Intel and Micron break NAND flash barrier Intel and Micron Technology have announced a benchmark in NAND flash technology – what is claimed to be the world's first 20nm, 128Gbit multilevel-cell device. The companies also announced mass production of their 64Gbit 20nm NAND.

Tackling the challenge of bringing commercial technology into the health sector There is an increasing interest in the use of consumer electronics for other markets including the health sector, said conference chair John Eaglesham from the Advanced Digital Institute. “There are economic and demographic issues in the health service and people are looking for ways that the use of electronics can help,” he said.

European Standards body to challenge Vita and Picmg Three of Europe’s major embedded companies have joined forces to set up a new standards body for Europe to tackle what they see as long delays by US bodies to complete the standardisation process. The formal announcement of the new organisation is likely to be mid-February with the publicity ramping up in time for Embedded World in Nuremberg (28th February to 1st March 2012). The aim is to have a press conference at the show.

GE Healthcare and Microsoft join forces in medical market GE Healthcare and Microsoft plan to create a joint venture aimed at helping healthcare organisations and professionals use real-time, system-wide intelligence to improve healthcare quality and the patient experience. The new company aims to develop and market an open, interoperable technology platform and clinical applications focussed on enabling better population health management to improve outcomes and the overall economics of health and wellness.

Lattice to buy Silicon Blue for $62m

Shipments start for Xilinx extensible processing platform

Arm and Global Foundries work advances SoC designs

Alliance to create trusted platforms

MSC to bring G series to Q Seven

Adlink commits to Arm with support for Kontron com standard