While graphene has some amazing physical, optical and mechanical properties, its lack of a natural bandgap limits its use in electronics. Methods of varying complexity have been found to add bandgaps, and now there is another tool in the box – a chemical whose molecules self-assemble into an evenly-spaced flat lattice as they bond down ...
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Semtech has teamed up with Amazon Web Services (AWS) to integrate the LoRaWAN protocol on the Network Server with AWS IoT Core, AWS’s managed Cloud service that lets connected devices interact with Cloud applications and other devices. AWS IoT Core for LoRaWAN is a fully managed service that enables enterprise IoT developers to easily connect low ...
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SMIC says it is ‘verifying’ media reports that its co-CEO, Liang Mong-song, has resigned. “The company understands that Dr Liang wishes to resign under certain conditions and is actively verifying Dr Liang’s true intentions,” SMIC said in a filing to the Shanghai stock exchange. Recently a TSMC exec, Chiang Shang-yi, was appointed SMIC vice chairman. ““I ...
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Nokia will sacrifice margin for 5G market share, says CEO Pekka Lundmark (pictured). “Customers are using a best-of-breed approach to build these networks, selecting network elements from multiple individual vendors who are able to offer the best performance per total cost of ownership,” says Lundmark, “Nokia is aiming to be the technology leader in the ...
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AIStorm, the Houston specialist in AI-in-Sensor processors, has closed $16 million in an oversubscribed Series B financing round. Investors include AsusTek, Egis Technology, Knowles, Meyer and Senvest Management. AIStorm is targeting a range of applications for AI-at-the-Edge in imaging and audio, facial recognition, access control, behavioural tracking, people counting, face detection, object tracking, and segmentation. ...
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Imec has come up with a novel DRAM cell architecture that implements two indium-gallium-zinc-oxide thin-film transistors (IGZO-TFTs) and no storage capacitor. DRAM cells in this 2T0C (2 transistor 0 capacitor) configuration show a retention time longer than 400s for different cell dimensions – significantly reducing the memory’s refresh rate and power consumption. The ability to ...
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NASA’s Launch Services Program (LSP) has awarded three contracts to launch small satellites (SmallSats) to space, including CubeSats, microsats or nanosatellites. The three US companies selected to provide the commercial launches are Astra Space, Relativity Space and Firefly Black LLC. And the value of their fixed-price contracts, $3.9m, $3.0m and $9.8m, respectively Miniature satellites help ...
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Qualcomm has announced the Snapdragon 678 Mobile Platform – an upgrade to the 675. 678 offers the following performance enhancements over Snapdragon 675: · Qualcom Kryo 460 CPU core clock speed up to 2.2GHz · Qualcomm Adreno 612 GPU performance increase Qualcomm Spectra 250L ISP powers the camera features on the Snapdragon 678. Users can ...
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