The all-electric Ford F-150 Lightning will be launched in spring 2022. Magna's innovative battery housing made of lightweight aluminum protects the power source and other electronic components of the vehicle.

The latest announcement of a strategic partnership with Renesas opened the door for RISC-V startup SiFive into the club of established semiconductor manufacturers. With its Series 7 processors, SiFive bridges the gap from microcontroller to multicore processor, which is anything but trivial.

AI can be an important tool for sustainable development - for example, by helping to reduce the energy consumption of large factories or predicting natural disasters. However, the applications also have a downside: For example, developing AI models produces CO2 emissions.

A good 18 months after the start of the pandemic more acceptable vaccination rates meanwhile allow some kind of normality to return. However, shortage of materials is a constant source of stress. What does “new normality“ look like in the EMS industry?

Panel Level Packaging promises a significant reduction in the cost of ICs. In an interview, Dr. Michael Töpper, Business Development at the Fraunhofer Institute for Reliability and Microintegration, explains what other advantages PLP brings and how the PLP Consortium 2.0 is driving development.

Many suppliers of inspection systems are promoting the buzzword “Artificial Intelligence”. But is everybody talking about the same thing? Using the example of the Kitov One inspection system, Olaf Römer, Managing Director of the Kitov partner ATEcare, explains how genuine AI differs from “fuzzy AI”.

A cobot cell and a mobile workstation combine to become a soldering robot for selective soldering of THT (through hole technology) components. It can be used either as a closed or open collaborative workstation and is a good alternative to hand soldering.

Applied Materials is joining forces with partners such as Besi and EV Group (EVG) to optimize wafer-to-wafer bonding, an essential process for 3D integration of ICs.

A radar can be used to locate a buried object. Therefor the radar should operate at low frequencies to be able to penetrate the medium the object is buried in and it should have a high spatial resolution to be able to discriminate between the object and reflections caused by the medium.

NFC wireless charging answers a growing need in the market for technology to charge small devices such as smart watches, styluses and smart glasses. Circuits for NFC wireless charging need dedicated wireless charging components, and have their own special design considerations.

Based on Bluetooth Low Energy (Bluetooth LE) Bluetooth LE Audio has been created to provide better audio quality for listeners and to allow new audio product topologies and new use cases.