Alps Alpine proposes a touchless control panel for situations when touching is undesirable, not possible or not allowed. Market research is currently underway with an eye toward commercialisation in around 2021. Downsizing and advanced functionality are aims behind recent replacement of switches with touch panels as the input and control technology for a wide range ...
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Plans to further reduce Huawei’s involvement in UK 5G infrastructure are being drawn up following growing anti-China sentiment in the wake of the coronavirus. BT is already committed to stripping out Huawei equipment from the core of the network by 023. The core is where voice and data are routed to their destinations across sub-networks ...
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A team from the Australian universities of Monash, Swinburne and RMIT have achieved a data transmission speed of 44.2Tbps. Researchers said they achieved this be using a micro-comb photonics IC. Researchers installed 48 miles of optical fibre between RMITs Melbourne City Campus and Monash University’s Clayton Campus. The microcomb chip – contributed by Swinburne University ...
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SEMI’s April billings for North America-based manufacturers of semiconductor equipment were $2.26 billion which is 2.2% up on the March figure of $2.21 billion. The April 2020 billings figure is 17.2% above the April 2019 billings level of $1.93 billion. Billings have now stayed above $2 billion for the seventh consecutive month. “April billings of ...
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China is going to fall a long way short of its ‘Made in China 2025’ target for domestic semiconductor production, says IC Insights. IC Insights reckons that China may only achieve about 30% of its ‘Made in China’ target of having 70% of its domestic chip requirement supplied from domestic sources in 2025. IC production in ...
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Researchers at Surrey University and Kyung Hee University of Korea have developed a biodegradable motion sensor – paving the way for implanted nanotechnology. They developed a nano-biomedical motion sensor which can be paired with AI systems to recognise movements of body parts. The technology builds on previous work around triboelectric nanogenerators (TENG), where researchers used ...
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UltraSoc’s embedded analytics technology has been selected by SimpleMachines, Inc (SMI) for use within SMI’s innovative Composable Computing Platform. UltraSoC’s technology will allow SMI and its customers to gain an intimate understanding of the behaviour of the hardware and software within the company’s products, which are targeted at a diverse range of demanding applications such ...
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Triad RF Systems of New Jersey has added to its THPR series of ready-to-install amplified radios. Eliminating the need to integrate standalone components to create a long-range wireless and intelligence, surveillance, and recognizance (ISR) radio links working in S-band, Triad has combined high power RF subsystems with a Silvus StreamCaster model SC4210E-235 core radio that ...
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Samsung is to put $8 billion into building a new logic fab at Pyeongtaek for its foundry business and another $8 billion unto expanding its memory fab at Xi’an in China. The Pyeongtaek fab is due to run first silicon next year. It will have Samsung’s 5nm EUV process. Samsung started using EUV in production ...
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Farnell has added the PicoScope 6000E series of USB oscilloscopes from Pico Technology to its portfolio. The scope is useful for design and test engineers, OEMs, CEMs working with high-performance embedded systems, and researchers and scientists working on multi-channel high-performance experiments in physics labs, particle accelerators and similar facilities. Pico provides innovative and cost-effective alternatives ...
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