It’s a great Brexit deal, says Minister

The Prime Minister’s Brexit Deal will provide the UK’s £130 billion digital sector with the certainty it needs to continue to thrive says Jeremy Wright Secretary of State fore Digital Culture Media and Sport. “We have secured the best deal possible to protect our businesses and make sure our personal data is processed safely and ...

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Gadget Book: Designing Embedded Systems and the IoT with ARM mbed

If you are serious about developing your own IoT application with the ARM mbed system, this book from Wiley may be of interest: Designing Embedded Systems and the Internet of Things (IoT) with the ARM mbed

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Sony dev kit combines MCUs, GPS and audio

Sony SPresense is a multi-function development kit with a lot of processing power, GPS receivers and a camera interface, amongst other peripherals. The CXD5602 SoC on the 50 x 20.6mm main board contains six 156MHz ARM Cortex-M4F cores, and its periperals include an 8bit parallel camera interface, a multi-constellation GNSS receiver, and a sensor-fusion block ...

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Q3 chip sales reach record $129bn

Q3 chip revenues grew 7.4% q-o-q, says IHS, reaching a record $129 billion.  Samsung took 16.2% market share, followed by Intel at 14.5% and Hynix at 7.8%.  In Q3, Intel grew  12.6%,  Samsung grew 9.3%, and Hynix grew 6.5%. Q3 memory revenue was $45 billion. Over the past eight quarters, Samsung gained 3.8% in market share, ...

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Inertial sensor withstands harsh environments for drones

Inertial measurement units (IMUs) from Bosch Sensortec are now available from Mouser. The BMI088 is a low noise, six-axis inertial sensor is designed for industrial applications as well as drone and robotic applications. The IMU has a 16bit digital, triaxial accelerometer and a 16bit digital, triaxial gyroscope to measure orientation and detect motion along three ...

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‘Essential tips for makers’ e-book volume 2

Element14 has released a small e-book, the second volume of ‘Essential tips for makers’. It only has 16 pages, including covers, but contains a nice selection of tips accumulated from the element14 community. “From Element14.com employees, engineers, professional makers and members of the element14 community,” according to the company. “Key topics include advice for getting ...

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What’s New?

In 1961 the US high tech industry was looking, to some observers, like a Wild West of irresponsible  entrepreneurial opportunism. In the May 1961 issue of the Solid State Journal, Sidney Siegel, marketing vp at Pacific Semiconductor, wrote: “The industry looks like a gold mine attracting all kind of  ‘operators’ anxious to make a fast ...

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Tesco and VW to set up UK EV charging network

Tesco and VW are to set up an EV charging network based on Tesco’s srprores. In the next three years, the plan is to install 2,400 charging posts in 600 stores. That would increase the number of UK charging points by 14%. The installation will be done by Pod Point which has installed 2,500 charging ...

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Comment: Formula Student plots route for women in engineering

Participating in Formula Student gives a platform to explore leadership, teamwork and public relations in engineering before entering the world of work

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Most Read articles – MIT e-plane, Chinese fabs, Qualcomm decline

They include Harvard University research on the visible spectrum, an MIT e-plane, Chinese fabs, an investment in Infineon, and a decline in Q3 revenues for Qualcomm...

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Phone app and cloud-based AI could identify heart disease from the home

Artificial intelligence can recognise congestive heart failure non-invasively via by a cloud-connected phone, briging diagnosis into the home, according to a research team from Nanyang Technological University, Singapore, and Tan Tock Seng Hospital. One in five people worldwide, according to Nanyang, run the risk of developing congestive heart failure – and this increases with age. There is ...

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USB 3.0 isolator passes 5Gbit/s while breaking electrical continuity for instrumentation

Saelig has introduced the Alldaq ADQ-USB 3.0-ISO series of USB 3.0 isolators, which support the full USB 3.0 SuperSpeed data rate of 5Gbit/s, while breaking the electrical connection between host PC and peripheral. Applications are expected in industrial and automotive instrumentation, and blocking mains pick-up in professional sound. “Re-clocking design guarantees a stable USB connection ...

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Wave investment tops $100m

Wave Computing, the edge computing start-up, has taken its VC funding tally to $117.3 million with its latest Series E round of $86 million which was, says Wave, oversubscribed. Wave is one of a host of ‘neural’processor start-ups claiming to have a new way of processing large data-sets on-chip. Wave calls its technology DataFlow and ...

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Chip industry has a lot riding on Argentina

The semiconductor industry has a big stake in what happens in Buenos Aires this week. Applied and ASML are among a host of companies which have already had to pull out of Fujian Jin Hua’s fab site following an escalation of the Trump-Xi trade war. The US equipment industry is losing substantial revenues over the ...

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Samsung Spends $46.8 Billion On Capex In 2017 and 2018

Samsung is expected to have the largest capex budget of any IC supplier again in 2018, forecasts IC Insights. After spending $24.2 billion for semiconductor capex in 2017, IC Insights forecasts that Samsung’s spending will edge slightly downward, but remain at a very strong level of $22.6 billion in 2018 (Figure 1).  If it comes ...

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3D printed record player – but you have to buy an electronics package

Lenco-MD is a belt-drive record player whose major mechanical parts can be 3D printed by anyone with a fused filament printer (for which it is designed) that can handle a 330 x 330 x 100mm build – or 200 x 200 x 100mm if you buy a pre-made platter and tonearm  – or you can ...

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Battery-powered AI sound recognition with multi-year life

Battery-powered consumer electronics can have artificial intelligence hearing, according to a partnership between low-power MCU firm Ambiq Micro, mems microphone maker Vesper and sound recognition specialist Audio Analytic. They are not offering wide vocabulary speech recognition, but recognition of individual sounds. “Meeting steep power consumption demands remains the largest barrier to truly enabling AI on battery-powered edge ...

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UltraSoc Lockstep Monitor checks cores

UltraSoC has launched the UltraSoC Lockstep Monitor. A hardware-based, scalable solution, the new Lockstep Monitor significantly helps functional safety by checking that the cores at the heart of a critical system are operating reliably, safely and securely. UltraSoC’s flexible IP supports all common lockstep / redundancy architectures, including full dual-redundant lockstep, split/lock, master/checker, and voting with any ...

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GloFo prototyping SiGe on 300mm

GLOBALFOUNDRIES says its SiGe process – 9HP -is now available for prototyping on 300mm wafers at its East Fishkill, New York fab. The move reflects the strong growth in data center and high-speed wired/wireless applications that can leverage the scale advantages of a 300mm manufacturing footprint for high-speed applications such as optical networks, 5G millimeter-wave wireless ...

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Elektra Awards 2018 – Last chance to secure your seat at the gala event

Hopefully, you already have the date in your diary - Wednesday 5th December - for the 2018 Elektra Awards at the Grosvenor House Hotel in Park Lane

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Fable: The Renegades

There was a time when tech was altruistic, anti-establishment, hippy. The founder of the most famous club ever set up for techies described its members as ‘renegades, mavericks and anarchists.” His first notice to prospective members invited them to: “Exchange information, swap ideas, talk shop, help work on a project, whatever.”  He was upset when ...

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Comment: techUK welcomes UK remaining in CEN and CENELEC after Brexit

The BSI Group will remain members of two key European standards bodies, writes techUK CEO Julian David.

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Stretchy electronic tattoo technique suits prototyping

Seeking a fast route to stretchable circuits with integrated electronics for on-skin use, a team from Portrugal and the US have developed a technique that avoids clean rooms and photo lithography. Instead, the required conductive pattern is printed onto temporary tattoo paper with an ordinary desktop laser printer. Next, a silver pasted is rubbed onto ...

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Better copies of paintings using AI and 3D printing

Reproduction of paintings that look good in any light can be created by combed artificial intelligence and 3D printing, according to MIT. “If you just reproduce the colour of a painting as it looks in the gallery, it might look different in your home. Our system works under any lighting condition, which shows a far ...

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Andes and IAR Systems link on RISC-V

IAR Systems and Andes have formed a partnership in order to deliver development tools for Andes’ RISC-V-based solutions. IAR Systems provides the C/C++ compiler and debugger toolchain IAR Embedded Workbench. Andes provides the RISC-V cores, AndesCore  N25(F)/NX25(F) and A25/AX25, with AndeStar V5 instruction extension and leading Andes Custom Extension (ACE) instruction customization capabilities. The AndesCore ...

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Qualcomm sets up AI fund

Qualcomm Ventures has set up a $100 million fund to invest in AI start-ups. Since the failure of its bid for NXP, Qualcomm has been looking for ways to grow the company. The AI fund’s first investment is in AnyVision a company specialising in on-device facial recognition and computer vision. “As a pioneer of on-device ...

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Shorter lead times – the good and the bad

As lead times have shortened from six months earlier this year, to 12 to 13 weeks, on chip resistors and passives, Steve Rawlins, CEO, Anglia Components, has warned that while availability has improved, there may be instability in pricing ahead.  Rawlins cited weak demand for iPhones and a softening in the Chinese economy due to ...

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Fujitsu antenna allows simultaneous transmission for four users in 28GHz band

Fujitsu claims to have developed the world’s first equipment technology to enable simultaneous communications to four users with a single antenna panel in the 28-GHz band. The equipment delivers high-speed communications in excess of 10 Gbps, as required by 5G mobile communication formats. The use of 5G is premised on deployment of base stations with ...

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Wideband Distributed Driver Amplifier

Custom MMIC has lauched a wideband Distributed Driver Amplifier MMIC. The CMD292 delivers 13 dB of gain with a corresponding output 1 dB compression point of +27 dBm and output IP3 of +33 dBm at 15 GHz. The CMD292 features a positive gain slope over frequency, easing broadband designs when flat gain profile is desired. The ...

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Space-grade sub-miniature SMT connectors

C&K has launched a space-grade D-Subminiature surface mount termination (SMT) range of electrical connectors. The SMT D-Sub connectors under CS-FR053 specification are primarily intended for aerospace engineering applications such as developing communication and network ports for satellites, spacecraft and launchers. Reducing weight and making space savings on PCBs are critical requirements for connectors in space ...

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Xeon Sights Its Waterloo

Has Intel finally met its Waterloo in server processors? Amazon’s server processors, Graviton, which were unveiled this week, will gain an immediate market via AWS. The plan is to offer AWS services  on Graviton powered servers for up to 45% less than AWS services running on servers powered by Intel’s Xeon processors. AWS has 33% of the ...

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Adam Rees-Leonard strengthens EW BrightSparks selection panel

We are delighted to announce a new member of the EW BrightSparks 2019 selection panel.

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EMI suppression film capacitors to AEC-Q200

Vishay has introduced automotive grade X2 EMI suppression film capacitors for 50 and 60Hz. Called F339X2 305VAC, the series is qualified to both AEC-Q200 (rev D) and IEC 60384-14: 2013 / AMD1: 2016 grade IIB. To comply with the new humidity grading in IEC 60384-14: 2013 / AMD1: 2016 grade IIB, the series withstands a ...

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ST offers free GUI software for STM32 MCUs

STMicroelectronics is offering free graphical interface software for a sub-set of its Arm Cortex-based STM32 microcontrollers – largely those based on Cortex-M4 and M7. TouchGFX, as it is called, “is ready to use with STM32 microcontrollers and includes a C++ framework that enables the user-interface code to occupy as little as 10kbyte SRAM and 20kbyte ...

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Hi-Q MLCCs for low-loss GHz comms

Johanson Technology is offering high-Q capacitors with low equivalent series resistance (ESR) for high power RF applications. Called the E-Series, “in addition to minimising energy loss, Johanson Technology’s high-Q capacitors reduce thermal noise caused by ESR to assist in maintaining desired signal-to-noise ratios”, according to the firm. The firm claims to use the lowest loss ...

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Euromyths

After taking the piss out of the Brussels bureaucrats for 40 years, we’re probably going to get all sentimental over the Continentals when we finally say Goodbye. “Not a bad bunch” we’ll say, “we had some good times as Europeans.” And then the tales will start about the Eurocrats.” Trouble is, many of the tales ...

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XP Power has announced the DSR range of ac-dc DIN rail power supplies for industrial control and information technology equipment, with 150% peak load capability. “The power supplies’ 150% peak load capability enables start up for electro-mechanical loads,” said the firm, which expects use in process control, factory automation, escalators, travellators, lifts, heating, air conditioning and ...

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Mouser sets up RadioVerse microsite

Mouser has set up a microsite dedicated to RadioVerse technology from ADI combining hardware, software, documentation and technical support. RadioVerse simplifies the radio development process for a broad range of applications and markets. The RadioVerse site provides a one-stop resource for quickly finding the right products for a variety of wireless radio design projects. The microsite  ...

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Lumileds aims at horticulture, and bins to PPF

Lumileds has introduced a line of leds for plant growth rate and crop yield  for plants and vegetable. Called Luxeon SunPlus 2835, “growers can choose a specific colour point using Purple or Horticulture White leds, or design a spectrum using the Deep Red, Far Red, Lime and Royal Blue emitters”, according to the firm, which ...

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Farnell signs Zymbit

  Premier Farnell has signed  a global distribution agreement with  Zymbit, the developer of hardware security modules which ensure physical and digital security of IoT devices. This new franchise provides customers with access to Zymbit’s  ZYMKEY 4i security module which delivers professional grade security to the Raspberry Pi family of single board computers. The ZYMKEY 4i ...

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Tom, Dick, Harry and Wilma trialling in 2019

Small Robot Company, the Shropshire agritech start-up, says that prototypes of all four elements of its autonomous robotic farming service – Tom, Dick, Harry and Wilma – will become ready for trial in 2019. Small Robot Company’s farmbots Tom Dick and Harry will plant, feed and weed arable crops autonomously, with minimal waste. Tom, thevmonitoring ...

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Hall effect magnetic torque sensor for EPS applications.

A Hall effect magnetic torque sensor claims to boost EPS drivability for safer, sustainable motoring TT Electronics has introduced the SX-4462 Hall effect magnetic non-contact torque sensor, a flexible and cost-effective sensor for electronic power steering (EPS) applications including off-road vehicles (ORVs), three-wheelers, light commercial trucks, and tractors. The SX-4462 fourth-generation Magnetorque (MT4) hascustomisation options ...

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Linux and RISC-V Foundations cosy up

The Linux and RISC-V Foundations are collaborating  to accelerate open source development and adoption of the RISC-V ISA. The RISC-V Foundation includes over 210 institutional, academic and individual members from around the world and has realized 100 percent year-over-year membership growth. This partnership with the Linux Foundation will enable the RISC-V Foundation to grow the RISC-V ...

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16GT/s PCIe 4.0 at minimal cost

PLDA and Samtec have demo-ed a  PCIe 4.0 product that delivers full PCIe 4.0 bandwidth (16 GT/s) over copper or optical fiber at minimal cost. The solution is based on a PLDA PCIe 4.0 acquisition board running PLDA’s PCIe 4.0 controller IP combined with Samtec’s FireFly Micro Flyover System. This demo suggests a solution to ...

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Top 10 (+5) US R&D Spenders

Thanks to FactSet for this one – the top 15 US investors in R&D:  

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Laser-driven particle accelerator-on-a-chip

Accelerator on a Chip International Program (AChIP) aims to create an electron accelerator on a silicon chip. To do this, metal structures are replaced with glass or silicon, and lasers instead of microwaves used to apply energy. “Due to glass’s higher electric field load capacity, the acceleration rate can be increased and thus the same ...

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Gadget Extremis: SEPS – Set the controls for the heart of Mercury

Hail a ground-breaking Solar Electric Propulsion System (SEPS) developed and manufactured by a consortium led by UK-based QinetiQ.

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Facility pioneers non invasive photonics tech

Phototonics has been called one of the fastest developing areas in healthcare. It is the use of light to diagnose and treat medical conditions with non-invasive, cost-efficient methods from wound, skin and cancer treatment to use in the fields of neurology and ophthalmology. Academic groups around the UK are conducting research into photonics and now ...

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Polymer-bacteria composite makes a better electrode

Embedding electro-active bacteria in a polymer structure can improve the effectivness of living electrodes, according to Swedish researchers at Linköping University. Working with Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, they embedded the bacterium Shewanella oneidensis into the electrically-conductive polymer PEDOT:PSS, on a substrate of carbon felt. The result, revealed by microscopy, was an interleaved structure of bacteria and conducting polymers up ...

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Russia vs Ukraine: The Black Sea Line-Up

Militarily, a Russia vs Ukraine confrontation in the Black Sea is a foregone conclusion. Here’s how the Russkie and Ukrainian Black Sea fleets  stack up: Ukraine has only has one frigate – the Hetman Sahaydachniy – which had engine problems in May 2017, is still suffering reliability problems and whose current state of readiness is unclear. ...

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100Mips DSP MCU for motor control is Microchip’s smallest

Microchip is aiming at sophisticated motor control with a single-core DSP microcontroller, said to offer almost double the performance of its previous similar offering. Called dsPIC33CK, is is a stripped down version of the recently announced dual-core dsPIC33CH family, with the same core and peripherals. This is the dsPIC33 ‘C’ core with DSP engine. For fast control ...

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SSMC opens $300m Singapore clean-room

SSMC (Systems on Silicon Manufacturing Company), the NXP-TSMC jv has added 4,400 sq ft of clean-room space in Singapore. The $300 million addition represents a 34% increase in its capacity for automotive and specialty chip manufacturing. It will increase automotive wafer production from 26% of the firm’s capacity to 40%, and potentially up to 60% ...

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Need an illuminated bench magnifier?

LightCraft offers a range of fluorescent and LED magnifier lamps, task lamps, hand-held magnifiers, head-band magnifiers and light boxes. And you can now get them from Dunstable-based component distributor JPR Electronics. “LightCraft are the leading brand of lighting and magnification aids for manufacturing and inspection and also very popular with professional and hobby model makers. We ...

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Module supports narrowband IoT 3GPP Release 14 features, and upgrade to 5G

U-blox has announced a multi-band NB-IoT module that supports a preliminary set of 3GPP Release 14 features (LTE Cat NB2). Low power consumption means 10+ years operation on a single primary cell, according to the firm. Called Sara-N3, it is available in two variants: one for China and another that can operate across multiple bands on ...

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Renesas expands S1 MCU series

Renesas has expanded its Renesas Synergy™ S1 microcontroller (MCU) series with the introduction of the S1JA MCU Group. The ultra-low power S1JA MCUs feature the 48 MHz Arm Cortex-M23 core and integrate best-in-class programmable analog and security functions for high-accuracy sensor signal acquisition and conditioning. The S1JA MCUs target cost sensitive and low power Industrial ...

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SEMI extends data gathering remit to power and compound semis

SEMI has extended its remit to providing  fab data for power and compound semiconductors as their rise in importance translates into significant capacity. Power devices are rising in importance as energy-efficiency standards tighten to meet growing demand for power-thrifty high-end consumer electronics, wireless communications, electric vehicles, green energy, data centers, and both industrial and consumer IoT ...

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Infineon and IDEX combine on biometric payment cards

Infineon  and IDEX Biometrics aim to integrate IDEX’ biometrics technology into platforms featuring Infineon’s secure elements and will develop a system-on-card demonstrator that runs on the latest dual-interface 16-bit security controller from Infineon. Biometric cards are expected to further reduce card fraud by introducing a simple second factor authentication. This can be used for payment ...

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pureLiFi extends applications

pureLiFi, the six year-old Edinburgh University spin-off pioneering light-based wireless networks, has provided its LiFi technology for a range of LiFi-integrated lighting products that will extend to panel lights and other commercial form factors. The product has been launched by French company Lucibel, the designer and manufacturer of next-generation lighting products and solutions based on ...

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ST adds to galvanic isolated high-side switch family

ST’s  ISO8200AQ galvanic isolated octal high-side smart power switch enhances diagnostics and system management by providing a 20 MHz SPI port allowing both per-channel over-temperature signalization and efficient daisy-chaining of multiple devices. A power-good output indicates the status of the process-side power supply. The device enlarges ST’s family of galvanic isolated high-side switches, featuring maximum ...

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MagnaChip IGBT improves switching frequencies

MagnaChip has started volume production of an IGBT for power modules targeted at high-voltage industrial applications. The IGBT P-series (“MBW100T120PHF”) has both high current and high voltage capabilities of 1200V and 100A, and has achieved a low saturation voltage Vce(sat) of 1.71V and low switching losses by using Field-Stop Trench technology. MBW100T120PHF allows designers to ...

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Magnetic Tape Processed In Ten Hours

The data processor ordered from EMI by University College, London will process in ten hours a 3,000ft, reel of magnetic tape of Skylark data which would take three people thirty weeks to process manually. So, 57 years ago, started a story in Electronics Weekly’s edition of February 1st 1961. The story continued:  kylark rockets are employed ...

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Team Bath Racing Electric primed to represent the UK in China

The University of Bath’s student electric racing car team, Team Bath Racing Electric, is looking to do UK engineering proud as they prepare to travel to China to compete.

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IET boosts EW BrightSparks

Lizzie Truett and David Lakin, both of the IET, have kindly agreed to strengthen the EW BrightSparks 2018 selection panel.

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Twitter-robots stir conflict, by aiming at social network ‘influencers’

Divisions in society were made worse by hoards of automated software ‘bots’ in the days preceding the Catalan independence referendum last year, according to Italian and US researchers who analysed four million contemporary tweets from one million twitter users. At times, over 23% of posts were by bots, and Twitter ‘replies’ by bots peaked at 38.8% ...

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The Challenge of Populism

In 1998 7% of European electors voted for populists. This year, 25% of the national votes held have been cast for populists. EU leaders, it seems, may have been getting something wrong. When the Will of the People challenges liberal orthodoxy, what gives?

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Chairman arrested for stock price manipulation

The unnamed 54 year-old chairman of an unnamed South Korean semiconductor company listed on the Kosdaq has been arrested for allegedly making $17.7 million from manipulating his company’s shares, reports The Korea Herald. The unnamed chairman is said to have put it about three years ago, in November 2015, that he was about to build ...

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ADI extends transceiver products for CANs

ADI has extended its transceiver product line for controller area networks with flexible data-rate (CAN FD). The galvanically isolated iCoupler digital isolation ADM3055E IC series offers 12 Mbps performance to support future needs, yet remaining fully backward compatible with existing CAN and CAN FD designs. The reinforced ADM3055E also features a low radiated emissions isoPower ...

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Adding a second hard drive to a Windows 7 PC

I have a PC at home that is kept for CAD – it is only connected to the internet for updates and downloading software, as well as occasionally looking up tutorials, but never random browsing. To keep me honest, is also doesn’t have Wi-Fi – an Ethernet cable has to be trailed through the house ...

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Trump ban halts Fujian Jin Hua fab build

Fujian Jin Hua’s fab in Jinjiang is on hold following the USA’s ban on Western companies selling it supplies, reports Bloomberg. The effect of the US ban parallels the effect of the US ban on US companies selling components to ZTE which brought the Chinese company to its knees in a a week or two. ...

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DENSO invests in Infineon

DENSO has made an ‘mid-double-digit million’ Euro equity investment in Infineon, Both companies aim to jointly enhance their system know-how in established and new technologies – like automated driving and electro-mobility. “We would like to establish optimal semiconductor solutions for in-vehicle electronics systems through strong partnerships with semiconductor companies in order to enhance the competitiveness ...

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Qualcomm the only decliner among fabless leaders

Of the top 10 fabless companies, only Qualcomm had a Q3 revenue decline, reports Trendforce. Taiwan houses Mediatek, Novatek, and Realtek, showed remarkable Q3 performances due to stock-up demand from consumer electronics makers for the upcoming holiday sales. MediaTek grew by 3%. The only company to see a drop was Qualcomm with a revenue decline ...

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Logitech to buy Plantronics

Logitech is talking to Plantronics about buying it, reports Reuters. The Swiss key board and webcam manufacturer is reported to have offered $2.2 billion to buy the US headset specialist. Plantronics’ market cap is $2 billion. The biggest shareholder in the 57 year-old company is private equity firm Siris Capital Group. Logitech’s market cap is ...

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Ed The Evangelist

  I’m on the road again, Ed confides to his diary, my first job in the tech business was flogging parts and here I am again – a peddler. A posh peddler – a Baron and a Cabinet Minister – but just a peddler pushing the PM’s Brexit plan. All Ministers have been told that ...

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AI skeleton key fingerprint fools 1 in 5 ID systems

Fingerprint authentication systems can be fooled by generic fingerprints created by artificial intelligence, according to the New York University Tandon. “These experiments demonstrate the need for multi-factor authentication and should be a wake-up call for device manufacturers about the potential for artificial fingerprint attacks,” said researcher Philip Bontrager. “Fingerprint-based authentication is still a strong way to protect ...

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Most Read articles – Raspberry Pi, LoRa comms, drones

They include a quantum-based gravity sensor, whole-body scan technologies, an Arduino PRO Gateway for LoRa comms, an international standard for drones and the new Raspberry Pi 3 Model A+...

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Meter-surface corrects chromatic abberation

A single-layer of nano-structures on the surface of optical elements can correct chromatic aberrations across the visible spectrum, from simple lenses to “the super-complex objectives with as many as 14 conventional lenses, used in high-resolution microscopes”, according to Harvard University which has developed the technique. It has been dubbed ‘metacorrection’, and relies on pillars whose ...

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The Natural Reluctance To Think

In October 1860, when he was 29, James Clerk Maxwell decamped from Scotland to become the Professor of Natural Philosophy at King’s College, London. In his first address to students he said: “In this class, I hope you will learn not merely results, or formulae applicable to cases that may possibly occur in our practice ...

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How MIT e-plane works

Earlier this week, engineers at MIT flew a plane by what they have dubbed ‘solid-state flight’. Instead of propellers or some form of jet engine, the scheme uses high voltage to accelerate ions in the air, and these, in-turn, accelerate molecules in the air. In this case, there are multiple accelerators – two columns of ...

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EnSilica and Peter Davies lauded by electronics industry

EnSilica was named company of the year at last night’s annual TechWorks Awards, at The Grange Tower Bridge Hotel in London.   EnSilica was cited as follows, by TechWorks: Since its inception it has emerged as a world-leading IC design house with a consistent track record for technical excellence in digital, RF and mixed-signal design; ...

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Security checker for Blockchain users’ credentials

Blockchain  users’ credentials can be checked by the Blockchain Security 2Go starter kit from Infineon. “The success of the blockchain system hinges on securing user interaction with the distributed database,” says Infineon’s Stefan Rueping, “Infineon’s Blockchain Security 2Go starter kit allows to quickly develop convenient access solutions based on security tokens or embedded security chips ...

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CES: Plessey honoured for micro LED displays for AR

Devon-based chip fab Plessey has wonn US recognition for its GaN-on-silicon microdisplays – being named a ‘CES 2019 Innovation Awards Honoree’ in the exhibition’s embedded technologies category. The displays could offer a route to the high intensities needed for augmented reality googles that can be used outdoors – where the display has to compete with ...

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US ratchets up China tech war

The US is ratcheting up its tech trade assault on China with an urge to its allies not to buy Huawei switchgear. The latest move follows the banning of Huawei from US government procurement, a ban on component sales to ZTE (now lifted) and a ban on selling components to China’s fledgling DRAM company Fujian ...

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Drones Club founded

A meeting at City Hall yesterday hosted by London Assembly Transport Committee member Keith Prince initiated a Drones Club for drone industry stakeholders. Commenting on today’s meeting, Robert Garbett, Founder of Drone Major Group Ltd and Chairman of the BSI Committee on Drone Standards, explained: “Today’s gathering of the UK drone industry’s leading figures has ...

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Pressure sensor doesn’t need OPC after soldering

A piezoelectric absolute pressure sensor which is so accurate and stable that manufacturers can eliminate one-point calibration (OPC) after soldering Is offered by ST. With a pressure noise equivalent to 5cm, ST’s LPS22HH enhances controls such as collision avoidance for drones or other unmanned vehicles. In addition, temperature compensation is built in, relieving the load ...

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A New Idea

Sometimes you wonder if the tech industry is making progress. For decades you didn’t ask this question because there was Moore’s Law – scaling meant that so long as you could afford the latest chips your product got more and more functional at less and less cost. So your customers kept buying and productivity gains carried ...

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Non-ITO transparent conductor vies for foldable display market

Heraeus Electronic Chemicals of Germany is promoting its Clevios HY E conductive film for foldable touchscreen use. It is a hybrid material, of silver nanowires (to raise conductivity) and conductive PEDOT polymers. “In tests, films coated with Clevios HY E have been folded more than 300,000 times with a bending radius of 1mm with no impairment ...

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e-skin senses sideways force as well as direct force

An electronic copy of human skin can detect force, and the direction of that force. When griping with thumb and fingers, a robot hand using this could sense both the weight of an object and the force applied to it, allowing more sophisticated manipulation. “This technology puts us on a path to one day giving robots ...

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Fable: The Founder Who Thought Big

80 years ago this year, an entrepreneur founded a trucking company. The company prospered, diversified and, 44 years later, prompted by government inducements, moved into mainstream ICs. As was his wont, the entrepreneur declared a lofty aspiration for his new venture. His ambition for it was, he said, to become the world No.1 chip company ...

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Plasmonic receiver for last-metres mm-wave comms

Researchers at ETH Zurich have developed a plasmonic receiver that can convert millimetre waves directly into light for an optical fibre. “Our modulator is completely independent of external power supplies and, on top of that, extremely small so that it can, in principle, be mounted on any lamppost. From there, it can then receive data ...

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The search is on for EW BrightSparks 2019!

Calling all Gadget Masters! Once again we are looking for the brightest and most talented young electronics engineers in the UK, as part of EW BrightSparks in 2019.

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Renesas dev kit accelerates IO-Link apps

Renesas has come up with a new IO-Link master development kit to accelerate IO-Link-based application development for industrial networked devices in a smart factory. The development kit includes a board and pre-qualified sample software provided by TMG. The board has eight IO-Link connecters allowing developers to immediately connect IO-Link slave devices and start the evaluation ...

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German Q3 components market led by passives

The German component distribution market reported solid but sluggish growth for the third quarter of 2018. According to the distribution companies registered with the Fachverband Bauelemente Distribution (FBDi e.V.), sales during the period July to September 2018 grew by 4.7% to reach 980 million euros. The pattern of orders continued the trend of previous quarters, ...

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Raspbian upgrade – things to remember

I just up-graded Raspbian on the Raspberry Pi I am using for work today, and tripped up on a couple of things. Before I mention them, I must say the procedure is so well done – just type in the sudo apt-get.. commands and off it goes. The two things are: It takes quite a ...

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Plextek RFI designs microwave PA for space

Plextek RFI, the Cambridge design house specialising in microwave and millimetre-wave IC design, has designed and supplied a microwave power amplifier (PA) module for California-based satellite manufacturer and space mission operator Astro Digital. The module designed by Plextek RFI incorporates a power GaN output device and a GaAs driver circuit. It will form part of a propulsion system ...

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Fused filament 3D printed motorcycle

German 3D printer company BigRep has printed a electric motorbike, claimed to be the worlds first. Called Nera, it was revealed alongside a printed vehicle seat, and robot gripper and a pallet-like wheeled trolley for shifting things around factories. “These prototypes not only demonstrate the unprecedented capacity of large-scale FFF [fused filament] 3D printing”, said ...

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Farnell introduces maintenance and safety resource

Premier Farnell has enhanced its maintenance and safety offering by expanding its range of products from leading global suppliers and introducing a dedicated maintenance and safety area on its website. The new resource provides a range of support information including videos, technical data and industry guideline, as well as covering new developments in the world ...

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Auto electronics packaging to be $7bn market in 2023

Packaging dedicated to automotive electronics is growing and will be a $7 billion sector in 2023, say analysts Yole Developpement. Despite the high degree of regulation, consumer packaging types are slowly adapted to, and adopted by, the automotive market. The market is showing significant market drivers that are supporting the growth, says Yole:  electrification, connectivity, ...

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ADI and Princeton make in-memory computing chip

ADI and Princeton University have produced a processor using in-memory computing which computes using on-chip storage to avoid the power penalty involved in fetching data from outside the chip. They mark the chips: ‘ProgInMem’   The chip is designed for deep-learning inference systems such as self-driving vehicles, facial recognition systems and medical diagnostic software where ...

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Are There Start-Ups Changing The World?

Start-ups, especially West Coast start-ups, like to adopt the conceit that they are changing the world. Some actually are like those battling drug resistant super-bacteria, thosev to  making smarter, safer autonomous vehicles, those developing quantum AI, non-opioid pain management, net-zero buildings and ecosystem engineering. Here, reckons CB Insights, are 36 of them:      

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ST takes MCU configuration tool to v5.0

STMicroelectronics has updated its STM32CubeMX microcontroller configuration software to v5.0. “With its modern multi-panel GUI that lets users visualise and do more without changing screen view, it makes optimising MCU configuration parameters easier and more comfortable,” said the firm, without explaining what multi-panel means in this context – this video might give some clues. It comes ...

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Three phase EMC filters for motor drives

Schaffner is claiming to have created a milestone in three-phase filtering with “the most compact and most modern solution in the market today”. And then it said: “these filters are based on a new design structure, resulting in a significant footprint reduction and have their connection terminals integrated within the filter enclosure.” And then it ...

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FAANG Gets Bitten

Apple hit a trillion on August 2nd and is now worth $840 billion. Amazon hit a trillion on September 4th and is now worth $736 billion. Alphabet, worth $950 billion in July, is now worth $714 billion. Facebook, worth $630 billion in July, is now worth $380 billion.  

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A fine bit of wood machining

I came across a delightful little workbench on YouTube, made on a channel called Pask Makes, which features a guy making all sorts of things. The bench appears to be one of a series, where useful things are made of scrap wood. It is not the clever sort of portable bench that uses braced hollow ...

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Electronica: Waterproof professional connectors for outdoor use

Lemo revealed waterproof versions of its right-angled Anglissimo connectors at Electronica last week. “This product is similar to what had been announced previously, but this time it’s an evolution of the product that make this solution watertight to IP68, meaning it can be used outdoors, under the rain, it can sustain water splash and short ...

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ISO issues drones standards

The first worldwide Standards for the drone industry are being released today by the International Standards Organisation (ISO). The new Standards have been developed after several years of global collaboration between standards institutions from across the world and are expected to trigger rapid acceleration of growth within the drone industry as organisations throughout the world ...

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Nanusens moves to UK; raises €1m

 Nanusens, the nanotech start-up, has moved its HQ from Barcelona to the UK and has raised over a million Euros (£941,950) from 786 people via Crowdcube.  This is a pre-Series A funding round and will enable to company to invest in R&D and additional staff as well as accelerate product roll out. “The company’s original ...

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Softening memory ASP hits SEMI billings

 October semiconductor manufacturing equipment billings were 0.9% down on September at  $2.06 billion, reports SEMI. The billings figure is 2%  higher than the October 2017 billings level of $2.02 billion. “October billings of North American equipment suppliers reflect near-term weakening of demand for PC, mobile phones and servers,” said Ajit Manocha, president and CEO of SEMI. “Additionally, ...

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Imec develops contact lens with integrated LED, IC and antenna

Imec, Ghent University and SEED Co, have  developed a contact lens with an integrated LED light, including an ultra-thin silicon microchip, radio‐frequency (RF) antenna for wireless energy transfer, and stretchable thin‐film interconnections. Different from the traditional contact lens-type wearable devices made of non-water-containing material, this novel device is made of hydrogel-based material. This demonstration of ...

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4U high and deeper rack mounting and enclosures added

Hammond Electronics has introduced 4U high versions and added extended 559mm depths to all heights of its RM family of 1U – 4U 19 inch rack mounting and desktop enclosures. 1U to 3U half-width versions are also available. The all-aluminium construction consists of a heavy-duty extruded frame with removable vented or plain top and bottom ...

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Top Ten Sinking Countries

Thanks to Statista for this one – the ten countries sinking fastest into the sea:

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Solid State adds optoelectronics with Pacer acquisition

  Component distributor, and manufacturer, Solid State has bought optoelectronic component company, Pacer.  Solid State is reported to have paid $3.7million for Pacer, which has offices in Pangbourne and Weymouth in the UK and a US subsidiary in Florida. Founded in 1971, Solid State manufactures computing, power and communications products in addition to component distribution. Pacer ...

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Northern Irish smart bike light company scoops award

A winner of the Economic Disruptor of the Year Awards 2018, I gladly noted, was a company previously featured on Gadget Master pages, and the recipient of an Elektra Award, too, no less.

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How to get a robot to jump out of water

Some animals can jump out of water from a standing start, without anything to push against except the water. A pair of researchers at Cornell University – Sunghwan Jung and Brian Chang – wanted to know how, and could a robot do it. “We collected data about aquatic animals of different sizes – from about 1mm ...

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Side-detection switches are darn small

C&K has launched two series of micro-mini side-actuated detect switches. FDSD switches are 4.20 x 3.60 x 1.20mm, with optional flat or bent terminals for PCB mounting. The SPST-NO beryllium copper contacts have a resistance of less than 1Ω and are rated for 10mA at 5Vdc with a lifetime of 50,000 operations. A maximum force ...

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A Picture Worth A Thousand Words

In case President Macron gets any folie de grandeur fantasies about how to use his Euro-Army when he gets it, here’s a graph drawn up by the Parisian engineer Charles Minard. Minard published the graph of temperatures encountered on Napoleon’s 1812 March on Moscow when only 35,000 Frenchmen out of an army of 680,000 men ...

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EW BrightSparks 2019 – The search is on for electronics excellence

We are very pleased and proud to announce the commencement of EW BrightSparks 2019.

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Say hello to the Raspberry Pi 3 Model A+

There's a new Raspberry Pi on the block. Check out the mid-range Raspberry Pi 3 Model A+, priced at just $25.

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Topological insulator bends light with little loss

Topological insulators are key to bending light around tight corners in tiny spaces with low back-scattering loss, according to engineers at Duke University in the US. The rectangular device is 35 x 5.5μm – said to be 100x smaller than previously demonstrated ring-resonators. By carefully controlling the geometry of a crystal lattice the researchers blocked ...

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New production process at Plastic Logic

Plastic Logic says it has developed a new mass production-capable technology and manufacturing process in collaboration with the organic electronics specialists from BASF. To demonstrate this breakthrough, Plastic Logic has produced prototypes of two new mass-producible 6” display products in 300dpi greyscale and 150dpi colour variants respectively. This impressive improvement has been achieved through advances in Plastic ...

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First whole-human scan by simultaneous PET and CT

  ‘Explore’ is a body scanner that combines positron emission tomography (PET) and x-ray computed tomography (CT). The idea, 13 years ago, of University of California Davis scientists Simon Cherry and Ramsey Badawi, it can produce an image in as little as one second – because, according to the University, the machine captures radiation far more ...

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Imec and Leti combine on AI and quantum computing

Imec and Leti are to join forces on AI and quantum computing. The research centres’ collaboration will focus on developing, testing and experimenting neuromorphic and quantum computing – and should result in the delivery of a digital hardware computing toolbox that can be used by European industry partners to innovate in a wide variety of ...

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