Intel is to buy the six year-old enterprise networking company Barefoot Networks. The price is not disclosed, Barefoot has a P4-programmable switch chip that can run up to speeds of 6.5 Tbit/s. The company has received funding in the past from Andreessen Horowitz, Lightspeed Venture Partners, Sequoia Capital, Goldman Sachs, AT&T, Dell, Alibaba and Tencent. “The addition ...
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Cosel has released 300W and 1,000W power supplies with extended communications I/O for medical and industrial applications. 300W PCA300F and 1kW PCA1000F have been added to the existing 600W PCA600F. The PCA series have a built-in extended-UART interface supporting up to 83 commands to monitor and control power supply parameters, and PMBus versions are to ...
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U-blox has announced a series of LTE-M and NB-IoT modules for low power wide area (LPWA) IoT applications, its most advanced, secure and highly integrated cellular product. Called SARA-R5 and built on the firm’s UBX-R5 cellular chipset and M8 GNSS receiver chip, “by integrating a hardware-based root-of-trust in a discrete secure element within the UBX-R5 ...
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Tokyo Electron has told Reuters that it will not sell equipment to Chinese firms black-listed by the US government. At the moment Fujian Jin Hua’s plans to build a DRAM fab are held up because it can’t buy production equipment because of the US ban, “We would not do businesses with Chinese clients with whom ...
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Renesas has established the “Automotive Electronic Joint Laboratory” with SAIC Volkswagen Automobile Co., (“SVW”). The SAIC-Volkswagen-Renesas Joint Laboratory will accelerate R&D efforts to support emerging automotive electronics applications, starting with cockpit and vehicle control, for the Chinese automotive market. The joint laboratory will combine Renesas’ MCUs, SoCs and software expertise with SAIC Volkwagen’s development capabilities, ...
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Broadcom and Bosch remain the global MEMS leaders, says Yole Développement. Almost every player exhibited a stable yearly growth in 2018 though a bit weaker than the previous year. Yole attributes this to the slower growth of the general semiconductor industry – 15% – in 2018 compared to 21% in 2017. In Q4 2018, ...
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Samdung’s foundry business says it has a PDK available for its 3nm node called 3GAE. This is the node that moves from finfet to gate-all-around. Samsung calls the GAA transistor Multi-Bridge Channel FET (MBCFET). Samsung illustrates above how a FinFET layout compares to GAA.. The supply voltage VDD for 3GAE will scale to 0.7V. 3GAE ...
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The Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport (DCMS) is providing £18.5 million to drive up skills in AI and data science and support more adults to upskill and retrain to progress in their careers or find new employment. Up to 2,500 people will have the opportunity to retrain and become experts in data science ...
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UK electric vehicle battery research production line Amplifii has upgraded to accommodate 21700 Li-ion cells. These cells, 21mm diameter and 70mm long, are considered a better compromise between active electrode mass, passive structure mass and thermal performance than the common 18650 (18mm 65mm) size – Tesla is switching from 18650 to 21700. Amplifii (‘Automated module-to-pack ...
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Five senior execs have been arrested at Samsung for attempts to cover up accounting scandals, reports the Nikkei. Korea’s regulator accused Samsung Biologics of a $4 billion accounting fraud by over-valuing its research unit. The latest exec to be arrested allegedly ordered servers and laptops to be buried under the floor of Samsung’s Incheon factory ...
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