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How diamonds become qubits
Dec 13, 2022 (SPX)
This means that the processing and storage units of a quantum computer are located in specific NV centres in diamonds. The Quantum Computing Initiative at the G...
China launches WTO dispute over US chip sanctions
Dec 13, 2022 (AFP)
The United States in October announced new export controls aimed at restricting China's ability to buy and manufacture high-end chips with military applications...
Microchip showcases RISC-V-based FPGA and space-compute solutions at RISC-V Summit
Dec 09, 2022 (SPX)
The company will be showing its solutions at the 2022 RISC-V Summit and previewing its PolarFire 2 FPGA silicon platform and RISC-V-based processor subsystem an...
Breaking the scaling limits of analog computing
Dec 02, 2022 (SPX)
An analog optical neural network could perform the same tasks as a digital one, such as image classification or speech recognition, but because computations are...
Soft touch sensitivity
Dec 02, 2022 (SPX)
"The skin plays a vital role in our interactions with the world," says Vincent Tung from KAUST, who led the work. "Recreating its properties in an e-skin could ...
A part of Beyond Gravity in almost every smartphone
Dec 02, 2022 (SPX)
Stronger, faster, better. Digitization is continuously increasing the need for more powerful end devices or applications, which is why ever more powerful microp...
NIST finds a sweet new way to print microchip patterns on curvy surfaces
Nov 25, 2022 (SPX)
By chance, Zabow had left one of these sugar pieces, embedded with arrays of micromagnetic dots, in a beaker, and it did what sugar does with time and heat - it...
A possible game changer for next generation microelectronics
Nov 23, 2022 (SPX)
Scientists at the U.S. Department of Energy's (DOE) Argonne National Laboratory want to replace the bar magnets with tiny magnetic vortices. As tiny as billiont...
US chip ban on China a dangerous game for all
Nov 23, 2022 (XNA)
According to London-based data consulting company GlobalData, the new export rules "transcend" the sector itself and are all about the leadership of the global ...
NIST's grid of quantum islands could reveal secrets for powerful technologies
Nov 18, 2022 (SPX)
In work published in Nature Communications, the researchers made multiple 3-by-3 grids of precisely spaced quantum dots, each comprising one to three phosphorus...
UK orders Chinese-owned firm to sell most of chip maker
Nov 16, 2022 (AFP)
Business Secretary Grant Shapps was blocking the full takeover of Newport Wafer Fab by Nexperia following a "detailed national security assessment", a governmen...
Mini-engine exploits noise to convert information into fuel
Nov 15, 2022 (SPX)
In everyday life, we're familiar with engines and motors that consume fuel to move in a directed way and thus perform useful work. But things are more complicat...
Japan govt backs major firms in next-gen chip project
Nov 11, 2022 (AFP)
Eight major companies including Sony, SoftBank, Toyota and telecoms giant NTT have joined forces for the venture, Japanese media reports said. The new firm, nam...
The next wonder semiconductor
Nov 11, 2022 (SPX)
"We were able to visualize how the charge moves in our sample," said Bolin Liao, an assistant professor of mechanical engineering in the College of Engineering....
Germany blocks sale of two chipmakers to China
Nov 09, 2022 (AFP)
"We must look very closely at company takeovers when it relates to important infrastructure or when there is a danger that the technology would flow to buyers f...
Germany wants to block chip factory sale to Chinese firm
Nov 08, 2022 (AFP)
Sweden's Silex, a unit of Chinese company Sai MicroElectronics, had been seeking to take over Dortmund-based Elmos. But economy ministry sources said the acquis...
Cameroon's electronic waste recyclers struggle despite historic law
Nov 01, 2022 (AFP)
The scrap-metal district of Yaounde, the capital of Cameroon, is in full swing as artisanal workers scavenge through discarded items and sell their harvest to t...
Tech sector unwittingly aiding Russia: Dutch official
Oct 28, 2022 (AFP)
Jan Swillens, head of the military intelligence service of the Netherlands (MIVD) said that Russian secret services have set up dozens of "front companies" in t...
Germany reviewing possible Chinese takeover of chip factory
Oct 27, 2022 (AFP)
Government officials speaking on condition of anonymity told AFP that they were assessing the potential impact of a takeover of Dortmund-based Elmos by Sweden's...
Advance brings quantum computing one step closer to implementation
Oct 24, 2022 (SPX)
Scientists have long hoped that quantum computing could be the next great advance in computing; however, existing limitations have prevented the technology from...
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