GlobalFoundries has joined the 5G Lab alliance which has about 50 members including Vodafone, National Instruments, Nokia, Rohde & Schwarz, NEC, Claas, Ericsson and Deutsche Telekom.
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Fable: The Connectivity Revolution
Mass-radio created a domestic revolution in the 1920s. Homes, hitherto isolated from eachother bar a chat over the garden fence, became connected to the world which poured music, comedy, news and learning into them. Radio shrank the world by giving people a commonality of experience as a 1930s song-writer pointed out: Just think of those …
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Unruly material tamed for on-chip tuning capacitors
Barium strontium titanate (BST) has been deposited on-die to produce tuning capacitors. Previously, the high-k dielectric has always been too lossy to be of use, according to researchers at University of California, Santa Barbara. “The catch is that the deposition of complex oxides, such as barium strontium titanate, is problematic because of the high temperatures and …
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Imagination sells loss-making Pure
Imagination Technologies Group, owners of PowerVR-brand graphics processors and MIPS-brand microprocessors, is to sell its Pure digital radio business.
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3D printing on a grand scale
There have been bigger things printed, but few will be as tough as an excavator cab printed in carbon fibre. A student engineering team from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign won a design competition for the cab, and was on-hand to watched it being printed using carbon fibre-reinforced ABS (acrylonitrile butadiene styrene). The cab is …
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Brain-sensing allows monkey to type at 12 words per minute
A monkey has copied text from the New York Times and Hamlet at up to 12 words per minute via a brain interface, claims Stanford University. The researchers are Processor Krishna Shenoy and Dr Paul Nuyujukian. “Our results demonstrate that this interface may have great promise for use in people,” said Nuyujukian (pictured). “It enables a …
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Maxim enables Industry 4.0
Maxim Integrated aims to increase manufacturing productivity with the Pocket IO programmable logic controller (PLC) development platform. The platform aims to deliver the smallest form factor and highest power efficiency for next-generation PLC designs. Lost productivity is a common concern for Industry 4.0 designers challenged with keeping a manufacturing line running 24 hours a day, …
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Will Qualcomm Take The Bait?
Ever since early summer there have been stories that Qualcomm wants to diversify away from wireless chips. The wireless market is commoditising and China, the biggest wireless market, is getting keener on using locally-made chips. The most frequently quoted targets for a Qualcomm takeover were Xilinx and NXP. Most people dismissed the stories as Wall …
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Gooee lands loan from Silicon Valley Bank to polish up its IoT light engine
The smart lighting startup now has over 30 OEM customers, and hopes its technology will be ready by early 2017.
Philips Lighting reports LED lighting grows tastier tomatoes year round
APS Salads and Flavour Fresh Solfresh Group have completed year-long trials using solely LED-based horticultural lighting in a greenhouse environment to produce tomatoes throughout the year.