Thanks to the IMF for this one – the top ten countries for GDP per person: Luxembourg Norway Ireland Holland Austria Germany Denmark Belgium France UK

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Five companies will have 41% market share this year, says IC Insights, up from the 32% share held by the top five companies in 2006. The change follows the M&A activity in 2015 and 2016. The five are: Intel, Samsung, Qualcomm, Broadcom, and Hynix. — will account for 41% marketshare in 2016 (Figure 1). The …

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Leti has demonstrated that memristive devices can emulate synaptic plasticity, the capability of synapses to enhance or diminish their connectivity between neurons, which is widely believed to be the cellular basis for learning and memory. Neural systems exhibit various types and time periods of plasticity, e.g. synaptic modifications can last anywhere from seconds to days …

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Imec has developed a 8nm p-MTJ device with 100% tunnel magnetoresistance (TMR) and coercive field as high 1500Oe. This enables the establishment of a manufacturing process for high-density spin-transfer-torque magnetic random access memory (STT-MRAM) arrays that meet the requirements of the 10nm and beyond logic node for embedded non-volatile memory applications. It also paves the …

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New airport security screening technology using millimetre waves have to potential to improve threat detection without using body images which invade personal privacy, writes Dr. Sherif Sayed Ahmed Long airport security queues are not fun for anyone involved. Waiting times can be stressful for travellers, who would rather be relaxing airside. The security staff themselves …

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We talk to Jesse Lozano, CEO and co-founder of pi-top, about establishing yourself as a tech-startup, crowd-funding, future directions for pi-top, the Raspberry Pi and the topic of Brexit…

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If you can’t beat ’em join ’em. After a series of rebuffs in its attempts to buy Taiwanese technology companies, Tsinghua is to set up a $7 billion ‘Cross-Straits’ fund to try and promote co-operation between Taiwanese and mainland China companies. “Taiwan should not be afraid of the capital from the mainland, instead, the mainland’s …

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HiSilicon has taken a license for UltraSoC’s IP for system monitoring, analysis and optimisation. UltraSoC’s IP provides an independent system-level architecture that enables non-intrusive, wire-speed monitoring of the internal behavior of a system-on-chip (SoC). It accelerates and de-risks development by giving engineers an intimate understanding of the complex interactions between on-chip sub-systems, buses and software. …

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Wearables has boiled down to fitness bands and Apple’s watch is falling fast into oblivion. You don’t often see Apple gear marked down but this year’s Black Friday sales saw the iWatch discounted. Not surprising, perhaps, because unit shipments fell 71% between Q3 2015 and Q3 2016, according to IDC. Q316 iWatch units were 1.1 …

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CGCEL will be Gooee’s IoT launch partner in India.