Renesas Completes Acquisition of Pictorus to Accelerate Embedded System Development
On June 18, 2026, Renesas Electronics officially announced that its subsidiary has completed the acquisition of Pictorus, a U.S. software developer based in Oakland, California. Pictorus was founded by a team of engineers with decades of experience in automotive software development, specializing in...
Bosch Fined $36.18 Million for Illegal Exports to Huawei
The U.S. BIS recently announced that Robert Bosch, the German automotive parts giant, has agreed to pay a civil penalty of approximately $36.1847 million and forfeit over $11.43 million in related pre-tax profits to resolve allegations of illegally exporting controlled products to Huawei. The U.S. D...
A Comprehensive Guide to Automotive-Grade Components from Passive to Active ICs
As automotive electrical/electronic architectures accelerate their evolution from distributed systems to domain controllers and central computing platforms, the reliability boundary of the entire vehicle has shifted comprehensively from individual chip performance toward system-level hardware robust...
Power Semiconductors Explained: IGBT, SiC MOSFET & GaN Selection Logic
Power semiconductors are the core devices of power electronic systems, bearing the critical functions of energy conversion, control, and distribution. With the explosive growth of emerging applications such as new energy vehicles, renewable energy, AI data centers, and industrial automation, the pow...
Two Japanese Chemical Companies Cease Tungsten Hexafluoride Production
In mid-June 2026, Kanto Denka Kogyo Co., Ltd. and Central Glass Co., Ltd. formally issued final delivery notices to leading global foundries including Samsung Electronics, SK Hynix, and TSMC: June 30, 2026, marks the last shipment date, with permanent cessation of tungsten hexafluoride (WF₆) product...
Infineon GaN Products Banned from Sale Across China
On June 12, 2026, China's Supreme People's Court issued a provisional injunction review ruling, upholding the sales ban imposed by the Suzhou Intermediate People's Court against Infineon and rejecting all of Infineon's review requests. This means Infineon's gallium nitride (GaN) ...
SK Hynix to Mass-Produce 375-Layer NAND Flash by Year-End
SK Hynix has completed production verification for its next-generation 375-layer 3D NAND flash memory and plans to begin mass production by the end of this year. Rather than building new fabs, the company is upgrading existing production lines at its M15 plant in Cheongju, transitioning from 176-lay...
