ENGIE Refrigeration chillers are now offered by Industrial Water Cooling.

MIT is taking a close look at archer fish. Not for their famous trick of spitting water at insects to make them fall into the water, but for their ability to beat other fish to that falling food. So that it doesn’t miss its meal, the archer fish can jump out of the water and …

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Keysight Technologies has completed the $1.6bn acquisition of test and measurement business Ixia.

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MediaTek has teamed up with Here to integrate the positioning specialist’s technology into chipsets designed for the IoT.

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Personalised air transport is moving beyond the helicopter and the light aircraft with a jet-powered flying taxi from German start-up Lilium and a flying car from AeroMobil of Slovakia. Lilium has demonstrated a vertical take off jet powered vehicle. It can fly at 180 mph and has a range of 200 miles. It has 36 jet …

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Hybrid capacitors from Panasonic Automotive & Industrial Systems have been designed to combine the advantages of electrolytic capacitors with those of solid polymer capacitors. The supplier claims the use of hybrid technology offers low leakage current and long life in combination with low ESR (20mΩ) in miniature case sizes. The EEH-ZE series (Type V-ZE) hybrid …

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Groq could have the key to machine learning and AI – Silicon Valley’s top-priority foci. Groq is a start-up in stealth mode thought to be working on a TPU. It has raised $10.3 million. The company is formed from some of the Google people working on Google’s TPU – Tensor Processing Unit – which was …

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Making industrial networks in factories more secure to cyber attacks is the aim of a test system from Rohde & Schwarz. In-factory industrial control networks based on the Modbus comms protocols become much more vulnerable due to their increasing connection to the Internet. The protocol lacks built-in security measures, which makes it easy for cybercriminals …

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MIT proves that semiconductor epitaxy can be performed on a graphene-coated wafer, allowing the circuit or devices to be peeled off

Read full article: MIT graphene layer allows re-use of expensive wafers

Rambus’ 56G SerDes PHY is to be made on Samsung’s 10nm LPP process. The 56G SerDes PHY provides PAM-4 and NRZ signaling with a scalable ADC-based architecture. The architecture addresses the long-reach backplane requirements for the industry transition to 400 GB Ethernet applications. “Network application is one of our key segments of focus and the composition …

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