Russian scientists have measured magnetoresistance oscillations and the quantum Hall effect in InAs heterostructures, and are predicting potential 200GHz operation from the material. The material tested was n-In0.85Ga0.18As/In0.82Al0.82As, specifically grown for its high indium content to increase carrier speed. “Generally speaking, structures with quantum wells and high InAs content have already demonstrated excellent results in microwave …

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Assuming no substantial rise in the volume of imports US from Japan, America’s major competitor for US markets, the US electronics industry should break through the 10 billion dollar (£2,800 million) level of total business in 1961. This was stated by Mr. L. Berkley David, president of the US Electronic Industries Association at a recent …

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Both alliances are aimed at indoor positioning — one for retail stores, the other for healthcare settings.

I can tell you it’s a darn nasty feeling when the PM fixes you with those hawkish eyes across the Cabinet table and demands: “What are you doing about it?” Especially when there’s damn all you can do it about it, Ed confides to his diary. It was, of course, this Big-Tech data leak thing. …

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Microsemi’s  Switchtec PCIe Gen 4 development platform is now available allowing customers to  begin PCIe Gen 4 system hardware designs based on the company’s PCIe Gen 4 switch. PCIe Gen 4 aims to find adoption in  datacentre and ADAS equipment using GPUs, CPUs, NVMe, SSDs, NICs storage controllers, automotive cameras and Infotainment. Applications such as artificial …

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SEMI reports February billings of $2.41 billion – up 1.7% up on January and up 22.2% on Fenbrusry 2017. “February billings remain at a level indicating another positive year for semiconductor equipment spending,” said Ajit Manocha, president and CEO of SEMI. “We expect 2018 to mark the fourth consecutive year of spending growth, which last …

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The EU has fined seven companies a collective €254 million for running a capacitor cartel. The seven are: Nippon Chemi-Con Corp, Hitachi Chemical, Nichicon, Rubycon, Elna, Tokin and Matsuo Electric. An eighth member of the cartel, Sanyo Electric, was not fined because it acted as whistleblower reporting the cartel’s wrongdoings to the EU. The EU …

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On June 2nd 1970 a Bell Labs chemist arrived at his desk to find a note reading; ‘CW definite at 24°C’. Although the semiconductor laser had been invented in 1962, this was the first time that a continuous wave at room temperature had been achieved, so making the invention potentially useful. Bell Labs had other …

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Taiwanese LED and lighting maker Ledtech is to open a production line in Redruth Cornwall to support medium quantity manufacture in the UK and Europe. High-volume production remains in Taiwan and its recently-opened giant facility in China. “The addition of a direct facility adds a range of value-added manufacturing services, design-in support, volume availability and …

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You can now use the Docker shm-size and tmpfs parameters in Amazon Elastic Container Service (Amazon ECS) task definitions.