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Android N joins auto OS battle
Android N joins auto OS battle
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We’re all aware that operating system vendors have been itching to get into the automotive market. Google, for example, has…
Plastic & Flexible OLEDs display market to reach $2bn this year, says IDTechEx
Plastic & Flexible OLEDs display market to reach $2bn this year, says IDTechEx
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According to IDTechEx Research's latest report, OLED Display Forecasts 2016-2026: The Rise of Plastic and Flexible Displays, the market will…
Plastic and flexible OLEDs: a $18bn market by 2020, says IDTechEx
Plastic and flexible OLEDs: a $18bn market by 2020, says IDTechEx
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According to IDTechEx Research's latest report, OLED Display Forecasts 2016-2026: The Rise of Plastic and Flexible Displays, the market will…
ST/Mobileye set 2018 date for gen-5, autonomous-car sensor fusion chip
ST/Mobileye set 2018 date for gen-5, autonomous-car sensor fusion chip
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Mobileye (Israel) and STMicroelectronics, building on already existing collaborations, are to work on developing Mobileye’s EyeQ5 system-on-chip, that will be…

Infineon, IMEC collaborate on 79GHz all-CMOS radar
Infineon, IMEC collaborate on 79GHz all-CMOS radar
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Radar sensors represent a pivotal technology for autonomous vehicles. Hence, the technology leadership in this segment is critical for vendors who strive for a leading position in automotive driving. Chipmaker…
LVIT technology in factory automation
LVIT technology in factory automation
Feature articles |
What is a LVIT and where are they used? LVITs, Linear Variable Inductive Transducers, which have been around for more than 30 years, are relatively low cost, contactless position sensing…
A few tips for qualitative optical bonding
A few tips for qualitative optical bonding
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Do not hope for a cure-all, but check fundamentally valid approaches to produce high-quality optical bonding. That is the expert advice by Klaus Wammes, CEO of the German Wammes and…
LED-based lightguides address wearables
LED-based lightguides address wearables
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Addressing both the requirements of functional illumination (backlighting and front-lighting of displays and indicators) and decorative illumination (contours, logos), Global Lighting Technologies puts its thin lightguide technology to the fore.
Smart force sensor reference design delivers new HMIs
Smart force sensor reference design delivers new HMIs
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Design engineers can now rapidly evaluate and deploy new human-machine interface (HMI) devices using the MAXREFDES82# smart force sensor reference design from Maxim Integrated Products.
360° wrap-around view evaluation package for all
360° wrap-around view evaluation package for all
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Socionext has introduced a new evaluation solution package for its 360° Wrap-Around View (WAV) system.
Smart grid drives powerline growth
Smart grid drives powerline growth
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The global powerline carrier market is expected annual growth over 9% over the next four years, driven by the expansion of smart grid technology, says a new report.
Infineon & imec collaborate on 79 GHz CMOS radar sensor
Infineon & imec collaborate on 79 GHz CMOS radar sensor
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Belgian nanoelectronics centre imec, and Infineon, are cooperating on CMOS sensor chip development; in an agreement disclosed on 24th May 2016, they are working on a highly-integrated CMOS-based 79 GHz…
650V GaN FET, low on-resistance, in TO-247 package
650V GaN FET, low on-resistance, in TO-247 package
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Gallium nitride device maker Transphorm recently introduced what it positions as the industry’s only fully-qualified 650V-rated FET, in 'conventional' packaging. It claims the lowest R(on) of any such device at…
5A & 3A power modules for battery-powered industrial/high-end consumer
5A & 3A power modules for battery-powered industrial/high-end consumer
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Intersil's latest single-channel DC/DC step-down power modules are designed for high power density and up to 95% efficiency in a 4.5 x 7.5 x 1.85 mm footprint: 5A ISL8205M and…
Current sensors can retrofit energy systems for ‘smart city’ measurements
Current sensors can retrofit energy systems for ‘smart city’ measurements
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Swiss sensor maker LEM recently added a range of devices it is calling the LEM City range of products, aiming to support the measurements that will be needed for Smart…
Mobileye rejects FDSOI for EyeQ chip
Mobileye rejects FDSOI for EyeQ chip
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Mobileye NV has turned away from the fully depleted silicon-on-insulator manufacturing (FDSOI) process technology promoted by ST and is aiming at 10nm or finer FinFET process for its 5th generation…
Towards a digitally reconfigurable optical cloak
Towards a digitally reconfigurable optical cloak
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In their recent Optica paper “digital integral cloak”, researchers from the University of Rochester combine a scanning camera on one side and an LCD display overlaid with an array of…
Tower debuts RF process for IoT front ends
Tower debuts RF process for IoT front ends
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Specialty foundry Tower Semiconductor Ltd. (Migdal Haemek, Israel) has said it has begun mass production of a silicon-germanium process tailored to meet the demands of wireless front-ends on an integrated…
Notes on real-time computing architectures
Notes on real-time computing architectures
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Dennis Feucht discusses different styles of microcontroller architecture and the programming languages they support.
Foundries’ sales show hard times continuing
Foundries’ sales show hard times continuing
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Taiwanese foundries TSMC and UMC, two partial bellwethers of the semiconductor sector, have both indicate with recent sales figures that a chip market slow down that lasted through the winter…
Sales declines dominate 1Q16 chip vendor ranking
Sales declines dominate 1Q16 chip vendor ranking
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Seven of the top-20 chip vendors ranked by revenue in 1Q16 showed double-digit percentage declines compared to 1Q15, according to figures produced by IC Insights.
Silego signs Noonen to drive sales, marketing
Silego signs Noonen to drive sales, marketing
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Silego Technology Inc. (Santa Clara, Calif.), a fabless mixed-signal chip company, has appointed Mike Noonen, as vice president of sales and marketing.
Industry heavyweights unite to standardize cache coherent interconnects
Industry heavyweights unite to standardize cache coherent interconnects
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Advanced Micro Devices, ARM, Huawei, IBM, Mellanox, Qualcomm Technologies and Xilinx are collaborating on the specification for the new Cache Coherent Interconnect for Accelerators (CCIX).
IGBT dice stress-tested for automotive powertrain certification
IGBT dice stress-tested for automotive powertrain certification
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Mentor Graphics' MicReD Power Tester 600A has been configured to allow semiconductor companies and automotive equipment builders to apply long-term and realistic power/thermal cycling tests to the IGBTs typically used…
5A and 3A Power Modules Offer Industry-Leading Power Density and Efficiency
5A and 3A Power Modules Offer Industry-Leading Power Density and Efficiency
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Intersil has launched two compact single-channel, pin-compatible 5A and 3A power modules for battery-powered industrial and high-end consumer applications…
MIT terahertz system detects spectroscopic ‘fingerprints’ in microseconds
MIT terahertz system detects spectroscopic ‘fingerprints’ in microseconds
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Researchers at MIT’s Research Laboratory of Electronics (Cambridge, MA) have proven a new terahertz spectroscopy system that uses a quantum cascade laser (QCL) to extract a material’s spectroscopic signature in…
Solar cell efficiency pushed to 35%
Solar cell efficiency pushed to 35%
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Researchers in Australia have hit a new record for the efficiency of solar cells.
Google, Infineon partner on radar-based gesture control
Google, Infineon partner on radar-based gesture control
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Using semiconductor devices from Infineon (Neubiberg, Germany), two prototypes of products controlled exclusively through gestures were demonstrated at a “Google I/O” event on May 20th 2016. The two products, a…


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