RS adds free IoT design tools download to DesignSpark

RS Components is working with a start-up company that develops ‘middleware’ software for Internet of Things (IoT) projects and applications.  The distributor’s agreement with Zerynth will mean its IoT development environment will be available via a portal on the RS DesignSpark engineering community, allowing customers to download the tools. Zerynth has developed a suite of ...

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Purdue creates fastest-ever rotor

Researchers have created the fastest man-made rotor in the world which revolves more than 60 billion times a minute – more than 100,000 times faster than a high-speed dental drill. “This study has many applications, including material science,” says Purdue’s  Tongcang Li, “we can study the extreme conditions different materials can survive in.” Li’s team ...

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TSMC expects 7nm will account for 20% of revenues next year

TSMC has  taped out ICs for an enhanced 7nm EUV process and expects 7nm to account for over 20% of sales next year.  Crypto mining weakness has caused TSMC to drop its year-end growth forecast for 2018 from 10% to between 5-9%, reports Digitimes. The forecast capex for 2018 has been revised from $11.5-12 billion ...

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Printer for plasmonic structures works at room temperature

Printing nano-scale features in surfaces it difficult, according to Purdue University, particularly if the required features are smaller than the gains in the metal – the grains govern the ‘formability limit’. Sputtering metal into moulds is another route, so long at the resulting rough surface texture is not an issue. Now Purdue is claiming both ...

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Toshiba prototypes 96-layer 1.3Tbit NAND

Toshiba has developed a prototype 96-layer BiCS FLASH, memory using 3D flash quad level cell (QLC) technology. The IC achieves the industry’s maximum capacity of 1.33 terabits for a single chip. This also realises an unparalleled capacity of 2.66 terabytes in a single package by utilising a 16-chip stacked architecture. The huge volumes of data generated ...

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Flow battery uses liquid sodium-potassium alloy

Researchers at Stanford University have proposed liquid sodium-potassium alloy as an electron donor in a flow battery. Instead of storing electrons within the structure of a battery, a flow battery stores electrons in the form of chemicals in tanks, which are pumped into an electrolytic cell when charge or discharge is required. The action decouples ...

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Kenya goes Loony

Google’s Loon balloons are to be deployed over Kenya to provide internet access in the first commercial use of the technology. Loon will work with Telkom Kenya to deliver the service. “We will work very hard with Loon, to deliver the first commercial mobile service, as quickly as possible, using Loon’s balloon-powered Internet in Africa,” ...

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Huawei telecoms kit is a risk to UK networks

Huawei telecoms equipment poses a risk to the UK telecoms network, concludes a report by the Huawei Cyber Security Evaluation Centre (HCSEC). “Through 2017, HCSEC has continued to find issues in Huawei products, demonstrating their continued ability to discover weaknesses in the Huawei product set,”says the report. “The NCSC (National Cyber Security Centre) has advised ...

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Xilinx buys China start-up

Xilinx has bought Beijing start-up DeepPhi Technology which specialises in machine learning, deep compression, pruning, and system-level optimization for neural networks. DeePhi Tech has been developing its machine learning solutions on Xilinx technology platforms, and the two companies have worked closely together since DeePhi Tech’s inception in 2016. DeePhi Tech’s neural network pruning technology has ...

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