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Android users will be able to take part in scientific research
Users of android smartphones will soon have a chance to participate in important scientific research every time they charge their phones. Using a new app created by researchers at UC Berkeley, users will be able to donate a phone’s idle computing power to crunch numbers for projects that could lead to breakthroughs ranging from novel medical therapies to the discovery of new stars.
Opening doors with OpenCL Standard
This article from ES Design magazine introduces the OpenCL standard and explains how to implement it on an FPGA. By Deshanand Singh, Supervising Principal Engineer, Software and IP Engineering, at Altera.
New IBM Chip Process To Boost Tektronix Oscilloscopes Performance
The next generation of high performance real-time oscilloscopes from Tektronix will incorporate IBM’s latest 9HP silicon-germanium (SiGe) chip-making process. This fifth generation of IBM’s semiconductor technology along with advances such as patent pending Asynchronous Time Interleaving offer oscilloscopes with bandwidth capability of 70GHz and improvements in signal fidelity.
STMicroelectronics announce “Nano2017” R&D program
STMicroelectronics announce that French Prime Minister Jean-Marc Ayrault, as well as representatives from national, regional and local authorities, and managers from ST, met at ST’s site at Crolles, near Grenoble, France, to celebrate the Nano2017 Research and Development program. Also present at the ceremony were key partners of ST for the Nano2017 R&D program including CEA-Leti and IBM.
UMC joins IBM chip alliance for 10nm process development
IBM and United Microelectronics Corporation is pleased to announce today that UMC will join the IBM Technology Development Alliances as a participant in the group's development of 10nm CMOS process technology.
Mentor Graphics explore Cell-Aware ATPG
Finding, identifying and fixing manufacturing defects and systemic yield limiters within library cells at 90nm and beyond. Stephen Pateras, product marketing director for Mentor Graphics Silicon Test product, explores Cell-Aware ATPG in this article from ES Design magazine.
20th productronica To Examine Key Industry Topics
production exhibition director Christian Rocke says the 2013 exhibition will build on the success of the 2011 event. He expects 80 more exhibitors to attend the show including some debutants and others returning to the show after an absence. As the industry continues to grow he also expects an increase in visitors from 2011 when 38,000 attended, an increase of over 30 per cent on 2009.
Crocus secures EUR 34 million in serties D funding
Crocus Technology announces it has raised EUR 34 million (USD 45 million) in additional capital. A new private investor, Industrial Investors, joined the round led by Idinvest Partners. Major investors Sofinnova Ventures, Innovation Capital, Nanodimension and Ventech also participated, underscoring seven years’ support.
A MEMS Market Briefing at Transducers 2013
Yole Développement and TRANSDUCERS 2013 Organizing Committee have joined forces to develop the most powerful event dedicated to the MEMS technology. This event takes place next week, in Barcelona, Spain.
LSI Nytro Server-side Flash Technology Accelerates IBM System x Server Performance
LSI today announced that IBM is now offering new versions of its High IOPS Modular Adapters family based on LSI Nytro WarpDrive technology. The new models join IBM’s growing stable of PCIe Flash cards and are designed to be used with the IBM System x server series to help clients speed Big Data analytics.