As part of a major tariff restructure, changes to the price of water and power in Abu Dhabi are set to change again from the beginning of next year…

Vishay’s VCNL4100 is an IR proximity sensor that works up to 1m, and includes an ambient light sensor.

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Thermal PCB company Cambridge Nanotherm has introduced a Six Sigma PCB fabrication route with Elvia PCB Group. “Aimed at the most demanding and heavily regulated industries such as aerospace and automotive, applying the six sigma process ensures 99.99966% of all steps to produce a part are statistically free of defects. In other words, only 3.4 …

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The Imagine Blue Awards aim to highlight “the work and imaginations of creators, developers, designers, and students using Bluetooth technology”

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There was once a CEO of an ambitious semiconductor start-up company targeted on making microprocessors, DRAM, SRAM and E2PROM. The CEO was of the opinion that it was a particularly good time to start a chip company because the technology had finally stopped zig-zagging all over the place and it was now absolutely clear that …

Read full article: Fable: The CEO Who Thought NMOS Was here To Stay

The US National Institute of Standards and Technology comes up with a way to build durable gold wires onto flexible, thin plastic film.

Read full article: Pores stop gold wires cracking in membrane for medical wearables

With IoT devices and smart city data projects starting to be implemented, there is an urgent need for an IoT search engine, says the University of Surrey

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Having spent the past couple of days in Rome, closeted with Continentals for the European Nanoelectronics Forum, I realise something is missing – it’s the How part. How are they going to achieve all these good intentions? The intentions are splendid. Gunther Oettinger, European Commissioner for the Digital Economy and Society, told the Forum: “Digital …

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Scientists at the University of Sussex found a way to hold ion-based qubits without lasers. “Quantum computing on a small scale using trapped ions is carried out by aligning individual laser beams onto individual ions with each ion,” said the University. “However, a large-scale quantum computer would need billions of quantum bits, therefore billions of …

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By acquiring the Dutch company Innoluce, Infineon’s aim is to reduce the cost of Lidar so far that it can be widely deployed.

Read full article: Infineon acquisition aims at mass deployment of Lidar