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Japan lifts curbs on export of key chip material to S. Korea by Staff Writers Tokyo (AFP) Dec 21, 2019 Japan has lifted curbs on the export of a key microchip material to South Korea, news reports said Saturday, days before the leaders of both countries meet in their first formal talks for more than a year. The ministry of economy, trade and industry on Friday removed photoresists -- used to coat semiconductor circuit boards -- from Tokyo's export restrictions against Seoul, the Asahi Shimbun newspaper and other reports said. Japan tightened export controls on three materials essential to key products of South Korean tech companies such as Samsung in July after a series of South Korean court rulings ordered Japanese firms to compensate war-time forced labour victims. The move infuriated Tokyo, which insists the matter was settled in a 1965 treaty normalising diplomatic relations between the two countries, which included significant reparations. Tokyo's export controls led to Seoul threatening to withdraw from a key military intelligence-sharing pact, alarming the United States who said that would benefit North Korea and China. South Korea later reversed course and agreed to extend the pact "conditionally". Japanese Prime Minster Shinzo Abe is due to meet South Korean leader Moon Jae-in at a summit in China next week. si/rma
Transistors can now both process and store information West Lafayette IN (SPX) Dec 10, 2019 A computer chip processes and stores information using two different devices. If engineers could combine these devices into one or put them next to each other, then there would be more space on a chip, making it faster and more powerful. Purdue University engineers have developed a way that the millions of tiny switches used to process information - called transistors - could also store that information as one device. The method, detailed in a paper published in Nature Electronics, accomplis ... read more
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