Toshiba is developing a tiny digital camera module similar to the Lytro camera, which shoots tens of thousands of individual photos and then allows the user to pick the point of focus. The new camera will have from 30,000 to 50,000 tiny ...
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Toshiba is preparing a 20-megapixel image sensor for digital cameras that it says will be the highest resolution of its kind. The Tokyo-based firm said the new chips will be able to support capturing 30 frames per second at full ...
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Salesforce.com's annual Dreamforce event is coming up in just a few weeks, but during Thursday's second-quarter earnings call, CEO Marc Benioff couldn't help but share some of the big announcements the cloud software vendor has planned for ...
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Why have satellite makers and astronomers beaten a path across Essex? To get to the best image sensors in the world, probably. E2V not only made the CheMin and ChemCam image sensors within NASA's Curiosity Mars rover, it is also the ...
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Researchers at Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) have presented the shortest-gate working transistors yet built using III-V channels [J. Lin et al, IEDM, session 32.1]. The metal-oxide-semiconductor field-effect transistors ...
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An international research team has been exploring the role of gate oxide border traps in devices being developed for future electronics.The researchers presented their results at the 2012 International Electron Devices Meeting[D.Lin et ...
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Sony, which makes the camera modules used in the latest smartphones from Apple and Samsung, said Monday it will begin sales of a new image chip that is nearly half the size of current models. The Tokyo-based electronics giant said its new ...
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LED utilization rates are picking up again, with utilization in Taiwan now back up to 70 to 90 percent of capacity. Companies expect to be back to close to 100 percent in a month or two, driven by TV backlight demand, reports Yole ...
Fabless semiconductor firm RFaxis Inc of Irvine,CA,USA,which designs RF semiconductors and embedded antenna solutions for the wireless connectivity and cellular mobility markets,has started sampling its latest 5GHz 802.11ac RF Front-end ...
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Cmosis has gone into production with a 12Mpixel 150frame/s colour image sensor. Called CMV12000, "the unique properties and features such as high resolution in 4K HD format, high dynamic range and global shutter, are a fit for ...
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Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (HKUST) has grown high-performance indium gallium arsenide (InGaAs) metal–oxide–semiconductor high-electron-mobility transistors (MOSHEMTs) directly on silicon [Xiuju Zhou et al, ...
MIRAGE - a new project supported by the Seventh Framework Programme (FP7), Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) of the European Commission (EC) - was launched recently with the goal of developing next-generation optical ...
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A meeting organized by the Singapore MIT Alliance for Research and Technology (SMART) Center, has taken place to initiate the research project Low Energy Electronics Systems (LEES), which aims to develop cutting-edge technology to increase ...
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Soitec of Bernin, France, which makes engineered substrates including silicon-on-insulator (SOI) wafers (as well as III-V epiwafers through its Picogiga International division), has more than doubled production of bonded silicon-on-sapphire ...
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Raytheon Company of Waltham, MA, USA says that its technology facility in Glenrothes, Scotland, UK has successfully tested silicon carbide (SiC) mixed-signal devices at temperatures up to 400°C. “Raytheon UK’s aim is to ...
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