Worldwide sales of new semiconductor manufacturing equipment will increase 8.7% to $39.7 billion in 2016, according to SEMI.

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Leti has a device which enables consumer brain-scanning. Normally the province of hospitals, it could now be put into the hands of consumers.

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Imec and the Holst Centre develop a miniaturized sensor that determines pH and chloride levels in fluid.

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Flex Logix, the two and a half year-old start-up specialising in embedded FPGA cores, completes the design of an IP core for TSMC 16FF+ and 16FFC.

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Tech CEOs are living in fear of new ‘non-tech’ competitors. An interesting piece of pre-Christmas research seems to indicate that companies are still not that good at identifying the technologies that will have the largest impact on their business. According to business analyst KPMG, fewer than one-third of senior executives in technology companies believe they …

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Adding a Wi-Fi interface to your IoT sensor node does not have to be a big deal, writes Tim Bonnett of Alpha Micro Components.

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At the recent NIDays in London it was interesting to see Lego exhibiting. They were promoting the IET-backed First Lego League (FFL).

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Russian scientists have let two electrons loose in a system of quantum dots to create a quantum computer memory cell of a higher dimension than a quantum bit.

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It looks as though the Lattice-China deal is going to get the bum’s rush from the US government. Last week a group of US legislators wrote to the US Committee on Foreign Investment in the US, suggesting that they block the deal. One of the legislators, Congressman Mo Brooks of Alabama, said: “In an alarming …

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Globalfoundries says it has demonstrated 56Gbit/s SerDes performance in silicon on the semiconductor foundry’s 14nm FinFET process. This makes it able to fabricate Asics which will meet the emerging 50Gbit/s industry standards such as OIF CEI-56G-LR and IEEE 802.3cd. The SerDes core, designated FX-14, supports both PAM4 and NRZ signaling, with the capability to equalise over 35dB of …

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