KUALA LUMPUR, March 30 -- Toshiba Electronic Devices & Storage Corporation (Toshiba) has added 80V N-channel power MOSFETs to its ‘U-MOS X-H series’ fabricated with the latest generation process.
According to a statement, with shipments starting today, the new MOSFETs are suitable for switching power supplies in industrial equipment used in data centres and communication base stations. The expanded line-up includes ‘TPH2R408QM’, housed in SOP Advance, a surface-mount type packaging, and ‘TPN19008QM’ housed in a TSON Advance package. Drain-source On-resistance in the new 80V U-MOS X-H products, manufactured with the latest generation process, is approximately 40 per cent lower than that of 80V products in the current generation process U-MOS VIII-H series products. The trade-off between the drain-source On-resistance and the gate charge characteristics has also been improved by optimising device structure. As a result, the new products feature industry’s lowest power dissipation. More details at https://toshiba.semicon-storage.com/ap-en/contact.html. -- BERNAMA KUALA LUMPUR, March 25 -- National Tsing Hua University (NTHU) has converted Tsing Hua Open pool Reactor (THOR) for use in Boron Neutron Capture Therapy (BNCT), in cooperation with the Taipei Veterans General Hospital (TVGH). On Feb 14, the melodious strains of the fourth movement of Mahler's Fifth Symphony were heard inside the building of THOR at NTHU. This is the favourite piece of music of a European woman who was here to undergo BNCT for a malignant brain tumour. According to a statement, this was her second course of treatment and the size of malignant glioma deep in her brainstem was reduced from 3.51 cm to 1.06 cm after the first treatment. To date, the treatment has provided a new lease on life to over 130 cancer patients worldwide. According to Professor Chou Fong-in, BNCT is a target radiation therapy in which the patient is first injected with a boron-containing drug; once the drug has accumulated in the tumour, the neutron beam is used to irradiate the tumour for delivering curative doses specifically to tumours, while sparing normal tissue. As explained by TVGH oncologist Chen Yi-wei, boron-10 drug contains the structure like essential amino acids and cancer cells need lots of nutrients to support their abnormal proliferation. According to Dr Chen, the key requirements for BNCT are a boron-containing drug suitable for absorption by cancer cells and a stable neutron source with appropriate energy spectrum, whereby NTHU’s research reactor has been retrofitted to provide the neutron source. NTHU and the Taoyuan City Government are planning to jointly develop a medical complex as part of the Taoyuan Aerotropolis to be built near the Taoyuan Airport. The BNCT will play a major role at the new facility and will be used to treat Taiwanese and overseas patients. -- BERNAMA KUALA LUMPUR, March 25 -- Cloudflare Inc, the security, performance and reliability company helping to build a better Internet, has expanded the Bandwidth Alliance by partnering with Alibaba Cloud, the data intelligence backbone of Alibaba Group.
The Bandwidth Alliance, launched in September 2018, is a group of forward-thinking cloud and networking companies committed to discounting or waiving data transfer fees (also known as bandwidth fees) for shared customers. Currently, the Bandwidth Alliance includes 20 partners, all committed to providing the most performant and cost-efficient experience for mutual customers, according to a statement. By joining the Bandwidth Alliance, customers using both Alibaba Cloud Object Storage, and Cloudflare products, will have their data egress fees waived outside mainland China if OSS products are purchased from alibabacloud.com. “In addition to waiving the egress fee, Alibaba Cloud will also waive up to 100 million API requests, and 10TB image processing fees for all customers in regions outside of China after joining the Bandwidth Alliance,” said Alibaba Cloud senior director (Product Management), Alex Chen. Cloudflare has long had an international presence, with co-location facilities in 200 cities across more than 90 countries, including China. It recently partnered with Cherry Servers, a provider of bare metal cloud services in Europe, as part of the Bandwidth Alliance. More details at www.cloudflare.com. -- BERNAMA |
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