A major breakthrough claimed by IBM Research could see carbon nanotubes replacing silicon transistors more quickly than previously expected. According to the scientists, they have shown a new way to shrink transistor contacts without reducing performance of carbon nanotube devices, potentially enabling faster, smaller and more powerful devices....

Gigaphoton Inc. has announced that it has successfully achieved 24-hour continuous operation of its EUV light source with average output power of 60W on its prototype laser-produced plasma (LPP) light sources, using operating patterns that simulate usage in a high-volume manufacturing (HVM) environment.This achievement represents a major step t...

Teledyne LeCroy and Anritsu Corporation have signed an agreement that Anritsu will become an authorised distributor of Teledyne LeCroy products in the UK and Ireland. Anritsu will also provide sales and support, including customer demonstrations and technical support.“Anritsu’s sales and support operations in the UK will provide Tel...

Freescale Semiconductor has announced that its analogue MC33907 and MC33908 system basis chips (SBCs) have received ISO 26262 functional safety assessments up to the ASIL D level from TÜV SÜD.“We have issued a technical report of functional safety to Freescale that qualifies the MC33907 and MC33908 analogue ICs for design capabi...

The European Telecommunications Standards Institute (ETSI) has published the first of a series of European Standards to support the European Regulation on electronic identification and trust services for electronic transactions in the internal market, or eIDAS. EN 319 403, developed by ETSI’s Electronic Signatures and Infrastructures (ESI) te...

Researchers in the Laboratoire d’analyse et d’architecture des systèmes (LAAS-CNRS) in Toulouse and the INRS in Quebec claim to have developed an electrode material that means electrochemical capacitors produce results similar to batteries, yet retain their particular advantages.With the development of on-board electronic sys...

Microsoft has announced the Microsoft Azure Certified for IoT programme, an ecosystem of partners whose offerings have been tested and certified so businesses can take their next IoT project from testing to production more quickly. Current partners include BeagleBone, Freescale Intel Corporation, Raspberry Pi, Resin.io, Seeed Technology, and Texas...

Plessey is to invest £60million to expand its LED manufacturing facility in Plymouth. The expansion will increase production capacity by a factor of 30, triple the workforce and put Plessey in a position to capture what it calls a ‘significant share’ of the growing market for solid state lighting market.Michael LeGoff, Plessey...

STMicroelectronics has licensed ARM’s 32bit ARMv8-R processor technology and will deploy it in 32bit MCUs targeting real time safety related smart driving applications, as well as in industrial applications.According to the company, the first implementations of the ARMv8-R processor will be in multicore devices for powertrain, safety and...

The full service foundry division of ams has added the H35 process to its platform. The 0.35µm high voltage CMOS process is said to offer voltage scalable transistors, allowing area and performance improvements.The transistors are optimised for drain-source voltage levels ranging from 20V to 100V, with significantly lower on-resistance. A...