Today, Toshiba starts sampling a 64-layer 3D NAND memory. The Chip has 3-bit-per-cell technology and has a 256Gbit (32GB) capacity. next on the development roadmap is a 512Gbit (64GB) device, also with 64 layers. The new device succeeds the 48-layer BiCS FLASH, and delivers a 40% larger capacity per unit chip size than 48-layer stacking …
Even reputable companies can have IoT security flaws
Security company Rapid7 has found multiple security flaws in Osram’s Lightify remote-controlled lighting system. “Practical exploitation effects ranging from the accidental disclosure of sensitive network configuration information, to persistent cross-site scripting [XSS] on the web management console, to operational command execution on the devices themselves without authentication,” said Rapid7, whose lead researcher Deral Heiland discovered the …
ST expects strong Q3
ST had Q2 revenues of $1.7 billion up from $1.6 billion in Q1 but down from the $1.76 billion of Q2 2015. There was an operating profit of $28 million compared to Q1’s loss of $33 million. Auto and discretes had revenues of $721 million up 7.5% on Q1; analogue snd MEMS did $376 million …
ADI to buy LTC for $14.8bn
Analog Devices (ADI) is to buy Linear Technology for about $14.8 billion. “Growth has been hard to come by in the industry over the past several years,” said ADI CEO Vincent Roche, ‘those who have the balance sheets are using them.” 58 million new ADI shares will be created and $7.3 billion borrowed to pay …
China Chip Frustration Growing
Over the past 20 years, China has become increasingly frustrated over the gap between its IC imports and indigenous IC production, says IC Insights. China’s imports of semiconductors exceeds that of oil. In the late 1990s China began to contemplate ways to grow its indigenous IC industry and assisted in creating Hua Hong NEC, which …
First low temperature tantalum deposition with fab-level accuracy
Tantalum metal has been deposited with sub-nanometer control for the first time at low temperature without plasma by Wayne State University scientists Kyle Blakeney and Professor Charles Winter “This opens up the prospect of using tantalum in layers just a few nanometers thick as the liner for interconnect wiring in the complex geometries of next-generation electronic chips,” …
First low temperature tantalum deposition with fab-level accuracy
Medical dc-dc converter drives IGBT and SiC mosfet gates
Murata has announced the MGJ1 1Watt dc-dc converter series for driving high and low-side IGBTs and SiC mosfet gate circuits. With isolation up to 5.2kVdc, output combinations include: +15/-5, +15/-9 or +19/-5V. Input choice is +5, 12 or 24Vdc. “The MGJ1 provides optimised voltages for powering gate drives for best system performance and efficiency. …
Loon or Drone?
Which comes first – the drone or the loon? It looks like Google’s Project Loon will bring the internet to the internet-deprived before Facebook’s Project Aquila, but there’s many a slip ‘txixt cup and lip. Loon, of course, uses balloons and Aquila uses drones. Loon kicked off its service in New Zealand three years ago …
DOE publishes Snapshot report on LED tubes
The US Department of Energy has released a new Caliper Snapshot report on linear LED tubes intended as fluorescent replacements and such lamps now represent the majority of all lamps listed in the Lighting Facts database.
Osram sells LEDvance SSL business to Chinese trio including MLS
IDG Capital Partners, MLS, and Yiwu State-Owned Assets Operation Center pay EUR 400 million for the LEDvance lamps and lighting business that had recently been carved-out from its Osram parent.