corrections and the US-China trade war. The two companies, along with Micron of the US, supply 95% of all DRAM memory chips.
PCIe cards tap analog in-memory compute for low power AI infere...

4 days ago | eenewseurope.com | Nick Flaherty

US startup enCharge has launched its analog in-memory compute AI chip for low power inference at the desk and at the edge. The EN100 provides up to 200TOPS of AI inference by using an array of capacitors formed form the metal wires to store weights in the chip, avoiding the need to waste power with off chip data transfers. It also includes custom RISC-V processor cores.
AMD célèbre les 40 ans de Xilinx

5 days ago | ecinews.fr | Nick Flaherty |A Delapalisse

Applications | 2 juin 2025 Par Nick Flaherty, A Delapalisse Le Field Programmable Gate Array (FPGA) développé par Xilinx a permis aux ingénieurs de télécharger un flux binaire avec une logique personnalisée vers un programmateur de bureau pour l’exécuter immédiatement, sans avoir à attendre des semaines qu’une puce revienne d’une usine. Et en cas de bogue ou de problème, l’appareil pouvait être reprogrammé sur-le-champ.
AMD celebrates 40 years of Xilinx

5 days ago | eenewseurope.com | Nick Flaherty

Forty years ago saw the launch of a revolutionary device that could be programmed with logic at the engineer’s desk. The Field Programmable Gate Array (FPGA) developed at Xilinx enabled engineers to download a bitstream with custom logic to a desktop programmer to run immediately, without having to wait weeks for a chip to come back from a fab. And if there was a bug or a problem, the device could be re-programmed there and then.