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Biological molecules for printable electronics

Researchers at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign have found that biological molecules once considered for cancer treatment are now being repurposed as organic semiconductors for use in chemical sensors and transistors. Organic semiconductors are responsible for things like flexible electronics and transparent solar cells, but researchers are working to expand their use in biomedicine and ...

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Toshiba morphs into Kioxia

Toshiba, one of the most respected names in the history of the semiconductor industry, has decided to call itself Kioxia. Along with the new name comes a new ‘brand identity’, a corporate colour and a ‘fun-driven culture.’ Silver will be the company’s official corporate color, ‘meant to represent the superior quality of its memory technology.’ ...

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Pickering wins Queen’s Award

Pickering Interfaces of Clacton-on-Sea has won  a Queen’s Award for Outstanding Short Term Growth in overseas sales over the last three years. Pictured receiving the award from HM Lord Lieutenant, Mrs. Jennifer Tolhurst, Pickering CEO, Keith Moore commented: “Pickering is a family-run business and we are honoured to have won such a prestigious award. Our ...

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LoRa Corecell reference design

Semtech has issued a LoRa Corecell reference design for indoor gateway applications. The reference design is developed to the LoRaWAN protocol and targeted for home, building and factory automations. The LoRa Corecell reference design provides the “minimum optimized solution” to build a gateway application, which is represented in the name, “core” and “cell.” The reference ...

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Singapore-MIT integrate III-V into Si

The Singapore-MIT Alliance for Research and Technology (SMART), MIT’s Research Enterprise in Singapore, have developed a commercially viable way to integrate III-V devices into silicon ICs. “By integrating III-V into silicon, we can build upon existing manufacturing capabilities and low-cost volume production techniques of silicon and include the unique optical and electronic functionality of III-V ...

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Al batteries pursued by Chalmers

Researchers from Chalmers University of Technology, Sweden, and the National Institute of Chemistry, Slovenia have come up with a new concept to increase the energy density of aluminium batteries which is currently half that of  lithium-ion batteries. Previous designs for aluminium batteries have used the aluminium as the anode (the negative electrode) – and graphite ...

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GloFo to IPO

After ten years of making losses, Globalfoundries intends to IPO in 2022, says CEO Tom Caulfield. GloFo has been selling off bits all year. Vanguard Bought GloFo’s Fab 3E in Singapore in January, ON Semi bought the East Fishkill fab, the mask-making unit was sold to Toppan, and the ASIC operation was sold to Marvell. ...

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GloFo to IPO

After ten years of making losses, Globalfoundries intends to IPO in 2022, says CEO Tom Caulfield. GloFo has been selling off bits all year. Vanguard Bought GloFo’s Fab 3E in Singapore in January, ON Semi bought the East Fishkill fab, the mask-making unit was sold to Toppan, and the ASIC operation was sold to Marvell. ...

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GloFo to IPO

After ten years of making losses, Globalfoundries intends to IPO in 2022, says CEO Tom Caulfield. GloFo has been selling off bits all year. Vanguard Bought GloFo’s Fab 3E in Singapore in January, ON Semi bought the East Fishkill fab, the mask-making unit was sold to Toppan, and the ASIC operation was sold to Marvell. ...

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Raspberry Pi-based streaming video backpack

Hackaday describes a plan to build a streaming video back-pack – something which normally costs $1000+ but which this build can do for $600. The plan: build a cheap, do-it-yourself version of the LiveU Solo ($995). This piece of equipment incorporates hardware channel bonding and real-time video transcoding for maintaining uninterrupted video quality while moving ...

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