A new method of creating bendable silicon chips could help pave the way for a new generation of high-performance flexible electronic devices, say Glasgow University researchers. The researchers have described how they scaled up the established processes for making flexible silicon chips to the size required for delivering high-performance bendable systems in the future, and ...
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Smartphone AP units will grow 1.5% this year to 1.67 billion units in 2018, says Digitimes Research. The slowing growth in the smartphone market means global smartphone AP shipments will grow slowly in the next few years, reaching 1.77 billion units in 2021. Qualcomm remains No.1 with MediaTek No.2, In-house-developed chips by Apple, Samsung and ...
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Raspberry Pi 3 Model B+ is the highest performance Raspberry Pi yet, with its Brodcom BCM2837 now clocked at 1.4GHz instead of the Pi 3’s 1.2GHz. What has allowed the extra speed, according to Farnell, which has stock and is ready to ship the new board, is new flip-chip packaging for the main processor which, ...
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Toshiba has launched two high speed signal transmission photorelays that offer the industry’s smallest footprint. The TLP3475S features low on-state output resistance (RON) – typically 1.1Ω and offers fast switching times of 0.5ms (ton) and 0.4ms (toff). The device is rated for 60V (VOFF) and a max. current of 0.4A (ION). The device is housed ...
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TowerJazz has opened a Silicon Photonics (SiPho) commercial foundry process. The process targets optical networking and data center interconnect applications. TowerJazz’s “open” platform is offered to all SiPho customers unlike other “closed” processes only offered to certain customers or restricted to low-volume prototyping. TowerJazz’s SiPho process complements its SiGe BiCMOS processes which are currently qualified ...
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