BOSCH TO ACQUIRE US CHIP-MAKER TSI SEMICONDUCTORS

Bosch plans to acquire assets of the US Roseville, California-based chip-maker TSI Semiconductors. The company with 250 employees mainly develops and produces large volumes of chips on 200 mm silicon wafers for applications in the mobility, telecommunications, energy, and life sciences industries.

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“With the acquisition of TSI Semiconductors, we are establishing manufacturing capacity for SiC chips in an important sales market while also increasing our semiconductor manufacturing, globally. The existing clean-room facilities and expert personnel in Roseville will allow us to manufacture SiC chips for electromobility on an even larger scale,” says Dr. Stefan Hartung, the chairman of the Bosch board of management. Over the next years, Bosch intends to invest more than 1.5 billion USD in the Roseville site and convert the TSI Semiconductors manufacturing facilities to state-of-the-art processes. Starting in 2026, the first chips will be produced on 200-millimeter wafers based on the innovative material silicon carbide (SiC). Bosch has been producing silicon carbide (SiC) chips since 2021 in Germany. n

Video Telematics To Enter The Smart Transport Sector

The integration of cameras to enable various video-based solutions in commercial vehicle environments is one of the most apparent trends in the fleet telematics sector today, says the latest Berg Insight report.

Growing at a compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of 18.0 percent, the active installed base is forecasted to reach 8.8 million units in North America by 2027, and in Europe, the installed base of active video telematics systems reached over 1.1 million units in 2022. The ac- tive installed base is forecasted to grow at a CAGR of 17.9 percent to reach 2.5 million video telematics systems in Europe by 2027.

The video telematics market is served by many companies ranging from specialists focused specifically on video telematics solutions for various commercial vehicles, to general fleet telematics players which have introduced video offerings, and hardware-focused suppliers offering mobile digital video recorders (DVRs) and vehicle cameras used for video telematics. n