Keysight to Demonstrate Latest 5G, 802.11ad Design and Test Solutions at IEEE Globecom 2016
Keysight Technologies announced it will demonstrate a wide range of first-to-market design, test and characterization solutions at IEEE Globecom 2016, Washington D.C., Dec. 4 – 7. Keysight’s technical experts will demonstrate the following products, solutions and services: 5G Trial System Modeling and Validation; 28 GHz Wideband Multichannel DPD; Wideband Millimeter-Wave Testbed; 802...
Renesas Announces World’s First Fin-Shaped MONOS Flash Memory Cells for MCUs in 16/14nm
Renesas Electronics Corporation today announced its successful development of the world’s first split-gate metal-oxide nitride oxide silicon (SG-MONOS) flash memory cells employing transistors with fin-shape for use in microcontrollers (MCUs) with on-chip flash memory having a circuit linewidth of 16 to 14 nanometer (nm) or finer...
ITRI’s Fluid-Driven Emergency Lighting Wins Create the Future Design Contest
TAIPEI, Taiwan - Industrial Technology Research Institute of Taiwan (ITRI)’s “Fluid-Driven Emergency Lighting” won a prize in the United States National Aeronautics and Space Administration’s NASA Tech Brief magazine’s “Create the Future Design Contest 2016” in the Sustainable Technologies Category...
Imec Demonstrates World’s First Vertically Stacked Gate-all-Around Si Nanowire CMOS Transistors
At IEEE IEDM conference, imec reported for the first time the CMOS integration of vertically stacked gate-all-around (GAA) silicon nanowire MOSFETs. Key in the integration scheme is a dual-work-function metal gate enabling matched threshold voltages for the n- and p-type devices...
Average Contract Price of PC DRAM 4GB Modules Rose to US$18 in November
Prices in the contract and spot markets for PC DRAM kept climbing between October and November, according to DRAMeXchange, a division of TrendForce. The average contract price of PC DRAM 4GB modules increased by 2.86% monthly to arrive at US$18 in November, while the average spot prices of DDR3 and DDR4 4Gb chips respectively rose 6% and 2% monthly to reach US$2...
Wearable Devices Need to Be More Useful, Gartner Says
The abandonment rate of smartwatches is 29 percent, and 30 percent for fitness trackers, because people do not find them useful, they get bored of them or they break, according to a survey by Gartner, Inc. "Dropout from device usage is a serious problem for the industry," said Angela McIntyre, research director at Gartner...