LEDs and power transistors could benefit from Finnish research, which has taken a second look at beryllium as a p-dopant for GaN.
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Renesas adds secure flash update to industrial MCUs with 2D graphics
Renesas has added a root-of-trust to increased the security of in-field flash firmware updates for its RX65N and RX651 microcontrollers, which are aimed at industrial IoT such as industrial automation, building automation, and smart metering. Features include: Encryption key protection Hardware encryption accelerators for AES, 3DES, and SHA true random number generator Protect boot code storage ...
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Graphcore raises another $50m
Graphcore, the UK GPU start-up, has raised $50 million in a funding round led by Sequoia. Graphcore’s GPU chip is called an IPU – an intelligence processing unit – which is scheduled to be available to early access customers in Q1. The IPU is one of several AI-focussed processor architectures aimed at taking on Nvidia, ...
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Softbank scheme to invest $10 bn for 14% of Uber
Softbank and Dragoneer Investment Group are to invest $1 billion in Uber at a $70 billion valuation on condition that it has a tender offer of $9 billion accepted at a lower valuation which would bring the Softbank/Dragoneer stake to around 14% of Uber. The tender offer will be made to all Uber shareholders on ...
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Next year will be good too
This year is a throw-back to those wonderful chip boom years when everypne had money pouring out of their ears, but what about next year? SEMI has published this chart showing the top forecasters’ predictions: The good news is that the most optimistic forcaster, Future Horizons, was the one who was the first to call ...
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NXP launches i.MX RT series processors
NXP has launched the i.MX RT series processors which bridge the gap between high performance and integration while minimizing costs. Applications include audio subsystems, consumer and healthcare, home and building automation, industrial computing, motor control and power conversion. The i.MX RT1050 is an ARM Cortex-M7 based device with real-time operation and an applications processor-level of functionality ...
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Magpie or Ostrich? asks CBI
In a new report, From Ostrich to Magpie, the CBI argues that by encouraging more businesses to behave like ‘magpies’ – picking the best tried and tested technologies available – rather than like ‘ostriches’, who are more stuck in their ways, then the UK could reduce inequality between firms’ productivity and people’s pay. This could ...
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