China is talking to Abu Dhabi about buying GloFo, reports Digitimes. China’s Hua Capital Management fund which manages China’s National Integrated Circuit Industry Investment Fund is talking to GloFo’s owner, the Advanced Technology Investment Corp (ATIC) of Abu Dhabi, about buying GloFo. China recently allocated $19 billion towards beefing up the country’s foundry industry whose best domestic process is 28nm ...

It’s the emulation of 48 million of artificial nerve cells in “neuromorphic” chips. Just don’t call it Rat Brain!

Hard on the heels of its report that interest in home IoT fell off a cliff in the first half of the year, Argus Insights, has produced a report saying wearables are also taking a dive. “The rate of wearable demand is slowing post Holiday 2014,” says Argus. Fitbit still leads the consumables market but, says Argus, ‘the majority of ...

An interesting one to record – Google has released Android Auto Desktop Head Unit (DHU), a way to test Android auto apps. The idea is that the DHU software enables your desktop or workstation act as an Android Auto head unit, emulating the in-car experience for testing purposes. You will need an Android phone running Lollipop or later, with the ...

45 years ago The Prince of Wales met Akio Morita at the British Embassy in Tokyo. He asked Morita if, were Sony ever to build a factory in Europe, he would “remember my Wales.” The boss of Sony UK, Hiroshi Okochi, was, in fact, already scouting around for a UK site for a factory. Without being told anything about Morita’s ...

Melexis has an elevated current version of its MLX91208 series of programmable Hall-effect current sensors. Optimised for the very high fields of hybrid and electric vehicle (HEV) applications, the MLX91208CAV can cope with up to 1000A of primary current. This device complements the existing MLX91208 products which cover low field and high field functions. Thanks to the proprietary integrated magnetic ...

The increasing use of wireless handsets to operate smart TVs and set top boxes is changing the way products are being tested by suppliers. Set-top box test system supplier RedRat says it is developing a new RF-based test suite in response to the growing use of wireless systems. RedRat said ZigBee/RF4CE and Bluetooth Low Energy (BLE) are the most important ...

Civil service employees in science research say decline in government-funded science affects whole economy, according to a survey by the Prospect union. The survey found that 81% of civil servants, three-quarters of those in other public bodies, and 45% of those in the private sector stated that “cuts in public funding have affected R&D across the economy over the last ...

Precision cables for testing millimetre-wave systems for 5G research are available from China-based laboratory device company Nanjing Arance Electronics through its UK representative, Aspen Electronics. The low-loss precision test cables are designed for good VSWR and phase/flexure stability up to 67GHz. They are suitable to be used in 5G research labs with high frequency microwave vector network analysers. Research work ...

AVX has brought out thin film chip capacitors for implantable medical devices. Delivering extremely tight capacitive tolerances, repeatable performance, low ESR and high Q at high frequencies – including VHF, UHF, and RF bands – AVX’s Accu-P MP Series capacitors are stable with respect to temperature, time, frequency, and voltage variation. They are based on thin film technology and materials, and subjected ...