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Grenoble’s microelectronics industry just brought home a big win. Global smartphone leader Samsung recently signed a strategic contract with STMicroelectronics with a view to integrating the semiconductor giant’s 28 nm FD-SOI technology into future generations of Samsung products. STMicroelectronics, Soitec, and Leti have been working together to improve FD-SOI over the past several years. The […] >>

Network of Excellence coordinator Francis Balestra (IMEP-LAHC) edited Beyond CMOS Nanodevices 2, which was recently published by Wiley. The multi-author book, a follow-up to the EU Nanofunction project on beyond-CMOS nanosystems, provides a comprehensive review of the state of the art and the flagship applications expected to emerge over the next decade. The first volume […] >>

Tronics recently presented a revolutionary MEMS concept invented by Leti. The new MEMS packs in an impressive three accelerometers and three gyrometers on just 4 mm2 of silicon. The ultra-compact system will target the mobile phone market where it will enhance features like gaming and switching mobile phone cameras from portrait to landscape mode. There […] >>

The Nanocharacterization Platform has just achieved a world first: measuring SOI transistor deformation with spatial resolution under 2 nm. The breakthrough was made possible thanks to the addition of precession electron diffraction to the Titan transmission electron microscope. A set of lenses was used to rotate the beam, increasing the number of diffraction spots. The […] >>

The Internet of Things has just made a giant leap forward with the EU-funded IoT-A project (completed late last year). As members of the project consortium, Leti and List helped to develop the Architecture Reference Model (ARM) methodology to develop architectures for virtually any set of internet-connected heterogeneous objects that interact with their environment. ARM […] >>