Scientists at the University of Twente's MESA+ research institute have developed a manufacturing method to create 3D nanostructures. This discovery is claimed to make it possible to produce chips with additional functions for mobile devices, computers and other applications.The conventional method for manufacturing 3D nanostructures consist...

As a result of an Asia-Pacific franchise agreement with ARM, element14 claims to have become the largest global distributor of ARM development tools, software, evaluation boards and debug hardware. The agreement also extends an existing Americas and EMEA franchise agreement between the two companies.Robin Colman, global head of software busines...

In a move that enables chip companies to emulate designs with up to 9billion gates, Cadence Design Systems has unveiled the Palladium Z1 enterprise emulation platform. The device, described as the industry’s first datacentre class emulation system, is said to be capable of delivering up to 5x greater emulation throughput than its predecessor....

Two power and cost optimised communication processors from CEVA have been designed to address the growing demand for multimode connectivity solutions for Internet of Things and M2M applications.The CEVA-XC5 and CEVA-XC8 DSP vector processors are the smallest and most power-efficient members of the CEVA-XC architecture, supporting a range of eme...

According to scientists from the University of Lancaster and spin out company Quantum Base, current authentication solutions, such as anti-counterfeit tags or password-protection, base their security on replication difficulty, or secrecy, which can be broken or forged. Looking to solve this problem, the team is using nanomaterials to create an unbr...

Huawei has unveiled a range of quick charging lithium-ion batteries that have achieved a charging speed 10 times faster than that of normal batteries, reaching around 50% capacity in minutes.Two demonstrations were shown at the 56th Battery Symposium in Japan showing two types of quick-charging li-ion batteries: one with a 600mAh capacity was s...

Jennova has introduced an Electrodynamic Energy Harvesting (EH) technology designed to simplify the capture and amplify the energy produced from the rotation or spin of devices and to power smart sensors and IoT applications.“Jennova has worked to create a technology that is virtually error-free and harvest the energy that is typically lo...

AppliedMicro has announced third generation of X-Gene, its so called Server on a Chip. Called X-Gene 3, the device is targeted at TSMC’s 16nm FinFET process and will feature 32 ARM v8 cores operating at up to 3GHz, eight DDR4-2667 memory channels and 42 PCIe Gen 3 lanes. According to the company, the device is expected to be offer four to six...

PEZY Computing has announced it is working on a MIPS64-based PEZY-SC2 family of many-core chips for supercomputers and HPC applications that will scale up to 4096 processing nodes.The 64-bit MIPS CPUs will act as the host processors for the system, making PEZY-SC2 the first generation of 64-bit HPC processors from the Japanese company.PEZY...

Researchers from RMIT University in Melbourne, led by Professor David Moss - director of RMITs MicroNano Research Facility, claim to have created photon pairs that fit on a computer chip. The team says the development could lead to the next-generation of integrated quantum optical technology, being compatible with current technology and secure comm...