As of July Tesla outsold other small and midsize luxury cars in the US, reports CleanTechnica’s Zachary Shahan. July sales of the BMW 2, 3, 4 and 6 Series are expected to reach 12,811 at the end of the month. Mercedes are expected to sell 12,811 CLA, CLS and E-Class vehicles. That gives Tesla a 23% ...
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As has been widely trailed in the media for several days, Arm has paid $600 million for a Californian data analytics company called Treasure Data. Softbank, Arm’s owner, is a customer of Treasure Data and a former Softbank subsidiary called SBI (it used to be called Softbank Investments) is an investor in Treasure Data. Treasure ...
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Review Display Systems of Westerham, the specialist supplier of displays, embedded systems and design solutions, has launched its company into the USA. Headed by Alan Beale, the company has set up offices in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. “We are delighted to have Alan on board at this very exciting time in our expansion programme,”says RDS md Russell ...
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Element14 has announced a new series of Tech Spotlights to be published on a bi-monthly basis to help its community of engineers learn about new topics outside of their specialty. The Tech Spotlights provide user-friendly bite-sized technical updates so that engineers can quickly broaden their knowledge on topics vital to their professional development. “We understand that ...
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French research lab Leti has teamed up with low-volume chip firm CMP to provide 200mm multi-project wafers (MPWs) including non-volatile memory OxRAM. “Leti’s integrated silicon memory platform is developed for backend memories and non-volatility associated with embedded designs,” said the lab. “The technology platform will be based on titanium-doped hafnium oxide [HfO2/Ti] active layers.” The ...
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Engineers at UCLA have designed a graphene-based photodetector that is sensitive and can work anywhere in the electromagnetic spectrum from ultra-violet to microwaves. The work is published in Nature Light Science & Applications in the paper ‘Gold-patched graphene nano-stripes for high-responsivity and ultrafast photodetection from the visible to infrared regime‘, whose title explains just about ...
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Kent-based PCB manufacturer Minnitron was called in when Welsh artist Stefan Samociuk needed a gold-plated panel as part of his ‘metasurface’ series. The 484 x 484mm singl-sided PCB has 190,969 pads ranging in diameter from 0.35mm to 0.9mm, plus solder mask, and was mounted on a backlit LED panel within a surround. The metasurface series ...
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Presto Engineering creates bespoke adapters to increase the performance of equipment testers. “In most cases, Presto creates a hardware solution that is built into the load board so that a standard tester could be used rather than having to buy and charge the customer for a highly specialised tester,” said the firm. “Test costs are ...
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Samsung’s semiconductor operation made a Q2 profit of $10.4 billion on sales of $16.7 billion. “In the Memory business, we continue to generate solid earnings as demand remained strong from data centers for DRAM and strong demand for high-capacity storage amid a strong softening of prices for NAND flash,”said Samsung’s Robert Yi, “we solidified product ...
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DRAMeXchange forecasts that the ASP of NAND Flash will drop by around 10% QoQ in both Q3 and Q4. Demand has been weaker than anticipated while the supply has continued to expand. There are three reasons for the fall in demand: Static smartphone shipments Softening notebook shipments after a strong H1. An over-supply of SSDs. ...
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