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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.

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.

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.

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.

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.