According to figures published by IDC, in the fourth quarter of 2015 over 14 million tablets were shipped to Western Europe as the market volume declined 10.1% on year. In value terms, however, the decline was only 1.8% on year, thanks to ...
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Chinese central authorities on Sunday issued a document to set the basic principles, key tasks and targets for future urban development and management, aiming to make China's sprawling cities more livable, efficient and green. The ...
Tags: Guidelines, urban development
POET Technologies Inc of San Jose, CA, USA — which has developed the proprietary planar optoelectronic technology (POET) platform for monolithic fabrication of integrated III-V-based electronic and optical devices on a single ...
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The open-access paper The role of photonics in energy, authored by a team including Zakya Kafafi of Lehigh University, editor of the Journal of Photonics for Energy, traces the development of the science of light from the Arab scholar Ibn ...
Researchers in France believe they have made preliminary steps towards establishing a silicon-on-insulator (SOI) complementary metal-oxide-semiconductor (CMOS) platform for quantum information processing. Quantum information processing ...
Chinese home appliance makers are giving dimensions of reality to the "Internet Plus" strategy championed by Premier Li Keqiang. Slowly but surely, they are pressing ahead with the task of integrating Internet technologies with their ...
It's been about half a year since the idea of Internet Plus Strategy was raised by Chinese Premier Li Keqiang. The strategy is an action plan to integrate the mobile Internet, cloud computing, big data and the Internet of Things with modern ...
A Chinese biotechnological company announced on Sunday it has developed the world's first 3D blood vessel bio-printer, which makes it possible to produce personalized functional organs. Sichuan Revotek Co., Ltd. based in Chengdu, capital ...
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The human brain is the world's most sophisticated computer, but a group of Chinese scientists have developed a computer chip that works much like the brain. Jointly developed by scientists from Hangzhou Dianzi University and Zhejiang ...
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Zhai Ruiren, a doctor in the Eastern coastal city of Qingdao is treating a patient 1,800 kilometers away via the Internet. The patient, 11-year-old Rinchen from Gannan Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture, has myelodysplastic syndrome (MDS), ...
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Chinese IT companies are acting to defend their country against cyber attack risks, which are increasingly a threat to national security. China Electronics Technology Group Corporation (CETC) signed a memorandum with Microsoft on Thursday ...
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China aims to cover all its urban and rural areas with 4G network by 2018, according to an action plan published by the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology (MIIT) on Monday. The country also plans to install fiber optics in ...
Privately held integrated optical communications component and sub-system developer ColorChip of Yokneam, Israel has raised $25m in a round of growth funding. Founded in 2001 by Dr Shimon Eckhouse and professor Shlomo Rushin of the School ...
Tags: Colorchip, Optical transceivers, PICs
The photonic integrated circuit (PIC) market was $0.19bn in 2013 and is expected to increase at a compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of 25.3% from 2015 to $1.3bn in 2022, according to the new market report 'Photonic IC Market - Global ...
Infinera Corp of Sunnyvale, CA, USA, a vertically integrated manufacturer of digital optical transport networking systems incorporating its own indium phosphide-based photonic integrated circuits (PICs), and global communications, hosting, ...