Latest News 2024

April

  • Press Release
    TOKYO (April 23rd, 2024) -THine Electronics, Inc. (Tokyo Stock Exchange: 6769, “THine”), National Institute of Information and Communications Technology (“NICT”), and Hiroshima University, a national university corporation (“Hiroshima University”), jointly announced the successful development of 20 gigabits per second (20Gb/s) QPSK wireless transmission technology with the world's first mixed-signal baseband demodulator technology, which would have a great advantage to achieve more power-efficient wireless data transmission for higher-speed appreciations.
    April 23, 2024
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    The National Institute of Information and Communications Technology (hereinafter referred to as "NICT") will be conducting a Request for Information (RFI) regarding transportation means to deploy a small satellite into low lunar orbit being developed by the ongoing " Lunar Terahertz Surveyor for Kilometer-scale Mapping” project entrusted by the Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communications of Japan.
    April 2, 2024

March

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    Tokyo, March 15, 2024 – A Japanese consortium of joint research partners including RIKEN, the National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology (AIST), the National Institute of Information and Communications Technology (NICT), Osaka University, Fujitsu Limited, and Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Corporation (NTT) have been recognized with the prestigious Prime Minister's Award as part of the 53rd Japan Industrial Technology Awards for the successful development of a high-performance computing platform that leverages Japan's second domestically-made superconducting quantum computer.
    March 15, 2024

January

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    Researchers from the National Institute of Information and Communications Technology (NICT, President: TOKUDA Hideyuki, Ph.D.), in collaboration with Nokia Bell Labs, Aston University, and Amonics PLC, demonstrated a record-breaking data-rate of 301 terabits per second in a commercially available standard optical fiber.
    Janualy 29, 2024