A 2D material made from mercury and tellurium is likely to not only feature the properties of graphene, but also to add qualities that graphene misses.Professor Cristiane Morais Smith from Utrecht University said: "If we succeed in synthesising it and the material exhibits the combination of exotic properties at room temperature that we pr...

Cadence Design Systems has introduced the Innovus Implementation System, said to allow SoC developers to improve power, performance and area (PPA), while reducing time to market. According to the company, Innovus can improve PPA by up to 20% at advanced process nodes and is '10nm ready'.Key features of the package include: &bul...

The performance of devices such as mobile phone cameras and solar cells could be boosted by 'nano earthquakes', according to researchers from Australia's RMIT University.The performance of devices such as mobile phone cameras and solar cells could be boosted by 'nano earthquakes', according to researchers from Australia'...

NXP is to acquire Freescale in a deal which values the latter at $17.6billion. The merged company will become the leading supplier of semiconductors to the automotive sector, the market leader in general purpose microcontrollers and the fourth largest semiconductor supplier, excluding memory companies."This is a transformative step in our...

Freescale used embedded world to launch the Kinetis KV5x MCU family, targeted at digital motor control. Geoff Lees, pictured, general manager of Freescale's MCU business, said: "The Cortex-M7 provides the opportunity for a significant step in performance. While the M4 core is already competent for motor control, M7 cores takes that further...

This year's embedded world in Nuremberg was dominated, as was to be expected, by the Internet of Things. But the show also saw a growing acceptance that security, as an issue, needed to be taken far more seriously.Robert Day, vp of sales and marketing, Lynx Software Technologies agreed. "There has certainly been a tendency for security...

Panasonic has licensed its normally-off GaN transistor structure to Infineon, which will supply the power switches in its SMD packages. The agreement will enable each company to manufacture GaN devices, with customers having two sources for compatible packaged GaN power products. Both will showcase samples of a 600V 70m? device in a dual small outl...

Intel has released the Xeon processor D family, its first SoC featuring the Xeon. Built on Intel's 14nm process technology, the D family is said to combine the performance and intelligence of Xeon processors with the size and power savings of an SoC."The growth of connected devices and demand for more digital services has created new o...

Bosch Sensortec has launched MEMS sensors with an integrated DSP. The devices, designed for use in Android based phones – are said to provide a low power solution to motion sensing and data processing."In modern smartphones, sensors are a key component and are often switched on all or most of the time for motion sensitive application...

Researchers at Arizona State University are exploring a new energy storage technology that could give lithium-ion batteries a longer life cycle. Led by Professor Dan Buttry, the work also involves University of Colorado at Boulder, Sandia National Laboratories, Boulder Ionics and Seoul National University.Prof Buttry is focusing the work on roo...