Cyber Resilience Week aims to protect UK firms from attacks

A cyber security awareness initiative is taking place across the UK this week. Called Cyber Resilience Week, it is intended to raise awareness of how organisations can be more resilient to cyber threats. Minister for Digital Matt Hancock writes: “We have world-leading businesses, but recent cyber attacks have shown the serious effects of not getting cyber ...

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Qualcomm and Nokia to co-operate on 5G NR Release-15 specs

Qualcomm and Nokia are to conduct interoperability testing and over-the-air field trials based on the 5G New Radio (NR) Release-15 specifications being developed by 3GPP. The testing and trials intend to drive the mobile ecosystem toward rapid validation and commercialization of 5G NR technologies at scale, enabling timely commercial network launches in 2019 based on ...

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Samsung adds 11nm foundry processes

Samsung says it is adding 11nm processes to its foundry offering. There is a vanilla 11nm Finfet process and a a low power 11LPP flavour  which claims to deliver  15% better performsnce and 10% more density than 14LPP. Samsung says it has has completed “a comprehensive process roadmap spanning from 14nm to 11nm, 10nm, 8nm, ...

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Intel discontinues WiGig line

Intel will take last orders for its WiGig line in September and make final shipments in December. The technology has never taken off in mobile devices, possibly because of its short range – about 30 foot -.and requirement for line-of-sight for connectivity. The signal can’t go through walls. Intel will still develop 60GHz 802.11ad parts which ...

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Amplicon Intel Atom PC has 15 year lifecycle

A range of Industrial PC’s from Amplicon are Apollo Lake based and powered by the Intel Atom E3950 processor. A feature of the PCs is a lifecycle of over 15 years. The Impact-R 1110F and Impact-E 150AL PCs have a power draw of 14-16W. And the E3950 processor provides system scalability. Designed to be lightweight ...

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ST introduces STM8 core MCU with $0.2 price tag

STMicroelectronics has come up with a lower cost 8-bit STM series microcontroller in the SO-8 package. With a price tag as low as 200 cents for orders of 1000 pieces, the STM8S001 has I2C, UART, and SPI interfaces. And the memory offering is good too – 8kbyte flash, 1kbyte RAM, 128-byte EEPROM, and there is ...

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Chomerics makes thermal compound for ECUs and processors

Chomerics Europe has introduced its TC50 high performance thermal compound for conducting heat between hot electronic components and heatsinks or enclosures. It is intended to provide low thermal impedance at multiple gaps to permit the deployment of commonly used spreaders. It only requires low compressive force to deform under assembly pressure. This is intended to ...

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