Updated: Vicor helps squeeze up to 2kW down data cables

US company VoltServer has a scheme with the similar aims to Power-over-Ethernet, but at much higher power. Digital Electricity, as it has been branded (rooftop installation right), “uses standard data cables and endpoint transformation to efficiently deliver significant power safely across long distances”, according to Vicor, which is providing power converters for the receive end. ...

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EU moves to four month investigation into Nvidia-Arm deal

The EU is going to put the Nvidia-Arm deal into a four month investigation process, reports Reuters. The expected decision follows the EU’s reported rejection of concessions offered by Nvidia. The UK government has also put the deal into an extended investigatory process. With Nvidia being a major Arm customer, the concern is that Arm’s ...

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Samsung increases EUV layers to five on DDR5

Samsung has begun mass producing 14nm DRAM using EUV technology. Following the company’s shipment of its  first EUV DRAM in March of last year, Samsung has increased the number of EUV layers to five to deliver today’s  DDR5 devices. As DRAM continues to scale down the 10nm-range, EUV technology becomes increasingly important to improve patterning ...

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UK start-ups: More investment for Agile Analog of Cambridge

Cambridge analogue IP building block start-up Agile Analog has pulled in more investment, this time from In-Q-Tel in the US, which describes itself as a ‘non-profit strategic investor’. “In-Q-Tel invests in companies from the start-up community which have the potential to strengthen the security of the US and its allies,” according to Agile. “Agile Analog’s ...

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Functional safety in touch controllers for industry and the kitchen

Microchip is introducing a touchscreen controller certified to IEC/UL 60730 Class B that will work on displays over 10in across. Called MXT448UD-HA, it is also compliant with IEC61000-4-6 Class A for conducted noise immunity up to 10Vrms (level three for industrial use). “This enables products with a touch screen interface to function in very harsh factory ...

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Coldest-ever temperature achieved by Bremen University

Researchers at Bremen University have produced the coldest temperature ever recorded – 38 picoKelvin or 38 trillionths of a degree above absolute zero. Measured as -273.15 °C (-459.67 °F), absolute zero is the coldest temperature possible on the thermodynamic scale – the point where there’s no atomic motion or heat at all The researchers took a ...

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Cambridge Quantum releases NLP toolkit and library

Cambridge Quantum (“CQ”) has released a toolkit and library for Quantum Natural Language Processing (QNLP). The toolkit is called lambeq, named after the mathematician and linguist Joachim Lambek. lambeq converts sentences into a quantum circuit. It is designed to accelerate the development of practical, real-world QNLP applications, including dialogue, text mining, language translation, text-to-speech, language ...

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Satellite-based Earth Observation data market worth $1.6 billion

Euroconsult, a consultancy specialising in the space sector, has released its assessment of the commercial demand for Earth Observation (EO) satellite-based imagery and value-added services. It’s latest report covers eight regions and across nine vertical markets. The headline figures include the commercial market for EO data standing at $1.6 billion, in 2020, which represents a ...

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Eutelsat raises shareholding in OneWeb, now second largest

Eutelsat, the Paris-based satellite operator, has increased its stake in OneWeb to 23%, making it the second largest shareholder. It exercised a call option on a portion of the latest OneWeb funding round subscribed by Bharti, for a consideration of $165 million, taking its shareholding from 17.6% to 22.9%. The Indian company is the largest shareholder ...

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MIPI completes A-PHY v1.1 auto SerDes interface

The MIPI Alliance, an international organization that develops interface specifications for mobile, has today completed development on A-PHY v1.1, the next version of the automotive SerDes physical-layer interface. Version 1.1 will double the maximum available downlink data rate from 16 Gigabits per second (Gbps) to 32 Gbps and include other enhancements to help automotive OEMs ...

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