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Marvell restuctures mobile platform business
Marvell restuctures mobile platform business
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Marvell Technology Group Ltd., has announced a significant restructuring of its mobile platform business in order to focus the mobile…
Tesla promises 1000 km range for e-cars soon
Tesla promises 1000 km range for e-cars soon
Business news |
One of drawbacks of battery electric vehicles is its rather limited driving range. On one battery charge, no car drives…
Super-battery charges mobile devices in 15 seconds or less
Super-battery charges mobile devices in 15 seconds or less
Technology News |
Vindai Corporation, a company focused on the wearable body camera industry, is developing a super-battery for its body cameras that…
Will DIY spray-on solar cells be a reality soon?
Will DIY spray-on solar cells be a reality soon?
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Researchers at St. Mary's College of Maryland believe they are closer to creating do-it-yourself spray-on solar cell technology which promises…

Hybrid solar panel roof helps slash energy bills
Hybrid solar panel roof helps slash energy bills
Technology News |
Scientists at Brunel University London have designed a hybrid roofing system which claims to be cpaable of halving energy bills in new homes.
Coherent optical receivers support tests at up to 130 GBaud
Coherent optical receivers support tests at up to 130 GBaud
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Extending its Optical Modulation Analysis (OMA) portfolio, Teledyne LeCroy has launched the IQS series of coherent optical receivers to support DP-QPSK and DP-16QAM optical signals test at speeds up to…
Samsung opens Silicon Valley home
Samsung opens Silicon Valley home
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Samsung's new San Jose office towers over its sprawling Silicon Valley neighbors. At a time when so much work is conducted online or over cellphones at home, in cafes and…
Optical phase-change memory can increase bandwidth
Optical phase-change memory can increase bandwidth
Technology News |
A research team from the universities of Oxford and Muenster has developed a phase-change, non-volatile memory that is programmed and read using light and which could be interfaced to conventional…
Samsung and Facebook bring digital addiction to the masses
Samsung and Facebook bring digital addiction to the masses
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Samsung together with Facebook's Oculus VR have announced a new smartphone-enabled gear, leveraging the screens and the computing power of the Korean company’s Galaxy Note 5, Galaxy S6 Edge+, S6…
Scalable transistors in High-Voltage CMOS at ams
Scalable transistors in High-Voltage CMOS at ams
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The Full Service Foundry division of ams AG is expanding its 0.35µm High-Voltage CMOS specialty process platform by adding a set of truly voltage scalable transistors to its advanced “H35”…
Multi-channel RF transceiver IC operate from 300 to 960MHz
Multi-channel RF transceiver IC operate from 300 to 960MHz
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Melexis' MLX73290-M is a multi-channel RF transceiver IC aimed at the sub-GHz ISM bands from 300MHz through to 960MHz. The chip delivers two RF channels, each with a programmable RF…
Dead reckoning enables exact 3D navigation
Dead reckoning enables exact 3D navigation
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Urban canyons, this expression describes narrow streets amidst towering skyscrapers or in tunnels, both hampering the reception of navigation signals from satellites. Chipmaker STMicroelectronics (ST) counters the problem with a…
Berkeley Labs unveil 2D atomic-thin semiconductor
Berkeley Labs unveil 2D atomic-thin semiconductor
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Researchers at the Department of Energy (DOE)'s Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) have managed to grow atomically thin 2D sheets of organic-inorganic hybrid perovskites from a solution. The ultrathin…
Qualcomm to invest $150 million in Indian startups
Qualcomm to invest $150 million in Indian startups
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Qualcomm Inc. has said it will invest up to $150 million in Indian startup companies at all stages of development.
MEMS move to 300mm-diameter wafers
MEMS move to 300mm-diameter wafers
Technology News |
French research institute CEA-Leti has manufactured accelerometer MEMS devices on 300mm-diameter wafers.
Report: Cypress preps bid to snatch Atmel from Dialog
Report: Cypress preps bid to snatch Atmel from Dialog
Business news |
Cypress Semiconductor Corp. is preparing an offer in an attempt to outbid Dialog Semiconductor plc for Atmel Corp., according to a Reuters report that referenced unnamed sources.
China buys Swedish MEMS foundry, builds fab
China buys Swedish MEMS foundry, builds fab
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Hong Kong investment holding company GAE Ltd. has acquired control of pure-play MEMS foundry Silex Microsystems AB (Jarfalla, Sweden) and has started the construction of a wafer fab in Beijing…
TSMC discusses next MEMS, monolithic mics
TSMC discusses next MEMS, monolithic mics
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To expand its role as a supplier to fabless MEMS vendors foundry TSMC plans to use its advantages in being able to combine CMOS logic and MEMS sensors together to…
Let’s make MEMS suppliers rich, says Huawei
Let’s make MEMS suppliers rich, says Huawei
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Sean Ding, distinguished engineer and chief scientific officer for sensing solutions at telecom giant Huawei Technologies Co. Ltd., has called on the MEMS industry to develop process technologies and products…
Smart boxing gloves measure ‘punch power’ on TV
Smart boxing gloves measure ‘punch power’ on TV
Cable and satellite television network Home Box Office (New York, NY) has been awarded a patent for a boxing glove sensor technology that will be able to measure "punch power"…
DVCon Europe 2015 announces Preliminary Technical Program
DVCon Europe 2015 announces Preliminary Technical Program
Feature articles |
The Design and Verification Conference (DVCon) and Exhibition Europe (Munich, 11th & 12th November 2015) takes as its scope. “the application of languages, tools and intellectual property for the design…
Infineon gains security certification for IoT apps, with OPTIGA product
Infineon gains security certification for IoT apps, with OPTIGA product
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Infineon Technologies has announced that its OPTIGA TPM (Trusted Platform Module), based on the TPM 2.0 standard, is the first such device to comply with internationally recognised computer security requirements,…
Simulate real-time systems behaviour – at the requirements level
Simulate real-time systems behaviour – at the requirements level
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Stimulus, from Argosim, is a software tool for simulating and validating systems descriptions at the requirements stage, allowing them to be expressed in a form close to natural language, that…
Will all the world’s streetlights be LEDs by 2025?
Will all the world’s streetlights be LEDs by 2025?
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International non-profit organization The Climate Group has called on every single city and utility around the world to schedule the switch of their street lighting to LED by 2025.
Cathode material discovery boosts the drive for sodium-ion batteries
Cathode material discovery boosts the drive for sodium-ion batteries
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A team of researchers in the Cockrell School of Engineering at The University of Texas at Austin has identified a safe and sustainable cathode material for low-cost sodium-ion batteries.
Next-Generation batteries – Can all-silicon anodes be commercially viable?
Next-Generation batteries – Can all-silicon anodes be commercially viable?
Technology News |
Using a combination of experimental and simulation techniques, researchers from the Georgia Institute of Technology and three other research organizations have reported high damage tolerance in electrochemically-lithiated silicon materials.
Keep it turned up to 11 – audio PA transistors in smaller package
Keep it turned up to 11 – audio PA transistors in smaller package
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Same power, smaller outline is the message from Toshiba in respect of its bipolar transistors for use in the output Tr stage of high definition audio systems. 2SA1943N and 2SC5200N…
140V CMOS Op Amp with Rail-to-Rail Output and pA Inputs
140V CMOS Op Amp with Rail-to-Rail Output and pA Inputs
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The LTC6090 high voltage CMOS op amp is the highest voltage monolithic op amp in the industry. It has a number of unique characteristics not found in other CMOS op…


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