Many automated teller machines(ATMs)and point-of-sale(POS)terminals fail to properly generate random numbers that are required by the EMV protocol to securely authenticate transaction requests,according to a team of researchers from the ...
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Kotura Inc of Monterey Park,CA,USA,which designs and makes silicon photonics application-specific integrated circuits(ASICs)for the communications,computing,sensing and detection markets,has been named to Inc.magazine's sixth annual ...
CrayoNano of Norway has grown GaAs nanowires on graphene, a patented hybrid material with competitive optoelectronic properties. "We have managed to combine low cost, transparency and flexibility in our new electrode," says Professor ...
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Infinera Corp of Sunnyvale,CA,USA,a vertically integrated manufacturer of digital optical network systems incorporating its own indium phosphide-based photonic integrated circuits(PICs),says that TPG Telecom Limited's wholly-owned ...
Warren East,CEO of chip designer ARM(pictured),has warned that sales growth will slow in the second half of 2012 due to increasing global economic uncertainty and,in particular,the rising expectation of recession and renewed financial ...
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OPEL Technologies Inc of Toronto,Ontario,Canada and its subsidiary OPEL Solar Inc,which makes high-concentration photovoltaic(HCPV)panels and solar tracker systems,have entered into an agreement involving the sale of most of its solar ...
OPEL Technologies Inc of Toronto,Ontario,Canada–which makes high-concentration photovoltaic(HCPV)panels and solar tracker systems through its subsidiary OPEL Solar Inc and develops III-V semiconductor devices and processes through US ...
Peregrine Semiconductor Corp of San Diego,CA,USA,a fabless provider of radio-frequency(RF)integrated circuits(ICs)based on silicon-on-sapphire(SOS),has launched the SPDT PE42421 RF switch,available in a miniature,6-lead SC-70 package.The ...
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O2Micro International, a provider of high-performance integrated circuits and solutions, has announced that it has added a new built-in night light driver to its Free Dimming technology and lighting product portfolio. The OZ8022M high ...
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Power Integrations introduces 75W single-stage driver for LED lighting Date Announced:16 Aug 2012 San Jose,CA–Power Integrations(Nasdaq:POWI),maker of the world's most efficient,longest-lasting off-line LED driver ICs,today ...
Tags: LED lighting, single-stage driver, efficiency, Power Integrations
IBM is working with scientists at ETH Zurich to demonstrate the first-ever direct mapping of the formation of a persistent spin helix in a semiconductor.This has implications for the use of electron spins for storing,transporting and ...
Peregrine Semiconductor Corp of San Diego,CA,USA,a fabless provider of radio-frequency(RF)integrated circuits(ICs)based on silicon-on-sapphire(SOS)founded in 1990,has closed its initial public offering(announced on 7 August).In connection ...
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Everyone's talking about energy harvesting–but what exactly is it?The term is often used as a paraphrase for the whole range of low-power applications,yet the"harvesters"themselves are only one part of a larger system,writes Ingo ...
Tags: Electrical&Electronics, Energy Harvesting, battery, MEC, IPS
Peregrine Semiconductor Corp of San Diego,CA,USA,a fabless provider of radio-frequency(RF)integrated circuits(ICs)based on silicon-on-sapphire(SOS)founded in 1990,has raised$77m in its initial public offering(IPO)of 5,500,000 shares of ...
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Kotura Inc of Monterey Park,CA,USA,which designs and makes silicon photonics application-specific integrated circuits(ASICs)for the communications,computing,sensing and detection markets,has launched a new Ultra Variable Optical Attenuator ...
Tags: Kotura, Silicon photonics, SFP-VOA, Optical Power Monitor