Raspberry Pi has won the Royal Academy of Engineering’s highest honour – the MacRobert Prize. Previous winners have been the Severn Bridge, the Kinect sensor and the CT scanner. Pi has sold 14 million devices in its six years existence overtaking the Sir Clive Sinclair’s Spectrum and Lord Sugar’s CPC 464 to become the best-selling ...
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The EU investigation into the $38 billion Qualcomm-NXP bid has been paused pending delivery of information from the two companies, The EU says that the date for delivering a verdict – which was to have been Oct 17 – will now be put back with the ‘clock re-started’ from the date the information is provided. ...
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Dialog is to put another $15 million into Energous, the wireless charging specialist, on top of the $10 million it invested last November. Energous’ WattUp chips deliver over-the-air power and charging of electronic devices at a distance. Dialog and Energous developed the DA4100 wireless power transmitter which has now been integrated along with Dispalog’s SmartBond ...
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Building on its CleO smart display and its accessories, Bridgetek has now added wireless connectivity to the mix. Transmitting and receiving in the 2.4 GHz frequency band, the CleO35-WiFi module is compliant with the commonly used IEEE 802.11b/g/n Wi-Fi standards. With the objective of enabling the control and monitoring of smart devices within the domestic ...
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Imec is looking for customers in China. The head of Imec China, Huiwen Ding, points out that Imec has almost completed development of its 7nm process technology and is engaged in developing 5nm, 3nm and 2nm processes. China is in need of advanced processes for the huge memory fabs it is building in the country. ...
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Qualcomm has developed an ultrasonic fingerprint sensor which can operate under the glass of a mobile device avoiding the need for a mechanical home button. It also detects heartbeat and blood flow. The sensor can scan through OLED display stacks of up to 1200 µm, along with enrolling and matching, and can scan through up to ...
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Toshiba has developed four level cell NAND flash prototype ICs which it calls QLC. ‘Multi-bit cell flash memories store data by managing the number of electrons in each individual memory cell,’ says Toshiba, ‘achieving QLC technology posed a series of technical challenges, as increasing the number of bit-per-cell by one within same electron count requires ...
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With the Petya ransomware attack sweeping the world it is not before time that Silicon Valkey is combining to fight terrorism. Silicon Valley’s response is to take on terrorism with The Global Internet Forum to Counter Terrorism formed by Facebook, YouTube, Twitter and Microsoft. The companies have been criticised by the US, UK and French governments ...
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Toshiba has sued Western Digital in the Tokyo District court asking for $1 billion in damages and trying to stop WD from interfering in the sale of its chip business. Toshiba also accuses WD of improperly obtaining Toshiba’s private information. Previously WD put the dispute over Toshiba’s auction process to arbitration and sued Toshiba in ...
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Fujitsu Laboratories has developed a virtual machine control technology that improves server rack mounting density for each datacenter rack. Currently, in datacenters, the number of servers mounted to a rack is limited by the total rated electrical power of the servers, which must be less than the power supply of the rack. However, often times, ...
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