A French-US team says it has improved the energy density of a rechargeable battery without increasing its size. According to the team, it achieved this by developing a 3D structure made of microtubes.The work started from the premise that intelligent connected microsensors require miniature embedded energy sources with great energy density. For...

In a move which is claimed to bring lower power consumption better area efficiency to memories, Kilopass has announced a Vertical Layered Thyristor (VLT) technology. Aimed at DRAM applications, VLT is said to eliminate the need for refresh and to be compatible with existing manufacturing technologies.“Kilopass built its reputation as the...

A team of scientists is said to have set a record by creating the world's smallest transistor with a 1nm gate using a pair of novel materials: carbon nanotubes and molybdenum disulphide. The combination belongs to a class of materials called transition metal dichalcogenides, or TMDs.Molybdenum disulphide, or MoS2, is an engine lubricant tha...

Intel has revealed that it is starting to sample its Stratix 10 FPGA, which uses the company’s 14nm tri-gate (finfet) process.“Stratix 10 combines the benefits of Intel’s 14nm tri-gate process technology with a revolutionary new architecture called HyperFlex, meeting the performance demands of high-end compute and data-intensi...

According to Rice University scientists, two-dimensional materials like graphene may be too flat and hard to stretch to serve in flexible, wearable devices. ‘Wavy’ borophene, an atom-thick layer of boron, might be better, they claim.The Rice group built computer simulations to analyse the properties of materials which showed that he...

NXP has announced the expansion of its family of automotive motor control MCUs and has introduced a portfolio of hardware, software and integrated motor control solutions designed to speed time to market, simplify system development and shorten design cycles. These additions are said to enable a fully functioning motor system to be up and runni...

A Dartmouth project called ‘DarkLight’ is said to have demonstrated for the first time how visible light can be used to transmit data even when the light appears dark or off. DarkLight is claimed to provide a new communication primitive similar to infrared communication but it exploits the LED lights already installed rather than ne...

Researchers from the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) have proposed a design for the first DNA sequencer based on an electronic nanosensor that can detect motions as small as a single atom.The proposed device – a capacitor which stores electric charge – is a ribbon of molybdenum disulfide suspended over a metal...

The Towards Ubiquitous Low-power Image Processing Platforms (TULIPP) project has been announced and will receive nearly €4million in funding from Horizon 2020. The initiative will target the development of high performance, energy efficient embedded systems for the growing range of image processing applications.“Image processing appl...

ARM has launched the third generation of its coherent backplane technology which it says has been optimised for next generation intelligent connected systems, including 5G networks and industrial systems.Between them, the CoreLink CMN-600 coherent mesh network and DMC-620 dynamic memory controller are said to improve data throughput by a factor...