Sony and IBM are claiming a record magnetic tape data storage record, at 201Gb/in2, ~20x greater than IBM’s latest enterprise tape drive. “The resulting technology can support approximately 330TB per data cartridge, whereas conventional technology can only handle 15TB per data cartridge”, said Sony (see footnote). Behind the announcement is Sony’s lubricated magnetic tape technology ...
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Panasonic is introducing a SMD push-button switch, claimed to be the thinnest of its kind at 0.55mm. Called ‘Light Touch Switch‘, it occupies a 2.6 x 1.6mm footprint and is IP67 water and dust proof suiting it to outdoor as well as indoor use. IP67 rating comes from laser-welding the cover and base. Operating force ...
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Globalfoundries and Silicon Mobility have produced an automotive Field Programmable Controller Unit (FPCU) solution, called OLEA T222. PDKs are available. The FPCU uses GF’s 55nm Low Power Extended (55LPx) process, which is currently in volume production at GloFo’s Singapore fab, and Silicon Storage Technology’s (SST) SuperFlash memory IP. OLEA T222 allows automotive processing to be fully deterministic ...
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Scientists at ETH Zurich and Microsoft have come up with a concrete example of what quantum computers will actually be able to do. They picked a knotty problem – understanding how the enzyme nitrogenase allows plants to use nitrogen from the atmosphere to make their own fertilizer – something that is unknown. Computers available today, ...
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NXP’s Q2 revenues were down 7% y-o-y and flat sequentially at $2.2 billion. Debt was $6.55 billion, up from Q1’s $6.51 billion and cash was $2.64 billion,up from Q1’s $2.24 billion, resulting in net debt of $3.91 billion, a decline from Q1’s $4.27 billion.. Cash flow from operations was $441 million, down from Q1’s $625 ...
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Semi-transparent organic solar cells on the lenses of these sunglasses can supply enough power for a microprocessor and two displays, according to the Karlsruher Institut für Technologie (KIT) which made them. “We bring solar power to places where other solar technologies fail,” said Dr Alexander Colsmann, who heads organic photovoltaics at KIT’s Light Technology Institute. ...
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Toshiba says it will go ahead with a $1.76 billion investment to build a new generation of 3D NAND without the involvement of its jv fab partner Western Digital which is saying it wants to be involved. Toshiba says the $1.76bn investment is $135 million more than it would have been had WD participated. However, ...
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Nanusens, the three year-old Barcelona sensor company, says its CMOS nano-sensor technology has solved the problem of stiction in MEMS inertial sensors. “Our first silicon nano-sensor samples from GLOBALFOUNDRIES exceeded our expectations showing outstanding resilience to stiction, with the devices going through more than 10,000 switching cycles, each equivalent to more than 1000G shocks,” says Nanusens’ ...
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Smartphone shipments grew 6% to reach 360 million units in Q2 2017, says Strategy Analytics. Samsung maintained first position with 22% global smartphone marketshare, while Apple dipped to 11% share and Xiaomi surged 58% annually and rejoined the top five rankings for the first time in a year. Samsung shipped 79.5 million smartphones worldwide in ...
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There were 341.6 million smartphones shipped in Q2, says IDC, which was 1.3% down from Q2 2016 and down 0.8% from Q1 2017. While the smartphone industry contracted slightly in Q2, the leading vendors all saw positive shipment growth. Samsung and Apple both held shares relatively constant from the second quarter a year ago, while ...
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