Microarchitectural improvements applied in ARM's Cortex-A72 core are said to increase efficiency such that it can deliver the same performance of a Cortex-A15 processor while consuming half the power on a 28nm process. And the company suggests the A72 will consume 75% less power when manufactured on 14/16nm FinFET nodes. In a blog post...

According to researchers from Georgia Tech Research Institute and Honeywell International, the development of quantum computers has been limited by the ability to increase the number of qubits. However, the team says it may have solved the problems by creating a way that allows more electrodes to be placed on a chip – and hence qubit densitie...

European semiconductor sales in March 2015 amounted to $2.954billion, an increase of 2.7% over February sales, according to the European Semiconductor Industry Association (ESIA). European semiconductor sales in March 2015 amounted to $2.954billion, an increase of 2.7% over February sales, according to the European Semiconductor Industry A...

Xilinx has released the Vivado Design Suite 2015.1, said to include major productivity advances. Included in the release are: the Vivado Lab Edition; accelerated Vivado Simulator and third party simulation flows; interactive clock domain crossing analysis; and advanced system performance analysis with the Xilinx Software Development Kit.The Viv...

Laser-generated microplasma in air can be used as a source of broadband terahertz radiation, researchers at the University of Rochester's Institute of Optics have shown.PhD student Fabrizio Buccheri demonstrated that an approach for generating terahertz waves using intense laser pulses in air can be done with much lower power lasers than pr...

Sales of International Rectifier products and growing demand for chip card and security products have boosted Infineon's performance in the second quarter of its 2015 financial year.Sales of International Rectifier products and growing demand for chip card and security products have boosted Infineon's performance in the second quarter o...

Researchers at the University of Rochester in the US have shown that defects on an atomically thin semiconductor can produce single photons and say the approach could find application in integrated photonics.In a paper, the Rochester researchers describe how tungsten diselenide can serve as a platform for solid state quantum dots that do not in...

Looking to expand from its automotive business, Tesla has produced the Powerwall, a lithium-ion battery that can store energy for load shifting, backup power and self-consumption of solar power generation.Tesla Energy is attempting to move consumers away from fossil fuels to a sustainable energy future enabling homes, business, and utilities to...

While there has been significant activity in developing technology that might enable the creation of a quantum computer, there has been less activity in the development of an operating system that might control what that computer does.While there has been significant activity in developing technology that might enable the creation of a quantum...

Although its Nucleus real time operating system is installed in more than 3billion devices, Mentor Graphics has expanded it to address the power consumption, multicore and IoT requirements of wearable devices.The Mentor Embedded Nucleus RTOS framework is said to include a range of features targeting next generation wearable IoT devices for the...