ICsense becomes part of TDK group

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ICsense, the leading European mixed-signal IC design company, announced today that TDK’s wholly-owned subsidiary TDK-Micronas GmbH (“TDK-Micronas”), a leading supplier of Hall-effect sensors based in Freiburg, Germany, and ICsense NV... Read More

Samsung and Rakuten Wuaki Expand 4K HDR Content Availability in Europe

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Samsung Electronics and Rakuten Wuaki, a leading provider of 4K high dynamic range (HDR) movies and video-on-demand (VOD) content, announced the expanded availability of Samsung’s TV PLUS service at MIPTV... Read More

ABB to acquire B&R

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Shaping leadership in industrial automation Acquisition of B&R (Bernecker + Rainer Industrie-Elektronik GmbH) will close ABB’s historic gap in machine and factory automation Creating a uniquely comprehensive automation portfolio for... Read More

Bushwhacking into Unexplored Transistor Territories

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Since the advent of microelectronics in the mid-20th century, humanity has been on a nonstop sprint to eke more speed, power efficiency, and computational power from the sextillions (1021) of... Read More

“Virtual batteries” could lead to cheaper, cleaner power

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In the power grid, supply and demand need to match exactly. If consumers demand more power than producers can supply, or if producers provide more power than consumers need, the... Read More

DLR inaugurates the world’s largest artificial Sun Sun at the push of a button

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The world’s largest artificial Sun started shining in Jülich on 23 March 2017. Johannes Remmel, the North Rhine-Westphalia Minister for Climate Protection, Environment, Agriculture, Nature Conservation and Consumer Protection, joined... Read More

Engineers design “tree-on-a-chip”

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Trees and other plants, from towering redwoods to diminutive daisies, are nature’s hydraulic pumps. They are constantly pulling water up from their roots to the topmost leaves, and pumping sugars... Read More

Liquid fuel for future computers

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Researchers at ETH Zurich and IBM Research Zurich have built a tiny redox flow battery. This means that future computer chip stacks – in which individual chips are stacked like... Read More