At the Optical Fiber Communications conference (OFC 2022) in San Diego, CA, USA (8-10 March), Ranovus Inc of Ottawa, Ontario, Canada (which develops and manufactures multi-terabit photonics interconnect solutions for data-center and communications networks) has announced the availability of its protocol-agnostic Odin 100G optical I/O cores based on GF Fotonix, the new next-generation monolithic platform of US-based GlobalFoundries. GF Fotonix is reckoned to be first in the industry to combine 300mm photonics and RF-CMOS features on a silicon wafer, delivering what is claimed to be best-in-class performance at scale...

Infineon Technologies AG of Munich, Germany is investing more than €2bn to add significant manufacturing capacities in wide-bandgap power semiconductors by building a third module at its site in Kulim, Malaysia. Once fully equipped, the new Kulim 3 module should generate €2bn in additional annual revenue from products based on silicon carbide (SiC) and gallium nitride (GaN)...

Infineon Technologies AG of Munich, Germany says that Rutger Wijburg will join its management board as chief operations officer on 1 April. He succeeds Jochen Hanebeck, who will take over from Dr Reinhard Ploss as CEO. The company announced the supervisory board decision on the occasion of its Annual General Meeting...

SEMI analyst sees slower growth in 2022.

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Some 300mm tools are converted to 200mm; equipment prices and chip manufacturing costs are rising.

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