NAND supply will come into balance with demand next year, says DRAMeXchange. NAND demand has exceeded supply in all six quarters since Q3 2016. The NAND bit supply growth rate is currently projected at 42.9%, while the bit demand growth rate is projected at 37.7%. “The progress bottleneck in the transition from the 2D-NAND to ...

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Sir James Dyson is to build an electric car. Dyson says he is putting £2 billion into developing the car which should be on the road in 2020. “Battery technology is very important to Dyson, electric motors are very important to Dyson, environmental control is very important to us,” says Dyson, “I have been developing ...

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Saelig has brought out a pen-shaped battery-powered wireless oscilloscope that streams captured signals to almost any WiFi-connected screen. The IkaScope WS200 offers a 30MHz bandwidth with its 200MSa/s sampling rate and the maximum input is +/-40Vpp. It provides galvanically-isolated measurements even when a USB connection is charging the internal battery. It will work on desktop ...

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Texas Instruments has brought out MCUs with an integrated ultrasonic sensing analogue front end that enables smart water meters to deliver higher accuracy and lower power consumption. In addition, TI has introduced two new reference designs that make it easier to design modules for adding automated meter reading (AMR) capabilities to existing mechanical water meters. ...

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Western Digital has responded to Toshiba’s announced intention to sell its memory business to a consortium led by Bain and Hynix. WD says it has three actions going through arbitration procedures which could prevent the sale taking place. Western Digital’s statement on the decision reads: “We are disappointed that Toshiba would take this action despite ...

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Imec has developed cost-effective fine-pixel photolithography for manufacturing ultra-high resolution OLEDs. Imec, and its development partner Chunghwa Picture Tubes (CPT) ,  aimed to push  pixel density beyond 1000 ppi. Imec and CPT have verified that a novel photolithography process can allow for ultrafine OLED patterns. The proposed technique does not require using fine-metal masks to ...

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Samsung has taped out a 28nm FD-SOI MRAM and is preparing to use eMRAM as a core for SoCs. The technology was developed with IBM and Infineon and its first use will be in an NXP i.MX processor. Volume production is scheduled for 2018. Samsung is catching up with Everspin whose MRAM is made by ...

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