New-Tech Europe | March 2019

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MTN and Ericsson extend mobile money partnership

The deal will see the deployment of new products and provide managed services for mobile money services. It includes Ericsson Wallet Platform, which will bring easy- to-use, next-generation mobile financial services to MTN customers.

Rafiah Ibrahim, Head of Ericsson Middle East and Africa, says: “This breakthrough deployment is yet another example of MTN’s ongoing commitment to innovation and customer satisfaction. “Ericsson Wallet Platform helps MTN offer the convenience of m-wallet financial services

Ericsson Wallet Platform allows users to store, transfer and withdraw money; pay merchants and utility providers; and use financial services such as savings and loans. Serigne Dioum, MTN Group Executive for Mobile Financial Services, says: “A stable, secure and reliable platform is one of the fundamentals to building successful mobile financial services. “Through this partnership we look forward to working with Ericsson to further enhance our value proposition and expand our ecosystem.”

across its entire subscriber base.” Part of the Ericsson Digital BSS portfolio, Ericsson Wallet Platform is an integrated mobile wallet solution that combines Ericsson Wallet Platform and Ericsson Charging. It also allows mobile operators to reuse existing assets and bundle telecom offerings with financial services to create a complete end user solution for m-commerce needs.

Samsung Electronics Starts Commercial Shipment of eMRAM Product Based on 28nm FD-SOI Process

Samsung Electronics the world leader in semiconductor technology, announced that it has commenced mass production of its first commercial embedded

to overcome technical hurdles and demonstrated the possibility for further scalability of embedded memory technology to 28nm process node and beyond. Samsung’s 28FDS-based eMRAM solution offers unprecedented power and speed advantages with lower cost. Since eMRAM does not

magnetic random access memory (eMRAM) product based on the company’s 28-nanometer(nm) fully- depleted silicon-on-insulator (FD-SOI) process technology, called 28FDS.

require an erase cycle before writing data, its writing speed is approximately a thousand times faster than eFlash. Also, eMRAM uses lower voltages than eFlash, and does not consume electric power when in power-off mode, resulting in great power efficiency. Furthermore, since an eMRAMmodule can easily be inserted in the back-end of the process by adding the least number of layers, it has less dependence on the front-end of

As eFlash has faced scalability challenges due to a charge storage-based operation, eMRAM has been the most promising successor since its resistance-based operation allows strong scalability while also possessing outstanding technical characteristics of memory semiconductors such as nonvolatility, random access, and strong endurance. With today’s announcement, Samsung has proved its capability

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