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Roll up torch is controlled by conducting ink
Roll up torch is controlled by conducting ink
Technology News |
A Japanese designer has used conducting ink on paper to create a roll up torch. The tighter the paper is…
UK to start trial of driverless trucks on public roads
UK to start trial of driverless trucks on public roads
Technology News |
A commercial trial of platoons of driverless trucks is to start in the UK later this year.
Oryx Vision grabs $50 million for solid-state lidar
Oryx Vision grabs $50 million for solid-state lidar
Business news |
Startup Oryx Vision Ltd. (Petach Tikva, Israel) has raised $50 million in Series B funding to help commercialize nano-antennas used…
Oryx Vision grabs $50 million for solid-state lidar
Oryx Vision grabs $50 million for solid-state lidar
Business news |
Startup Oryx Vision Ltd. (Petach Tikva, Israel) has raised $50 million in Series B funding to help commercialize nano-antennas used…

FPGA- and DSPs-packed double-module AMC for compute intensive applications
FPGA- and DSPs-packed double-module AMC for compute intensive applications
New Products |
VadaTech's AMC540 is a double-module AMC (Advanced Mezzanine Card) built with a Xilinx Virtex-7 XC7VX690T FPGA and dual multicore TI TMS320C667x Digital Signal Processors (DSP).
Sequans’ LTE-M module on AT&T’s IoT Accelerator Program
Sequans’ LTE-M module on AT&T’s IoT Accelerator Program
New Products |
With long-time partner Wistron NeWeb Corporation, Sequans is now making available a new LTE-M module, the IMS2, through AT&T’s IoT Accelerator Program.
Tower confirms Chinese fab project
Tower confirms Chinese fab project
Business news |
Tower Semiconductor Ltd. (Migdal Haemek, Israel), which trades as TowerJazz, has confirmed it is in partnership with Chinese investors, Tacoma and Chinese regional authorities to build a 200mm wafer fab…
Oryx Vision grabs $50 million for solid-state lidar
Oryx Vision grabs $50 million for solid-state lidar
Business news |
Startup Oryx Vision Ltd. (Petach Tikva, Israel) has raised $50 million in Series B funding to help commercialize nano-antennas used for infrared laser automotive lidar.
IEEE and UL to develop a standard for wireless diabetes device security
IEEE and UL to develop a standard for wireless diabetes device security
Business news |
UL (Underwriters Laboratories) and the IEEE have signed a Joint Standard Development agreement to develop a consensus-based standard for wireless diabetes device security.
Drones to take RFID to next level for inventory control
Drones to take RFID to next level for inventory control
Technology News |
Cheap, battery-free RFID tags, which receive power wirelessly from scanners and then broadcast identifying numbers, enable warehouse managers to log inventory much more efficiently than they could by reading box…
Nvidia invests in autonomous trucking
Nvidia invests in autonomous trucking
Business news |
Nvidia (Santa Clara, CA) has announced that its GPU Ventures program has invested in a Chinese autonomous truck startup.
Coiled carbon nanotube yarn harvests energy under strain
Coiled carbon nanotube yarn harvests energy under strain
Technology News |
An international research team led by scientists at The University of Texas at Dallas and Hanyang University in South Korea has developed high-tech yarns, dubbed "twistron", that generate electricity when…
Magnesium battery breakthrough promises safe lithium alternative
Magnesium battery breakthrough promises safe lithium alternative
Technology News |
Researchers at the University of Houston (Houston, TX) have discovered a way to drastically improve the energy storage of magnesium batteries, potentially making them a safer, less-expensive alternative to lithium-ion…
Breakthrough for magnesium batteries
Breakthrough for magnesium batteries
Technology News |
Researchers at the University of Houston have found a way to make magnesium batteries that are intrinsically safer and twice the capacity of today’s lithium ion batteries.
Automated driving tested in urban environment
Automated driving tested in urban environment
Feature articles |
Gradually, the various aspects of automated driving are investigated, optimized and then, eventually turned into reality. A current research project in Düsseldorf (Germany) is focusing on one specific aspect: Connecting…
External rotor motor delivers 7.4W out of 32mm diameter, 18mm profile
External rotor motor delivers 7.4W out of 32mm diameter, 18mm profile
New Products |
The DF32 from Nanotec is an eight-pole brushless DC motor with a diameter of 32mm and a height of 18mm.
UK to start trial of driverless trucks on public roads
UK to start trial of driverless trucks on public roads
Technology News |
A commercial trial of platoons of driverless trucks is to start in the UK later this year.
Voltage-controlled attenuator spans 10 MHz to 1.5 GHz with high IIP3
Voltage-controlled attenuator spans 10 MHz to 1.5 GHz with high IIP3
New Products |
Skyworks’ SKY12239-11 is a voltage-controlled variable attenuator (VVA), in a series of broadband, flat attenuation, high third order input intercept point (IIP3) products.
Embedded FTP server for simple data exchange, in a free PC tool
Embedded FTP server for simple data exchange, in a free PC tool
New Products |
Segger (Hilden, Germany) has written a free tool that runs in conjunction with its embOS/IP FTP Server add-on. The tool serves as a full FTP Server that is set up…
China chip startup nets $100 million Series A
China chip startup nets $100 million Series A
Business news |
Cambricon Technologies Corp. Ltd. (Beijing, China) is a machine learning chip startup that has received $100 million in a Series A round of finance, according to local reports.
200lm/W LED linear modules target premium indoor lighting
200lm/W LED linear modules target premium indoor lighting
New Products |
Samsung Electronics' Q-series of LED linear modules features 200 lumens per watt (lm/W) of light efficacy and are the first to incorporate the LM301B, Samsung’s recently announced mid-power LED package.
Cd-free QDots manufacturer Quantum Materials launches nano-materials online store
Cd-free QDots manufacturer Quantum Materials launches nano-materials online store
Business news |
Leading American Cadmium-Free Quantum Dot manufacturer Quantum Materials has launched its Nano-Materials online store at www.QMCdots.com.
System-on-module is smallest i.MX6ULL device for embedded control
System-on-module is smallest i.MX6ULL device for embedded control
New Products |
Armadeus Systems (Mulhouse, France) has released its latest System On Module in the OposSOM family: the OPOS6UL_NANO is aimed at industrial domains such as IOT, drones, medical devices and industrial…
Infineon expands R&D activities for SiC products
Infineon expands R&D activities for SiC products
Business news |
Semiconductor manufacturer Infineon is investing 35 million euros this year at its location in Villach (Austria). The development and production of energy-saving chips based on silicon carbide technology is to…
Researcher use precision shunt-based current measurement for battery management
Researcher use precision shunt-based current measurement for battery management
Technology News |
The Fraunhofer Institute for Integrated Systems and Device Technology (IISB) (Erlangen, Germany) is using Isabellenhütte’s IVT-S shunt-based management system for precision current measurement in its foxBMS battery management development platform.
Precision shunt-based current measurement in Fraunhofer’s battery management demonstrator
Precision shunt-based current measurement in Fraunhofer’s battery management demonstrator
Market news |
The Fraunhofer Institute for Integrated Systems and Device Technology (IISB) (Erlangen, Germany) is using Isabellenhütte’s IVT-S shunt-based management system for precision current measurement in battery management systems, in its foxBMS…
Aiming to divorce cloud, Qualcomm buys machine learning start-up
Aiming to divorce cloud, Qualcomm buys machine learning start-up
Business news |
Last year, Qualcomm stopped short of including an accelerator core called the neural processing unit its Snapdragon silicon. Instead, it announced that it would publish software to bend its existing…
Chip-scale laser structure nearly doubles terahertz output power
Chip-scale laser structure nearly doubles terahertz output power
Technology News |
Terahertz (sub-millimeter) waves—wavelengths of 1 mm down to 30 µm, corresponding to frequencies from 300 GHz to 3 THz (1 THz = 1012 Hz)—pose a dilemma for practical use because…


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