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Bosch, TomTom tap car radar to create maps for robo cars
Bosch, TomTom tap car radar to create maps for robo cars
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Automated driving requires very exact, concurrent virtual roadmaps. These maps are normally composed by the camera images from the vehicles.
Hyper-local air pollution maps show air quality at street level
Hyper-local air pollution maps show air quality at street level
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Researchers at the University of Texas at Austin have developed what is claimed as the "most detailed and extensive local…
ARM tweaks its way to higher graphics and AI performance
ARM tweaks its way to higher graphics and AI performance
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ARM has made changes to its MALI line of 3D accelerator core IP to support the new DynamIQ Cortex A75…
Which is better: higher pixel density or wider field of view?
Which is better: higher pixel density or wider field of view?
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This is one of the key VR headset design decisions that product developers have been wrestling with. So far, most…

Imec unveils vertically stacked CMOS-compatible ferroelectric memory concept
Imec unveils vertically stacked CMOS-compatible ferroelectric memory concept
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At the 2017 Symposia on VLSI Technology and Circuits, research centre IMEC unveiled a vertically stacked ferroelectric Al doped HfO2 device for NAND applications. Using a new material and a…
Wireless power for heart pacemaker
Wireless power for heart pacemaker
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Researchers are Rice University in Texas have developed a wirelessly powered pacemaker that eliminates battery packs and leads and allows the device to be inserted directly into the heart.
5nm only a few years away, say IBM Research scientists
5nm only a few years away, say IBM Research scientists
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IBM together with its Research Alliance partners Globalfoundries and Samsung, and equipment suppliers have announced the development of a novel 5nm process, building silicon nanosheet transistors that will enable 5…
New liquid metal battery may solve renewable energy storage problem
New liquid metal battery may solve renewable energy storage problem
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Researchers in Norway are developing a membrane-free sodium-zinc liquid metal battery that could be used with renewable energy systems.
Plastic screen-printed RFID tag/readout works on curved surfaces
Plastic screen-printed RFID tag/readout works on curved surfaces
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Quad Industries, Agfa, imec and TNO have demonstrated a plastic 12-bit RFID tag and read-out system with screen-printed circuitry. The system integrates, for the first time, a screen-printed antenna and…
ZF develops seat-integrated center airbag concept
ZF develops seat-integrated center airbag concept
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Autonomous driving requires new types of safety installations in the autonomous cars. The reason is that the passengers can take different positions – not side-by side and directed to the…
Report: Apple working on neural processor
Report: Apple working on neural processor
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Consumer giant Apple Inc. is designing a processor IC specifically to perform artificial intelligence tasks, according to a Bloomberg report that references an unnamed source.
Google’s second TPU processor comes out
Google’s second TPU processor comes out
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Google has announced its second tensor processing unit (TPU), a follow on from its first TPU processor announced in May 2016.
Time is ripe for machine learning, says IMEC
Time is ripe for machine learning, says IMEC
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At the IMEC Technology Forum held in Antwerp last week Praveen Raghavan, distinguished member of technical staff at IMEC, presented arguments for the development of dedicated hardware to implement machine…
Plastic electronics, printed antenna make a 12-bit RFID Tag & Read-out
Plastic electronics, printed antenna make a 12-bit RFID Tag & Read-out
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Quad Industries and Agfa, together with research bodies imec and TNO have announced that they have demonstrated a plastic 12-bit RFID tag and read-out system with screen-printed circuitry. The system…
Bike-to-x communications protect motorcycle riders
Bike-to-x communications protect motorcycle riders
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The risk to get killed in a traffic accident is for a motorbike rider 18-times higher than for a car driver. To reduce this risk, chipmaker Autotalks, automotive supplier Bosch…
Arbitrary waveform generator precise enough for quantum research
Arbitrary waveform generator precise enough for quantum research
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Precision is always important in research and there can be few research areas needing greater precision than that of quantum research. The Institute for Quantum Optics and Quantum Information at…
Advanced model gives IC lifetime prediction in all design environments
Advanced model gives IC lifetime prediction in all design environments
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Using proprietary techniques, designers are now able to verify the long-term behaviour of their integrated circuits and systems in safety critical applications. Compared to today’s solutions, the advanced modelling services…
Plastic 12-bit RFID tag and read-out system: all screen-printed
Plastic 12-bit RFID tag and read-out system: all screen-printed
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Quad Industries, Agfa, IMEC and TNO have co-developed a plastic 12-bit RFID tag and read-out system with screen-printed circuitry. The system integrates, for the first time, a screen-printed antenna and…
Fraunhofer ready for continuous roll-to-roll processing on flexible thin glass
Fraunhofer ready for continuous roll-to-roll processing on flexible thin glass
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During FLEX 2017 taking place from June 19 to 22 in Monterey, USA, Fraunhofer Institute for Organic Electronics, Electron Beam and Plasma Technology FEP will unveil a 100m roll of…
Reliable Wireless Sensor Network Streamlines Manufacturing Operations
Reliable Wireless Sensor Network Streamlines Manufacturing Operations
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SmartMesh IP embedded wireless mesh networks deliver >99.999% data reliability and ultra-low power in rugged, industrial environments.
Plastic 12-bit RFID tag and read-out system with screen-printed antenna
Plastic 12-bit RFID tag and read-out system with screen-printed antenna
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Quad Industries, Agfa, imec and TNO have demonstrated a plastic 12-bit RFID tag and read-out system with screen-printed circuitry. The system integrates, for the first time, a screen-printed antenna and…
Samsung’s LCDs go to 2,250ppi for VR/AR and beyond
Samsung’s LCDs go to 2,250ppi for VR/AR and beyond
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Exhibiting at DisplayWeek, Samsung Display has revealed a 1.96" LCD panel specifically developed for VR/AR applications, with a resolution of 2,250ppi, so that even when magnified through lenses the pixels…
Samsung 2,250ppi LCD targets VR, AR and 3D applications
Samsung 2,250ppi LCD targets VR, AR and 3D applications
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Exhibiting at DisplayWeek, Samsung Display has revealed a 1.96" LCD panel specifically developed for VR/AR applications, with a resolution of 2,250ppi, so that even when magnified through lenses the pixels…
Low-cost perovskite solar cell achieves 10,000-hour+ stability
Low-cost perovskite solar cell achieves 10,000-hour+ stability
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Researchers at EPFL in Zurich have developed a low-cost perovskite solar cell that has operated for more than a year without loss in its 11% efficiency and could mark the…
Membrane-free liquid metal battery aims at the renewable grid
Membrane-free liquid metal battery aims at the renewable grid
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Researchers in Norway are developing a membrane-free sodium-zinc liquid metal battery that could be used with renewable energy systems.
Nanosheet transistors promise to accelerate cognitive computing, IoT
Nanosheet transistors promise to accelerate cognitive computing, IoT
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Hot on the heels of a 7nm test node chip with 20 billion transistors developed less then two years ago, IBM and its Research Alliance partners GLOBALFOUNDRIES and Samsung, as…
Low-power mmWave radar tech promises new mobile applications
Low-power mmWave radar tech promises new mobile applications
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Targeting the W-band used by automotive radars, Hiroshima University and Mie Fujitsu Semiconductor Limited (MIFS) have developed a low-power millimeter-wave amplifier that feeds on 0.5 V power supply and covers…
Fastest bidirectional phased-array link in 28-GHz 5G band demonstrated
Fastest bidirectional phased-array link in 28-GHz 5G band demonstrated
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Keysight Technologies, working with the University of California San Diego, has disclosed what the collaborators believe to be fastest bidirectional phased-array link in the 28 GHz 5G band, yielding up…


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