Celebrating the 20th anniversary of its announcement of spin torque MRAM, IBM has outlined how it believes the technique can be used at process technology nodes of 11nm.The 1996 paper published by John Slonczewski was updated in 2011 by Dr Daniel Worledge and colleagues, who outlined a technique to produce MRAM with manufacturing line widths of...

The independent provider of embedded software development training and ARM training partner, Feabhas, has become a founder member of the IoT Security Foundation.Niall Cooling, CEO at Feabhas, said: “Many of today’s deeply embedded systems are now connected to other devices. While this brings some great benefits such as enhanced func...

Described as an important step towards graphene integration in silicon photonics, researchers from the Graphene Flagship have shown how graphene can enable silicon photodetection in the telecommunication wavelengths.According to the team, silicon based photodetectors currently used in optical communications do not perform well in the near infra...

Researchers from KU Leuven, led by Ivo Stassen and Rob Ameloot, have built a sensitive electronic nose with metal-organic frameworks (MOFs) to detect pesticides and nerve gas in very low concentrations.The best-known electronic nose is the breathalyser. As drivers breathe into the device, a chemical sensor measures the amount of alcohol in thei...

Scientists at Hokkaido University have developed a device that employs both magnetic and electronic signals, which could provide twice the storage capacity of conventional memory devices, such as USB flash drives.The team at Hokkaido University's Research Institute for Electronic Science investigated the possibility of using a magnetic sign...

MIT researchers have developed low-cost chemical sensors, made from chemically altered carbon nanotubes (CNTs), that enable smartphones or other wireless devices to detect trace amounts of toxic gases.Using the sensors, the researchers hope to design lightweight, inexpensive radio-frequency identification (RFID) badges to be used for personal s...

German distributor, Conrad Business Supplies, has become the first “authorised distribution partner” to make available a compact all-in-one IoT prototyping platform.The XDK 110 is a cross-domain hardware and software kit developed by Bosch Connected Devices and Solutions. It includes various MEMS sensors for measuring acceleration,...

The latest RapidIO specification has been released by rapidio.org. The 25xN specification is said to provide an open standard interconnect fabric for those systems requiring heterogeneous coherent scale out and non volatile storage.“With the release of the 25xN 100Gbit/s RapidIO Specification, our focus now shifts toward our Coherent Scal...

A nine axis motion sensor from Bosch Sensortec is said to be suited to applications ranging from smartphones and smart watches to wearable electronics. According to the company, the 2.5 x 3 x 0.95mm package is the smallest of any similar device.The electronic integrates accelerometer, gyroscope and geomagnetic sensor technologies, while meeting...

In theory, a program running on a 64 core machine, should execute 64 times as quickly as it would on a single core machine. But, according to a team from MIT, it rarely works out that way. Most computer programs are sequential, and splitting them up so that chunks can run in parallel can result in complications.Researchers from MIT’s Comp...