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Single-axis thumb joystick for long-life IP65 applications

Single-axis thumb joystick for long-life IP65 applications

MEGATRON has released the PW30 single-axis rocker joystick for integration into portable devices or control panels.Its high-quality mechanics demonstrate their strengths both in harsh industrial applications and for sensitive control tasks in medical technology. The large selection of knobs, spring returns and...

Published on: October 14, 2024

Record-breaking laser pulses

Record-breaking laser pulses

Researchers at ETH Zurich have developed a laser that produces the strongest ultra-short laser pulses to date. In the future, such high power pulses could be used for precision measurements or materials processingResearchers have developed a laser that can produce extremely short...

Published on: October 14, 2024

Lilium powers up its electric aircraft

Lilium powers up its electric aircraft

Lilium in Germany has completed the first systems power-on milestone of its all-electric aircrft as it starts building key prototypes.The successful test procedure on the first in-production Lilium Jet, MSN 1, represents a significant achievement on the path to first flight and...

Published on: October 14, 2024

Portable 800G Ethernet system to test AI and data centre interconnect

Portable 800G Ethernet system to test AI and data centre interconnect

Keysight Technologies has launched a portable system to test 800G interconnects in AI, HPC and data centre infrastructure.The Keysight Interconnect and Network Performance Tester 800G Benchtop is a multiport, multi-user, and multi-speed portable design and validation platform thatDemand for optical interconnects (optics...

Published on: October 14, 2024

Seoul Semi LED patent sales ban will have implications across Europe

Seoul Semi LED patent sales ban will have implications across Europe

A judgement by the Unified Patent Court will see a  sales ban and destruction of products infringing a key LED patent from Seoul Semiconductor in eight European countries.The decision on the “No Wire” (WICOP) LED patent will have wider implications for automotive...

Published on: October 14, 2024

Silicon photonic platform supports room-temp quantum computing

Silicon photonic platform supports room-temp quantum computing

Artilux Inc. (Zhubei, Taiwan) has collaborated with academic Richard Soref from The University of Massachusetts to investigate quantum information processing on an integrated silicon photonics platform.Artilux, founded in 2014, has been a pioneer of germanium-silicon photonics and CMOS-based SWIR (short-wavelength infrared) single...

Published on: October 13, 2024

SemiFive, HyperAccel complete design of LLM processor

SemiFive, HyperAccel complete design of LLM processor

Contract design work on HyperAccel’s a 4nm generative AI processor IP called ‘Bertha’ has been completed with silicon IP now targeting mass production in 1Q26.HyperAccel Co. Ltd. (Seoul, South Korea) is a 2023 startup that has developed a large language model processing...

Published on: October 13, 2024

IEDM: Samsung speeds selection of selector-only memory materials

IEDM: Samsung speeds selection of selector-only memory materials

Samsung has used computer modelling to accelerate the selection of a material system for selector-only-memory (SOM). Researchers are due to present a paper on the work at this year’s International Electron Devices Meeting (IEDM) coming up in December, in San Francisco.SOM is...

Published on: October 12, 2024

September foundry sales: a tale of differing fortunes

September foundry sales: a tale of differing fortunes

Strong demand for foundry TSMC’s leading-edge wafer processing continued in September allowing the company to beat the sales guidance it gave for 3Q24 back in July.In September TSMC’s net revenue was NT$251.87 billion (about US$7.83 billion), up 0.4 percent sequentially but up...

Published on: October 12, 2024

Tesla robot cars aren’t coming quite yet

Tesla robot cars aren’t coming quite yet

Tesla’s plans for a fully driverless ‘cybercab’ in 2026 is optimistic to say the least. This is not because the technology is not advancing, as Honda and Mercedes are both demonstrating.Tesla is also planning an unsupervised version of its Full Self Driving...

Published on: October 12, 2024