Archive : 2015 год

So far this year, semiconductor companies have spent around $85billion on acquiring other companies, something which Wally Rhines – Mentor Graphics’ chairman and CEO – notes is ‘dramatically more than in previous years’.Included in the $85bn are three record breaking deals: Intel’s acquisition of Altera; NXP&...

Qualcomm Technologies has demonstrated a Server Development Platform (SDP), which the company says is sampling to Tier 1 data centres. The system includes a pre production version of 24 core SoC based on the ARMv8-A instruction set.“The release of our evaluation system is a major milestone for Qualcomm Technologies. As data centres evolve...

An £11million research programme to develop fully autonomous cars, ‘Towards Autonomy - Smart and Connected Control’, is being jointly funded by the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC) and Jaguar Land Rover (JLR).The research, which will take place at ten UK universities and the Transport Research Laborat...

A team of Australian engineers at the University of New South Wales (UNSW), in Sydney, has taken the first step towards making quantum computers a reality by building a quantum logic gate in silicon for the first time.“What we have is a game changer,” said team leader Andrew Dzurak, Scientia Professor and director of the Australian...

A professor of theoretical physics and condensed matter theory from Caltech has suggested that a new type of quasiparticle could help improve the efficiency of photonic devices.While electrons travelling through semiconductors lose energy via heat because of resistance, a similar effect can be seen with light transmission, caused by factors suc...

The Centre of Process Innovation (CPI) has announced that it has joined a UK based collaboration called ‘Gravia’, to develop the next generation of ultra-barrier materials using graphene for the production of flexible transparent plastic electronic based displays for the next generation of smartphones, tablets and wearable electronics....

A research team, including scientists from the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), has developed a straightforward method to create magnetic skyrmions under ambient room conditions. The achievement brings skyrmions a step closer for use in data storage and could be the basis for a new type of computer memory that never loses the...

Renesas Electronics has announced the ADAS Surround View Kit. An extension of the ADAS Starter Kit, the Surround View Kit is said to simplify and accelerate the development of surround view applications when combined with the Starter Kit.The ADAS Surround View Kit combines automotive cameras from Integrated Micro-electronics and multiple high-s...

Skyworks Solutions is to acquire PMC-Sierra in a $2billion cash deal. According to Skyworks, the deal enhances its position as a diversified analogue, RF and mixed signal semiconductor provider.“With our acquisition of PMC, Skyworks will be [well] positioned to capitalise on the explosive demand for high performance solutions that seamles...

Sony has announced plans to split its devices business into three new companies, addressing semiconductors, batteries and storage solutions. The three units will all report to Sony’s executive deputy president and corporate executive officer Tomoyuki Suzuki. The move is intended to improve accountability and to allow the new companies to reac...