Princeton creates silicon chips for transmitting and receiving THz signals: shrinking THz components involves re-imaging how an antenna functions.

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Imec, Rohm and Holst Centre showed off an all-digital PLL for IoT radio transceivers at the 2017 ISSCC.

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Electrode pore size has a significant effect on the durability of lithium sulphur (Li-S) batteries, according to Chinese researchers.

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Toshiba has started construction of a new fab,  Fab 6,  and an R&D center at Yokkaichi in Mie prefecture, Japan, the company’s main memory production base. Fab 6 will be dedicated to production of BiCS FLASH, Toshiba’s  3D Flash memory. Like Fab 5, construction will take place in two phases, allowing the pace of investment …

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ARM and HOPU Investments have set up a China VC fund. The HOPU-ARM Innovation Fund with investments from a leading Chinese sovereign wealth fund aims to invest in emerging technology companies and start-ups in China. In the past decade, the number of ARM-based chips shipped by Chinese partners has risen 114x and ARM now has …

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TI combines a modified chopper architecture with a proprietary input for an op-amp whose precision extends to common-mode signals anywhere within its power rails.

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There was once a long-serving managing director of a British electrical/electronic combine which made everything from nuclear power stations to consumer goods. The company’s consumer goods were not particularly well thought of, and the then editor of the Sunday Times put his investigatory Insight team onto finding out why toaster which the editor had bought …

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FTDI spin-out Bridgetek has raised support for its FT81x Embedded Video Engine (EVE) graphic controllers, by releasing Version 3 of the EVE Screen Designer.

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Predictions are as old and unreliable as the weather but we still persist in them, and one of the more often repeated attempts at prediction has been predicting the stock market. Hitachi brought out a neural net-based computer in the 80s for stock market prediction. It didn’t seem to get widely accepted and it didn’t seem …

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Boris Felgendreher looks at what the consumer electronics supply chain can learn from the world of fashion There are many interesting and surprising  similarities between the consumer electronics and fashion industries. Firstly, both face the problems of seasonality and an increasing pace of change.  Within apparel, the acceleration from two, to twenty collections per year …

Read full article: Fashion world and electronics are unlikely bed-fellows