Samsung starts 2nd gen 10nm DRAM production

Samsung says it has begun mass producing 2nd-generation 10nm nanometer 8Gb DDR4 DRAM. The 2nd-generation delivers a 30% ‘productivity gain’ over the company’s 1st-generation 10nm-class 8Gb DDR4, says Samsung. Performance and power have been improved about 10% and 15%. respectively. The new 8Gb DDR4 can operate at 3,600Mbps per pin, compared to 3,200 Mbps of the ...

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Digital minister to be questioned on post-Brexit data sharing later this morning

At 10:30am this morning, the House of Lords EU Home Affairs Sub-Committee will start questioning  Matt Hancock MP, Minister of State for Digital, Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport (pictured) on  Brexit’s implications for data flows across Europe. The House of Lords is following up a report last year with a view to examining ...

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Melexis delivers harsh environment pressure sensor

Melexis has brought out a pressure sensor for harsh media applications, especially in the automotive sector. The MLX90818 is a packaged absolute pressure sensor that is factory-calibrated to cover the range 1.0 to 5.5 bar, making it suitable for normally aspirated, direct injection and turbocharged engine applications. The highly integrated sensor includes provision for an ...

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Renesas and Airbiquity announce auto OTA offering

Renesas  and Airbiquity have come up with  a secure, connected car product  automotive solution with over-the-air (OTA) capabilities, targeting advanced driver assistance systems (ADAS), vehicle-to-everything (V2X), and automated driving applications of the future. To prepare for the upcoming autonomous-driving era, the two leading companies are integrating Airbiquity’s OTAmatic cloud-based OTA software and data management service ...

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Mouser signs Keysight Technologies

Mouser has signed a global distribution agreement with Keysight Technologies. The Keysight product line available from Mouser Electronics includes oscilloscopes, benchtop power supplies, waveform generators, and digital multimeters. Keysight has oscilloscopes from high performance to extreme value and bandwidths ranging from 50 MHz to 200 MHz. Keysight’s InfiniiVision 1000/2000 X-Series oscilloscopes are engineered to provide ...

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Toshiba sampling 2.4TB 10,500 rpm HDD

Toshiba is sampling  a new generation of 10,500rpm enterprise performance hard disk drives for mission-critical servers and storage. The  series has a 2,400GB capacity model. Built to deliver superior low-latency performance, the AL15SE Series supports 12Gbit/s[2] SAS dual-port interface to optimize the host transfer rate. All models utilize a space-efficient, power-saving 2.5 inch, 15mm form-factor. ...

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Winners of Farnell element14 ‘IoT on Wheels’ design challenge

element14.com has announced the winners of its ‘IoT on Wheels’ design challenge, sponsored by STMicroelectronics. Over the course of 11 weeks, the participants focused on design, research, prototyping, coding and testing their IoT-connected transportation solutions and posted frequent blog posts throughout the process on their element14 project pages. To help build their projects, each participant ...

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X-FAB launches NVM blocks

X-FAB has availability of two new Non-Volatile Memory (NVM) IP solutions – a low power embedded Flash (eFlash) IP block and a NVRAM compiler. Both are based on the company’s proprietary 180 nm XH018 mixed-signal CMOS technology and are targeted at applications requiring high reliability and field re-programmability while operating at low power and in ...

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