Cambridge cyber security firm makes commercial breakthrough

Darktrace, the Cambridge-based cyber-security firm, has raised a $75m Series D financing. The firm, which was created by mathematicians from the University of Cambridge, is commercially successful with total contracts valued at $200m, an increase of 140% from last year. Much of this growth was driven by outstanding performance in the US, where bookings increased ...

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UK government puts £16m into 5G test network

The government plans to create a mobile communications networks for testing 5G technology to take a lead in the introduction of next generation mobile services. 5G research teams at King’s College London and the Universities of Surrey and Bristol will be awarded £16m to develop the 5G test network capable of processing huge amounts of ...

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Toshiba sampling 3D NAND with TSVs

Toshiba is sampling a 3D NAND TLC memory which uses TSVs. Shipments of prototypes for development purposes started in June, and product samples are scheduled for release in the second half of 2017. Devices with TSV technology have vertical electrodes and vias that pass through silicon dies to provide connections, an architecture that realizes high ...

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Peratech and SMK collaborate on force-sensing

Peratech, the Richmond force-sensing specialist, has joined with US remote control company SMK Electronics to put Peratech’s technology into the SMK product line. Peratech calls its technology Quantum Tunnelling Composites (QTC). Incorporating QTC force-sensing technology into a remote control improves the experience of using capacitive buttons, touchpads or directional pads, by requiring a press-with-force to ...

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Micron fab back in business

Micron says that DRAM production has resumed at its Inotera fab in Taiwan. Last week, DRAMeXchange, reported that a malfunction in the nitrogen supply resulted in the loss of 60,000 wafers which represents 5.5% of global capacity. Micron called it a ‘minor facility event’. “We expect no material impact to the business or on our ...

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Imec develops 5nm BEOL

Imec has developed an electrically functional solution for the 5nm back-end-of-line (BEOL). The solution is a full dual-damascene module in combination with multi-patterning and multi-blocking. Scaling boosters and aggressive design rules pave the way to even smaller dimensions. As R&D progresses towards the 5nm technology node, the tiny Cu wiring schemes in the chips’ BEOL ...

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Intersil launches rear-view video IC.

Intersil has launched  an HD 1080p LCD video processor with analogue video decoder, two scalers and MIPI-CSI2 SoC interface. The TW8844 ensures that rearview camera systems are compliant with the U.S. Federal Motor Vehicle Safety Standard (FMVSS-111) for preventing injury or death caused by backover accidents. It enables the migration from analogue to digital camera ...

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