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1.Analog Devices invests €630 Million in next-generation semiconductor R&D and manufacturing facility in Limerick

2.TI’s SiC gate driver boosts EV driving range by 7 miles

3.China is investing 3 billion euros in Hungary’s automotive industry in the coming period

4.UK announces chips partnership with Japan

5.Kyocera plans 850 billion yen in chip spending for the three-year period

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Analog Devices invests €630 Million in next-generation semiconductor R&D and manufacturing facility in Limerick

Analog Devices, Inc., a global semiconductor specialist, has announced a new €630 million investment at its European regional headquarters in the Raheen Business Park in Limerick, Ireland. The investment enables the construction of a new, state-of-the-art, 45,000 sq-ft Research & Development and manufacturing facility. The new facility will support ADI’s development of next-generation signal processing innovations designed to accelerate the digital transformation of industrial, automotive, healthcare, and other sectors. It is expected to triple ADI’s European wafer production capacity and aligns with the company’s goal of doubling its internal manufacturing capacity to enhance the resiliency of its global supply chain and better serve customer needs. This investment is expected to grow ADI’s employment footprint in the mid-west region of Ireland by 600 new positions, a significant increase to ADI’s current 1,500 employees in Ireland and 3,100 employees in Europe as a whole.?????

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The new investment is planned as part of a collaboration within the European Union’s Important Projects of Common European Interest on Microelectronics and Communication Technologies (IPCEI ME/CT) initiative, and will support cross-border collaborative research. ADI’s IPCEI application – Ireland’s first since the inception of the Important Projects of Common European Interest (IPCEI) initiative – is subject to final approval from the European Commission, and is supported by the Irish Government through IDA Ireland.?

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TI’s SiC gate driver boosts EV driving range by 7 miles

Seeking to increase power density and reduce system design complexity, Texas Instruments has introduced a silicon carbide (SiC) isolated gate driver that allows engineers to boost electric vehicle (EV) driving range by more than seven miles per battery charge. TI said traction inverter systems are helping to overcome EV barriers to widespread adoption and the UCC5880-Q1 gate driver allows automakers to build safer, more efficient and more reliable SiC and insulated-gate bipolar transistor (IGBT)-based inverters. To get more power performance from EVs, direct impact on operating range improvement per charge is needed. But achieving this is hard for designers due to traction inverters already operating at 90% efficiency or higher. Varying the gate-drive strength in real time allows designers to improve system efficiency with the gate driver as much as 2% by minimizing SiC switching power losses. This results in up to seven more miles of EV driving range per battery charge. ?

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TI said engineers can reduce components and prototype quickly an efficient traction inverter system using the SiC EV traction inverter reference design. This includes the UCC5880-Q1, a bias-supply power module, real-time control microcontrollers and high-precision sensing.

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China is investing 3 billion euros in Hungary’s automotive industry in the coming period

China is investing 3 billion euros in Hungary’s automotive industry in the coming period, Péter Szijjártó, the minister of foreign affairs and trade, said after talks with Minister of Commerce Wang Wentao in Beijing on Monday. This will further strengthen Hungary’s position as a top investment destination in central Europe, he added.

Chinese battery maker Eve Power last week stated a $1.2bn investment in a battery factory in Hungary in a bid to supply batteries to BMW. Located in the northwest economic belt of Debrecen, the Hungarian factory of Eve Power covers an area of 450,000 square meters and mainly produces large cylindrical batteries.

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Szijjártó said the undisclosed projects will supply batteries to the German automaker's Hungarian plant after the battery plant CATL announced last year in partnership with Mercedes-Benz. Szijjarto pointed out that "we hope to continuously develop the cooperation between the EU and China."?

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UK announces chips partnership with Japan

Rishi Sunak announced ￡18 billion ($22.5 billion) of new investment by Japanese businesses in the UK, mostly in clean energy, as well as a bilateral “semiconductor partnership” aimed at boosting supply chain resilience amid fears over Chinese interference in Taiwan.

Trading house Marubeni Corporation and its partners intend to invest some ￡10 billion in the UK over the next decade, largely in offshore wind, Sunak’s office said in an emailed statement. Sumitomo Corporation will invest about ￡4 billion in offshore wind projects off the coasts of Suffolk and Norfolk, while Mitsubishi Estate and Mitsui Fudosan will invest ￡3.5 billion to build affordable housing and office space, it said.

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Prime Minister Fumio Kishida met with the heads of the world’s largest chipmakers on May 18th in Japan’s latest move to boost its domestic semiconductor sector amid a global rethink of economic security. Intel Corp. chief Patrick Gelsinger and TSMC Chairman Mark Liu attended the meeting along with executives of Micron, Samsung Electronics Co., IBM and chip gear maker Applied Materials Inc.

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Kyocera plans 850 billion yen in chip spending for the three-year period

According to the plans announced on May 16th, Kyocera will invest in semiconductor-related production facilities from 2023 to 2025. Overall capital spending for the three-year period will reach a maximum of 850 billion yen, with 400 billion yen earmarked for the semiconductor-focused core components business.

Kyocera will raise production capacity for package products, as well as fine-ceramic components for semiconductor-processing equipment. The company will begin construction on a new plant, its first in Japan in around two decades, in Nagasaki prefecture by March 2024. Two main plants in Kagoshima prefecture, also in the country's south, will be expanded. The production value of fine-ceramic components for the year ending March 2026 is expected to be 1.8 times that of the year ended March 2023. The plant will mainly produce IC substrates and precision ceramic parts for semiconductor manufacturing equipment, with an estimated annual output of 25 billion yen in 2028. The company also plans to increase production of automobile capacitors, for which demand is increasing as self-driving technology evolves.?

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President Tanimoto also said the company will review other unprofitable businesses, including solar panels. Kyocera will end smartphone sales to consumers by March 2025. Tanimoto explained that the smartphone market has matured, making it difficult to innovate.

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