Globalfoundries announces the availability of PDKs for its 45nm RF SOI to support next mmWave beam forming applications in future 5G base stations and smartphones.
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Ultrahaptics teams up with HARMAN for automotive haptic-touch
Ultrahaptics, announces a collaboration with HARMAN to incorporate mid-air gesture haptic feedback technology into a range of infotainment and audio systems.
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Secure Systems Summit 2017 – Designing in security
Connecting millions of electronic devices is creating significant security risks, and designing in security from day one is becoming ever-more crucial.
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A Face In A Crowd
The next killer App will be holding up your phone to a face in a crowd and being told who it is. Would you object to that? Would you use that? Has your attitude to it changed in recent years? Back in 2012, when Facebook bought Israeli face recognition firm face.com, there was a widespread …
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Book review: Ladybird book of Quantum Mechanics
A friend brought me a neat book: Quantum Mechanics (A Ladybird Expert Book), written by physicist and broadcaster Jim Al-Khalili. While it is never going to teach you anything analytical, it will give you some about what the subject is, who the pioneers of quantum theory were, and how they interacted. I had no idea that …
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Ten Worst Tech Villains Of 2016
Here they are – The Top Ten Tech Villains Of 2016: Lithium-Ion Hackers Fake News Inflated Claims Mobile Network Connectivity Value-Destructive M&A Predatory China Decline In Blue-Skies R&D IPO Dearth Cost Of Scaling
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SEMI January billings up 52% y-o-y
SEMI reports January billings of $1.86 billion, 0.5% down on the December level of $1.87 billion, and 52.3% higher than the January 2016 billings level of $1.22 billion. “Global billings reported by the North American equipment makers begin the New Year at high levels,” says SEMI CEO Denny McGuirk, “we expect strong spending growth in …
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Ajit Manocha to head SEMI
Former GloFo boss Ajit Manocha is to succeed Denny McGuirk as CEO of SEMI on March 1st.
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CFIUS approves Renesas-Intersil merger
Companies receive notification from CFIUS that its investigation of the merger is complete and that there are no unresolved national security concerns.
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Opto drives GaN says Yole
Optoelectronics applications are expected to drive the bulk GaN substrate market from 2016 – 2022, says a report on Bulk GaN from Yole.
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