Microchip has developed a capacitive contactless identification system that relies on near-field effects around the human body. A $1 fob or token, carried about a person, sets up a field that extends to the wearers fingertips, allowing ...
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Micron Technology has announced that its takeover of Elpida Memory has moved a big step closer with official approval by the Tokyo District Court of Elpida's business reorganisation plan. This plan calls for Micron to sponsor Elpida's ...
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Kontron has said it will support the two flavours of the CompactPCI interface, these are CompactPCI Serial and CompactPCI Serial Mesh. CompactPCI Serial (CPCI-S.0) is for implementation in 3U form factors with PCIe, GbE, USB and SATA ...
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Every day new applications appear on the world's mobile communications networks and user behaviour keeps adapting to new ways of streaming video, sharing files and communicating. New business demands, such as traffic monetisation, must ...
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Vicor has introduced a buck regulator for point-of-load applications which is efficiency optimised for 12V input voltages. The Picor PI34XX series buck regulators will deliver 95% peak efficiency for 12V to 3.3V regulation and up to ...
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A partnership between Austria-based semiconductor company ams and US start-up Mobeam is designed to make it possible for barcodes to be scanned from a mobile phone screen. The companies claim they have technology which will enable laser ...
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Sequans Communications says its first LTE-Advanced chip will be sampling next quarter. Supporting 3GPP Release 10 specifications, the Cassiopeia chipset implements carrier aggregation of 40MHz total bandwidth. “The key feature is ...
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MathWorks is hosting the first Cambridge Student Robot Challenge on Friday March 15th. The competition will test the wits and programming skills of 10 teams of students who will compete to program Lego Mindstorm robots to navigate a ...
ARM and Synopsys say they have taped out the first ARM Mali-T658 design using a 20nm process technology, ARM Artisan physical IP and shader functionality. The resulting RTL-through-sign-off design flow includes double-patterning ...
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IBM revealed details of its 5.5GHz System z microprocessor chip in 32nm high-k CMOS at ISSCC this year. Each chip has six processor cores, compared with four in its 45nm predecessor and, to form a plug-in processing element, six chips ...
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Researchers have discovered a way to detect explosives by boiling and vapourising them off a silicon MEMS micromachine. “Certain classes of explosives have unique thermal characteristics that help to identify explosive vapours in ...
Godson-3B1500 is a two-node eight-core 172.8Gflop/s MIPS64-compatible processor from Loongson in Beijing - a company whose processors have been adopted in several tablets. Fabricated in 32nm 10 Cu-layer high-k metal-gate bulk CMOS, it ...
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Held every year in February in San Francisco, the IEEE's International Solid State Circuits Conference (ISSCC) is the world showcase for innovative circuit design. This is the 60th conference, and year's theme is '60 years of (em)powering ...
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For 2013 the Electronics Sourcing LIVE event moves to Stadium MK in Milton Keynes (the home of Milton Keynes Dons football club). It takes place on Thursday 16 May. The free one day networking event is designed for the UK electronics ...
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MRAM/STTMRAM and PCM will lead the Emerging Non-Volatile Memory (ENVM) market, reaching a combined $1.6bn by 2018, says a report from analysts Yole Developpement. "By 2018, MRAM/STTMRAM and PCM will surely be the top two ENVM on the ...
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