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SigmaSense is a global leader in touch sensing and software-defined sensing technology. The company has developed a breakthrough digital approach to sensing that delivers significantly improved performance compared to traditional analog sensing solutions. SigmaSense's core technology, SigmaDrive, utilizes current-mode analog-to-digital converters (ADCs) and ultra-low voltages to simultaneously drive, sense, and image entire screen surfaces. This results in 100 to 1000 times better signal-to-noise ratio compared to conventional voltage-mode touch sensing when normalized for time.
The company's technology enables touch sensing through thick glass, bulky gloves, and liquids, making it suitable for a wide range of applications including automotive, mobile phones, laptops, digital signage, and kiosks. SigmaSense's solutions can detect hand presence up to 18 inches away and differentiate between driver and passenger touches in vehicles. In September 2023, SigmaSense announced a new semiconductor and analytics solution for real-time battery monitoring using electrochemical impedance spectroscopy (EIS), expanding its reach into the battery technology sector.
SigmaSense's innovations allow for the extraction of more data from the physical world, enabling previously impossible designs across various surfaces, shapes, and materials. The company's technology moves analog challenges to the digital domain, providing greater design flexibility and significant performance improvements. In May 2023, SigmaSense entered into a licensing and co-development agreement with NXP Semiconductors, which included a USD 35 million investment from NXP.

SMART Photonics is an independent foundry for Indium Phosphide (InP) photonic integrated circuits (PICs) based in Eindhoven, The Netherlands. The company focuses on producing high-end PICs for customers, offering solutions for data and telecommunication, sensing, and medical applications. SMART Photonics provides a complete production process, including epitaxial growth and re-growth, processing, polishing, and dicing of wafers into chips. The company's technology enables the manipulation of light on a single chip, allowing for faster, more energy-efficient, and smaller products compared to conventional electronic solutions.
SMART Photonics' InP platform stands out for its ability to produce light, enabling the fabrication of active components. This technology is crucial for applications requiring small-scale integration and high performance combined with low energy consumption. In January 2024, SMART Photonics announced a significant scaling up of its production capabilities by transferring its entire production from 3-inch to 4-inch wafer substrates. This upgrade doubled the company's production capacity and resulted in a lower price per chip, accelerating the commercial rollout of its photonic chips.
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SMART Photonics serves a diverse range of customers across various industries, including telecommunications, sensing, and medical sectors.
In July 2023, SMART Photonics secured strategic partnerships with key players in the semiconductor industry, including ASML, NXP, and VDL Groep. These partnerships were part of a significant funding round that aimed to strengthen the Brainport and wider Dutch and European photonics ecosystem. The collaboration with these industry leaders is expected to benefit the growing number of fabless photonic chip design companies in the Brainport region.

Zendar develops high-definition radar for autonomous vehicles. Zendar's product combines the benefits of radar, such as long-range and all-weather operation, with the resolution of lidar. It was founded in 2017 and is based in Berkeley, California.

SMART Photonics offers a versatile production and development portfolio. First of all, easy access via Multi-Project Wafer runs enables low-cost and fast prototyping for photonic integrated circuits. Secondly we offer engineering of the process to create the customer product with customer specifications. Production development services are offered for volume production of customer products.

SigmaSense is providing the first digital and fully scalable sensing technology to solve the noise immunity and tuning challenges of traditional touch sensors. Their SigmaTouch Controller utilizes a breakthrough in Capacitive Imaging to concurrently transmit and receive for self-capacitance, mutual capacitance, and pen from a single pin. The unique approach to Capacitive Imaging has the potential to affect positive disruption across many industries where intuitive machine interfaces will decide the winners. SigmaSense technology enables access to game-changing information about interactions with mobile devices, large format interactive displays, and limitless custom sensing applications. Join us in pioneering the next evolutionary progression of perceptive machines.

Kalray (Euronext Growth Paris: ALKAL) is a leading provider of hardware and software technologies and solutions for high-performance, data-centric computing markets, from cloud to edge. Kalray provides a full range of products to enable smarter, more efficient, and energy-wise data-intensive applications and infrastructures. Its offerings include its unique patented DPU (Data Processing Unit) processors and acceleration cards as well as its leading-edge software-defined storage, and data management offers. Separated or in combination, Kalray’s high-performance solutions allow its customers to improve the efficiency of data centers or design the best solutions in fast-growing sectors such as AI, Media & Entertainment, Life Sciences, Scientific Research, Edge Computing, Automotive and others. Founded in 2008 as a spin-off of the well-known French CEA research lab, with corporate and financial investors such as Alliance Venture (Renault-Nissan-Mitsubishi), NXP Semiconductors or Bpifrance, Kalray is dedicated through technology, expertise, and passion to offer more: more for a smart world, more for the planet, more for customers and developers. www.kalrayinc.com

HawkEyeTechnology is located in Wireless Valley ofChina, the national communication and network industry innovation base jointlybuilt by ministry of science and technology, ministry of education and thegovernment of Jiangsu province. HawkEyeTechnology, relying on State Key Laboratoryof Millimeter Waves, Southeast University, was founded by a number of leadersfrom

Suvola is working to greatly improve the state of cybersecurity in public, private and government information technology deployments.  By addressing the flawed implementations of the three major weaknesses in current information technology (tampering, identity, and authorization), Suvola intends to vastly reduce the incidents of cybercrime.

MMB Networks is an engineering firm with industry-leading expertise and experience in wireless, embedded, and Smart Energy technologies. Our mission is to utilize this expertise to broaden and accelerate the adoption of Smart Energy technology by creating software, tools, and services that help our customers rapidly bring smart energy solutions to market.

Senseg is the company behind E-Sense, the tactile interface technology which generates the feel of virtual buttons on smooth surfaces like cell phone or computer screens and gives tactile feedback to the user.  The difference between E-Sense and the other haptic, or tactile, technologies is that Sensegâ€™s technology is not powered by mechanical motors but is based on virtual touch technology.  Instead of using vibrating motors, the devices are completely motionless. Instead, the E-Sense system stimulates your fingers or hand with an electrical field to simulate the feeling of friction or texture.

The electronics industry is being driven by four mega trends that are helping shape our society: Energy Efficiency, Connected Devices, Security and Health. Connecting to these trends and enabling Secure Connections for a Smarter World, NXP Semiconductors N.V. (NASDAQ: NXPI) creates solutions that enable Secure Connections for a Smarter World. Building on its expertise in High Performance Mixed Signal electronics, NXP is driving innovation in the application areas Connected Car, Security, Portable & Wearable and Internet of Things. NXP has operations in more than 25 countries, and posted revenue of $5.65 billion in 2014. Find out more at nxp.com. Additional information can be found by visiting www.nxp.com.

<div> NXP Semiconductors N.V. (Nasdaq: NXPI) is a global semiconductor company headquartered in Eindhoven, the Netherlands. Founded in 2006 as a spin-off from Philips, NXP has over 50 years of experience in the semiconductor industry. The company designs and manufactures high-performance mixed-signal electronics, with a focus on secure connectivity solutions for embedded applications. NXP's product portfolio includes microcontrollers, analog devices, RF components, sensors, and digital processors. These are used across a wide range of applications including automotive, industrial &amp; IoT, mobile, and communication infrastructure. Some of the company's key product areas are: <ul> <li> Automotive semiconductors for advanced driver assistance systems, infotainment, and vehicle networking </li> <li> Secure identification solutions for government documents, payment cards, and transit systems </li> <li> Wireless connectivity chips for smartphones, wearables, and IoT devices </li> <li> Power management and interface products for various electronic systems </li> </ul> As of December 2023, NXP had approximately 34,200 employees across more than 30 countries. The company reported revenue of USD 13.28 billion for the full year 2023. NXP continues to invest heavily in research and development, with plans to expand its R&amp;D capabilities in India over the next few years. The company operates multiple semiconductor design centers globally and manufacturing facilities in countries like the Netherlands, Germany, the US, and Malaysia. </div>

Battery Management System Market is projected to reach $41 billion by 2032 | NXP Semiconductors, Eberspächer

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