Samsung Electronics will stick with its investment plans despite the coronavirus, and intends to take process technology leadership in the foundry business away from TSMC. “High technology will be more important in the foundry market,” said Samsung Electronics CEO Kim Ki-nam (pictured) yesterday, “in that sense, Samsung’s foundry has never been behind Taiwan, and in ...
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The current constraints on consumer spending could lead to a boom in spending on electronics products later this year, suggests Bill Jewell’s Semiconductor Intelligence. The National Bureau of Statistics of China reported combined January and February 2020 production of mobile phone units was down 34% from a year ago, and the total value of Chinese industrial production ...
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Spark Microsystems of Montreal is sampling a series of low power UWB wireless transceiver ICs for short-range wireless connectivity. Production is planned for Q3. The SR1000 transceiver series offers an extremely low latency symmetrical bi-directional data link coupled with ultra-low power consumption and provides high quality of service in order to support the uninterrupted low ...
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A database of drone radar cross sections has been made public to help those developing countermeasures. ‘We measured drone radar cross sections at multiple 26-40GHz millimetre-wave frequencies to better understand how drones can be detected, and to investigate the difference between drone models and materials in terms of scattering radio signals,” said researcher Vasilii Semkin ...
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For this year’s UK Robotics Week, UK-RAS has launched two creative competitions based around drawing and story-writing. The contests are open to key stage 1 & 2 children respectively, and prizes including programmable robot kits and experiment kits are up for grabs. For the “Draw a robot” competition, children in key stage 1 (five to ...
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Rutronik has entered into a global distribution agreement with German optoelectronics firm Laser Components encompassing all of the manufacturer’s products. Laser Components’ product range includes photodiodes, IR components, lasers, laser modules, fibre optics, and optical components. These products are used in industrial applications, primarily for positioning and marking in the medical, industrial, and laser systems ...
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Kontron has upgraded its KISS V3 family of industrial rack-mount PCs, moving to 9th Gen Intel Core i7/i5/i3 or 2nd Gen Xeon E processors with up to eight cores on a FCLGA1151 socket with C246 chipset. Called KISS V3 CFL, they come in 1U, 2U and 4U formats. “Thanks to their resistance to high temperatures as ...
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Oxford University’s Engineering Science Department and the Oxford Suzhou Centre for Advanced Research (OSCAR) have developed a rapid testing technology for the corona virus. The new test is much faster and does not need a complicated instrument. Previous viral RNA tests took 1.5 to 2 hours to give a result. The research team has developed ...
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Farnell has added Rohde & Schwarz’s NGP800 series of power supplies to its portfolio. The series is made up of five 2- and 4-channel models operating at either 400W or 800W, suited for both bench-top and automated test systems. They have a 5” touch display that enables synchronising outputs, performing waveform tests and logging data ...
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Four year-old startup Emergex of Abingdon plans to start testing a coronavirus vaccine within two months. In January Emergex raised $11 million in a funding round led by Vickers Ventures. Emergex has an unusual methodology for creating vaccines. Traditionally vaccines are developed using live viruses which need to be grown on a host which can ...
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