The Rebellion R-One AER car secured fifth place overall and a win in the LMP1 Privateer Class in the first-ever Six Hours of Mexico Race, the fifth round of the 2016 FIA World Endurance Championship. The race was run at the Autódromo Hermanos Rodríguez which i...

By Paul Whytock | 14-09-2016

Embedded design specialists Renesas Electronics is to buy power management and analog solutions company Intersil for US$22.50 per share in cash. This represents an aggregate equity value of approximately US$3.2 billion and the board of directors of both compan...

By Paul Whytock | 13-09-2016

Infineon Technologies is buying the Wolfspeed Power and RF division (Wolfspeed) of Cree for approx €740 million in cash. The deal includes the SiC wafer substrate business for power and RF power. Wolfspeed has been a part of Cree for three decades and is a pro...

By Paul Whytock | 14-07-2016

MOSFET on-resistance cut by 17% A new generation of super junction (SJ) deep trench semiconductor technology for high-efficient power MOSFETs was unveiled at the show by Toshiba Electronics Europe. The devices are based on the new DTMOS V process and the comp...

By Paul Whytock | 10-05-2016

The Raspberry Pi product range available from element14 has been extended with the addition of the smallest form factor Raspberry Pi on the market, the Raspberry Pi Zero. To save space and cut costs the Raspberry Pi Zero has one Micro USB data port and a Mini...

By Paul Whytock | 26-11-2015

According to industry analysts IHS the power semiconductor sector has not had a terrific time in recent years with less than impressive market growth in 2013. Admittedly this was followed by a stronger performance in 2014 and if my discussion with exhibiting c...

By Paul Whytock | 21-05-2015