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Organic power electronics achieves mains rectification
Organic power electronics achieves mains rectification
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A team of researchers has configured organic thin-film transistors so that they are able to operate at a high enough…
€8m project to grow cubic silicon carbide on wafers
€8m project to grow cubic silicon carbide on wafers
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Researchers in Sweden are building 3D silicon carbide devices on standard silicon wafers as part of a €8m international project…
Imec aims for video-rate holography with 2.5M Euro ERC Advanced Grant
Imec aims for video-rate holography with 2.5M Euro ERC Advanced Grant
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One of Imec's distinguished scientists, Jan Genoe has been awarded an ERC Advanced Grant of 2.5 million euros for a…
Electric motor offers high performance without rare earth materials
Electric motor offers high performance without rare earth materials
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Developed by the EU-funded SyrNemo (Synchronous Reluctance Machine) project, electric motors could soon drive their own car and help reduce…

BrainChip licenses unsupervised learning for SNAP
BrainChip licenses unsupervised learning for SNAP
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BrainChip Holdings Ltd. has signed an exclusive licensing agreement to use JAST learning rules and algorithms developed by Cerco, a public research lab In Toulouse, France.
Intel launches SSD based on 3D XPoint memory
Intel launches SSD based on 3D XPoint memory
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Intel Corp. has launched the Optane P4800X solid-state drive (SSD) for use in data centers, a unit is based on the 3D XPoint memory announced in 2015.
New ARM multicore architecture targets AI, machine learning
New ARM multicore architecture targets AI, machine learning
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ARM (Cambridge, UK) has revealed the first steps in its next-generation processor technology. Changes to the ARMv8 instruction set will boost the performance of artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning…
Organic transistors double up as efficient OLEDs
Organic transistors double up as efficient OLEDs
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Publishing their results in the ACS Photonics Letter under the title "Highly Efficient Red Organic Light-Emitting Transistors (OLETs) on High‑k Dielectric", a team of Italian researchers has been exploring the…
ARM announces multicore processor architecture targeting automated driving
ARM announces multicore processor architecture targeting automated driving
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ARM has revealed the first steps in its next generation processor technology. Changes to the ARMv8 instruction set will boost the performance of artificial intelligence and machine learning by up…
896Gb/s silicon photonics: transceiver
896Gb/s silicon photonics: transceiver
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At this week’s OFC 2017, imec presented a 896Gb/s silicon photonics transceiver only a few square millimeters. Aimed at future Tb/s optical links, the proof-of-concept 896Gb/s spatial-division multiplexing transceiver combines…
ARM to boost processor performance by 50x with new AI instructions
ARM to boost processor performance by 50x with new AI instructions
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ARM has revealed the first steps in its next generation processor technology. Changes to the ARMv8 instruction set will boost the performance of artificial intelligence and machine learning by up…
E-Peas broadens power saving portfolio
E-Peas broadens power saving portfolio
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Startup company E-Peas Semiconductors (Liege, Belgium) is preparing to release a series of energy harvest management ICs to follow on from its first device the AEM10940.
Fraunhofer to open Dublin Lab-on-Chip center
Fraunhofer to open Dublin Lab-on-Chip center
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The Science Foundation Ireland and Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft are collaborating to create a €5 million center for embedded bioanalytical systems at Dublin City University (DCU), Ireland.
Infrared wireless network is 100x faster than Wi-Fi, eliminates sharing
Infrared wireless network is 100x faster than Wi-Fi, eliminates sharing
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Researchers at the Eindhoven University of Technology (Eindhoven, Netherlands) have come up with a wireless network based on harmless infrared rays, that delivers more than 40Gbit/s per ray but also…
Sonic spoofing a threat to common smartphone sensors, say researchers
Sonic spoofing a threat to common smartphone sensors, say researchers
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Capacitive MEMS accelerometers, widely deployed in smartphones and other consumer goods, can easily be tricked to give false readings and this is a way to bypass embedded system security, according…
Nano gas sensor tech for IoT includes machine learning
Nano gas sensor tech for IoT includes machine learning
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AerNos Inc. (La Jolla, CA) has developed a nanoscale gas sensor specifically for the detection of air quality, and allied it to machine learning computation.
MEMS atomic force microscopes look to ‘democratize’ AFMs
MEMS atomic force microscopes look to ‘democratize’ AFMs
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A spin-off company from the University of Waterloo, ten-year old Canadian startup ICSPI Corp. initiated its research on MEMS-based Atomic Force Microscopes (AFMs) in 2007. It published its first tangible…
Easily-tricked MEMS are security threat, says university
Easily-tricked MEMS are security threat, says university
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Capacitive MEMS accelerometers, widely deployed in smartphones and other consumer goods, can easily be tricked to give false readings and this is a way to bypass embedded system security, according…
MEMS-based AFMs by the thousands for atomic-level wafer probing/imaging
MEMS-based AFMs by the thousands for atomic-level wafer probing/imaging
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A spin-off company from the University of Waterloo, ten-year old Canadian startup ICSPI Corp,. initiated its research on MEMS-based Atomic Force Microscopes in 2007. It published its first tangible contact…
Startup offers multi-gas sensing, machine learning
Startup offers multi-gas sensing, machine learning
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AerNos Inc. (La Jolla, Calif.) has developed a nanoscale gas sensor specifically for the detection of air quality and allied it to machine learning computation.
Infrared Wi-fi is 100 times faster and no sharing
Infrared Wi-fi is 100 times faster and no sharing
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Researchers at Eindhoven University of Technology have come up with a wireless network based on harmless infrared rays, that delivers more than 40Gbit/s per ray but also eliminates the need…
InvenSense, GloFo collaborate on ultrasonics
InvenSense, GloFo collaborate on ultrasonics
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MEMS sensor company InvenSense Inc. is working with foundry Globalfoundries Inc. to develop an ultrasonic fingerprint imaging technology that will operate under glass and other solid surfaces.
Chip security shield blocks backside hacks
Chip security shield blocks backside hacks
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French research institute Leti (Grenoble, France) is proposing a low-cost way to protect chips form invasive and semi-invasive attacks through the backside of the chip.
IoT bus combines properties of field bus and IPv6
IoT bus combines properties of field bus and IPv6
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Secure and reliable networking of physical objects is a crucial success factor for applications on the Internet of Things (IoT). With its “IoT bus”, the Fraunhofer Institute for Integrated Circuits…
MEMS-based AFMs by the thousands for atomic-level wafer probing
MEMS-based AFMs by the thousands for atomic-level wafer probing
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A spin-off company from the University of Waterloo, ten-year old Canadian startup ICSPI Corp. initiated its research on MEMS-based Atomic Force Microscopes in 2007. It published its first tangible contact…
Circadian lighting study shows tangible benefits
Circadian lighting study shows tangible benefits
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Several years ago, the Rigshospitalet (Copenhagen University Hospital) and the Aarhus University Hospital adopted Chromaviso's Circadian Light system to study the effect of such lighting on patients' mental health, sleep,…
Chip-scale flow batteries could power and cool 3D stacks
Chip-scale flow batteries could power and cool 3D stacks
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Researchers at ETH Zurich and IBM Research Zurich have built a thin redox flow battery that could be built into computer chip stacks.
Chip-sized flow batteries could power and cool 3D stacks
Chip-sized flow batteries could power and cool 3D stacks
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Researchers at ETH Zurich and IBM Research Zurich have built a thin redox flow battery that could be built into computer chip stacks.


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