X-FAB Silicon Foundries has today announced that it will acquire the assets of Altis Semiconductor, a specialty stand-alone foundry located in the Greater Paris area, out of insolvency proceedings.

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In January 1980, after six years and three months of very hard graft developing CCDs, Sony started a CCD production line. To call the yield lousy would be complimentary – only one chip per several hundred was usable. “It’s more like an occurrence rate than a yield rate,” said the fab managers. It took 12 months to manufacture 52 usable ...

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New York University scientist have used MRI scanning to view inside batteries.

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D-Wave Systems has released some more details about its proposed 2,000qubit quantum computer, at the company’s inaugural users group conference in New Mexico.

Plessey has teamed up with French firm Segula Technologies to demonstrate a heart-rate based driver alertness monitoring system at next week’s Paris Motor show.

Arrow has signed an agreement with IoT secure connectivity specialist Electric Imp to sell its IoT platform across Europe. Electric Imp’s platform includes full-life cycle secure connectivity, interoperability and managed operations. It can be used to move from a prototype to secure production and then to maintenance and update of field-deployed devices for years. Electric Imp also provides connectivity to ...