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Globalfoundries launches 7nm ASIC platform
Globalfoundries launches 7nm ASIC platform
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Globalfoundries Inc. (Santa Clara, Calif.), which is now offering design kits for its 7LP 7nm FinFET manufacturing process, ha also…
Rechargeable aluminium-air coin cell developer looks for collaborators
Rechargeable aluminium-air coin cell developer looks for collaborators
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A researcher at Fuji Pigment in Japan has developed a rechargeable coin cell battery that uses aluminium and air rather…
pureLiFi promotes VLC as emergency tool in subway environments
pureLiFi promotes VLC as emergency tool in subway environments
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A provider of LiFi technology pureLiFi has teamed up with Verizon, Nokia and Aegex Technologies to demonstrate how LiFi can…
More than Moore: 2D semiconductor packs 3 functions into one device
More than Moore: 2D semiconductor packs 3 functions into one device
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Looking at ways to pack more circuit functionalities than with today's transistors, a team of researchers at SUNY-Polytechnic Institute in…

5G to be a major benefit for mission critical but narrowband still essential says ETELM
5G to be a major benefit for mission critical but narrowband still essential says ETELM
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Now is an exciting time to unify legacy and new technologies for Mission Critical Communications (MCC) to ensure that users retain existing functionality whilst adding new advanced LTE services, says…
Continental enables OEMs to update car software over the air
Continental enables OEMs to update car software over the air
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With the amount of software in today’s cars in the dimension of millions of lines of code, updating vehicle software today is a cumbersome business. Now Continental has created the…
VTT keeps thin film deposition in check with silicon-based test microstructures
VTT keeps thin film deposition in check with silicon-based test microstructures
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The VTT Technical Research Centre of Finland has developed unique test structures to help developers of challenging thin film deposition processes evaluate the conformality of the deposition.
Dynamic reconfigurable nanowires open up new computing architectures
Dynamic reconfigurable nanowires open up new computing architectures
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Researchers at the Queen's University Belfast have discovered a way to create re-configurable interconnects in a crystal for nano-scale devices.
ARM puts a data centre on the desktop
ARM puts a data centre on the desktop
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Processor designer ARM has teamed up with Scandinavian software developer ENEA on a new development platform that puts a data centre on an engineer's desk.
Graphene transistor could enable low-power computers 1000x faster
Graphene transistor could enable low-power computers 1000x faster
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A graphene-based transistor could someday lead to computers that are a thousand times faster and use a hundredth of the power.
‘Swarm’ tech mimics nature to enable autonomous power grids
‘Swarm’ tech mimics nature to enable autonomous power grids
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Founded in 2015, startup Power-Blox (Brugg, Switzerland) has developed a new technology it describes as Swarm Power, to allow anyone to create a ‘plug and power’ energy grid that is…
Transparent LED film display opens up new digital signage possibilities
Transparent LED film display opens up new digital signage possibilities
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Introduced for the U.S. market at InfoComm 2017, the LG (Seoul, South Korea) Transparent LED Film Display (model LAT300MT1) offers eye-catching digital content and information while interacting seamlessly with its…
Open-source microfluidic design: MIT opens online repository
Open-source microfluidic design: MIT opens online repository
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Metafluidics is a brand new open repository for fluidic systems, built by MIT Lincoln Laboratory in partnership with open source technology & design consulting company Bocoup and maintained by the…
Transparent adhesive LED film blends digital signage within surroundings
Transparent adhesive LED film blends digital signage within surroundings
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Introduced for the U.S. market at InfoComm 2017, the LG Transparent LED Film Display (model LAT300MT1) offers eye-catching digital content and information while interacting seamlessly with its surrounding environment.
QTC force sensor gains mouse design win
QTC force sensor gains mouse design win
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Peratech Holdco Ltd. (Richmond, England), has gained a design win for its quantum tunnelling composite (QTC) in a mouse for gamers made by Swiftpoint Ltd. (Christchurch, New Zealand).
Swiss startup delivers evolutive power grid with swarms of smart batteries
Swiss startup delivers evolutive power grid with swarms of smart batteries
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Founded in 2015, Swiss startup Power-Blox has developed a new technology it describes as Swarm Power, to allow anyone to create a ‘plug and power’ energy grid that is completely…
Ultra HD wireless transmission at 60 GHz for 4K video
Ultra HD wireless transmission at 60 GHz for 4K video
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Lattice Semiconductor claims a ‘first-to-market’ with its 60 GHz SiBEAM technology for robust, low latency video transmission free from interference; the 4K UHD wireless link uses the license-free 60 GHz…
200mm GaN-on-Si Wafers yield 650V dispersion free normally-off/e-mode power devices
200mm GaN-on-Si Wafers yield 650V dispersion free normally-off/e-mode power devices
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Claiming a world's first, research centre IMEC has developed 200V and 650V normally-off/enhancement mode (e-mode) switching power devices on 200mm GaN-on-Silicon wafers.
Nanowire array lasers readily coupled to waveguides
Nanowire array lasers readily coupled to waveguides
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A multi-disciplinary team of researchers has demonstrated room-temperature InGaAs nanowire array lasers directly grown on a silicon-on-insulator (SOI) platform.
Solar cell-supercap hybrid yields record storage efficiency
Solar cell-supercap hybrid yields record storage efficiency
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Combining supercapacitors with a form of fluctuating energy harvesting solution isn't anything new, but a team of international researchers claims the world's best photoelectric conversion to storage efficiency thanks to…
Microsoft curved image sensor promises ‘ideal’ camera
Microsoft curved image sensor promises ‘ideal’ camera
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Microsoft Research (Redmond, WA) and HRL Laboratories (Malibu, CA) have demonstrated a practical approach for curving commercially available image sensors that promises dramatically improved image quality for digital cameras.
Researchers integrate ultracapacitor with SiNW hybrid solar cell
Researchers integrate ultracapacitor with SiNW hybrid solar cell
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Combining supercapacitors with a form of fluctuating energy harvesting solution isn't anything new, but a team of international researchers claims the world's best photoelectric conversion to storage efficiency thanks to…
Graphene-on-CMOS makes broad spectrum image sensor
Graphene-on-CMOS makes broad spectrum image sensor
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Spain's Institute of Photonic Sciences (IFCO) has integrated graphene quantum dots within CMOS to create an image sensor that can sense visible, ultraviolet and infrared light at the same time.
Renesas cuts embedded SRAM standby power in prototype technology
Renesas cuts embedded SRAM standby power in prototype technology
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Renesas reports that it has developed a very-low-power SRAM circuit technology that can be embedded in ASSPs for IoT, healthcare and other low power applications. The technology provides a function…
Functional safety tools for Renesas RH850 MCUs, from IAR
Functional safety tools for Renesas RH850 MCUs, from IAR
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The functional safety edition of IAR Embedded Workbench for Renesas’ RH850 Family is certified according to IEC 61508, ISO 26262 and EN 50128, delivering qualified tools, simplified validation and guaranteed…
ETSI and TCCA to hold first interoperability trials for mission critical LTE
ETSI and TCCA to hold first interoperability trials for mission critical LTE
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The first interoperability test sessions for mission-critical LTE equipment will take place later this month at the ETSI headquarters in Sophia Antipolis, France.
Smart material yields programmable tilting micro mirror
Smart material yields programmable tilting micro mirror
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A team of researchers from Michigan State University (East Lansing, MI) and the US Air Force Research Laboratory Sensors Directorate (Wright-Patterson Air Force Base, Ohio) have developed micro-electromechanical (MEMS) mirror…
Microresonators promise to slash energy consumption of optical communications
Microresonators promise to slash energy consumption of optical communications
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Researchers from Karlsruhe, Germany and Lausanne, Switzerland have demonstrated a new device that allows a record-breaking transmission of data at 55Tbit/s over a distance of 75 km.


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