EU approves €48 Million sid for Envision AESC battery plant in France
February 04, 2025
The European Commission has approved a EUR 48 million French state aid package to support Envision AESC France in establishing a lithium-ion battery factory in Douai.
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Top five global robotics trends for 2025
January 28, 2025
The global market value of industrial robot installations has reached an all-time high of USD 16.5 billion. The industry’s growth is set to accelerate, fueled by technology innovations, shifting market dynamics, and emerging business opportunities. Looking ahead to 2025, the International Federation of Robotics highlights five key trends shaping the future of robotics.
Quobly and STMicroelectronics established cooperation
December 13, 2024
Quobly and STMicroelectronics announced forges strategic collaboration with main goal to accelerate its quantum processor manufacturing for large-scale quantum computing solutions.
Umicore halts construction on Canadian battery materials plant
December 10, 2024
Umicore is focusing on fully utilising its existing battery material plants before expanding further. As part of this strategy, it has decided to continue pausing construction of a new plant in Ontario, Canada, but will maintain a core team at its local office there.
ST and Qualcomm team up on wireless IoT
October 02, 2024
STMicroelectronics and Qualcomm have entered a new strategic collaboration for the next generation of industrial and consumer IoT solutions augmented by edge AI.
AESC Group starts work on a $1.1bn battery plant in Spain
July 16, 2024
Japan-based electric vehicle (EV) battery manufacturer AESC has broken ground on a full scale facility at Navalmoral de la Mata in Spain’s Caceres province.
Aixtron expands with a new production site in Italy
June 04, 2024
Aixtron is expanding its manufacturing presence in Europe. The company announced the acquisition of a production site near Turin, in the Piedmont region of Italy.
AESC commits $1.5bn to expand its US EV battery plant
April 02, 2024
Japan-based battery tech company AESC will boost production its lithium-ion electric vehicle battery manufacturing operations at Florence County, South Carolina.
Epsilon acquires LFP cathode technology centre in Germany
October 04, 2023
Indian battery materials manufacturer Epsilon Group has signed an agreement to acquire Johnson Matthey’s lithium-ion phosphate (LFP) cathode technology centre in Moosburg, Germany.
Applied Materials to invest $400 million in new Indian engineering centre
June 26, 2023
Applied Materials plans to build a collaborative engineering centre in Bangalore, India focused on developing and commercialising technologies for semiconductor manufacturing equipment.
GlobalLogic to open new digital engineering centres in Spain
January 17, 2023
GlobalLogic Inc., is planning to open new engineering centres across Spain. This was announced by Nitesh Banga, President and CEO of GlobalLogic, during a meeting with the Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez.
Europe’s battery boom – charging a market
November 24, 2022
"The future is electric", a statement that’s been getting more and more meat on its bones over the last couple of years. An increasing number of automotive companies are transitioning to electronic electric drive.
BMW invests $1.7 billion to build EVs in the US
November 04, 2022
The BMW Group continues the roll-out of its electromobility plan with a new investment in the US to expand Plant Spartanburg and the company’s manufacturing footprint in the US.
BelGaN takes the first steps to build GaN-Valley in Belgium
March 03, 2022
The US might have Silicon Valley, but in Europe GaN-Valley is taking shape, more specifically in Belgium. BelGaN Group has just completed the acquisition of all shares of ON Semiconductor Belgium BV from the onsemi group.
Merck: EUR 3bn investment in its electronics business
September 20, 2021
Merck plans to invest significantly more than EUR 3 billion in innovation and capacities of its Electronics business sector up to the end of 2025.
Nissan bets big with £1B investment in UK EV manufacturing
July 05, 2021
Centered around the plant in Sunderland, UK, Nissan's new GBP 1 billion flagship EV hub, Nissan EV36Zero, aims supercharge the company's drive to carbon neutrality. The move will not only result in new all-electric vehicles being built in Sunderland, it will also see the establishment of a new gigafactory from partner Envision-AESC.
Renault's major push to become a force amongst EV players
June 29, 2021
The Renault Group has announced its strategy for EV battery design and production in France. A major part of the strategy comes to life through the signing of two major partnerships as well as the development of a gigafactory by 2024.
XENSIV 60 GHz radar sensors and AURIX microcontrollers for automotive applications
June 24, 2021
In-cabin monitoring systems (ICMS) are reshaping the concept of passenger safety in cars. Various applications such as left-behind child detection, driver well-being or occupancy sensing increase road safety and the protection in vehicles.
Wales preferred as Britishvolt eyes location for Gigafactory
June 15, 2020
Battery manufacturer Britishvolt has narrowed down its selection down to two promising sites for the UK's first 30 plus GWh gigafactory, from an initial 42 locations, with Bro Tathan in South Wales leading the way.
COVID-19 decimates automotive power semiconductor revenue in 2020
June 09, 2020
The COVID-19 pandemic is wreaking havoc on sales of automotive power semiconductors, with falling demand for motor vehicles causing global market revenue to decline by 16 percent in 2020.
4MB On-Chip Flash Memory for Enhanced Real-Time Performance
April 24, 2020
Renesas Electronics Corporation, a premier supplier of advanced semiconductor solutions, today announced the RX72N Group and RX66N Group of 32-bit microcontrollers (MCUs), new additions to the RX Family that combines equipment control and networking function on a single chip.
Elmatica sees a spike in demand - responds with growth in staff
April 02, 2020
Growing demand, new customers and an increase in business within knowledge intensive industries, has reinforced the need for another Country Manager in Poland, a new Technical Manager and an additional resource in the Customer Service Department.
Volvo Cars invests in electric car charging company FreeWire
October 29, 2018
Volvo Cars says that it has acquired a stake in electric car charging company FreeWire Technologies via the Volvo Cars Tech Fund, deepening the company’s commitment to a fully electric future.
Elon wants to take Tesla private
August 08, 2018
Elon Musk has previously hinted about wanting to take Tesla private. The CEO took to Twitter saying that he considering taking Tesla private for USD 420 per share, or USD 72 billion.
Envision acquires controlling stake in Nissan's battery business
August 06, 2018
Envision, a digital energy company, says it will acquire a controlling stake in Automotive Energy Supply Corporation (AESC), the electric battery operations and production facilities of Nissan Motor.
Infineon demonstrates secured authentication using FIDO2 on Microsoft Windows 10
April 18, 2018
Infineon Technologies AG is demonstrating its FIDO2 reference design. The design is based on the security certified SLE 78 chip, as an authentication token for logging on to the Azure Active Directory joined device.
Chinese investment firm invests $500M in Nevs
March 14, 2018
Today – March 14, 2018 – an important agreement was signed by Nevs and Chinese Investment firm GSR Capital, whereby GSR will invest USD 500 million (about SEK 4 billion) in Nevs.
Advantech opens new European Service Center
January 25, 2018
The Advantech European Service Center (AESC) will double the size of its warehouse and office space and see production capacity nearly tripled, aimed at helping the company drive regional growth.
Advantech expands European service centre
November 07, 2017
Continuous growth in the European Market has led to plans of expanding both the production, logistic and office facilities in Eindhoven– and all are set to open in January 2018.
Delphi Automotive has named its post spin-off companies
September 28, 2017
Aptiv and Delphi Technologies will be the names of the two focused, publicly-traded companies that will result from the Delphi Automotive's previously announced spin-off of its Powertrain Systems segment.
Nissan sell off electric battery business
August 09, 2017
Nissan Motor has entered into a definitive sale and purchase agreement with GSR Capital (GSR), a private investment fund, for the sale of Nissan's electric battery operations and production facilities.
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