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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Image compression technology to save power in the blink of an eye

Image compression technology in the PowerVR PVRIC4 IP block enables random access, visually lossless image compression for bandwidth and memory savings for DTVs, smartphones and tablets, says Imagination Technologies. Claimed to halve memory bandwidth and footprint, the IP block targets SoC development for consumer applications to meet the needs of the higher resolution demanded by ...

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Robot self-reconfigures using its own perception

A Cornell University led team has created modular robots that can perceive their surroundings, make decisions and autonomously assume different shapes in order to perform various tasks – although the robots remain error-prone. Given a high-level task specification, the intention is that a modular robot would autonomously explores an unknown environment, decided when and how ...

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Self-clinching nuts and studs for automovtive thin high-strength steel

PEM has introduced self-clinching nuts and studs for the thin sheets of high-strength steel increasingly seen in automotive applications. Called SH self-clincing nuts and HFLH self-clinching studs are manufactured from hardened alloy. “Due to a lightweight design and reduced need for loose hardware such as washers, these fasteners can contribute to overall weight reductions in ...

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Surrey firm uses Honeywell sensors for Formula 1 and UAVs

Surrey Sensors is using Honeywell’s RSC and HSC series of digital pressure sensors in precision measurement systems for sectors including aerospace and Formula 1. “We needed small and accurate board mount pressure sensors. Competitor products we examined couldn’t come close,” said Dr David Birch, research director at SSL, which is a joint venture between the ...

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