Sharp seeks new panel buyers as Apple adopts OLED

OSAKA -- Sharp will start making liquid crystal display panels for automobiles and ultra-high definition monitors at its key manufacturing facility that once focused solely on supplying LCD panels for the iPhone.

The Japanese company's Kameyama No. 1 plant shifted its attention from making LCD panels for televisions to those for Apple's iPhones in 2012, with the U.S. tech giant shouldering investment for roughly half of the production facilities necessary for the switch. Initially the plant was totally dedicated to producing LCD panels for iPhones.

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Dangerous displays of force between North Korea and United States

The rhetoric is pretty harmless.

The North Korean foreign minister calls Donald Trump "mentally deranged and full of megalomania" at the UN today.

Add this to "dog" and "dotard" (senile old man) and you get the picture.

Trump has had his say of course, branding the North Korean leader Kim Jong Un a "rocket man on a suicide mission".

Were there not the potential for a serious conflict it would all be vaguely entertaining. But what is less harmless are the increasingly worrying displays of strength by both sides.

In response to North Korea's repeated missile launches and nuclear tests, the Americans have now sent bombers close to its east coast in an attempt to deliver a clear message about the military options open to the Pentagon.

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Skorpios Semiconductor Acquires Texas Fab

Skorpios Technologies, a US System on Chip (SoC) company, has acquired Novati Technologies, a semiconductor integration company and fab located in Austin, Texas. 

The Novatis facility is known for its innovative work in 2.5D/3D integration, photonics, MEMS sensors, and micro fluidics for medical applications. Skorpios has a proprietary wafer scale process that allows it to monolithically integrate silicon with III-V gain materials used as the active medium, to create silicon photonic ICs.

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Cardiff Uni's £300m innovation campus 'can be a beacon'

A new £300m campus can be a beacon to attract worldwide talent to Cardiff, a university professor has said. Cardiff University's innovation campus aims to develop closer links between academic research and industry. Major projects include developing a system to remove impurities from water and the technology behind facial recognition software for smartphones. Prof Graham Hutchings said: "We want to take this fantastic research and make it so that it goes into application." The new buildings will give researchers more room to work, develop products and demonstrate them to industries interested in using them.

Prof Hutchings specialises in catalysis - the acceleration of chemical reactions using catalysts - and one of the existing projects being developed in the new building is water purification.

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