BrainChip receives shipment of AKD1500 chips in Silicon from GlobalFoundries

BrainChip Holdings Ltd, a commercial producer of ultra-low power, digital, event-based, neuromorphic AI (artificial intelligence) IP (internet protocol), announced that it has received its shipment of AKD1500 chips in silicon from GlobalFoundries. This will advance company’s IP into the next phase of development.

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Globalfoundries, STMicroelectronics announce agreement for new 300mm semiconductor fab in France

GlobalFoundries Inc and STMicroelectronics has announced the conclusion of the agreement to create a new, jointly-operated, high-volume semiconductor manufacturing facility in Crolles (France), which was announced on 11 July 2022.

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Nordic Semiconductor unveils its next-gen 22nm nRF54 series of Bluetooth 5.4 SoCs

Nordic Semiconductor, a provider of low power, high performance wireless connectivity for the IoT, announces the introduction in its fourth generation of multiprotocol Systems-on-Chip (SoCs), the nRF54H20. Extending the company’s approach in Bluetooth Low Energy (Bluetooth LE), the nRF54 Series follows Nordic’s nRF51, nRF52, and nRF53 Series, and introduces a new hardware architecture fabricated on the GlobalFoundries

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GlobalFoundries acquires Renesas’ CBRAM technology to proliferate IoT, 5G applications

Malta, United States – GlobalFoundries has announced that it has acquired Renesas Electronics Corporation (Renesas)’s proprietary and production proven conductive bridging random access memory (CBRAM) technology, a low power memory solution designed to enable a range of applications in home and industrial IoT and smart mobile devices.

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Ansys announces GlobalFoundries certification of semiconductor tools for GF 22FDX platform

Ansys has announced that GF has certified Ansys RedHawk-SC, Ansys RaptorH and Ansys HFSS semiconductor tools for its flagship 22FDX platform. The GF certification enables chip designers to reduce costs by eliminating wasteful safety margins and improving system performance, without compromising reliability or risking unexpected and damaging interactions between design elements.

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GlobalFoundries and Qualcomm announce extension of long-term agreement to secure U.S. supply through 2028

Washington, United States. 08 August, 2022 – Following the recent passage of the U.S. Chips and Science Act last week, GlobalFoundries, a global provider in feature-rich semiconductor manufacturing and Qualcomm Technologies, Inc. announced they are more than doubling their existing strategic global long-term semiconductor manufacturing agreement previously entered into by GF’s and Qualcomm’s respective subsidiaries. The announcement secures wafer supply

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Leti Innovation Day to explore new security challenges and responses for a safe connected world

Leti, an institute of CEA Tech, is hosting a one-day conference covering “System Reliability & Security in a Connected World” in Lyon, France, on June 23.

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New smart home and IoT development kit launched by Imagination

Imagination Technologies has launched a new development kit called Creator Ci40 on Kickstarter. The Ci40 microcomputer has been specifically designed for smart home, IoT and other connected devices (drones, robots, etc.), but it also has the hardware requirements (802.11ac 2×2 Wi-Fi, an Ethernet port, SD and USB storage) needed to be used as a high

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