The creator if the first MEMS device, Harvey Nathanson, has died. He built a resonant horizontal wand-like structure while working for Westinghouse in the 1960s. “Working out of the Westinghouse Research Labs in 1965 he conceived of a microscopic device used as a tuner for microelectronic radios,” according to this obituary by Ralph Schugar Chapel in ...
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NASA has confirmed its intention to buy seats on possible private space missions, to support its “low-Earth orbit commercialisation goals”. Specifically, it would be for short duration (taking up to 30 days) trips to the International Space Station. “The purchase of a private astronaut mission seat will directly support NASA’s low-Earth orbit commercialisation goals by ...
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The World Meteorological Organization (WMO) has warned the decisions of a major radiocommunication conference may be too lenient to avoid an adverse impact on Earth observation satellite systems. The World Radiocommunication Conference 2019, organized by the International Telecommunications Union and attended by more than 160 nations, agreed on the allocation of bandwidths of the world’s ...
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5G handsets will account for 15% of the smartphone market next year with Chinese brands supplying 60% of them, reports TrendForce. Total production volume for smartphones in 3Q19 is estimated at 375 million units, a 9.2% growth QoQ. The top six positions are Samsung, Huawei, Apple, OPPO, Xiaomi, and Vivo, which accounted for 78% of global ...
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RISC-V will see 146.2% CAGR 2018-2025, forecasts Semico Research. Semico reckons that 62.4 billion RISC-V CPU cores will be shipped by 2025 of which the largest segment is industrial which is forecast to use 16.7 billion cores. Semico analysed data for 25 applications within five major end markets – computer, consumer, communications, transportation and industrial ...
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Daicel of Osaka is offering free samples of nanodiamonds in return for reports on how they work in the field. Nanodiamonds (NDs) are a nano-carbon material consisting of a diamond core and sp2 carbon layers like graphene and graphite with various oxygenic functional groups. Daicel sells nano-diamonds under the brand name DINNOVARE. The DINNOVARE range has ...
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RS Components has announced availability of the DRM40/B series of DIN rail mounted redundancy power modules from TDK-Lambda. Designed for automation and general-purpose industrial applications, the DRM40 and DRM40B power modules offer 20 to 40A current handling capability and can be used in N+1 redundancy systems and applications; alternatively, two supplies can be placed in ...
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Ranplan Wireless has been selected as a contributor to a €1.4m EU Horizon project, taking place over a four-year period starting 1 December 2019. Focused on realising the concept of network slicing in preparation for mass-market deployment of programmable 5G networks, this EU initiative brings Ranplan Wireless in partnership with CNR of Italy, Orange Labs of ...
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Even when the connections and weightings in a neural network are displayed for all to see, it is not clear how most of them actually achieve their results – they are trained black boxes that remain opaque under close scrutiny. Now scientist from Italian research institute SISSA and the Technical University of Munich have found ...
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Wisekey, ON Semiconductor and Tatwah have collaborated on a secure IoT beacon device. The device, claimed to be the first of its type, will be introduced at Trustech 2019, an event for payments, identification and security technology, held from November 26-28 in Cannes, France. It embeds the Bluetooth 5 RSL10 SIP from ON Semiconductor. The RSL10 family ...
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