Strong growth driven by a 74% surge in the DRAM market and 44% jump in the NAND flash market, will see the IC market grow by 22% this year, says IC Insights.. IC Insights has raised its IC market growth rate forecast for 2017 to 22%, up six percentage points from the 16% increase shown ...
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Lighting maker UK Led has opened a factory in the Wirral, despite already owning one in China, and there are more to come. “We are proud that it’s the first manufacturing facility of its type in the UK,” said the firm. “We chose to invest in the UK factory for a number of reasons. [One ...
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The commercial use of small satellites in low earth orbit is changing the design dynamic of the space industry, says Roger Tall.
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Socionext’s “Media Cloud” is designed to deliver a 10-fold increase in video transcoding speeds and efficiency, resulting in unprecedented levels of performance and optimal user streaming experience. The Media Cloud addresses the ever-growing mass consumption of high-quality video, specifically the need for efficient and dense live transcoding for today’s standards and tomorrow’s 4K AVC/HEVC requirements. ...
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Intel says it will ship its first silicon for neural network processing before the end of this year. This will be the Nervana neural network processor (NNP) and Intel’s target is the growing interest in artificial intelligence (AI) computing in areas such as medical diagnosis and autonomous vehicles. Behind the development of a range of ...
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Littelfuse says it can supply a silicon-controlled rectifier (SCR) thyristor circuit protection device with a junction temperature of 150°C in a surface-mount package. The SJ series thyristors have a low gate current trigger level of 6mA or 15mA maximum at approximately 1.5V. The most sensitive devices feature a gate trigger current of less than 200μA, ...
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Dyson is well‑placed to hijack the bandwagon set rolling by Google and Tesla when they moved into the electric car market.
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The new owner of Imagination, Canyon Bridge, will look to grow both in UK and across Europe presence after buy-out.
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Samsung says it has finished its development of an 8nm process for foundry. The 8nm process is a straight shrink from the 10nm process which delivers 10% more dendity with 10% less power. The 8nm process is a low-power plus (LPP) process acting as a half-node interim process between Samsung’s 10nm and 7nm process. 7nm ...
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DENSO Is to sstart joint technology development of cabin sensing with the Silicon Valley image recognition specialist FotoNation. The partnership will help DENSO improve the performance of its Driver Status Monitor, an active safety product currently used in commercial vehicles. Improvements of such products also will accelerate the development of next-generation products to be used ...
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