Artificial intelligence has been used crack one of the codes originally deciphered in the 1940s at Bletchley Park. It took just 13 minutes and cost £10. And involved a computer recognise German, from a standing start. A company called Enigma Pattern did it by combining machine learning and artificial intelligence, running its algorithms on cloud servers ...
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Brexit secretary David Davis has thrown further uncertainty on the process this morning as he told MPs that the government has not examined how Brexit will impact individual sectors of the economy. In a Brexit select committee hearing this morning, Davis said that the government had not published impact assessments – which had been demanded ...
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LEDs can replace mass-market high power UV light sources, according to a German research team coordinated by Osram. The optical outputs are expected to be: >20mW at 300±10nm >140mW at 280±10nm >80mW at 260±10nm One of the project aims is to make sources that are sufficiently long-lived to replace mercury-based sources in production, disinfection, life ...
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Toshiba has announced a chip providing BLE 4.2 host control interface functions which supports secure connection, LE privacy features and extended packet length support. The devive is available for use in harsh automotive environments and extended temperature ranges. The mixed-signal TC35679IFTG contains both analog RF and baseband digital parts to provide a complete solution in ...
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Renesas has prototyped its split gate MONOS (SG-MONOS) charge trap flash technology which uses 3D fin-shaped transistors and is intending to use the trchnology in to put 100MB memories onto MCUs made on a 16/14nm process. In 2016, Renesas announced the successful development of fin-type SG-MONOS flash memory cell by applying and adopting charge trap type flash ...
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October semiconductor sales of $37.1 billion were up 3.2% on September’s $36 billion and up 21.9% on the $30.4 billion of October 2016, reports the SIA. The WSTS forecast is now 20.6% for this year and 7% for 2018. “The global semiconductor market continued to grow impressively in October, with sales surpassing the industry’s highest-ever ...
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Synapse Design, the Santa Clara SoC design house, has bought ACEIC Design Technologies of Bangalore in its third acquistion this year. ACEIC has been primarily focused on verification services. Through this acquisition, Synapse Design gains experienced verification engineers with domain expertise across Automotive, Wireless, Bluetooth and DDR and VIP for the latest version Bluetooth 5.0. ...
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Imec reports ultralow contact resistivity of 5×10-10Ωcm2 on Gallium (Ga)-doped p-Germanium (Ge) source/drain contacts. The low contact resistivity and high level of Ga activation were achieved after nanosecond laser activation (NLA) at low thermal budget. The results show that highly Ga-doped Ge-rich source/drain contacts provide a promising route for suppressing parasitic source/drain resistance in advanced ...
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Researchers at the Korea Institute of Science and Technology (KIST), the University of Seoul and Drexel University in the US, have found a way to produce stable laser pulses only 600 femtoseconds (quadrillionths of a second) long. The researchers tested a MXene made of titanium carbonitride to fabricate a ‘mode-locking’ device. The apparatus was placed in ...
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ST has launched a miniature 2-axis MEMS gyroscope in its Optical Image Stabilization device family measuring 2mm x 2mm x 0.7mm with a suppression ratio of 6dB. The L20G20IS maintains its accuracy even when soldered on the latest ultra-thin substrates, which are typically only 0.2mm or 0.3mm thick and increasingly used by handset designers to create ...
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