Facebook is working on a wearable brain-computer interface (BCI) which will allow people to type words by thinking them. At the moment, BCI is implemented by implanting electrodes in the brain. However Facebook has reached the point where it feels this can be usefully pursued using non-invasive techniques. “We’re a long way away from being ...

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Despite a 38% sales decline expected this year, the DRAM market will remain the largest IC product category in 2019 with sales reaching $62 billion, down from $99.4 billion in 2018, says IC Insights. IC Insights believes the DRAM market will account for 17% of total IC sales in 2019, compared with 23.6% of the total ...

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 THine, the Japanese serial interface and image signal processing specialist, has volume availability of a MIPI CSI-2 extension chipset which allows engineers to extend MIPI CSI-2 transmission from 1 foot to over 15 meters. These chips also enable designs that can receive 2 different video inputs simultaneously, as well as applications that can copy and distribute (simultaneously ...

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Today, an EU consortium of businesses and academia announced the three-year project ELIoT (Enhance Lighting for the Internet of Things) aimed at developing mass market IoT implementations of  LiFi. “ELIoT forms a closed value chain with partners representing the components, chipsets, systems and applications sectors and research institutes, working together on the commercialization of LiFi ...

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Agile Analog, the Cambridge analogue IP start-up, has been awarded £1 million by Innovate UK to accelerate their new product development. The project will be 45% funded by Innovate UK and will extend Agile Analog’s leading edge, AI-driven technology to address much higher complexity Analog IP, and result in a large expansion of products available to ...

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TSMC is to hire more than 3,000 new employees in Hsinchu, Taichung, and Tainan. TSMC’s fortunes turned dramatically in June when, after five successive drops in y-o-y revenues, it recorded a  y-o-y revenue rise of 21.9% – which was a 6.8% rise on May. TSMC forecast Q3 revenue growth of 18% to between $9.1 billion ...

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