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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