Semi-transparent EMI coating is flexible and quick to apply

US researchers have created an EMI screening material that is semi-transparent flexible and quickly applied – although only to small objects. They are films with hundreds of layers, each a few nanometres thick – the polymer-bonded layers alternate between carbon-nanotubes and a MXene – MXenes are two dimensional inorganic molecules containing a transition metal carbide or ...

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Samsung to compensate chip workers for chemical illnesses

  Samsung has agreed to compensate workers with payouts of up to £100,000 for diseases and death caused by the chemicals used in fabs. The death of Hwang Yumi, a 23-year-old Samsung fab employee, has provoked the settlement after a ten year campaign by her father Hwang Sang-ki. Back in 2007, Hwang set up a ...

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Apple has $62.9bn Q3

Apple had calendar Q3 revenues of $62.9 billion – up 20% on Q317. Services revenue reached an all-time high of $10 billion. “We’re thrilled to report another record-breaking quarter that caps a tremendous fiscal 2018, the year in which we shipped our 2 billionth iOS device, celebrated the 10th anniversary of the App Store and ...

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FlexLogix neural inference engine up for license

Flex Logix’ NMAX Neural Inferencing Engine, which  delivers 1 to >100 TOPS of neural inferencing capacity, is available for licensing. NMAX is described as a modular, scalable architecture that requires a fraction of the DRAM bandwidth of existing neural inferencing solutions. Put is a general purpose Neural Inferencing Engine which can run any type of ...

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Mouser signs Sudo Systems

Mouser has entered into a distribution agreement with Sudo Systems and becomes an authorized distributor of the  SudoProc system-on-module (SoM). The module is a custom-designed, solderable module small enough to fit in designs with limited space. The module is based on a Rockchip RK3288 processor – a 1.8GHz, quad-core Arm Cortex–A17 system-on-chip (SoC) with a 600 MHz ...

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ON Semi extends Bluetooth SoCs

ON Semiconductor has extended its RSL10 family of Bluetooth 5 certified radio SoCs with support for the Bluetooth SIG mesh networking standard. Standardised Bluetooth mesh networking is supported with the ON Semiconductor Mesh release, enabling many-to-many device communications. Device manufacturers can now deploy large-scale, low-power Bluetooth mesh networks for applications such as smart home, building automation ...

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