The agreement is a follow up to successful collaborations between the University of Chicago (UC) and BGU. 

New facility eliminates 6,137 tons of carbon and saves city nearly $190,000 in electricity costs annually.

My TomTom GPS is pretty darn good at navigating, once it has turned on. It is a Start 25, and it makes a good estimate of arrival time, even on journeys of hundreds of miles, and gives good warnings of junctions. But it is rubbish because it is let down by very poor power management, …

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Silicon Labs is sampling a family of  multi-channel jitter attenuating clocks for 4.5G and Ethernet-based Common Public Radio Interface (eCPRI) wireless applications. The Si5381/82/86 clocks  use the company’s DSPLL technology to deliver a timing solution that combines 4G/LTE and Ethernet clocking in a single IC. The clocks eliminate the need for multiple clock devices and …

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Xilinx has joined the Linaro open source collaborative engineering organization developing software for the Arm ecosystem. Xilinx has joined the Linaro IoT and Embedded (LITE) Segment Group. LITE members work collaboratively in Linaro on reducing fragmentation in operating systems, middleware and cloud connectivity solutions, and delivering open source device reference platforms to enable faster time to …

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The semiconductor market is on pace to grow 18.5% this years says Bill Jewell’s Semiconductor Intelligence. WSTS statistics show Q2 revenues were 5.8% from 1Q 2017 and up 23.7% from a year ago. Memory is driving the market, as shown by  the quarter-to-quarter revenue change of the major memory companies. Samsung revenues (in Korean won) were …

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Samsung has taped out a 28nm FD-SOI MRAM and is preparing to use eMRAM as a core for SoCs. The technology was developed with IBM and Infineon and its first use will be in an NXP i.MX processor. Volume production is scheduled for 2018. Samsung is catching up with Everspin whose MRAM is made by …

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Imec has develops fine-pixel photolithography for manufacturing ultra-high resolution OLEDs.

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Toshiba is sampling its 10TB MG06 Series Enterprise Capacity HDD s. The 10TB drives have maximum sustained transfer rate of 237MiB/s and an MTTF of 2.5M hours. The drive provides a SATA 6Gbit/s interface and 7,200 rpm performance. It supports emulated 512 Advanced Format (512e) technology for compatibility with legacy applications and operating environments; or …

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Western Digital responds to Toshiba’s announced intention to sell its memory business.

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