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New transistor wafer process technology promises shorter lead times
New transistor wafer process technology promises shorter lead times
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UK collaboration between Nottingham-based start-up, Search For The Next (SFN) and Glenrothes-based Semefab yielded a new transistor wafer process called…
Researchers squeeze laser light into quantum processor
Researchers squeeze laser light into quantum processor
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An international team of scientists from Australia, Japan and the United States has produced a prototype of a large-scale quantum…
Bizen uses quantum tunnelling for smaller chips
Bizen uses quantum tunnelling for smaller chips
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Semefab is working with a UK startup on a new transistor architecture called Bizen that uses quantum tunnelling to get…
Quantum tunnelling opens up more efficient power chip process
Quantum tunnelling opens up more efficient power chip process
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Semefab is working with a UK startup on a new transistor architecture called Bizen that uses quantum tunnelling to get…

Wind turbine boost from modelling
Wind turbine boost from modelling
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European researchers have modelled the fluid dynamics of multi-rotor wind turbine, and how they interact in wind farms, showing a clear advantage for a wind turbine with four rotors…
Atomically thin LED marks milestone in 2D materials
Atomically thin LED marks milestone in 2D materials
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Graduate researchers at the City College of New York have demonstrated a LED based on half-light half-matter quasiparticles in atomically thin materials.
IEDM: Intel tweaks embedded MRAM for L4 cache
IEDM: Intel tweaks embedded MRAM for L4 cache
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One year after presenting a research paper on spin torque transfer MRAM Intel is set to take the development forward with a paper on an L4-level cache implementation at this…
EU project takes aim at plastic e-waste
EU project takes aim at plastic e-waste
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PolyCE, a European Commission-funded project supported by the United Nations is calling for consumers to demand electronic and electrical products made with recycled plastic, and for manufacturers to redesign products…
IBM joins autonomous ship project
IBM joins autonomous ship project
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IBM (Armonk, NY) has announced that it has joined a global consortium that is building an unmanned, fully-autonomous ship that is planned to cross the Atlantic on the fourth centenary…
Data analysis techniques could improve security for IoT devices
Data analysis techniques could improve security for IoT devices
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Penn State World Campus students have proposed a multi-pronged data analysis approach that can strengthen the security of Internet of Things (IoT) devices, such as smart TVs, home video cameras…
Shape-morphing conductive material reacts to environment
Shape-morphing conductive material reacts to environment
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Researchers at Carnegie Mellon University have developed a new class of stretchable conductive material that can change shape upon thermal or electrical stimuli. They anticipate that such a material could…
C-V2X test system speeds V2X development
C-V2X test system speeds V2X development
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National Instruments (NI) has introduced an open-loop test system for vehicle-to-X communication based on the C-V2X standard. This uses 5G wireless cellular technology to provide high-bandwidth, low-latency communication for Vehicle-to-Vehicle…
Shape-morphing, self-healing elastomer reacts to external stimuli
Shape-morphing, self-healing elastomer reacts to external stimuli
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Researchers at Carnegie Mellon University have developed a new class of stretchable conductive material that can change shape upon thermal or electrical stimuli. They anticipate that such a material could…
Event-driven e-skin eases robots’ compute requirements
Event-driven e-skin eases robots’ compute requirements
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Aiming to give robots better proprioception and a better sense of their close surroundings, researchers at the Technical University of Munich (TUM) have developed a large-scale synthetic skin built up…
Simulation models helping to ‘transform’ aeronautical propulsion
Simulation models helping to ‘transform’ aeronautical propulsion
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Engineering simulation software provider ANSYS (Canonsburg, PA) has announced that regenerative turbine engine technology startup TURBOTECH (Toussus-le-noble, Ile-de-France, France) is leveraging ANSYS' physics-based simulation models to deliver the next generation…
TSMC to present 5nm CMOS, 22nm STT-MRAM at IEDM
TSMC to present 5nm CMOS, 22nm STT-MRAM at IEDM
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Leading foundry Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co. Ltd. (TSMC) has at least two significant papers at the International Electron Devices Meeting (IEDM) coming in December 2019.
Samsung, Dream Chip ready to drive automotive sector down to 8nm
Samsung, Dream Chip ready to drive automotive sector down to 8nm
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Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd. plans to extend its automotive process nodes to 8nm in the "near future," the company said at an event held in Munich, Germany. And Samsung design…
C-V2X test system speeds V2X development
C-V2X test system speeds V2X development
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National Instruments (NI) has introduced an open-loop test system for vehicle-to-X communication based on the C-V2X standard. This uses 5G wireless cellular technology to provide high-bandwidth, low-latency communication for Vehicle-to-Vehicle…
Achronix, Facebook, NXP working hard for a chiplet future
Achronix, Facebook, NXP working hard for a chiplet future
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Leading semiconductor and systems companies – Achronix, Facebook and NXP Semiconductors amongst them – are getting behind multiple aspects of the chiplet assembly aspect of the Open Compute Project Foundation,…
RapidSOS closes funding to advance global emergency response
RapidSOS closes funding to advance global emergency response
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RapidSOS has announced the closing of a $55M funding round, led by Energy Impact Partners (EIP), the largest energy technology investment firm backed by a coalition of leading global utilities.
Unconventional superconducter holds promise for quantum computing
Unconventional superconducter holds promise for quantum computing
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Researchers at Johns Hopkins University (Baltimore, MD) say they have discovered a superconducting material that could someday power quantum computers.
Autonomous concept car from Toyota offers living room atmosphere
Autonomous concept car from Toyota offers living room atmosphere
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At the Tokyo Motor Show (24 October - 4 November), Toyota plans to demonstrate with its concept car LQ not only how a car can drive autonomously at level 4,…
Calcium looks to replace lithium battery technology
Calcium looks to replace lithium battery technology
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Calcium-based batteries have the potential to replace lithium-ion battery technology. Scientists at KIT in Germany have now reached an important milestone on this path.
Flexible OLED enables efficient antimicrobial photodynamic therapy
Flexible OLED enables efficient antimicrobial photodynamic therapy
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A team of English and Polish researchers has demonstrated experimentally the use of flexible OLEDs combined with a photosensitizer for antimicrobial photodynamic therapy (PDT), removing the risk of infection after…
Successor to lithium ion technology takes shape
Successor to lithium ion technology takes shape
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The intellectual fathers of the lithium-ion battery have just been awarded the Nobel Prize, but science is already further ahead: Calcium-based batteries have the potential to replace lithium-ion technology. Scientists…
Physicists demonstrate atomically-thin ultra-fast room temperature LED
Physicists demonstrate atomically-thin ultra-fast room temperature LED
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Graduate researchers at the City College of New York have demonstrated a LED based on half-light half-matter quasiparticles in atomically thin materials.
MEMS micro-speakers reinvented for ‘Internet of Voice’
MEMS micro-speakers reinvented for ‘Internet of Voice’
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Today’s MEMS designs for micro-speakers all rely on the actuation of single or multiple membranes which deflect out-of-plane at controlled frequencies to generate sound.
ExaNoDe delivers 3DIC integrated compute element for exascale
ExaNoDe delivers 3DIC integrated compute element for exascale
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Gathering thirteen partners from six European countries, the ExaNoDe (European Exascale Processor & Memory Node Design) project has pioneered 3DIC integration, global shared memory, and a complete software stack to…


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