Small Robot Company, a British agritech start-up, today announced it has won a prestigious Horizontal Innovation Award from the Institution of Engineering and Technology (IET) and the High Value Manufacturing Catapult (HVMC), sponsored by Innovate UK. The Company harnesses the power and precision of robots and Artificial Intelligence (AI) to improve the way that food ...

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For the first time anywhere in the world this weekend [Saturday 17 and Sunday 18 March] people in Bristol will experience LiFi provided by pureLiFi as part of a 5G public urban environment. During Bristol’s Layered Realities Weekend 5G Showcase researchers will demonstrate how a share of £16 million investment by the UK Government’s Department ...

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GF’s current silicon photonics offering built on its 90nm RF SOI process which had previously been manufactured using 200mm wafer processing, has now been qualified on  300mm wafers at GF’s Fab 10 facility in East Fishkill, N.Y The platform can enable solutions that provide 30GHz of bandwidth to support client side data rates of up to ...

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The DRAM and NAND flash memory market growth forecasts for 2018 have been adjusted upward, by IC Insights,  to 37% for DRAM and 17% for NAND flash. The big increase in the DRAM market forecast for 2018 is primarily due to a much stronger ASP expected for this year than was originally forecast. IC Insights ...

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Mouser has signed Doodle Labs’ range of  industrial Wi-Fi transceivers. Doodle Labs claims its transceivers achieve long range through high transmit power, operate efficiently in extreme temperature ranges and have high interference immunity, enabling the stable performance demanded by complex applications. The transceivers have an integrated low-noise amplifier to pick up low-energy signals from mobile ...

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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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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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