The launch by the European Space Agency (ESA) of its Proba-V earth observation mini-satellite in the coming weeks will represent the first time that a European-made device based on gallium nitride (GaN) will be sent into space. This follows ...
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IBM has found a way to make transistors that could be fashioned into virtual circuitry that mimics how the human brain operates. The new transistors would be made from strongly correlated materials, such as metal oxides, which researchers ...
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After years of incremental improvements, Atom chips are poised for a big jump in performance and power efficiency with a new generation of low-processors that have shipped to server makers for testing. Atom chips are primarily designed ...
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IBM has found a way to make transistors that could be fashioned into virtual circuitry that mimics how the human brain operates. The new transistors would be made from strongly correlated materials, such as metal oxides, which researchers ...
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IBM has found a way to make transistors that could be fashioned into virtual circuitry that mimics how the human brain operates. The new transistors would be made from strongly correlated materials, such as metal oxides, which researchers ...
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After years of incremental improvements, Atom chips are poised for a big jump in performance and power efficiency with a new generation of low-power processors that have shipped to server makers for testing. Atom chips are primarily ...
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Efficient Power Conversion Corp (EPC) of El Segundo, CA, USA says that its EPC9005 development board featuring the firm’s 40V EPC2014 enhancement-mode gallium nitride (eGaN) field-effect transistors (FETs) – as launched in ...
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Panasonic Corp of Osaka, Japan has developed a GaN-based power transistor with a blocking voltage of 600V that enables stable switching operations. Shipment of evaluation samples began in March. The firm claims that its design will for ...
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Panasonic Corp of Osaka, Japan has announced the development of a gallium nitride (GaN)-based power transistor with a blocking voltage of 600V that enables stable switching operations. Shipment of evaluation samples began in March. The ...
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Taiwanese foundry TSMC has 'taped out' production of ARMs 64-bit Cortex-A57 using a 16-nanometre process. Taping out is the final stage before fabrication and mass production. The microprocessors could mount a growing challenge to Intel ...
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Nitronex LLC of Durham, NC, USA, which designs and makes gallium nitride (GaN)-based RF power transistors for the defense, communications, broadband, and industrial & scientific markets, has named David W. Runton as its new VP of ...
ARM and Cadence have announced the first Cortex-A57 processor test chip fabricated on TSMC’s 16nm finfet manufacturing process technology. According to the companies, this test chip resulted in several optimisations between ...
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Theoretical physicist Michio Kaku believes Moore's Law has about 10 years of life left before ever-shrinking transistor sizes smack up against limitations imposed by the laws of thermodynamics and quantum physics. That day of reckoning ...
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Two groups of researchers have independently built the first biological analogue of the transistor - an integral element of modern electronics. It should make it easier to create gadgets out of living cells, such as biosensors that detect ...
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Backed by 100 technology companies, the three largest memory makers announced the final specifications for three-dimensional DRAM, which is aimed at increasing performance for networking and high-performance computing markets. Micron, ...
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