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Global Semiconductor Sales in March Up 18.1 Percent Year-to-Year

May 2, 2017 Comments Off on Global Semiconductor Sales in March Up 18.1 Percent Year-to-Year

Year-to-year growth is market’s largest since October 2010 WASHINGTON, May 1, 2017 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ — The Semiconductor Industry Association (SIA), representing U.S. leadership in semiconductor manufacturing, design, and research, today announced... Read More

Davide Cucci and Jan Skaloud, from Geodetic Engineering Laboratory. © Alain Herzog/EPFL

Two’s company when it comes to 3D mapping

https://actu.epfl.ch May 2, 2017 Comments Off on Two’s company when it comes to 3D mapping

EPFL researchers have developed the terrestrial and aerial components of a European spatial and urban mapping project. Developing a good, high-resolution 3D map is a long, tedious and expensive process:... Read More

X-ray vision for crash tests

media.daimler.com May 1, 2017 Comments Off on X-ray vision for crash tests

Stuttgart. Together with the Fraunhofer Institute for High-Speed Dynamics, Ernst-Mach-Institut, EMI from Freiburg, the Vehicle Safety unit at Daimler AG is trialling the application of x‑r ay technology in crash tests... Read More

Wireless power could enable ingestible electronics

news.mit.edu May 1, 2017 Comments Off on Wireless power could enable ingestible electronics

Researchers at MIT, Brigham and Women’s Hospital, and the Charles Stark Draper Laboratory have devised a way to wirelessly power small electronic devices that can linger in the digestive tract... Read More

Micron Appoints Sanjay Mehrotra as President and Chief Executive Officer

investors.micron.com April 30, 2017 Comments Off on Micron Appoints Sanjay Mehrotra as President and Chief Executive Officer

Micron Technology, Inc. (NASDAQ:MU) announced today that the board of directors has appointed Sanjay Mehrotra as president and chief executive officer and a member of the board of directors, effective... Read More

Control of molecular motion by metal-plated 3D-printed plastic pieces

actu.epfl.ch April 30, 2017 Comments Off on Control of molecular motion by metal-plated 3D-printed plastic pieces

EPFL scientists have combined 3D-printing with electroplating to easily produce high-quality metal electrodes that can be used as a molecular beam-splitter. Many measurement techniques, such as spectroscopy, benefit from the... Read More

AI-based smartphone application can predict user’s health risks

www.vttresearch.com April 30, 2017 Comments Off on AI-based smartphone application can predict user’s health risks

“Based on an algorithm developed by VTT, we can predict the risk of illness-related absence from work among members of the working population over the next 12 months, with an... Read More