Digital Secretary Jeremy Wright (pictured) will today confirm Robert Winston, Dame Patricia Hodgson and Kriti Sharma to shape the work of the Centre for Data Ethics and Innovation. The Centre is chaired by the founder of healthcare data firm Dr Foster, Roger Taylor.  It has been established to make sure the UK is leading the ...

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NAND bit output is increasing as yields improve on 64/72 layer devices and prices are expected to fall more steeply than Q3’s 10-15% as demand continues its year-long trend of lagging supply, reports DRAMeXchange. Samsung Samsung’s NAND Flash revenue for 3Q18 rose by 2.1% QoQ to $6.05 billion. Samsung maintained a QoQ growth of more ...

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Sales of automotive electronic systems are forecast to increase 7.0% in 2018 and 6.3% in 2019, the highest growth rate in both years among the six major end-use applications for semiconductors, says IC Insights. Figure 1 shows that sales of automotive-related electronic systems are forecast to increase to $152 billion in 2018 from $142 billion ...

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IAR Ssystems of Sweden, Secure Thingz of Cambridge and Renesas  are joining forces on IoT. Secure Thingz’ Embedded Trust, which is a security development environment that leverages the IAR Embedded Workbench IDE from IAR Systems, will support Renesas microcontrollers (MCUs) when Embedded Trust is launched to the broader market in 2019. This new hardware and software ...

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Imec has demo-ed and approach for secure and very accurate passive keyless entry on Bluetooth Low Energy (BLE). This technology enables a seamless car access experience where a BLE device, such as a mobile phone, acts as a digital car key. Imec’s demonstrator builds on the research center’s Secure High Accuracy Distance Measurement (HADM) algorithms implemented ...

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VW is to spend $50 billion retooling car plants at Zwickau, Emden and Hannover to mass produce electric cars  in a bid to make their production profitable, reports Reuters. “With high economies of scale, I think we will be the most profitable company in electric vehicles,” says CEO Herbert Diess. The unions have yet to ...

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