Lloyds, which has a 20-25% share of the cyber insurance market, says that a major cyber attack could cause over $120 billion of potential losses and that many organisations are under-insured. In a report co-authored with risk-modeller Cyence, Lloyds finds that: The WannaCry ransomware attack in May cost $8 billion across 100 countries, says Lloyds. ...

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Car manufacturers’ trade associations have asked the China government to relax some of its EV regulations. The request has come from the American Automotive Policy Council (AAPC), the European Automobile Manufacturers Association (ACEA), the Japan Automobile Manufacturers Association (JAMA) and the Korea Automobile Manufacturers Association (KAMA). China says it wants one fifth of all cars ...

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In Q4, Globalfoundries and VeriSilicon intend to tape out a cellular modem test chip for low-power wide area (LPWA) networks which integrates baseband, power management, RF radio and front-end, combining both Narrowband IoT (NB-IoT) and LTE-M capabilities and fabbed  on a  22nm FD-SOI process. LPWA technology takes advantage of the existing LTE spectrum and mobile infrastructure, ...

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The EU FP7 Si photonics supply chain development project PLAT4M has now been completed, says Leti. Si photonics has long been expected to bring substantial breakthroughs in very high speed data communications, telecommunications and supercomputing. In addition, it is one of the most promising industrial-production candidates because of its potential for large-scale and low-cost production ...

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