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Stepping from remote VR into someone else’s AR
Stepping from remote VR into someone else’s AR
Technology News |
Bridging the immersive remote world of virtual reality (VR) with the local real world of augmented reality (AR) researchers from…
Exotic material promises lower-power electronics, quantum computing
Exotic material promises lower-power electronics, quantum computing
Technology News |
Physicists at Rutgers University (New Brunswick, NJ) have demonstrated a way to conduct electricity between transistors without energy loss.
Battery metals and materials ETF launched
Battery metals and materials ETF launched
Business news |
Investment firm Amplify (Chicago, IL) has launched an exchange traded fund (ETF) dedicated to the materials used in battery production…
Fund manager looks to capitalise on battery materials
Fund manager looks to capitalise on battery materials
Business news |
A US finance house has launched a fund dedicated to the materials used in battery production such as lithium, cobalt,…

Driving GaN technology into automotive designs
Driving GaN technology into automotive designs
Interviews |
The announcement of a deal with ROHM at this years PCIM exhibition put a lot of focus on US startup GaN System. Nick Flaherty talks to CEO Jim Witham.
IGBT power interface integrates electro-optic conversion
IGBT power interface integrates electro-optic conversion
New Products |
Harting has developed a range of miniaturised power interfaces with integrated electro-optical conversion, enabling customers to save time and money by combining electrical connectivity and optical transmission in the same…
Easily programmable digital attenuator covers 200 to 6,000 MHz in 0.1 dB steps
Easily programmable digital attenuator covers 200 to 6,000 MHz in 0.1 dB steps
New Products |
Capable of bidirectional fixed attenuation, swept attenuation ramps, and fading profiles, the LDA-906V Lab Brick™ digital attenuator from Vaunix Technology Corporation is a highly accurate 50-ohm step attenuator.
Europe to build commercial laser-based quantum security system in the sky
Europe to build commercial laser-based quantum security system in the sky
Technology News |
Luxembourg-based satellite operator SES is working with ten European partners on a project to distribute keys for quantum cryptography via its satellite network using lasers.
New MSP430 MCUs offer configurable signal-chain elements
New MSP430 MCUs offer configurable signal-chain elements
New Products |
Texas Instruments' latest MSP430 line addition includes microcontrollers with integrated signal-chain elements and an extended operating temperature range as high as 105°C.
City of Hamburg to test robot buses in normal traffic
City of Hamburg to test robot buses in normal traffic
Technology News |
As part of a development project, a consortium of companies in Hamburg plans to integrate autonomous minibuses into real city traffic. The vehicles are to travel in normal traffic -…
Free TCPM software helps migration to USB-PD 3.0 Power Delivery
Free TCPM software helps migration to USB-PD 3.0 Power Delivery
New Products |
STMicroelectronics has introduced new software for implementing a Type-C Port Manager (TCPM) on any general-purpose STM32 microcontroller.
Microsoft tests undersea datacenter
Microsoft tests undersea datacenter
Technology News |
Microsoft is installing a datacenter in the North Sea off Orkney, a set of islands in the north of the UK.
Breaking free of epitaxial constraints
Breaking free of epitaxial constraints
Technology News |
In their quest to easily grow crystalline materials on amorphous and non-epitaxial substrates, and improving on a so-called templated liquid phase (TLP) growth process they had developed in a 2016…
Power design reaches 99 percent efficiency
Power design reaches 99 percent efficiency
Technology News |
Seasonic Electronics is using a high voltage gallium nitride transistor from Transphorm for a 1600W bridgeless totem-pole power factor correction (PFC) platform that acheives 99% efficiency.
Paper-based film solar cells could be commercialised
Paper-based film solar cells could be commercialised
Technology News |
Researchers at Aalto University in Finland and the University of Montréal are looking at how flexible dye-based solar cells can be mass-produced and commercialized.
Power management and cooling key to latest WiGig gaming phone
Power management and cooling key to latest WiGig gaming phone
Technology News |
Power management, cooling and charging have been three key issues behind the design of a high performance Android gaming phone developed by Asus …
Tuxera Flash File System supports Green Hills RTOS
Tuxera Flash File System supports Green Hills RTOS
New Products |
Storage software company Tuxera and RTOS-vendor Green Hills Software have combined their respective strengths. The result: Tuxera’s Flash File System can be combined with Green Hills’ Integrity Real-time operating system.
Dual-die Hall-effect sensor with PWM output and SENT protocol
Dual-die Hall-effect sensor with PWM output and SENT protocol
New Products |
Designed for multidimensional magnetic field measurements in safety-critical automotive applications according to ISO 26262, the HAR 379x sensors come with a PWM output supporting the SENT protocol (according to the…
New IoT boards use u-blox technology
New IoT boards use u-blox technology
u-blox communications modules will be included in two new developer boards that have been designed and produced by Seeed.
Conrad launches MAKERFACTORY brand
Conrad launches MAKERFACTORY brand
Conrad has launched a new brand of products for makers, hobbyists, inventors and technicians at this year’s Maker Faire Berlin in Germany.
Microsoft sinks a datacentre in the sea off Orkney
Microsoft sinks a datacentre in the sea off Orkney
Technology News |
Microsoft is installing a datacentre in the North Sea off Orkney, a set of islands in the north of the UK.
Researchers attempt to control robots using brain power alone
Researchers attempt to control robots using brain power alone
Technology News |
Buttons and levers are not the right way to control robots in real time. Even voice control may be too clumsy to cause the robot to perform the desired action.
Intel looks to launch Nervana NN processor next year
Intel looks to launch Nervana NN processor next year
Technology News |
Although Intel acquired neural networking hardware company Nervana Systems Inc. in 2016 the wheels of R&D grind exceedingly slow. Intel has announced that the company is planning to ship a…
MCUs boast configurable signal-chain elements for sensing
MCUs boast configurable signal-chain elements for sensing
New Products |
Texas Instruments' latest MSP430 line addition includes microcontrollers with integrated signal-chain elements and an extended operating temperature range as high as 105°C.
0.1dB step programmable digital attenuator for the 200 to 6,000MHz range 
0.1dB step programmable digital attenuator for the 200 to 6,000MHz range 
New Products |
Vaunix Technologys digital attenuator LDA-906V is capable of bidirectional fixed attenuation, swept attenuation ramps, and fading profiles.
Sony’s 1/6.4” CMOS global shutter sensor now at Framos
Sony’s 1/6.4” CMOS global shutter sensor now at Framos
New Products |
The Sony IMX397 is a very small 1/6.4” CMOS Global Shutter sensor with a pixel pitch of 3,45µm, and providing VGA resolution. It is a low noise, low power imager…
Designs use power and RF GaN devices for 100W and 300W wireless chargers
Designs use power and RF GaN devices for 100W and 300W wireless chargers
Technology News |
GaN Systems has developed two wireless power amplifier evaluation boards for wireless charging of high-power consumer, industrial, and transport applications using gallium nitride (GaN) power and RF devices.
Bringing high precision positioning to the mass market
Bringing high precision positioning to the mass market
Technology News |
Technologies are successful to the extent that they solve problems. GNSS technology, now ubiquitous in our daily lives, is a case in point: it’s difficult to overstate how many problems…


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