Samsung says it is adding 11nm processes to its foundry offering. There is a vanilla 11nm Finfet process and a a low power 11LPP flavour  which claims to deliver  15% better performsnce and 10% more density than 14LPP. Samsung says it has has completed “a comprehensive process roadmap spanning from 14nm to 11nm, 10nm, 8nm, ...

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IQE of Cardiff could be a big benefactor of  tomorrow’s iPhone launch as it is expected to be revealed as the supplier of wafers for the phone’s 3D sensors. The sensors require VCSELs and IQE has an 80% market share for wafers used to make VCSELs. The sensors in the new phone are said to ...

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Intel will take last orders for its WiGig line in September and make final shipments in December. The technology has never taken off in mobile devices, possibly because of its short range – about 30 foot -.and requirement for line-of-sight for connectivity. The signal can’t go through walls. Intel will still develop 60GHz 802.11ad parts which ...

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The head of the ECB, Mario Draghi, has come out strongly against Estonia’s proposal to launch its own currency. “No member state can introduce its own currency,” says Draghi, “the currency of the euro zone is the euro.” Estonia is in the Euro-zone. Recently it floated the idea of the ‘Estcoin’ a national digital currency. ...

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Two employees of Taiwan DRAM manufacturer Rexchip, which was taken over by Micron, have been put on trial in Taiwan for passing DRAM manufacturing trade secrets to UMC which is helping China set up a DRAM manufacturing operation, reports Digitimes. UMC is helping the mainland China DRAM start-up Fujian Jin Hua Integrated Circuit to set ...

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Gartner has released its hype-cycle for public cloud security showing which technologies are ready for prime tine and which are some years away from being ready for implementation. ‘The Gartner Hype Cycle for Cloud Security helps security professionals understand which technologies are ready for mainstream use, and which are still years away from productive deployments ...

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The  LTC7004 is a high speed, high side N-channel MOSFET driver that operates up to a 60V supply voltage. Its internal charge pump fully enhances an external N-channel MOSFET switch, enabling it to remain on indefinitely. The LTC7004’s  1Ω gate driver can easily drive large gate capacitance MOSFETs with very short transition times and 35ns ...

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XMOS, the 12 year-old Bristol programmable chip specialist co-founded by Transputer architect Professor David May, has raised another $15 million in a Series-E round bringing its total VC funding to $72 million. The round was led by Infineon Technologies with additional funding from existing investors Amadeus Capital Partners, Draper Esprit, Foundation Capital and Robert Bosch ...

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Element14 has announced winners of it’s ‘Safe and Sound’ design challenge.  Sponsored by TI,  element14 challenged 15 community members to conceive and build a ‘safe and sound’ wearable to steer the world close to our vision of improving personal protection. The top two entries were: The Grand Prize Winner was  Douglas Wong from Canada who created ...

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