Shanghai, has raised a $7.4 billion fund to back the IC industry, reports Digitimes. The intention is to help fabless companies make acquisitions and assist the equipment and materials industries. Last year the Shanghai fund, called the Shanghai Integrated Circuit Industry Fund (SICIF) raised $3.5 billion with 10% of that coming from the China government’s ...
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Football (or soccer) fans wanting to attend UEFA Super Cup 2017 in Skopje last week found that many of their hotel rooms were cancelled and rebooked at astronomical rates – sometimes 500 to 900 GBP for a hotel room that was originally a fraction of that. In order to fight back against a tarnished global image (and because they are cool people), a group in Skopje, WeTalkIT, created a… Read More
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August 1st is almost upon us and the great Bitcoin “hard fork” is about to confuse the heck out of the casual cryptocurrency observer. Here’s what you should know. Quite simply, if you are using an exchange that is explicitly in support of the Bitcoin Cash or you control your own private keys then you are fine. If you are keeping your bitcoin on an exchange, like Coinbase,… Read More
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Time Inc. websites will be getting a new look over the next few months, thanks to a new in-house platform called Element. Ben Ronne, Time Inc.’s executive director, product, platforms, told me that this is part of a broader effort to centralize the company’s technology — for example, he said that in the past year, Time Inc. has gone from 14 content management systems to… Read More
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Electronics Weekly joins forces with Goepel Electronics to discuss increasing productivity and reducing test time by implementing Embdedded JTAG solutions.
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Alpha Wire’s new ThermoThin Hook-Up Wire, now available from Aerco, delivers 600V performance from -150 to +300°C, and is intended for applications where premium performance must be matched with space and weight savings. Potential applications are foreseen in medical devices, semiconductor production, geothermal energy generation, energy production, military equipment and the oil and gas industry. ...
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LattePanda is an Intel Atom PC running and Arduino combined. Designed for Windows 10, it has a 1.8GHz Z8300 Cherry Trail CPU with I/O handled by a second processor rather than the Atom. “This micro controller is re-programmable, source code is provided, and can be programmed to off-load the Atom if an application is so demanding,” said RS Components, ...
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Software-defined wide area networks have only been commercially available for a few years but, according to IDC, worldwide SD-WAN infrastructure and services revenues will see a CAGR)p of 69.6% and reach $8.05 billion in 2021. The most significant driver of SD-WAN growth over the next five years will be digital transformation (DX) in which enterprises ...
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Trillium, the automotive cybersecurity specialist, has bought auto cyber security company CanBusHack. “The addition of CanBusHack’s Red Team and penetration testing expertise is a perfect fit for Trillium, and adds to our already robust range of cybersecurity products, services and training capabilities,” says Trillium CEO, David M. Uze, “now, in addition to providing customers with ...
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Taiwan’s renowned government-backed Industrial Technology Research Institute (ITRI) is inviting foreign IoT start-ups to visit Taiwan to learn about the island’s electronics industry. ITRI brought advanced IC processing toTaiwan in 1976 by licensing RCA’s CMOS process and then proceeded to scale it over subsequent generations while spinning it off, along the way, into start-ups like ...
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BT has made an offer to the government to spend £600 million on providing 10Mbps broadband access to everyone in the UK. “We already expect 95% of homes and businesses to have access to superfast broadband speeds of 24Mbps or faster by the end of 2017,” says BT CEO Gavin Patterson, “our latest initiative aims ...
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Fujitsu Labs has developed technology that accelerates transaction processing for Hyperledger Fabric, one of the Hyperledger blockchain frameworks hosted by The Linux Foundation. The blockchain is a technology that creates systems with excellent resistance to falsification while preserving high transparency and reliability, all without centralized management. It is expected to have applications in a variety ...
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In an unsurprising move by credit card thieves, police have found a new credit card skimmer that sends stolen data via SMS. By tearing apart cheap phones, crooks are able to send credit card information to their location instantly without having to access the skimmer physically or rely on an open Bluetooth connection. Brian Krebs received images of the skimmer from an unnamed source. They… Read More
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The political press ate it up, alternatively excoriating the program for costing too much in tax breaks and crowing a win for Wisconsin’s conservative governor, Scott Walker. I wouldn’t encourage either party to hold their breath. Gou is in the habit of promising big and rarely delivering. Four years ago business journals crowed about a plan to bring a Foxconn flat screen… Read More
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Alistair Goodman, CEO of mobile marketing company Placecast, said location data is the “next frontier” when it comes to ad measurement and verification. For example, Goodman pointed to a study by Factual and the Mobile Marketing Association that found that 40 percent of marketers are concerned about the quality of location data. He said there are a number of different… Read More
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Are you sufficiently paranoid? If you’re not, there’s now Sandsifter. This project, just announced at Defcon 2017, tests your x86 processor for hidden instructions and bugs. “Sandsifter has uncovered secret processor instructions from every major vendor; ubiquitous software bugs in disassemblers, assemblers, and emulators; flaws in enterprise hypervisors; and both benign… Read More
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Emerson Collective, the organization founded by Laurene Powell Jobs, has agreed to purchase a majority stake in The Atlantic. In a memo to the staff of The Atlantic, chairman and owner David Bradley writes that he started looking for a buyer when he realized his sons were not interested in owning a media company. (Axios, which was backed by both the Emerson Collective and Bradley, obtained… Read More
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Renesas reported Q2 sales up 31.7% y-o-y and 12.6% sequentially at $1.7 billion. Operating profit was $270 million and gross margin was 45.7%. For Q3, Renesas expects the same level of sales and margin. . “We have been successfully improving our gross and operating margins by pursuing sales growth and cost containment”, says Renesas CEO ...
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Intel is No.2. After 24 years as the No.1 chip company, Intel slipped below Samsung in Q2 with revenues of $14.8 billion. On Wednesday Samsung reported Q2 chip revenues of $15.7 billion. Intel’s slip to No.2 had been widely predicted in the wake of hugely inflated memory prices. It means that TI’s 25 year reign ...
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Australian scientists are combining high-speed chalcogenide glass optical processing with silicon CMOS. “We integrated a novel non-linear glass into an industrially scalable CMOS compatible platform. We maintained the key advantages of both the silicon and the glass, and made a functional and efficient ultra-compact optical circuit,” said Dr Alvaro Casas Bedoya who leads photonics fabrication ...
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Scientists from the US Brookhaven National Laboratory and Yale University have discovered surprising behaviour amongst electrons in high-temperature superconductors (HTS). “Our discovery challenges a corner-stone of condensed matter physics,” said Brookhaven Lab physicist Jie Wu. “These electrons seem to spontaneously ‘choose’ their own paths through the material – a phenomenon in direct opposition to expectations.” ...
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Osaka University has created front and back coatings to improve the efficiency of silicon solar cells, without resort to expensive vacuum treatment. The front coating is anti-reflective – a component of almost all solar cells – and created using a wet process based on ‘surface structure chemical transfer’ (SSCT), using it to fabricate so-called ‘black ...
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US researchers have collated the temperature performance of different Li-ion cell technologies with a view to improving batteries. “People have not looked that studiously at temperature constraints. We searched hard to find one paper that talks about all the problems at the same time and what all the individual components experience at extreme temperatures, and ...
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The US Navy’s electromagnetic rail-gun is out of the laboratory and ready for field demonstrations at the Naval Surface Warfare Center Dahlgren, Virginia. Rail guns, which until now have been research tools, are a form of linear motor which accelerate objects to very high velocity using a combination of magnetic and electric fields. Testing is ...
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Farnell element14 has named Bristol Robotics Laboratory as winner of its ‘Win a Lab Makeover’ competition. The Bristol Robotics Laboratory (BRL) is an academic centre for multi-disciplinary robotics research in the UK and builds on a collaborative partnership between the University of the West of England (UWE Bristol) and the University of Bristol, and is ...
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As expected, the Foxconn LCD plant promised for the USA is to be in Wisconsin. “Because of you we are also committed to great jobs for Americans,” Terry Gou, chairman of Foxconn (pictured) told President Donald Trump, “Mr President, the eagle flies.” Calling Gou “one of the world’s greatest entrepreneurs,” Trump said that the investment ...
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Analogue Devices has managed to create a 500W switched-capacitor power chip for fixed ratio power conversion at up to 72V and 99% efficiency. Power density up to 4,000W/in3 is claimed. The main application foreseen for the chip, the LTC7820, is 48V non-isolated dc bus conversion, although it is capable of up, down and inverting conversion at ...
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Make a note for your diary, for a new Electronics Weekly webinar – Combining the Power of Functional Test and Embedded System Access Electronics Weekly has joined forces with Goepel Electronics to discuss how you can benefit from increased productivity and reduce test time by implementing Embdedded JTAG solutions, Book your place » On Tuesday Wednesday 6 September, 10:00am ...
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Cavium is sampling two new families of 10GbE/25GbE optimized programmable Ethernet switches The XP70 scales from 1Tbps to 1.8Tbps and provides seamless 1GBASE-T to 10GBASE-T and 10GbE to 25GbE access connectivity upgrades for enterprise, data center, and carrier networks with support for 40GbE/100GbE uplink connectivity. The XP60 family brings programmable Ethernet switching capabilities to the ...
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Infineon has come out with a linear FET series it calls OptiMOS. This new product family combines the (R DS(on)) of a trench MOSFET with the wide Safe Operating Area of a planar MOSFET. This solves the trade-off between R DS(on) and linear mode capability. The OptiMOS Linear FET can operate in the saturation region of ...
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Qualcomm has brought out a SDK for its Snapdragon Neural Processing Engine (NPE). The NPE provides developers with software tools to accelerate deep neural network workloads on mobile and other edge devices powered by Snapdragon processors. Developers can choose the Snapdragon they want – the Kryo CPU, Adreno GPU or Hexagon DSP. Developers can use deep ...
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Apple is to build three manufacturing plants in the USA, according to President Donald Trump. President Trump told the Wall Street Journal that he’d talked to Apple CEO Tim Cook (pictured) about manufacturing in America. “I said you know, Tim, unless you start building your plants in this country, I won’t consider my administration ...
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Synthesio is announcing its second acquisition of the year — it’s buying Social Karma, a company that uses social data to help marketers understand consumers. Back in January, Synthesio announced that it had acquired presentation software-maker Bunkr. Co-founder and CEO Loic Moisand told me that this is all part of a two-year strategy to buy up companies and technologies that can… Read More
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HubSpot is announcing that it has acquired Kemvi, a startup applying artificial intelligence and machine learning to help sales teams. A few months ago, Kemvi launched DeepGraph, a product that analyzes public data so that salespeople can identify the best time (say, after a job change or the publication of an article) to reach out to potential customers. It also proactively reaches out to… Read More
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Nielsen is taking a big step in measuring streaming TV today with the addition of Hulu and YouTube TV to its ratings. Nielsen’s President of Product Leadership Megan Clarken said that the company’s ratings (the best-known measurement of TV viewership) have included some streaming data before, but it was usually when “traditional networks … distributed their content… Read More
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The Budapest Transport Authority (BKK, in Hungarian) recently launched an online payment system with the help of a T-Systems, Deutsche Telekom’s consulting arm. The system, which took three months to build, was supposed to be installed in time for the FINA world championships in Budapest. The software, not unexpectedly for such a project, was full of bugs including the discovery of an… Read More
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This week on Technotopia I interview Rahul Sood, former founder of Voodoo PC and the current CEO of Unikrn, an e-sports betting service. Sood, who spent a number of years at Microsoft Ventures, started Unikrn because he saw the e-sports space was exploding in popularity. His company allows people to bet on gaming events and even bet on themselves as they get better at games. Sood’s… Read More
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Element14 has announced winners of its ‘Upcycle it’ design challenge. Sponsored by Intel, element14 challenged 15 community members to Upcycle an unwanted or waste product to give it a new or enhanced lease of life. The application areas for this challenge and ability to use unlimited components to complete an original electronics-based project offered true ...
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LG says it is putting $7 billion into OLED production plants. LG is putting $870 million into its jv plant in Guangzhou, China to make OLEDs in a foreign factory for the first time. The Guangzhou plant currently makes LCD panels and the intention is to use it to make 65 inch and bigger OLED ...
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A re-hab centre for hackers has opened in Bristol in an experiment which could be extended across the country. The camp has been set up by the National Crime Agency (NCA). The idea is to divert potential cyber-criminals into useful cyber-security work. The first seven attendees are people caught engaging in cyber-crimes like defacing websites, ...
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Infineon will enter the packaged silicon microphone market with samples of high performance, low noise MEMS microphones in Q4. Volume production starts in Q1 2018.. The analogue and digital microphones are based on Infineon’s dual backplate MEMS technology with a 70 dB signal-to-noise ratio (SNR) and a distortion level of 10% at a 135 dB ...
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Q2 silicon wafer area shipments were up 4.2% on Q1, says SEMI’s Silicon Manufacturers Group (SMG). Total Q2 silicon wafer area shipments were 2,978 million square inches up from the 2,858 million square inches shipped in Q1. New quarterly total area shipments are 10.1% higher than Q2 2016 shipments and are at their highest recorded quarterly ...
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Samtec, the Indiana interconnect specialist, Has brought out a 14 Gbps FireFly FMC Development Kit to evaluate and develop Samtec’s FireFly optical engines. The 14 Gbps FireFly FMC Module provides up to 140 Gbps full-duplex bandwidth over 10 channels from an FPGA to an industry-standard multi-mode fiber optic cable. Samtec’s 14 Gbps FireFly FMC ...
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The LTC7150S is a 20V, 20A monolithic synchronous buck converter with differential VOUT remote sensing. The device’s phase lockable controlled on-time constant frequency current mode architecture eases compensation and is ideal for high step-down ratio applications that operate at high frequencies while demanding fast transient response. The LTC7150S uses Silent Switcher2 technology, including integrated bypass ...
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Marvell has launched an automotive gigabit Ethernet switch. The switch is designed to prevent malicious attacks or compromises to the data streamed in-and-out of the vehicle. These industry-leading security features are paramount to ensure the safety of the vehicle and its occupants. This switch has been purpose-built to address the increasing risk cybercrime represents to ...
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The Business Secretary launches the £246 million "Faraday Challenge", aiming to boost UK expertise in battery technology.
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Samsung is targeting a 25% share of the foundry market by 2022, E.S.Jung, head of Samsung’s foundry business, told Reuters today.Currently Samsung holds a 7.9% foundry share. TSMC has over 50% share, GloFo 9.6% and UMC 8.1%. Samsung is betting on an early move to 7nm process technology to help secure its foundry aspirations. It ...
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The State Council of the People’s Republic of China has set the gosl of having a $150 billion AI industry by 2030. The State Council’s plan says that, by 2020, China p’s AI industry technology should match the rest of the world, and that by 2025, China should achieve “major breakthroughs” in the technology. By ...
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Business leaders put post-Brexit trade arrangements as their top priority in a survey by MarketInvoice. The top priority (58%) for UK business leaders as part of the Brexit negotiations is to have the right trade arrangements with the EU to ensure a stable trading environment. This is three times more important than having access to ...
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Trillium, the automotive cybersecurity specialist, has launched SecureSKYE, a data mining and analytics solution for cars. SecureSKYE creates a dynamically updated profile of the car and its driver. By utilising the platform’s data-mining and analytics capabilities, ‘safety-and-security’ applications and services such as geolocation-based emergency services, insurance tech solutions including ‘Usage-Based Insurance,’ ‘CyberSecurity-as-a-Service,’ ‘Forensics-as-a-Service’ and even ...
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Fujitsu Labs announced earlier today the development of a GaN HEMT power amplifier for use in W-band (75-110 GHz) transmissions. To realize long-distance, high-capacity wireless communications, a promising approach is to utilize the W-band and other high frequency bands that encompass a broad range of usable frequencies, and increase output with a transmission power amplifier. ...
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Poland has worked diligently over the past decade to become an entrepreneurial powerhouse. Once home to businesses focused primarily on app design and outsourcing, social, societal, and economic pressures forced the country’s brightest to start building for themselves. And they did. I’ve covered Polish startups for almost a decade, first on TechCrunch and then on a new blog I… Read More
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If you’re wondering how Steven Spielberg will bring the dystopian, VR-heavy world of Ready Player One to life, you can get your first real glimpse in the trailer (technically, a teaser for San Diego Comic Con) above. The film is based on Ernest Cline’s novel — a book that’s been recommend to me many times as one of the best depictions of virtual reality and gaming… Read More
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