French research lab Leti has created what it claims is the world’s first gallium nitride WVGA (873 x 500) microdisplay with 10μm pixel pitch. “10μm pixel pitch technology will help address the demand for augmented-reality glasses for consumer and professional users, head-up displays for vehicle drivers and for pico projectors,” said the lab. Said to ...
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Globalfoundries and Chengdu town in China are putting $100 million into setting up an FD-SOI design centre. GloFo and Chengdu recently agreed to build a jv 300mm fab for 22nm FD-SOI (site pictured). They now plan to establish multiple centers focused on IP development, IC design and incubating fabless companies in Chengdu, with the expectation of hiring ...
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A US-based artificial intelligence (AI) firm is working with researchers in Germany to apply conversational and cognitive AI for autonomous systems for self-driving cars. Nuance Communications and Deutsches Forschungszentrum für Künstliche Intelligenz (DFKI), the German Research Centre for Artificial Intelligence have joint research initiatives, including the relationship between humans and in-car systems, as well as ...
Read full article: Driverless car study in Germany probes driver reaction times
Combining an oscilloscope, waveform generator and six other instruments, Moku:Lab comes from Australian firm Liquid Instruments. It has: Oscilloscope Waveform generator Spectrum analyser Phase meter Data logger Lock-in amplifier PID controller Bode analyser Control and display is through any iPad with a Retina display running the Moku:Lab app. “Moku:Lab app contains everything you need to manage ...
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Electrocomponents, the parent company of distributor RS Components, has posted strong growth in both sales and profits in full-year results published this morning.
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The EU Agency for Network and Information security – ENISA – together with ST, NXP and Infineon is proposing a similar system to the CE marking system to show a label if security is incorporated into electronic products. The paper focuses on four areas: standardisation and certification, security processes and services, security requirements and implementation, ...
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Avnet and Silego have signed an exclusive global distribution channel agreement. Avnet will be Silego’s only global distributor, serving as Silego’s sole demand creation distributor in the Americas and Europe and will bolster Silego’s current regional distributor network in Japan, Korea, Taiwan and China. Silego’s Configurable Mixed-signal ICs (CMICs), use nonvolatile memory to configure and integrate ...
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