GloFo FD-SOI client design win revenue tops $2bn

Globalfoundries says its 22nm FD-SOI (22FDX) technology has delivered more than $2 billion dollars of client design win revenue  with more than 50 client designs. 22FDX claims to offer the industry’s lowest operating voltage, delivering up to 500MHz frequencies at 0.4V. The technology also delivers the integration of RF, transceiver, baseband, processor, and power management ...

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Samsung ramping 90-layer 256Gb TLC NAND with Toggle DDR 4.0 interface

Samsung has started the ramp of  90-layer 256Gb 3D TLC NAND with the ‘Toggle DDR 4.0’ interface which transfers data between storage and memory at 1.4Gbps which is a 40% increase from its 64-layer predecessor. The energy efficiency of Samsung’s new V-NAND remains comparable to that of the 64-layer chip, primarily because the operating voltage ...

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Boron arsenide removes heat quicker, second only to diamond

US researchers have created a non-natural material that could improve heat extraction from semiconductors, and is the first of a previously-predicted class of high thermal conductivity materials. If it could be made to exist, boron arsenide with a cubic crystal structure was calculated to have a high thermal conductivity – and now it has been made, ...

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Thermoelectric generator powers IoT sensors on only 5ºC from body heat

Japanese researchers have found a new spin on the old themo-electric generator game of minimising thermal conductivity while maximising output power, achieving of 12μW/cm2 from a thermal difference of only 5ºC. From Waseda, Osaka and Shizuoka Universities, the team has turned to a novel arrangement silicon nano-wires. “Due to advantages such as its relatively low thermal conductance but ...

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MediaTek goes to Anritsu for 5G chip-set verification

MediaTek has selected luton-based Anritsu’s MT8000A radio communication test station to verify MediaTek’s 5G NR mobile communication base-band chip-set. It will be used from early phase pre-silicon verification through to commercial validation of RF, protocol and function for product launch. Anritsu designed its MT8000A to work with wide-band signal processing and beam-forming, supporting sub-6GHz and millimeter-wave ...

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French research centre sets up autonomous vehicle project with Transdev

French research institute, Leti has teamed up with Transdev, a provider of services for autonomous vehicles, and the IRT Nanoelec research centre in a project to characterise and assess LiDAR sensors to improve performance and safety of autonomous vehicles. LIDAR (or Light Detection and Ranging) is a sensing technique used in moving vehicles that uses ...

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Room temperature hydrogen sensor

A team from the Delft University of Technology have developed a hydrogen sensor made of a thin layer of tungsten trioxide that works at room temperature. “It is much more sensitive than commercially available products and it can be reused in a matter of minutes,” says lead author Giordano Mattoni, “also, by increasing or decreasing ...

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US trade deficit shrinks

President Trump’s policy of reducing America’s trade deficit is working, mostly, reports the US Deparment of Commerce. For the third month in a row, America’s trade deficit (goods and services) with the rest of the world shrank by 6.6% in May  to $43.05 billion. America’s trade deficit with Japan shrank 12.6% in May from April ...

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OMC launches purple SMT LED

OMC, the Redruth, Cornwall optoelectronics specialist, has launched a high brightness purple surface-mount LED lamp. The lamp uses OMC’s proprietary Active Diffuser Technology, which is claimed to produce a richer and more efficient output than traditional single-wavelength devices. The lamp is suitable for applications such as backlighting, mood-lighting, displays and status indication on items such as ...

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