Archive : 2015 год

A team from the University of California, Berkeley, says it has discovered a new way to switch the polarisation of nanomagnets. The move is said to pave the way for high density storage to move from hard disks onto integrated circuits.The team, led by Sayeef Salahuddin, has found that a slight tilt of the magnets makes them easy to switch witho...

Ionix Advanced Technologies has closed a £2million funding round, with backing from IP Group, ParkWalk and private sources. The cash will help the company to accelerate the commercialisation of a range of devices based on its high temperature piezoelectric materials.A spin-out from the University of Leeds, Ionix is targeting applications...

Graphene Flagship researchers have developed an optical fibre laser that can emits pulses just a few wavelengths of light in duration. The device, based on graphene, is thought to be suited to ultrafast spectroscopy and in surgical lasers."When engineering light to travel in ultrashort pulses, it is important to understand its wave nature,...

Toshiba has unveiled the latest generation of BiCS FLASH, its 3D stacked cell structure flash memory. The 256Gbit 48 layer device features triple level cell technology and will sample in September.Scott Nelson, senior vice president of Toshiba America Electronic Components' memory business unit said: "[This announcement is] significant...

Murata has announced a water-repellent monolithic ceramic capacitor developed by applying an innovative surface treatment.The miniaturisation of electronic devices, densely packed with components can cause an increase in the possibility of malfunctions influencing circuit operation due to ion migration.Ion migration may occur when voltage i...

Researchers from the Georgia Institute of Technology have developed a capacitor dielectric material, using a hybrid silica sol-gel material and a nanoscale self-assembled monolayer of octylphosphonic acid, which is claimed to provide electrical energy storage capacity rivalling that of batteries.The bilayer structure blocks the injection of ele...

Infineon Technologies has reported its results for the third quarter of the 2015 fiscal year. The results show that revenue grew by 7%, a rise of €103million to €1,586m at a margin of 15.4%. Infineon predicts a 1% growth for the final quarter and a 34% increase for the full year."Revenue, earnings and margin rose significantly in...

Maxim Integrated Products has collaborated with NVIDIA to enable the analogue blocks on automotive infotainment and ADAS for NVIDIA's DRIVE CX and PX platforms.To address concerns raised about the impact that interactive technologies will have on driver distraction, automakers have increased their focus on safety requirements within enterta...

ARM has acquired Israel-based Sansa Security, a provider of hardware security IP and software for advanced SoC components embedded in IoT and mobile devices. Terms have not yet been disclosed."Any connected device could be a target for a malicious attack so we must embed security at every potential attack point," said Mike Muller, cto...

Altium has announced the release of a major update to its TASKING compiler for TriCore/AURIX microcontrollers which power advanced automotive applications. This release supports the next generation of Infineon TriCore technologies and enables engineers to begin development on advanced automotive applications before the AURIX family line is released...