Now operating as U.S. Submergent Technologies.

 

The French company is one of several companies left in the running after a second round of bidding.

 

Toshiba is sampling 64-layer 3-bit-per cell 512Gbit 3D NAND. Mass production is scheduled for H2. In April Toshiba plans to sample a  1Tbyte product which stacks 16 512Gbit die in a package. For the 512Gbit device, Toshiba deployed a 64-layer stacking process to realize a 65% larger capacity per unit chip size than the 48-layer 256Gbit …

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Taoglas has unveiled its series of modular 5G massive MIMO antenna arrays. The new antennas – including the 5-6GHz Adaptrix CMM200.A (pictured) – feature a patent-pending, modular interlocking system to help operators scale capacity – when more capacity or speed is needed at a location, another module is clipped to the side of the existing …

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Hydronium-ion batteries show promise for sustainable high-power energy storage, according to scientists at Oregon State University, which claims to have developed the world’s first battery to use only hydronium (H3O+) ions as the charge carrier. The hydronium ions are reversibly stored in an electrode made from the organic crystalline solid perylenetetracarboxylic dianhydridem (PTCDA). Dilute sulphuric acid is the electrolyte. …

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In a world of fake news, lying politicians and a biased mainstream media it is more and more important to be able to tell truth from falsehood. The only person we can trust is ourselves. The only judgment on which we can rely is our own judgment. Where there are few trustworthy sources of information …

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In an excerpt from his new book, The Internet of Risky Things, Professor Sean Smith considers what can happen When Things Betray Their Owners…

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This is what a machine learning algorithm looks like, according to Nigel Toon, CEO of Bristol start-up Graphcore. The false colour image has been created by the firm’s graph compiler software, which untangles neural networks as a prelude to executing them on Graphcore’s as-yet undisclosed hardware. “In software, we explode the full graph, with all …

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Why on earth would TSMC want to buy Toshiba’s chip business or a share in the business? That TSMC is among the bidders has been reported in the Nikkei. TSMC does not deny the report merely responding that it does not comment on market speculation. There is, of course, one outstanding reason why TSMC would …

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CEVA has introduced a communication DSP to meet the performance requirements of multi-gigabit class modems. The CEVA-XC12 aims to efficiently implement 5G, gigabit LTE, MU-MIMO Wi-Fi and other multi-gigabit modems. Already licensed to a leading wireless OEM, the CEVA-XC12 delivers up to 8x performance improvement and consumes 50% less power than its predecessor, the CEVA-XC4500, for …

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