White Paper proposes Internet regulation

The Home Office and the DCMS (Department for Culture, Media and Sport) have published a joint White Paper on internet regulation. Sites which facilitate the “sharing” of content or “interaction” between users will be subject to a duty of care and face sanctions for non-compliance. Fines will be calculated based on the size of the company. ...

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Record high for semi materials market

The semiconductor materials market grew 10.6% in 2018 to a record $51.9 billion says SEMI. The previous high of  $47.1 billion was set in 2011. 2018 sales of wafer fabrication materials were up 15.9% y-o y at $32.2 billion and sales of packaging materials were up 3% at $19.7 billion. Taiwan, at $11.4 billion, was ...

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Amazon planning low orbit satellite constellation for internet access

Amazon is reported to be planning a satellite constellation for providing internet access in a similar scheme to Space X’s satellite project Amazon’s proposed constellation is said to have 3,236 satellites and is called Project Kuiper. SpaceX’s constellation will consist of 4,425 satellites and is called Starlink. It has plans to expand it to 12,000 ...

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Colloidal quantum dots could advance photodetectors

IR optoelectronics, traditionally based on III-V semiconductors, could be based on colloidal quantum dots which would overcome III-V’s disadvantage of  CMOS incompatibility, says Barcelona’s Institute of Photonics (ICFO). ICFO researchers have discovered that by controlling defects in materials one can extend the semiconductor’s spectral reach beyond its bandgap, expanding thereby the material availability for the ...

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Infineon building new Austrian R&D centre

Infineon’s Austria holding company DICE (Danube Integrated Circuit Engineering) in Linz has broken ground for a  new site. Pictured are (L-R): Manfred Ruhmer, Executive Director DICE, Peter Schiefer, President Automotive Division Infineon Technologies AG, Sabine Herlitschka, CEO Infineon Technologies Austria AG, Gerhard Riess and Peter Zeiner, Executive Directors DICE. By the summer of 2020 the ...

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Ed Plots Piracy

Thank God I jumped ship and shimmied off here to the Caribbean, Ed confides to his diary, seven hour Cabinet meetings indeed!  Ministers, I hear, are fractious, frazzled and fed up. Thanks to my foresight, I am sunned up, rummed out and chillaxed. I seemed to have gained a reputation out here as a bit ...

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Why has Plessey developed a native green led microdisplay?

Why has Plessey gone to the trouble of creating a GaN-on-Si micro-led display process that emits green? Intensity and efficiency are the reasons, according to the firm’s director of micro-led applications Clive Beech. The firm’s original technology, which started life in the University of Cambridge, builds InGaN quantum wells over a silicon substrate using over ...

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