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IQE and Quinas Technology say they have successfully completed their £1.1m UltraRAM industrialisation project. This involved developing a scalable gallium antimonide (GaSb) epitaxy for memory devices. In July 2024 they were awarded the year’s funding by Innovate UK to take UltraRAM further towards mass production. Quinas Technology is the startup founded by IQE and the universities of Lancaster and Cardiff. ...

JEDEC – the Solid State Technology Association – is publishing JESD220G: Universal Flash Storage 4.1, an update to the UFS standard. Aimed at applications where power efficiency is essential, UFS 4.1 offers faster data access and improved performance, says the standards body. It also maintains hardware compatibility to UFS 4.0. For example, it will be relevant for mobile applications and ...

Infineon Technologies has introduced a radiation-hardened 512Mbit QSPI NOR flash memory for space applications and other extreme environments. “The device offers a 133MHz quad serial peripheral interface and the highest density, radiation and single-event effects performance available in a QML-qualified non-volatile memory for use with space-grade FPGAs and microprocessors,” claimed the company. To puts some numbers on these radiation claims, ...

Raspberry Pi’s RP2350, its second-generation microcontroller, will be available by the end of the year in flash-less and flash-inclusive forms, in two packages: RP2350A QFN60 no flash $0.80 RP2350B QFN80 no flash $0.90 RP2354A QFN60 2Mbyte flash $1.00 RP2354B QFN80 2Mbyte flash $1.10 QFN60 types are 7 x 7mm and have 30 GPIOs, QFN80 types are 10 x 10mm and ...

Raspberry Pi has released the official M.2 HAT+ for Raspberry Pi 5, allowing the connection of NVMe memory drives and AI accelerators. It accepts M.2 2230 or 2242 form factors, to which it can supply up to 3A and transfer data at up to 500Mbyte/s via the Pi’s single PCIe 2.0 channel. Being compliant to the HAT+ specification means that ...

Segger has made a four channel version of is Flasher Hub production IC programmer to save space on the production floor. ‘Flasher Hub-4’ is a compact version of Flasher Hub-12, measuring 125 x 78 x 25mm. “It is just a little bigger than a standard deck of cards, making it the most compact and efficient control unit on the market ...

LEDlenser has created a range of LED work torches for peering into electrical cabinets, amongst other applications. “Depending on the job at hand, professionals expect different things from their work lights: selectable colour temperature and higher colour rendering indices help electrical contractors test cables, the automotive mechatronics sector needs lamps with plane heads to light up hard-to-reach places,” according to ...

Users can add un-supported MCUs to Segger’s range of in-circuit programmers following the introduction of its ‘flasher device support kit’. “Customers have the flexibility to add new devices when required, on their own timeline, independent of Segger,” said company founder Rolf Segger. “They can work with Segger to get their devices supported, or simply do it themselves, even for devices ...

Scaling and wafer bonding in a cooperation between Kioxia and Western Digital have created a “218 layer 3D flash 1Tbit triple-level-cell and quad-level-cell with four planes, and features lateral shrink technology to increase bit density by over 50%,” according to Kioxia. Co-developed CBA (CMOS directly bonded to array) technology allows CMOS wafers and cell array wafers to be optimised and ...

GigaDevice is aiming at processors with a 1.2V core voltage with a family of 1.2V SPI NOR flash ICs. Called the GD25UF series, they run from 1.14V-1.26V and “provide for a simpler power system architecture, and for direct interfacing between the I/O pins of the SoC or processor and the GD25UF device”, according to the company. The 64Mbit GD25UF64E is ...