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

La Fondation CVE reprend le programme de cybersécurité

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

Actualités économiques | 18 avril 2025 Par Nick Flaherty, A Delapalisse La base de données CVE (Common Vulnerability and Exposures), actuellement gérée par l’entreprise de cybersécurité MITRE, détaille les vulnérabilités potentielles du matériel et des logiciels pour les systèmes du monde entier au cours des 25 dernières années.
ABB to spin out its robotics division

6 days ago | eenewseurope.com | Nick Flaherty

Swiss industrial equipment giant ABB is to spin out its robotics division. With 7,000 employees and 2024 revenues of $2.3bn, this would create the world’s second largest robotics company after Mitsubishi Electric Automation. Fanuc in Japan is third largest in revenue with $1.38bn. To do this, the company is launching a process to propose this at its 2026 Annual General Meeting.
CVE Foundation pulls cybersecurity programme back from the brink

6 days ago | eenewseurope.com | Nick Flaherty

A key cybersecurity programme is on the brink of failure as a non-profit foundation aims to take over. The CVE (Common Vulnerability and Exposures) database, currently run by cybersecurity firm MITRE, has detailed potential vulnerabilities in hardware and software for systems around the world over the last 25 years.
ARM opère un changement fondamental avec la vente d'Artisan

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

Actualités économiques | 18 avril 2025 Par Nick Flaherty, A Delapalisse IP Artisan Cadence Chiplets ARM vend son activité de propriété intellectuelle de la fondation Artisan, y compris son équipe d’ingénieurs, dans le cadre d’un changement fondamental. Le concepteur de cœurs de processeurs a toujours affirmé qu’il devait contrôler la propriété intellectuelle physique sous-jacente afin d’obtenir les meilleures performances pour ses conceptions de puces.
HBM4 standard doubles channel count for AI boost

6 days ago | eenewseurope.com | Nick Flaherty

JEDEC Solid State Technology Association has published its standard for HMB4 high speed memory, doubling the channel count from 16 to 32 for higher performance. The JESD270-4 HBM4 brings higher bandwidth and larger stacks of higher capacity DRAM memory die to AI chips in particular. With transfer speeds up to 8 Gb/s across a 2048-bit interface, HBM4 boosts total bandwidth up to 2 TB/s with two pseudo-channels per channel.
ARM makes fundamental shift with Artisan sale

1 week ago | eenewseurope.com | Nick Flaherty

ARM is selling off its Artisan foundation IP business, including its engineering team, in a fundamental shift. The designer of processor cores has always maintained that it needs to control the underlying physical IP to provide the best performance for its chip designs. It bought Artisan back in 2004 for a whopping $913m.
EasyGaN, développeur français d'AlN RF ferme

1 week ago | ecinews.fr | Nick Flaherty |A Delapalisse

Actualités économiques | 17 avril 2025 Par Nick Flaherty, A Delapalisse Composants RF GaN-sur-Si AlN La startup française EasyGaN, spécialisée dans le nitrure d’aluminium (AlN), a fermé ses portes après avoir échoué à lever des fonds supplémentaires.
ASML targeted in latest round of US tariffs

1 week ago | design-reuse.com | Nick Flaherty

By Nick Flaherty, eeNews Europe (April 16, 2025) European and Japanese suppliers of semiconductor equipment are set to be targeted in the next round of tariffs by the US. The Bureau of Industry and Security at the US Department of Commerce is requesting public comments on a national security investigation on the import of semiconductors and semiconductor manufacturing equipment. Click here to read more ...
AlN RF developer EasyGaN closes

1 week ago | eenewseurope.com | Nick Flaherty

Business news | April 17, 2025 By Nick Flaherty French aluminium nitride (AiN) startup EasyGaN has closed after it failed to raise additional funding. The company, based in Sophia Antipolis, was developing AlN layers on silicon wafers using molecular beam epitaxy (MBE) which offers more precise control of the structure of the materials than other techniques.
Hydrogen test lab for lower carbon family car

1 week ago | eenewseurope.com | Nick Flaherty

Technology News | April 17, 2025 By Nick Flaherty Power Management LED lighting Automotive Batteries / Power Supplies Renault has developed a vehicle platform to test out a wide range of sustainable, low carbon technologies including hydrogen for the next generation of family car. Emblème continues the exploratory studies Renault started with the Scenic Vision concept in 2022. The aim is to create a working prototype of a family car while reducing the carbon footprint.