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The peace of Europe has held for 71 years and NATO has to be thanked for that. Would a European army not subject to democratic control be a better guarantor of peace? This is the proposition of Jean-Claude Juncker who may well be thinking, like Mao, that “political power grows out of the barrel of …
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SEMI’s August book-to-bill ratio was 1.03. August bookings were $1.75 billion – down 2.3% on July’s $1.80 billion, and is 5% higher than the August 2015 level of $1.67 billion. August billings Were $1.71 billion – the same as July’s and 8.4% higher than the August 2015 level of $1.58 billion. “The book-to-bill ratio has …
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Imec researcher Kris Myny has been awarded a €1.5 million ERC Starting Grant to engineer a breakthrough in thin-film transistor technology for creating large-area, flexible circuits. Specifically, he wants to introduce design innovations of unipolar n-type transistor circuits based on amorphous Indium-Gallium-Zinc-Oxide (a-IGZO) as semiconductor. These are currently acknowledged as the most promising transistors for …
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Asia-Pac is expected to account for 61% of the $282 billion IC market this year, says IC Insights. Last year the Asia-Pac share was 60.5% in 2014 it was 58.4%!and in 2013 it was 57.7%. In automotive ICs, IC Insights expects Asia-Pac to overtake Europe for the first time as China’s car output ramps up. …
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By Steve Bush
Thanks to Trusted Reviews for this one. If LG’s FH4A8FDH2N washer/dryer has not got enough built in cleaning programmes, you can download more. Amazing. It looks like the downloadable programmes are via NFC and a phone. Says LG: Tag On lets users download new wash programs to a smartphone, such as Wool, Baby Care or Cold …
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Taiwanese e-paper display manufacturer Pervasive Displays has developed an e-paper display drive technology that dramatically reduces power consumption by only refreshing selected pixels and not the whole display. Instead of updating the entire display image when part of it changes, this partial update only refreshes the pixels that need to be changed. A partial update …
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Innovate UK is to invest up to £4m in new projects that help to speed up the use of compound semiconductors.
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By Steve Bush
Scientists have seen inside avalanches for the first time, using a novel radar created by University College London which can reach where optical techniques fail “By penetrating the powder cloud, you can observe the nature and direction of the flow of the 90% of snow that otherwise remains invisible,” said project leader Professor Paul Brennan of …
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By Steve Bush
Cree’s lighting division has created a range of high-end high-efficiency LED replacements for incandescent light bulbs. The 100W replacement, for example, achieves a highly creditable 100 lm/W – delivering 1,650 lm from 16.5W. What makes this remarkable this is the 2,700K (warm) white version, with a CRI of 85, and the bulb is dimmable – …
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Q: What, in 1938, was Buckminster Fuller describing here? “A self-balancing, 28-jointed adapter-base biped; an electro-chemical reduction-plant, integral with segregated stowages of special energy extracts in storage batteries Jor subsequent actuation of thousands of hydraulic and pneumatic pumps, with motors attached; 62,000 miles of capillaries; millions of warning signal, railroad and conveyor systems; crushers and …
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