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AMOLED pushes Samsung back to No.1 in phone displays

Samsung reclaimed the No.1 slot in the global smartphone display market in Q3 as the company capitalized on record-high demand for AMOLEDs, says IHS Markit. Samsung grew is sharevfrom 21.3% in Q2  to 29% in Q3, says IHS. That was enough to drive Samsung past BOE Display to take the market lead for the first ...

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Imec spin-off diagnoses cell blood count from a few drops of blood

A diagnostic device (pictured) developed by Imec subsidiary miDiagnostics has been chosen by NASA is to check human blood samples in space. The miDiagnostics device can perform a complete cell blood count (CBC) from only drops of blood Imec will design test parameters and perform experiments in different gravity scenarios using one of miDiagnostics’ devices ...

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Denchi adds St Ives development hub

Denchi Group, the battery specialist, is adding a development hub in St Ives, Cambridgeshire to its existing engineering facilities in Thurso, Scotland. At St Ives, focus will be placed on making major advances in battery and charger design. It will leverage the expertise that the company has built up in mission-critical defence and aerospace applications, ...

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Despite losses Arm stands by commitment to double UK headcount

Arm CEO Simon Segars (pictured) says the company will meet the commitment to double its UK headcount made when Softbank bought Arm in July 2016. The commitment still stands despite Arm becoming loss-making. In Q3 Arm made an operating loss of $11.3 million while Softbank made a loss of $6.4 billion. Arm’s Q3 revenues fell ...

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MIT’s cheetahs

MIT’s dacing, prancing, jumping footballing cheetahs weigh 20lb and can run at 6mph. The machines can perform a 360deg back-flip from a standing position. “When it’s running, its feet are only on the ground for something like 150 milliseconds at a time, during which a computer tells it to increase the force on the foot, ...

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Now over-clocked, net-booting and power-sipping – the Raspberry Pi 4

It has now been a few months since the launch of the Raspberry Pi 4, writes Jenny List on Hackaday. While significantly faster than the Pi 3 on paper, its propensity for overheating would end up throttling down the CPU clock even with the plethora of aftermarketheatsinks and fans. The Raspberry Pi folks have been working ...

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Applied opens META Centre

Applied Materials has opened its Materials Engineering Technology Accelerator (META Center), aimed at speeding customer prototyping of new materials, process technologies and devices. Located at the State University of New York Polytechnic Institute (SUNY Poly) campus in Albany, New York, the META Center’s cleanroom provides customers and partners access to state-of-the-art process systems to help ...

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