Oxford University’s Engineering Science Department and the Oxford Suzhou Centre for Advanced Research (OSCAR) have developed a rapid testing technology for the corona virus. The new test is much faster and does not need a complicated instrument. Previous viral RNA tests took 1.5 to 2 hours to give a result. The research team has developed ...
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Four year-old startup Emergex of Abingdon plans to start testing a coronavirus vaccine within two months. In January Emergex raised $11 million in a funding round led by Vickers Ventures. Emergex has an unusual methodology for creating vaccines. Traditionally vaccines are developed using live viruses which need to be grown on a host which can ...
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Q2 server DRAM ASPs will rise 20% q-o-q and Q2 SSD prices will rise 10-15% q-o-q, says DRAMeXchange. Driving DRAM demand are the US JEDI contract and the demand for teleworking services. Supply of server DRAM is now tight and inventory levels at both suppliers and customers are low. The demand for teleworking and cloud ...
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The Khronos Group, an open consortium of industry-leading companies creating advanced interoperability standards, announces the ratification and public release of the Vulkan Ray Tracing provisional extensions, creating the industry’s first open, cross-vendor, cross-platform standard for ray tracing acceleration. Primarily focused on meeting desktop market demand for both real-time and offline rendering, the release of Vulkan Ray ...
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Autotalks, the Israeli V2X (Vehicle-to-Everything) specialist, has completed Wi-Fi 5 pre-certification for its evaluation kit based on its 2nd generation V2X chipset. Autotalks dual-mode (DSRC and C-V2X) chipset recently achieved this milestone for its dual-band Wi-Fi (2.4GHz and 5GHz) supporting standards 802.11a/b/g/n/ac. The testing was done by an authorized test laboratory of the Wi-Fi Alliance, using ...
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NeoPhotonics has brought in an L-Band suite of coherent optical components, including its 64 GBaud L-Band High Bandwidth Coherent Driver Modulator (HB-CDM), 64 GBaud L-Band Intradyne Coherent Receiver (ICR) and ultra-narrow linewidth L-Band tunable laser Micro-ITLA. Together with NeoPhotonics standard C-Band coherent components, these new products enable customers to double the capacity of optical fiber ...
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Researchers at Oxford University are supporting several European governments to explore the feasibility of a coronavirus mobile app for instant contact tracing. If rapidly and widely deployed, the infectious disease experts believe such an app could significantly help to contain the spread of coronavirus. The Oxford team has provided European governments, including the UK, with evidence ...
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TSMC is “actively” considering building its 2nm fab in the US, reports the Nikkei. “TSMC is facing a strategic decision of whether it wants to later focus more on the U.S. market or the Chinese market,” Su Tze-Yun, director of Taiwan’s Institute for National Defense and Security Research, told the Nikkei, “building an advanced chip ...
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Samsung has begun mass producing 512GB eUFS (embedded Universal Flash Storage) 3.1. Delivering three times the write speed of the previous 512GB eUFS 3.0 mobile memory, eUFS 3.1 breaks the 1GB/s performance threshold in smartphone storage. At a sequential write speed of over 1,200MB/s, the 512GB eUFS 3.1 boasts more than twice the speed of ...
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Socionext has developed a prototype chip that incorporates quantized Deep Neural Network (DNN) technology, enabling highly-advanced AI processing for small and low-power edge computing devices. The prototype is a part of a research project on “Updatable and Low Power AI-Edge LSI Technology Development”commissioned by the New Energy and Industrial Technology Development Organization (NEDO) of Japan. ...
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