The costs, estimated at more than $985,000, will be covered by the federal Gas Tax Fund and Quebec’s contribution.

One of my mates from my business days – a slightly shady mate – has asked me to help with his Initial Coin Offering, Ed confides to his diary. He’s launching a crypto-currency which is supposed to be used to buy provisions and shelter for dispossessed people – migrants, refugees, victims of natural disasters etc. …

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Intel will take last orders for its WiGig line in September and make final shipments in December. The technology has never taken off in mobile devices, possibly because of its short range – about 30 foot -.and requirement for line-of-sight for connectivity. The signal can’t go through walls. Intel will still develop 60GHz 802.11ad parts which …

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IQE of Cardiff could be a big benefactor of  tomorrow’s iPhone launch as it is expected to be revealed as the supplier of wafers for the phone’s 3D sensors. The sensors require VCSELs and IQE has an 80% market share for wafers used to make VCSELs. The sensors in the new phone are said to …

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Samsung says it is adding 11nm processes to its foundry offering. There is a vanilla 11nm Finfet process and a a low power 11LPP flavour  which claims to deliver  15% better performsnce and 10% more density than 14LPP. Samsung says it has has completed “a comprehensive process roadmap spanning from 14nm to 11nm, 10nm, 8nm, …

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The last two standing in the Toshiba saga are squaring up to eachother with revised bids. In the blue corner is an expanded Bain/Hynix consortium which has upped its bid to $23 billion of which around $3 billion is for investment in the business. The total 20.9 billion Yen price will be split: 567.5 billion yen …

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TSMC had revenues of NT92 billion (US$3 billion) for August 2017, up 28.4% on July and down 2.5% on August 2016. Revenues for January through August 2017 totaled NT$611.30 billion (US $20.4 billion)  an increase of 2.6% compared to the same period in 2016.  

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Xilinx, Arm, Cadence Design Systems and TSMC  are collaborating on a  Cache Coherent Interconnect for Accelerators (CCIX) test chip in TSMC 7nm FinFET process technology for delivery in 2018. The test chip aims to provide a silicon proof point to demonstrate the capabilities of CCIX in enabling multi-core high-performance Arm CPUs working via a coherent …

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I want to introduce the EZ Connectors that are very simple to install. They are connectors that do not require the centre pin to be soldered.

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Following on the heels of the Arduino book giveaway (now closed) and the STMicroelectronics IoT kit compo (still open), here comes a great chance to win a scope from test and measurement specialists Keysight Technologies.

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