Socionext develops an 8K/4K compatible media player equipped with the company’s 8K HEVC decoder chip.

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Imec makes a neural probe for the parallel recording of hundreds of neural signals.

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Q3 DRAM revenue hit a new high with a 16.2% sequential increase and expects a further 10% increase in Q4, reports DRAMeXchange Contract prices of various DRAM products jumped by about 5% on average in Q3 from Q2 on the back of the year-end busy season and limited bit supply growth. . “Most PC-OEMs have …

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SDRplay, the Wakefield software defined radio specialist, upgrades its RSP1 entry level SDR receiver

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A pill to treat schizophrenia containing a sensor that tracks whether the medication has been taken has won the approval of the US regulators.

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Green Hills Software is now offering its optimising C and C++ compilers for 32-bit and 64-bit embedded processor architectures, including ARM, Intel and Power Architecture. The Compiler 2017.5 also supports Renesas RH850, MIPS, ColdFire and TriCore embedded processor architectures. Features of the compliers include C/C++ functional safety certification, higher performance and greater compatibility with third-party tools. …

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BT’s mobile operator EE has demonstrated 2.8Gbit/s download speeds across an end-to-end 5G test network in its UK mobile lab. EE described this as an important breakthrough test in the work to deploy 5G networks  implementing 64×64 Massive MIMO active antenna unit broadcasting. Massive MIMO is believed to be crucial for successful deployment of 5G …

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Yangtze River Storage Technology (YMTC) – the Tsinghua Unigroup-owned memory initiative – says it has developed a 32-layer 3D NAND chip and intends to start production in Q2 2018 at a rate of 5K wpm, reports Digitimes. YMTC is China’s only 3D NAND player. China’s other memory start-ups – Fujian Jinhua Integrated Circuit teamed with …

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Samsung’s $26 billion in 2017 capex will be more than those of Intel and TSMC combined in  an investment splurge unprecedented in the industry’s history. After spending $11.3 billion in semiconductor capex last year, Samsung announced that its 2017 outlays for the semiconductor group are expected to more than double to $26 billion. Bill McClean, …

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Arrow Electronics has signed a distribution agreement covering the cabling products of Leoni in Europe, Middle East and Africa (EMEA). It is the first time that Leoni has worked with a global electronics distributor. Leoni supplies electrical and fibre optic cables and wiring systems. Applications supported include automotive, drive technology, factory automation, measurement equipment and …

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