NI has acquired German firm SET Gmbh, boosting its portfolio in energy semiconductor reliability techniques for automotive.
NI paid money for the corporate, which relies in Wangen, Germany, and monetary phrases weren’t disclosed; SET’s roughly 100 workers will likely be becoming a member of NI.
NI had an current funding in SET; in 2020, it took a minority stake within the firm and collaborated with SET to enhance what NI described as a “system-on-demand and model-based check strategy” with decreased danger and quicker time-to-market that optimized knowledge and property. NI stated that collaboration (particularly centered on aerospace and protection clients in business aviation, area launch automobile and concrete air mobility) will proceed.
Whereas NI described SET as “long-standing specialists in aerospace and protection check system growth,” it’s SET’s more moderen work in semiconductors for automotive that was of explicit curiosity.
“SET has been innovating on new capabilities within the rising automotive provide chain space of energy semiconductors since earlier than NI’s preliminary partnership in 2020,” NI defined, including that the corporate’s “participation in cross-industry and tutorial boards on reliability check methods has made vital contributions to the understanding of electrical automobile functions for energy semiconductors.”
“The automotive provide chain goes via a metamorphosis the place each OEMs and semiconductor gamers are quickly innovating on new applied sciences. The power to adequately specify and predict how these new applied sciences behave inside new Electrical Autos is crucial for efficiency and security,” stated Ritu Favre, EVP and GM of NI enterprise models. “SET is a transparent innovator on this space in addition to a longtime supplier in Avionics testing. NI is a world chief in automated check and measurement techniques. By combining capabilities, NI and SET can supply extra differentiated options to clients and develop collectively by leveraging NI’s international scale.”
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