PM meets tech leaders

The Prime Minister is to meet leading digital entrepreneurs and innovators as she announced a series of measures to support the UK’s tech sector. In the run up to the Budget, the Prime Minister and Chancellor will co-host a tech roundtable and reception at Downing Street, and reaffirm the Government’s enduring commitment to this vital industry. ...

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New package increases photodiode pre-reflow shelf life

Osram has created photodiodes that can be soldered without any damage up to one year after initial contact with air, claiming that comparable products only last three days. “Developers at Osram Opto Semiconductors have significantly improved the moisture sensitivity level,” said Osram, “This applies to storage of the component under defined conditions at a temperature ...

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Leti claims 3D chip breakthrough on 300mm wafers

Leti, an institute of CEA Tech, has announced the world’s first successful 300mm wafer-to-wafer direct hybrid bonding with pitch dimension connections as small as 1µm and copper pads as small as 500nm. This was achieved in partnership with EV Group, a supplier of wafer bonding and lithography equipment. “To our knowledge, this is the first ...

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Toshiba sells TV business to Hisense of China

Toshiba has sold its TV manufacturing business to Hisense Electric Co of China in a deal valued at 12.9 billion yen ($114m). Hisense will purchase a 95% shareholding in Toshiba Visual Solutions, and Toshiba will retain the remaining 5%. The deal includes the TV businesses including production, research and development, and sales functions. The company ...

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Toshiba MOSFET integrates soft recovery diode

Toshiba has expanded its line-up of MOSFETs based on its latest generation U-MOS-IX-H trench semiconductor process with a 40V device featuring an integrated soft recovery diode (SRD). Thanks to the integrated SRD, the TPH1R204PB is able to keep the spike voltages generated between the drain and source during switching very low. This makes the MOSFET ...

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Glucose monitoring without the prick

The age of finger-pricking will soon be over with the announcement of a non-invasive method for measuring the body’s blood glucose levels from German medical technology company, DiaMonTech. DiaMonTech has created technology for a medical device which directly measures the presence of glucose molecules in the blood through an invisible infrared laser, giving a reading ...

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LT8672 auto rectifier controller operates from –40°C to 150°C

The LT8672 is an active rectifier controller with reverse input protection to –40V. Its 3V to 42V input voltage capability is suitable for automotive applications which must regulate through cold-crank and stop-start scenarios with minimum input voltages as low as 3.0V and load dump transients up to 40V. The chip drives an externalBN-channel MOSFET, offering ...

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Cray building ARM-based supercomputer

Cray is creating the world’s first production-ready, ArmP-based supercomputer with the addition of Cavium ThunderX2  processors, based on 64-bit Armv8-A architecture, to the Cray XC50 supercomputer. Cray customers will have a complete Arm-based supercomputer that features a full software environment, including the Cray Linux Environment, the Cray Programming Environment, and Arm-optimized compilers, libraries, and tools ...

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Imec and Panasonic develop solid nanocomposite battery electrolyte

Imec and Panasonic have developed a solid nanocomposite electrolyte for batteries with a lithium ion conductivity several times greater than its liquid equivalent. The ion conductivity already reaches several mS/cm at room temperature. Imec and Panasonic have set a goal to develop novel solid nanocomposite electrolyte materials towards 100mS/cm in the next few years, which ...

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