A German project has revealed 400W infra-red laser diode bars for welding metals. “About 10 years ago, the best laser bars achieved a power of 200W with an efficiency of about 63%,” according to Osram. “Five years later, an output of 250W at an efficiency of no less than 60% was expected to be the ...
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The newest member of the RE01 Group lineup is a 256 kilobytes (KB) flash memory variant in addition to the 1.5 megabytes (MB) flash memory embedded controller, already in mass production. Featuring a minimum 3.16 mm × 2.88 mm package size, the new embedded controller is optimized for use in more compact product designs in ...
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Versarien the Cheltenham advanced materials engineering group, has received a £5 million loan from Innovate UK Loans Limited. Innovate UK has been running an extended pilot innovation loans programme over the past three years with £75 million committed to the scheme with normal loan amounts of up to £1million. The innovation loans are targeted at UK small ...
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Samsung supplied half the memories in smartphones in Q1, reports Strategy Analytics. Figure 1. Smartphone Memory DRAM Market Revenue Share Q1 2020 (Graphic: Business Wire) Samsung, Hynix and Micron took almost 84% of the revenue from smartphone memory market in Q1 2020. Samsung had 44% of the NAND revenues from smartphones followed by Kioxia with 21% ...
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Amazon has announced that it is introducing a new business segment dedicated to the aerospace and satellite industry. The Aerospace and Satellite Solutions business segment will bring AWS services to space enterprises, it says, and work with customers and partners around the world. A company blog post by Teresa Carlson, vp for Amazon Web Services’ ...
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Purdue University will have spawned 275 startups within the next 12 months backed by more than $400 million dollars in VC support and other investments, making it the third best US university for startup creation according to IP Watchdog. Companies have invested $2.3 billion to acquire 10 Purdue startups, which are: Endocyte Inc., a life ...
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Rohm is claiming “industry’s first high-speed op-amp that eliminates oscillation due to load capacitances” for its 10V/μs BD77501G – which is not quite true unless some further caveats are added as, for example, ADI’s ‘C-Load’ op-amps are stable with any capacitance – LT1364 can hit 1,000V/μs. Rohm’s branding for capacitive tolerance is ‘Nano Cap’. BD77501G is ...
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Artificial intelligence that tricks you into paying more for things has come under the academic spotlight in a project by Swiss lab EPFL and British partners. The research into unethical AI is from the point of view of companies that do not want their AI to give them a reputation for tricking people. It finds ...
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US researchers have manipulated fixed magnetic skyrmions using voltages, offering a possible route to skyrmion memory. Magnetic skyrmions are self-contained stable spin fields that share some characteristics with particles. They can be only a few nanometres across, and in certain circumstances can be created, destroyed and manipulated with very little energy, leading to them being ...
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Qualcomm has come up with a chip for smartwatches called Wear 4100. It is made on a 12 nm process and has four 1.7GHz Cortex A53 CPUs. A “+” version of the chip is for watches with an always-on displsy. It has dual DSPs which deliver, says Qualcomm “optimal workload partitioning, support for dynamic ...
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