Japan’s Acquisition, Technology & Logistics Agency (ATLA) – an agency of the Defence Ministry – has used microwaves to zap drones, reports the Nikkei. ATLA put seven commercially available drones – three medium-size devices and four small ones – into a room shielded from ambient radio waves. A prototype “high-power microwave generation system,” was used ...

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CES is almost upon us – opening its glitzy doors on Tuesday. Here’s a taster: Waydoo Flyer ‘flying surfboard’ A surfboard/electric jet ski drone with a propeller below the water – the Waydoo Flyer costs US$6,495/UK£4,964/AUS$9,456). The Flyer has a wireless Bluetooth hand-held controller for steering and toggling between five different speeds (up to 28mph ...

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Huawei expects 2019 revenues to rise 18% on 2018 to $121.72 billion, 1.5% lower than the 19.5% growth in 2018 over 2017. Huawei is the world’s biggest supplier of switchgear and second biggest supplier of smartphones. Reuters calculates Huawei Q4 revenue at $23.28 billion up 3.9% y-o-y. Huawei shipped 240 million smartphones in 2019, a ...

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NGK Insulators of Nagoya, Japan, has started mass production of “EnerCera Coin,” a coin type cell in the “EnerCera” series of power sources for IoT devices. NGK is sampling a heat resistant type cell which it claims to be the first li-ion battery that can operate at 85 degrees Celsius. NGK is also sampling a ...

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Chuck Peddle, designer of the 6502, has died at the age of 82 from pancreatic cancer. With Bill Mensch, who later founded the Western Design Centre, Peddle and five other engineers left Motorola in 1974 after being told to stop designing a low-cost processor and took the project to MOS Technology in Pennsylvania. There they ...

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China’s latest domestic chip boosting initiative – called 352 Project – intends to develop a PC CPU which will replace 30% of the CPUs used inside China-based PCs within a year. Within three years the aim is to have replaced 80% of foreign CPUs  used in China-based PCs to be shortly followed by 100%. In ...

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Taiwanese DRAM design specialist Etron Technology has joined Lattice Semiconductor to  develop a miniaturised AI+DRAM platform for applications to terminal edge computing, industrial robots, and multimedia such as AR/VR, says Digitimes. The platform contains Etron’s newly developed RPC (Reduced Pin Count) DRAM architecture (pictured) which has x16 DDR3 – LPDDR3 bandwidth but uses only 22 ...

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Q1 wafer orders are up, says Doris Hsu chair of silicon wafer manufacturer GlobalWafers, as reported in Digitimes. The company has seen “ a substantial ramp-up in 12-inch wafer demand”, says Hsu. Meanwhile, and the supply of its epitaxial wafers has become tight. The increase in demand has come from Taiwan, Japan and Korea.  8-inch ...

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Holst Centre has developed several human-centric wearables for healthcare and wellbeing: MYSA – ‘Relax Shirt’   Due to chronic stress caused by high workloads, burnouts are a rising social and economic problem. MYSA is a “relax shirt” designed for daily use that reminds its wearer of taking regular breaks. During these breaks MYSA creates a ...

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