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Slideshow: A guided tour inside Google’s data centers
Slideshow: A guided tour inside Google’s data centers
Feature articles |
Steve Taranovich, editor of Planet Analog, has been looking at Google's approach to heat minimization in the data center and…
DARPA awards GPS-beating sensor development contract to HRL
DARPA awards GPS-beating sensor development contract to HRL
Technology News |
The United States Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) has awarded HRL Laboratories LLC (Malibu, Calif.) a $4.3 million contract…
Foundry market stalls, Fujitsu climbs ranking
Foundry market stalls, Fujitsu climbs ranking
Market news |
The global semiconductor foundry market grew 4.4 percent in 2015 to reach $48.8 billion in value, according to market research…
Lead partner pulls out of India fab plan
Lead partner pulls out of India fab plan
Business news |
After years of inactivity the Indian government's long-running project to build two wafer fabs in the sub-continent appears to be…

Mie Fujitsu, CSEM to combine DDC, low voltage for IoT chips
Mie Fujitsu, CSEM to combine DDC, low voltage for IoT chips
Technology News |
Japanese chip manufacturer Mie Fujitsu Semiconductor Ltd. and Swiss research institute CSEM SA have agreed to collaborate on Deeply Depleted Channel (DDC) technology and near/sub-threshold voltage technology for integrated circuits…
Electric Imp doubles down on IoT
Electric Imp doubles down on IoT
Business news |
Electric Imp Inc. (Los Altos, Calif.), developer of Internet of Things platform and cloud infrastructure founded in 2011, has raised $21 million in Series C funding.
Firefly inspired OLEDs achieve 60% increase in efficiency
Firefly inspired OLEDs achieve 60% increase in efficiency
Technology News |
Researchers at the Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology have replicated the patterns of a firefly's light-emitting cuticle to create a bioinspired OLED that achieves a 60% increase in…
Simple method found to make fast, flexible transistors
Simple method found to make fast, flexible transistors
Technology News |
Researchers from the University of Wisconsin Madison have leveraged the high carrier mobility of flexible silicon nanomembranes (NM) with the scalability of nanoimprinting lithography (NIL) to produce thin-film flexible RF…
Nanowire material shows promise in extending battery life
Nanowire material shows promise in extending battery life
Technology News |
Researchers at the University of California, Irvine have developed a nanowire-based battery material that can be recharged hundreds of thousands of times, moving us closer to a battery that would…
Energy harvesting chips are next billion-dollar market, says report
Energy harvesting chips are next billion-dollar market, says report
Market news |
Although energy harvesting has failed to take off to date – usually because it is has been uneconomic compared with installed battery power – it will drive semiconductor sales worth…
Connected MCU Lab course offered by tech companies
Connected MCU Lab course offered by tech companies
Business news |
Imagination Technologies and Microchip Technology, together with Digilent Inc. have created the “Connected MCU Lab,” a course developed through the companies' respective university programs.
Transparent OLED technology eliminates the need for display lighting
Transparent OLED technology eliminates the need for display lighting
Business news |
Crystal Display Systems has introduced a transparent display technology which is based on Transparent OLED (‘TOLED’ Organic Light Emitting Diode) technology that eliminates the need for display lighting and showcase…
IDT bets on Peraso’s 60GHz chips
IDT bets on Peraso’s 60GHz chips
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WiGig chipset provider Peraso Technologies Inc. (Toronto, Ontario) has raised a $20 million Series D funding round co-led by chip company Integrated Device Technology Inc.
Fireflies inspire OLED efficiency gains
Fireflies inspire OLED efficiency gains
Technology News |
Researchers at the Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology have replicated the patterns of a firefly's light-emitting cuticle to create a bioinspired OLED that achieves a 60% increase in…
3D printed circuit carrier prototyped on demand
3D printed circuit carrier prototyped on demand
New Products |
Modern electronic equipment typically requires that the circuit must be accommodated within the limited space of a housing or enclosure. When conventional PCBs (2D) are no longer suitable, the switch…
Vicariously reliving college
Vicariously reliving college
Feature articles |
Scott Deuty considers the similarities and differences between his own college days and those of his son.
Lynx/Vector tie-up yields dynamic testing for mission-critical OSs
Lynx/Vector tie-up yields dynamic testing for mission-critical OSs
Business news |
Vector Software's VectorCAST Test Automation Platform now supports the latest versions of LynxOS and LynxOS-178 from Lynx Software Technologies; the integration between the LynxOS family of real-time operating systems and…
FFT application offers sampling rate up to 3.2-GS/s
FFT application offers sampling rate up to 3.2-GS/s
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Keysight Technologies, Inc. has introduced an improved version of the FFT option, now available on the U5303A PCIe 12-bit high-speed data acquisition card. The card features two channels and a…
Mie Fujitsu, CSEM to combine DDC, low voltage for IoT chips
Mie Fujitsu, CSEM to combine DDC, low voltage for IoT chips
Technology News |
Japanese chip manufacturer Mie Fujitsu Semiconductor Ltd. and Swiss research institute CSEM SA have agreed to collaborate on Deeply Depleted Channel (DDC) technology and near/sub-threshold voltage technology for integrated circuits…
Nanowire-based battery provides long lifetime charging capacity
Nanowire-based battery provides long lifetime charging capacity
Technology News |
Researchers at the University of California, Irvine have developed a nanowire-based battery material that can be recharged hundreds of thousands of times, moving us closer to a battery that would…
Movidius weds thermal imager and computer vision
Movidius weds thermal imager and computer vision
Technology News |
The power of thermal imaging is well known. But what happens when a thermal sensor marries a vision processor?…
Movidius weds thermal imager and computer vision
Movidius weds thermal imager and computer vision
Technology News |
The power of thermal imaging is well known. But what happens when a thermal sensor marries a vision processor?…
Fireflies inspire OLED efficiency gains
Fireflies inspire OLED efficiency gains
Technology News |
Researchers at the Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology have replicated the patterns of a firefly's light-emitting cuticle to create a bioinspired OLED that achieves a 60% increase in…
Roll-to-roll flexible electronics to hit 100GHz?
Roll-to-roll flexible electronics to hit 100GHz?
Technology News |
Researchers from the University of Wisconsin Madison have leveraged the high carrier mobility of flexible silicon nanomembranes (NM) with the scalability of nanoimprinting lithography (NIL) to produce thin-film flexible RF…
Roll-to-roll flexible electronics to hit 100GHz?
Roll-to-roll flexible electronics to hit 100GHz?
Technology News |
Researchers from the University of Wisconsin Madison have leveraged the high carrier mobility of flexible silicon nanomembranes (NM) with the scalability of nanoimprinting lithography (NIL) to produce thin-film flexible RF…
Quintet of UV LEDs cover 365-nm to 400-nm wavelengths
Quintet of UV LEDs cover 365-nm to 400-nm wavelengths
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Everlight Electronics Co., Ltd. has introduced five UV LEDs which cover wavelengths between 365 nm and 400 nm.
First mmWave software defined radio targets 5G research
First mmWave software defined radio targets 5G research
Technology News |
National Instruments (NI) has announced the first software defined radio (SDR) for the millimeter wave (mmWave) spectrum. The NI mmWave Transceiver System is a full transceiver that can transmit and/or…
CSEM pens Deeply Depleted Channel development deal
CSEM pens Deeply Depleted Channel development deal
Business news |
Mie Fujitsu Semiconductor Ltd (MIFS) has signed a joint development agreement with CSEM to cooperate in the development of Deeply Depleted Channel (DDC) and near/sub-threshold technologies for the IOT/Wearables market.


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