Tattooable OLED anyone?

Researchers at University College London have created an OLED that can be applied to skin like a children’s transfer tattoo. So much like a child’s transfer is it, that it is made on the same type of substrate and applied the same way: wet it, stick it, and peel off the backing paper. The OLED ...

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Portal manages assets for efficient testing

Test products and services provider, Electro Rent, has created an online portal for customers to manage contracts and view their asset base. MyER Portal is designed to ensure a team has access to equipment and information to meet a project’s requirements. Managers, test engineers and purchasing staff can use the online tool to access information about rental ...

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Sondrel reference designs cut design cost, risk and time by 30%

Sondrel has launched a family of reference designs that could reduce design costs, risk and time by up to 30% compared to starting from scratch. The company has drawn on its experience of designing hundreds of ASICs to create a set of key reference designs that each provide a fast design time for high growth ...

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MIPS out of bankruptcy

The company which bought MIPS, Wave Computing, has emerged from Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection. MIPs is now developing an 8th generation architecture, based on RISC-V. MIPS has suffered a chequered history since being bought by Imagination in 2013. In 2017, China-backed Canyon Bridge bought Imagination and the US government insisted that MIPS must not go with ...

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January SEMI billings up 13% m-o-m and 30% y-o-y

SEMI’s January billings of $3.04 billion were 13.4% up on December’s $2.68 billion and up 29.9%  on the January 2020 billings of $2.34 billion. It is the first time a monthly billings figure has topped $3 billion “January billings of North America-based semiconductor equipment manufacturers marked a historic monthly high for the industry and a ...

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FlexLogix extends DARPA licence to 12/16nm eFPGA

FlexLogix has extended its licensing agreement with DARPA to include 12nm and 16nm products. “Since partnering with DARPA in 2017, Flex Logix has provided its eFPGA to many U.S. Government funded programs which need the flexibility and reprogrammability of eFPGA in chips at more advanced nodes,” said Geoff Tate, CEO and Co-founder of Flex Logix. ...

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JAXA to trial solid-state lithium-ion batteries in space

JAXA (the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency) has announced that it will conduct an experiment to demonstrate the use of all-solid-state lithium-ion batteries in space. It will be working with Hitachi Zosen Corporation in joint research to investigate practical space applications for the battery technology. Conventional lithium-ion batteries used in space use liquid and have a ...

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Customisable gas sensor for digital noses

Bosch is selling a customisable gas sensor for digital noses which can be programmed for different applications such as detection of spoiled food, bad breath and forest fires. The 4-in-1 MEMS sensor measures gases, humidity, temperature and barometric pressure in a single compact package to reduce TCO. Bosch has developed the BME AI-Studio software tool ...

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Power Integrations sponsors 2020 Elektra Awards

We’re very pleased to announce another new sponsor has signed up to help make this year’s virtual Elektra awards as successful as before – Power Integrations are now kindly sponsoring the Rising Star of the Year award. We look forward to seeing Power Integrations take part in the event by video. Don’t forget that this ...

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NXP announces i.MX 9, and extends i.MX 8 with security and Microsoft Azure Sphere

NXP has announced i.MX 9, a series for intelligent multi-sensor applications, and i.MX 8ULP-CS (cloud secured), a family off Microsoft Azure Sphere-certified processors. Details on i.MX 9 are few. According too the company: “Scalable i.MX 9 families bring together higher performance applications cores, an independent MCU-like real-time domain, state-of-the art security and dedicated multi-sensory data processing ...

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