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Infineon and Blumio to develop wearable radar-based blood pressure sensor

Infineon’s Silicon Valley Innovation Center (SVIC) has agreed with cardiovascular monitoring specialist Blumio to co-develop a wearable, non-invasive blood pressure sensor based on Infineon’s XENSIV radar chipset by 2021. The new sensor has the potential to disrupt the USD 45 billion market for wearable cardiovascular monitoring devices by enabling continuous and precise measurement without a ...

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Taiwan No.1 in wafer capacity but China closing the gap

Taiwan has the largest installed base for IC wafer capacity, says IC Insights, edging out Korea in second place. Next year China could be the No.2 with Korea slipping down to third place. In its Global Wafer Capacity 2020-2024 report, IC Insights breaks down the world’s installed monthly wafer capacity by geographic region (or country). ...

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IEDM 2020 to be virtual

The organizers of the upcoming 66th annual IEEE International Electron Devices Meeting (IEDM) have decided to hold the conference virtually this year given the ongoing uncertainties posed by the prevailing COVID-19 pandemic. The virtual 2020 IEDM is scheduled for December 12–16, 2020, and both live and recorded sessions will be used to showcase and discuss ...

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Zebra acceleration for Xilinx’s Alveo card

Mipsology, which specialises in deep learning acceleration software, has had its Zebra neural net accelerating software integrated into the latest build of Xilinx’s Alveo U50 data centre accelerator card. The accelerator enables the Alveo U50 to compute convolutional neural networks with zero effort. This is the latest in a series of Zebra-enhanced Xilinx boards that enable ...

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Toshiba adds super junction n-channel power MOSFETs

Toshiba has introduced eight super junction N-channel power MOSFETs to strengthen its  DTMOSVI series. The  650V-rated devices claim to deliver a 40% reduction in terms of their drain-source on-resistance x gate-drain charge (QGD) figure of merit (FoM) when compared to the previous DTMOS generation. As a consequence, they can raise the efficiency of switch-mode power supplies ...

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Renesas introduces magnet-free inductive position sensor

Renesas has introduced the magnet-free IPS2200 inductive position sensor. “Inductive position sensing is changing the game for industrial motor commutation as demands for high accuracy, high efficiency, and cost efficiency increase, particularly for multi-pole pair motors and off-axis applications,” says Renesas vp, Christian Wolf, “with the IPS2200, we are excited to offer a solution that ...

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Softbank to sell stake in T-Mobile

Softbank is to sell its stake in T-Mobile following T-Mobile’s purchase of Softbank’s US telco Sprint earlier this year. Softbank will reduce its 24% stake in T-Mobile to 0.4% in two transactions, First it will sell up to 198 million shares worth $21 billion to T-Mobile. Second, it will give Deutsche Telekom, T-Mobile’s parent company, ...

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Siemens buys UltraSoC

Siemens is to buy UltraSoC and integrate its technology  into the Xcelerator portfolio  of Mentor’s Tessent software product suite. The addition of UltraSoC to Siemens enables a unified data-driven infrastructure that can enhance product quality, safety and cybersecurity and help customers overcome key pain points like manufacturing defects, software and hardware bugs, device early-failure and ...

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Apple to start transition to Arm-based Macs

Macs will start the transition to ‘Apple Silicon’ away from Intel silicon in Q4, Tim Cook announced at WWDC yesterday. The transition is expected to take two years in which time more Intel-powered Macs will be introduced. Intel-based Macs will get software updates for “years to come”, said Cook. Apple Silicon is called ‘A12Z Bionic’. In ...

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GloFo buys option on 66 acres in New York for fab extension

GLOBALFOUNDRIES  has secured a purchase option for approximately 66 acres of undeveloped land adjacent to its most advanced manufacturing facility, Fab 8, in Malta, N.Y., near the Luther Forest Technology Campus (LFTC). The land parcel is located at the southeast end of the New York State Energy Research and Development Authority (NYSERDA) Saratoga Technology + Energy ...

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