Micron in volume production of 16Gbit LPDDR4 DRAM

Micron says it has begun volume shipments of its  16Gb low-power double data rate 4X (LPDDR4X) DRAM made on what it calls 1nz nm process (a.k.a. 1.? nm) Micron LPDDR4X is also shipping in volume in a UFS-based multichip package (uMCP4). Currently eight die can be stacked in a package. The LPDDR4 has clock speeds ...

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Mellanox stalking Intel in Ethernet adapter market

Mellanox was within five percentage market share points of market leader Intel in the Q1 Ethernet adapter market, says IHS Markit. Demand from cloud service providers (CSPs) is boosting Mellanox’s market share which climbed 3 percentage points in Q1 to reach 20% which compares to a 25% market share for Intel. CSPs have been the key ...

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Arrow Electronics announces AI Experience tour for EMEA

Arrow Electronics has announced a series of events, called the AI Experience tour, that will focus on the design and deployment of AI (artificial intelligence). Starting in September, the AI Experience tour aims to demonstrate how AI is being used in commercial applications today and help attendees to understand how they can leverage AI in their ...

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Thin phobic layer neatly guides metal deposition for sensors and solar cells

Metal film features from 1μm to 10cm across can be formed by a process developed at the University of Warwick, which exploits the characteristics of a cheap organofluorine compound, and needs no toxic chemicals. It is a vacuum deposition process that works with copper and silver, and exploits the different ‘condensation coefficient’ (‘C’) of two materials. ...

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Mouser brings rich graphics to mobile devices with NXP processors

Fully-depleted silicon on insulator (FD-SoI) technology i.MX7ULP applications processors from NXP Semiconductors are now available from Mouser Electronics. They support low power graphics operation and include 2D and 3D graphics processing units (GPUs) for graphics applications in portable medical devices, wearable products, smart home controls, gaming accessories and portable printers and scanners. The processors are ...

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Fast high-voltage PSU for Pockels cells

Highland Technology of San Francisco has released the model T850 driver for Pockels cell optical modulators. Pockels cells are fast high voltage devices with a capacitive load characteristics. “T850 incorporates a new architecture that greatly increases electrical efficiency and reduces driver size and cooling requirements,” according to the firm. “The 7.5ns electrical output pulse is ...

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MCU market to fall 6%

The MCU market is expected to contract by 6% this year because of an overall slowdown in electronic systems, a fall off in car purchases, and the U.S.-China trade war, says IC Insights. After reaching record-high sales in the last two years, the MCU market slid lower in the first half of 2019 because of ...

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IBM Tops US Patent Haul For 26th Year Running

For the 26th year running, IBM has topped the rankings of the companies which were granted the most US patents. According to the Intellectual Property Owners Association. IBM was granted a total of 9,088 patents for inventions in fields ranging from artificial intelligence and cognitive computing to cloud technologies and cyber security. Second came Samsung ...

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Kit for smart buildings LoRa deployments

Semtech has produced a  Smart Building Reference Kit, a collection of tools designed to accelerate the development of smart building solutions based on LoRa devices and the LoRaWAN protocol, and facilitate a portable demonstration of these solutions. The kit allows users to monitor doors and windows, desk and room presence, environmental conditions, and detect water ...

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More on: Rockley Photonics’ technology

Rockley Electronics is a silicon photonics start-up that recently raised $52m in a funding round, bringing its total to $165. With all this investor interest, it was time to find out exactly what the company is offering, so Electronics Weekly spoke to its founder and CEO Andrew Rickman – and industry veteran with some history in photonics. ...

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