Cyber attacks rise against UK medical researchers

The UK’s National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC) is warning of large-scale COVID-19-related ‘password spraying’ campaigns against healthcare bodies and medical research organisations, by commercial and state data thieves – known as ‘advanced persistent threat’ (APT) groups  – seeking bulk personal information, intellectual property and intelligence that aligns with national priorities. Password spraying is the attempt to ...

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O-S-D sales to fall 6%

After 10 years of record-high sales, combined revenues for optoelectronics, sensors/actuators, and discrete semiconductors are expected to drop 6% in 2020, says the O-S-D Report from IC Insights. When 2020 began, global conditions pointed to single-digit percentage market growth this year for O-S-D devices, but the outlook suddenly deteriorated in Q1 due to the coronavirus. ...

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Beating the bug

Infineon CEO Reinhard Ploss (pictured) gave an insight into how manufacturing companies can tackle the coronavirus at the company’s earnings meeting this week. “We have been able to largely maintain our supply chain and other activities in recent weeks despite all difficulties, such as lockdown regulations, tight raw material supply, limited air freight capacity and ...

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Imec and Roswell Biotechnologies to develop molecular electronics biosensor ICs

Imec and molecular electronics sensor chip specialist, Roswell Biotechnologies, are partnering  to develop the first commercially available molecular electronics biosensor chips. These chips are the brains behind Roswell Technologies’ platform for DNA sequencing, to support precision medicine, molecular diagnostics, rapid infectious disease testing, and DNA data storage. “The urgent need for a new generation of rapid, low-cost, ...

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Arm-based gaming processor

MediaTek has launched  its Helio G85 mobile gaming-focused chipset. The chipset integrates an Arm Mali-G52 GPU with a peak of 1GHz. Equipped with MediaTek’s proprietary HyperEngine, the Helio G85 achieves a Manhattan benchmark score up to 25fps. The device’s octa-core CPU integrates two Arm Cortex-A75 processors operating at up to 2GHz and six Cortex-A55 processors ...

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JV enables clothes manufacturers to incorporate electronic functions

Powercast, an RF specialist, and Liquid X which makes metallic links,  both from Pittsburgh, have set up a jv to give clothes manufacturers the capability to integrate wireless power functionality into durable, flexible, high performance and washable e-textiles. Utilizing Liquid X’s proprietary ink technology, manufacturers can print circuitry directly onto a garment, add Powercast’s wireless power ...

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ST boosts support for safety-critical STM32 and STM8 applications

STMicroelectronics has released functional-safety support packages to simplify the development of safety-critical products using STM32 and STM8 microcontrollers. The packages are available free-of-charge and contain resources applicable to IEC and ISO specifications. X-CUBE-STL is aimed at industrial applications and is certified by TÜV Rheinland according to IEC 61508 SC3. Ttogether with the Condition of Use of the Safety Manual, ...

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