Molecules connected to graphene for future sensors

Molecular electronics can include graphene, following a project by international scientists. “Graphene and graphene-like molecules are attractive choice as an electronic component in molecular devices, but up till now it has proven very challenging to use them in large scale production of molecular devices that will work and be robust at room temperatures,” according to ...

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GaN specialist Transphorm now at Mouser

Mouser Electronics has signed a global distribution agreement with Transphorm, manufacturer of gallium nitride (GaN) transistors for high-voltage power conversion applications. Mouser will distribute Transphorm’s lines of JEDEC- and AEC-Q101-qualified GaN FETs and evaluation tools. Philip Zuk, vice president of worldwide technical marketing and North America sales at Transphorm says “The agreement provides us with ...

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Siemens offers selected engineering students £3000-a-year

Siemens has launched a new undergraduate sponsorship programme designed to “discover, inspire and nurture” the next generation of engineering students. The Digital Academy will pay selected students £3,000-a-year from the second year of university and offers up to 12-weeks paid summer placement throughout the duration of their studies within a Siemens business. Digital Academy is ...

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Singapore R&D for mmWave phased array technology for 5G

A*STAR of Singaporevand arQana Technologies are to jointly develop capabilities in mmWave Phased Array System for 5G cellular infrastructure, drone detection radar, and satellite communication on the move (SOTM). The three-year collaboration will see an investment of S$10M by arQana to develop differentiating performance factors that are currently missing in the industry such as greater ...

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Imec.istart selects nine startups

Imec has chosen nine new tech startups for the imec.istart accelerator programme. In addition to a pre-seed funding of €50,000, they will receive one year of tailor-made coaching for their specific market, in order to make the transition to the market easier. The rising trend in the number of promising international start-ups applying is also ...

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16 synchronous digital lines added to digitiser

Spectrum Intrumentation has released an optional module for its latest range of 16-bit digitizers and AWGs that adds 16 synchronous digital lines to the analogue data. The additional digital lines extend the four multi-purpose XIO lines that are already standard on these digitizer and AWG cards. This makes, in total, 20 fully programmable XIO lines ...

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Raspberry Pi supercomputer

Oracle has built a supercomputer from 1060 Raspberry Pi’s. It runs on Oracle Autonomous Linux. The Raspberry Pis are connected to a series of  Ubiquiti UniFi Switch 48s and uplinked  with SFP+ 10GbE transceivers. They are powered by USB power supplies. A 1U Xeon server acts  as a central storage server for the supercomputer. Custom, ...

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2020 looking good

2020 seniconductor sales are forecast to rise 5-7%, reports SEMI. Yesterday, Future Horizons forecast that the 2020 market rise would be 4%. SEMI blamed the cloud service providers’ capex cutbacks for the memory market downturn this year, which will lead the industry to a 15% fall in 2019, according to Future Horizons.. Chipmakers remain trapped ...

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Vision at the edge

CEVA has announced  its second-generation AI processor architecture for deep neural network inferencing at the edge called  NeuPro-S. CEVA also introduced  the CDNN-Invite API, an industry-first deep neural network compiler technology that supports heterogeneous co-processing of NeuPro-S cores together with custom neural network engines, in a unified neural network optimizing run-time firmware. NeuPro-S, along with ...

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