Memristors key to nano-scale analogue/digital adaptive hardware

Adding analogue processing to digital hardware is the key to adaptability and maximum battery life in the nano-scale age, according to the University of Southampton, which is advocating memristors and charge-based processing as the way to do it. Memristors are non-volatile electrically-adjustable resistors. Made from metal oxides, they scale well and are proposed as memory ...

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UK tech sparkles, says DCMS

Figures published by the Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport (DCMS) show 2016 exports of goods by the UK digital sector were  up 7.3% y-o-y and worth more than £15 billion “These new statistics show our tech sector is in demand from businesses and consumers around the globe, with exports up by a fifth,” ...

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Infineon revises long-term strategy

Infineon is seeing strong long-term growth drivers in its target markets – automotive, industrial, IoT and security applications – where business momentum is gathering pace and is therefore realigning its target operating model, which sets target values for revenue growth, segment result margin and the investment-to-sales ratio over the cycle. “A broad range of structural ...

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Imec makes CMOS 140GHz radar-on-chip

Imec claims to have developed the the world’s first CMOS 140GHz radar-on-chip with integrated antennas in standard 28nm technology and is looking for partners to exploit it. Applications include building security, remote health monitoring of car drivers, breathing and heart rate of patients, and gesture recognition for man-machine interaction. Radars are extremely promising as sensors for ...

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Sound wave coupling enables all-silicon laser

Yale scientists have uses sound waves to amplify light in a new type of silicon laser for photonic ICs, side-stepping the problem of silicon’s indirect bandgap. “Silicon’s intrinsic properties, although very useful for many chip-scale optical technologies, make it extremely difficult to generate laser light using electrical current,” said Yale scientist Nils Otterstrom. “It’s a ...

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Frequency hopping once per bit foils hackers

MIT researchers have developed a novel transmitter that frequency hops for each individual 1 or 0 bit of a data packet – so once per microsecond for 1Mbit/s, “which is fast enough to thwart even the quickest hackers”, according to MIT. The system can protect against selective jamming. For example, explained the University, Bluetooth LE ...

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Imagination launches neural net cores

Imagination has launched two  neural network cores, the AX2185 and AX2145, based on the company’s neural network accelerator (NNA) architecture. The Series2NX AX2185 targets the high-end smartphone, smart surveillance, and automotive markets, where neural network acceleration has a significant impact in areas such as image categorization and driver assistance systems. Featuring eight full-width compute engines ...

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April chip revenues up 20% y-o-y, says SIA

April IC revenues were 20% up y-o-y at $37.6 billion, says the SIA. That was a 1.4% increase on Q2. WSTS are predicting 12.4% growth this year and 4.4% next. “The global semiconductor industry has posted consistently strong sales so far in 2018, and the global market has now experienced year-to-year growth of greater than ...

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