“It is time for Europe to decide whether it wants to become a submissive continent…or a sovereign continent,” says French finance minister Bruno Le Maire (pictured) who has been leading the fight in the EU to tax the US tech giants. The Americans calk them the FANG and the French call them the GAFA, but ...

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Pharrowtech, an Imec spin-off currently in incubation, has demo-ed a prototype of a 60 GHz active phased array. Pharrowtech’s solution paves the way for telecom OEMs to dramatically increase range and field of view of backhaul nodes, access points and home units. It is fully built using low-cost, high-volume chip and antenna technology. This marks ...

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Renesas has introduced a design environment for its  RZ/A1 microprocessors (MPUs) to simplify and accelerate the development of HMI, and camera-based development applications.. The  RZ/A1 Software Package IDE offers a starting point for RZ/A1-based HMI and camera-GUI design, significantly reducing the complexity and resources required to develop these applications. The RZ/A1 Software package incorporates the MCU ...

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Micron is to buy Intel’s share of their 12 year-old  flash jv IM Flash Technologies. Micron will pay $1.5 billion for the stake and will assume responsibility for $1billion debt owed by Intel to the jv. Each company originally put in about $1.2 billion to found the jv in 2006. The move could be the ...

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Novel neuromorphic and 3D devices, along with advances in memories and in core integrated circuit technology, are among the highlights of the upcoming 64th IEDM which will be held December 1-5, 2018 at the Hilton San Francisco Union Square hotel. With 230 scheduled presentations, the conference’s tradition of spotlighting more leading work in more areas of ...

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Claiming to be the world’s biggest photovoltaics installation in the world, 185 m² of  organic photovoltaic films were installed on the façade of a warehouse of  Duisburger Hafen AG. The trial installation has 192, three metre long HeliaSol film panels, making it the largest facade installation to date with organic photovoltaics (OPV). HeliaSol is a ...

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Renesas has extended its R-Car family of SoCs with the introduction of the R-Car E3 to realize high-end 3D graphics on the largest class of displays used for automotive instrument clusters – 12.3 inches, 1,920 x 720 pixels. Combining 3D rendering with integrated audio DSP and other peripheral functions, the single-chip SoC supports instrument clusters ...

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Socionext, ArchiTek, and Toyota have signed an agreement to start an R&D project on ‘Evolutionary, Low-Power AI Edge LSI’. The project is being sponsored by New Energy and Industrial Technology Development Organization (NEDO), a Japanese governmental organization promoting the development and introduction of new energy technologies. It is scheduled to conclude in March 2022 with ...

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