Featuring a 'smart rope' that senses its position in space and can allow remote monitoring, for example by a rescue team.
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Airbus in venture to launch satellites for global internet
Global internet access using a constellation of satellites orbiting the earth could be the answer to the world’s data traffic needs. Behind the plan is a joint venture between Airbus of Europe and US comms firm OneWeb. The first mini-satellites will be manufactured on the Airbus assembly line in Toulouse and first satellites are set ...
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UK chip sales jump 30% in May, says ECSN
Sales of electronic components in the UK grew by an impressive 24% in May compared with the same month a year ago, according to figures released by the Electronic Components Supply Network (ECSN). The star performer was semiconductor sales which were up 30% for the month. In comparison the global electronic components market is growing ...
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Rohde & Schwarz gives analyser 2GHz bandwidth for 5G work
Rohde & Schwarz is expanding the internal analysis bandwidth of its FSW high-end signal and spectrum analyser up to 2GHz. This is relevant to developers of 5G radio access technologies which need a very large bandwidth to analyse wideband signals. Adding this wideband option to the signal analysers, with frequency ranges up to 43.5 GHz ...
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Imagination in talks with potential buyers
Imagination Technologies is in talks with potential buyers over a sale of the whole business as the fallout from its loss of Apple as a customer continues.
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Imec looks to China to expand customer base
Imec is looking for customers in China. The head of Imec China, Huiwen Ding, points out that Imec has almost completed development of its 7nm process technology and is engaged in developing 5nm, 3nm and 2nm processes. China is in need of advanced processes for the huge memory fabs it is building in the country. ...
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Qualcomm fingerprint sensor enables virtual home button
Qualcomm has developed an ultrasonic fingerprint sensor which can operate under the glass of a mobile device avoiding the need for a mechanical home button. It also detects heartbeat and blood flow. The sensor can scan through OLED display stacks of up to 1200 µm, along with enrolling and matching, and can scan through up to ...
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Tosiba develops quad level cell NAND
Toshiba has developed four level cell NAND flash prototype ICs which it calls QLC. ‘Multi-bit cell flash memories store data by managing the number of electrons in each individual memory cell,’ says Toshiba, ‘achieving QLC technology posed a series of technical challenges, as increasing the number of bit-per-cell by one within same electron count requires ...
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