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Morse Micro Announces Mass Production of MM8108 Wi-Fi HaLow SoC, Modules, Evaluation Kit and HaLowLink 2

Morse Micro, the world’s leading provider of Wi-Fi HaLow silicon solutions, today announced the mass production and general availability of its second-generation MM8108 System-on-Chip (SoC).This milestone represents a major leap-forward for Wi-Fi HaLow, bringing unparalleled data throughput at range, which wi

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Date:

09/23/2025

Tim Phillips, Founder & CEO of Empower Semiconductor

Empower Semiconductor Secures Over $140M in Series D Financing

Empower Semiconductor, the world leader in powering AI-class processors, today announced the closing of more than $140M in Series D financing. The investors, led by Fidelity Management & Research Company, include Maverick Silicon, CapitalG, Atreides Management, Socratic Partners, Walden Catalyst Ve

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Date:

09/22/2025

SVS-Vistek SenSWIR FXO cameras have an extended wavelength range from 400 to 1700 nm

SVS-Vistek SWIR Cameras Identify Subsurface Defects in Semiconductor Wafers

Optical inspection systems used in semiconductor fabrication must be capable of identifying both surface and subsurface flaws in wafers, ingots and semiconductor die. If not detected, these flaws can severely degrade the electrical properties, structural integrity, and downstream performance of the packaged ch

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Date:

09/19/2025

Flex Power Modules Partners with Renesas to Deliver Next-gen Power Management Solutions

Flex Power Modules, a leading provider of advanced power conversion solutions, announced it is partnering with Renesas to pioneer the next generation of board-mounted power management solutions for CPUs, GPUs, FPGAs, ASICs, and accelerator cards that support AI workloads. “By integrating our latest generation

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Date:

09/17/2025

Outdated hardware isn’t the issue, but bad management is, experts reveal

KPMG Experts: AI Helps Cut Energy Waste by Up to 30% Within Strategic Energy Management Framework

KPMG

KPMG has recently released a report on “How AI is helping to improve energy efficiency and management in real estate.” It says that traditional retrofits are too slow and costly to deliver the scale of cuts required to reach net-zero goals of 2050, and instead points out that artificial intelligence is

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Date:

09/15/2025

Patrick Will, Senior Director and Head of Software Product Marketing and Management at Infineon

Infineon Introduces AURIX TC4x Software to Enable Quality, Safety, and Security in Automotive Applications

Infineon Technologies AG has launched a comprehensive software portfolio designed specifically for the latest AURIX™ TC4x microcontroller (MCU) family. It enables automotive safety applications with production ready ASIL D drivers for the AUTOSAR MCAL and safety software. By reducing efforts for software pa

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Date:

09/04/2025

iDEAL Semiconductor Announces 200 V Family of SuperQ-based MOSFETs With Industry-Leading Cost x Performance

iDEAL Semiconductor has announced the first of its 200 V family of SuperQ™-based MOSFETs has entered mass production, with four additional 200 V devices now sampling. SuperQ is the first major advance in silicon MOSFET technology in more than 25 years, breaking through long-standing limits in switching

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Date:

09/04/2025

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Figure 1: LPD moves current through one layer from the board’s edge to its center

Rethinking Power Delivery for the AI Era

Mukund Krishna, Senior Manager Product Marketing, Empower Semiconductor

Each generation of accelerators, whether GPUs, AI engines, or XPUs, consumes more power than the last, pushing the limits of what engineers have designed server architectures to support. In fact, a single inference request to a generative model today consumes ten times more energy than a conventional web search. Mu

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Date:

09/01/2025

Jason Lomberg, North American Editor, PSD

Countering AI – Fighting Fire with Fire

Jason Lomberg, North American Editor, PSD

Like all innovation that came before it, since the first industrial revolution – and arguably beforehand – artificial intelligence has the potential to augment human capabilities and scientific discovery, but if we’ve truly reached a tech singularity, past the point of no return, we could also be creating an

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Date:

09/01/2025

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