Japan has approached TSMC to build a fab in Japan in collaboration with local chip manufacturers, reports the Japanese newspaper Yomiuri. The idea is to boost the capabilities of the local IC companies and to give Japan access to the latest chip technology for national security applications. Ironically, 14 years ago Japan was talking about ...
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University of Missouri engineers have demonstrated that pencils and paper can be used to create on-skin electronic devices. ‘On-skin electronics are usually fabricated by patterning conventional inorganic materials, novel organic materials, or emerging nanomaterials on flexible polymer substrates,’ say the researchers, ‘consequently, the state-of-the-art on-skin electronics usually suffer from expensive precursor materials, costly fabrication facilities, ...
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Researchers from the Institute for Quantum Computing (IQC) at the University of Waterloo, IBM, Technical University of Munich, and the University of Technology Sydney have created an algorithm to solve a problem on a noisy quantum circuit that has a constant depth, meaning it has to solve the problem within a set upper limit of steps. ...
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Kyocera is offering seven years availability of displays for medical uses. The standard displays Are: 5,7‘‘, 10,4‘‘ as well as 12,1‘‘. Additionally, there are also special sized displays with 6,2‘‘ (640 x 240 Pixel) for narrow application fronts available. The displays are available long-term and insensitive to radiation effects due to their metal housing. For ...
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Toshiba has introduced a constant-current 2-phase bipolar stepping motor driver, which is designed for automotive use, and is claimed to streamline motor system implementations. It delivers a sine-wave output signal (with up to 1/32 incremental steps supported) while requiring only a simple clock input. The need for a sophisticated microcontroller unit (MCU) or dedicated software is ...
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Synaptics is sampling a family of USB-C-based video interfaces which incorporate the HDMI 2.1 and DisplayPort Alt Mode 2.0. Called Cayenne, the family targets travel docks, dongles, video-hubs and protocol converters. Cayenne supportS 8K and 10K displays, and backward compatibility to support existing 4K and older displays. The Cayenne family supports all the video (DP1.4) ...
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ST has bought UWB specialist BeSpoon and the cellular IoT connectivity assets of Riot Micro. “Cellular IoT and UWB technologies are key wireless connectivity solutions that will enable a next wave of IoT connected objects and innovative applications,” says Claude Dardanne (pictured) President of ST’s MCU and Digital ICs Group, “these acquisitions complement ST’s existing wireless ...
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SMIC shares soared 245% on the Shanghai STAR market earlier today as SMIC issued 1,685,620,000 shares raising $6.62 billion. Before the sale it was said that China’s state-run funds would be buying in the share sale. The money raised is said to be going into process improvement. SMIC’s best process is 14nm. However SMIC warned ...
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After dropping by 15% last year, the IC market is expected to show single-digit growth in 2020, says IC Insights. Figure 1 shows the 1Q/4Q IC market direction indicator that IC Insights developed 23 years ago. Figure 1 From 1984-2019, the average seasonal sequential decline in the 1Q IC market was 2%. In 1Q20, the ...
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The government has today published proposals for a new law that will help protect smart device users from cyber criminals. The proposals, drawn up by the Department for DCMS and supported by the NCSC, detail the government’s plans to raise the security standard for all consumer smart products sold in the UK. As a first ...
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