Leti, the French semiconductor research institute, teams with Fraunhofer’s microelectronics group to extend next generation CMOS technologies for the IoT
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How to keep your cool with high-rel thermal management
Efficient thermal management is the key to successful, ‘bullet-proof’ high-reliability design, writes Tom Gregory of 6SigmaET.
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Interview: Sondrel IC design group keeps an eye on opportunity
After buying Imagination’s IMGworks, Sondrel CEO Graham Curren talks about the group’s great leap forward.
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Intelligent vending machine serves fast growing market
The vending machine is a relatively unrecognised, but fast growing market opportunity for the electronics industry.
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Microchip offers automotive Grade 0 qualified CAN transceiver
Microchip has introduced a range of CAN transceivers which includes an automotive Grade 0 qualified device. Designated the ATA65XX family, the devices support the recently established CAN FD (Flexible Data-rate) protocol for up to 5Mbit/s communication speed and the new CAN PN (Partial Networking) standard for improved energy efficiency for vehicles. The devices are compliant ...
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Lattice offers FPGA reference design for machine learning
Lattice Semiconductor has created FPGA reference designs that support LoRa communications, elliptic curve cryptography (ECC) security, signal aggregation and machine learning. The reference design is based on the firm’s iCE40 UltraPlus FPGAs which are designed for low power and small form-factor. Target applications for the reference designs include: Machine Learning / On-device Artificial Intelligence – ...
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Silicon Valley combines to fight terrorism
With the Petya ransomware attack sweeping the world it is not before time that Silicon Valkey is combining to fight terrorism. Silicon Valley’s response is to take on terrorism with The Global Internet Forum to Counter Terrorism formed by Facebook, YouTube, Twitter and Microsoft. The companies have been criticised by the US, UK and French governments ...
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Toshiba sues Western Digital
Toshiba has sued Western Digital in the Tokyo District court asking for $1 billion in damages and trying to stop WD from interfering in the sale of its chip business. Toshiba also accuses WD of improperly obtaining Toshiba’s private information. Previously WD put the dispute over Toshiba’s auction process to arbitration and sued Toshiba in ...
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Fujitsu Labs increase server density
Fujitsu Laboratories has developed a virtual machine control technology that improves server rack mounting density for each datacenter rack. Currently, in datacenters, the number of servers mounted to a rack is limited by the total rated electrical power of the servers, which must be less than the power supply of the rack. However, often times, ...
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