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 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 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 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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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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Leti, the French semiconductor research institute, teams with Fraunhofer’s microelectronics group to extend next generation CMOS technologies for the IoT
Read full article: French and German researchers collaborate on future chip technologies
Efficient thermal management is the key to successful, ‘bullet-proof’ high-reliability design, writes Tom Gregory of 6SigmaET.
Read full article: How to keep your cool with high-rel thermal management
After buying Imagination’s IMGworks, Sondrel CEO Graham Curren talks about the group’s great leap forward.
Read full article: Interview: Sondrel IC design group keeps an eye on opportunity
The vending machine is a relatively unrecognised, but fast growing market opportunity for the electronics industry.
Read full article: Intelligent vending machine serves fast growing market
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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