Samsung Electronics will stick with its investment plans despite the coronavirus, and intends to take process technology leadership in the foundry business away from TSMC. “High technology will be more important in the foundry market,” said Samsung Electronics CEO Kim Ki-nam (pictured) yesterday, “in that sense, Samsung’s foundry has never been behind Taiwan, and in ...
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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 as a result of increased demand for cloud services used for teleworking caused by coronavirus-driven home-working. Driving DRAM demand are the US JEDI contract and the demand for teleworking services. Supply of server DRAM is now tight ...
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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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The French competition regulator has fined Apple $1.23 billion. The regulator says Apple imposed prices for Apple products on its French distributors including Tech Data and Ingram Micro which were also fined $84.7 million and $69 million respectively for their part in the arrangement. The French argued that the Apple Premium Reseller (APR) programme was ...
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Ranovus, IBM, TE Connectivity and Senko are combining to design and manufacture multi-vendor solutions for Co-Packaged Optics applications in data centre. The collaboration leverages: Ranovus’ Odin silicon photonics engine (pictured) which incorporates the company’s in multi-wavelength Quantum Dot Laser (QDL), 100Gbps Silicon Photonics based Micro Ring Resonator modulators and photodetectors, 100Gbps Driver, 100Gbps TIA and control ...
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Transonics, the Hemel Hempstead components distributor, has signed an exclusive deal with JJ Micro, the Chinese producer of discrete and power semiconductors, Transonics is now holding one million triacs and thyristors in stock at its UK warehouse. Many of these parts are drop-in replacements for leading brands such as STMicro and NXP (WeEN Semiconductor). Transonics’ ...
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ST’s STM32L4P5 and STM32L4Q5 MCUs bring the Arm Cortex-M4 core to cost-sensitive and power-conscious smart connected devices, including utility meters, industrial and medical sensors, fitness trackers, and smart-home products. With memory density down to 512KB Flash and 320KB SRAM, ST’s new STM32L4+ MCUs deliver performance with economy. Compact 10mm x 10mm 64-pin and 7mm x ...
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