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Economics & Business Mar 30, 2021

One virus, one stuck ship spark global trade rethink

A virus visible through only the most powerful microscopes and a huge container ship stuck in the Suez canal visible from space highlight how fragile the "just-in-time" global trade system can be.

Electronics & Semiconductors Sep 11, 2018

Japan semiconductor company Renesas to buy US firm IDT for $6.7bn

Japanese semiconductor firm Renesas on Tuesday announced a deal to buy California-based IDT in a cash deal valued at $6.7 billion.

Electronics & Semiconductors Feb 17, 2017

Particles from outer space are wreaking low-grade havoc on personal electronics

You may not realize it but alien subatomic particles raining down from outer space are wreaking low-grade havoc on your smartphones, computers and other personal electronic devices.

Electronics & Semiconductors Dec 19, 2014

Renesas announces SRAM using leading-edge 16 nm FinFET for automotive information systems

Renesas Electronics today announced the development of a new circuit technology for automotive information SoCs (system on chips) at 16 nanometer (nm) and beyond. Using this new circuit technology, Renesas tested the prototype ...

Business Sep 3, 2014

EU fines Samsung, Philips and Infineon over smartcard chip cartel (Update 2)

The European Union fined Infineon, Philips and Samsung a total of 138 million euros (181 million dollars) on Wednesday for fixing the prices of smartcard chips, in its latest anti-trust case against technology firms.

Electronics & Semiconductors Jun 11, 2014

Record ADC for next-generation software defined radio

Nanoelectronics research centre imec will present at this week's VLSI circuits symposium 2014 (Honolulu, June 13) a low power pipelined SAR (successive-approximation register) ADC (analog to digital converter) in 28nm digital ...

Electronics & Semiconductors Feb 19, 2014

28nm process technology achieves increased capacities in on-chip flash memory in microcontrollers

Renesas Electronics Corporation today announced that it has developed the industry's first 28-nanometer (nm) flash memory intellectual property (IP) for microcontrollers (MCUs) using a 28 nm process technology.

Nanomaterials Sep 17, 2013

Development of technology for producing micro-scale interconnect from multi-layer graphene

Researchers from AIST have developed a low-resistivity and highly reliable interconnect using multi-layer graphene, which is a two-dimensional nanocarbon material.

Electronics & Semiconductors Aug 21, 2013

Tunnel FET having a new architecture with potential for substantial improvement in performance

Researchers from the National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology (AIST) have demonstrated the operation of a synthetic electric field tunnel field-effect transistor with a new architecture.

Business Apr 26, 2013

NEC swings to annual net profit

Japan's NEC cast off two straight years of losses Friday, reporting it had returned to the black after a painful restructuring including layoffs and a business overhaul.

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