Element14 And ST have launched ‘IoT on Wheels’ – a Design Challenge competition for the best way to make connected vehicles safer, smarter and more efficient. The Design Challenge is looking for inspirational prototypes that might change the way we travel, improve our commute or make us safer when we are on the road – ...
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Toshiba says that its line-up of Bluetooth®Low Energy products now offers support for the Bluetooth Mesh standard. This standard was ratified and launched this week by the Bluetooth Special Interest Group (SIG). The combination of new Bluetooth Mesh standard 1.0 and Toshiba’s application software enables Toshiba Bluetooth Low Energy products to simultaneously increase communication range, ...
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Willis Towers Watson has launched a cyber work diagnostic tool designed to help organizations assess their cyber readiness with emphases on talent management, emerging skills and roles and defining the requirements of cyber work. Roles in cybersecurity are some of the most in-demand across all industries, with premium jobs available for employees with the ...
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Socionext, the Matsushita – Fujitsu SoC jv, has 360-degree spherical camera designs using their Milbeaut image signal processors. The Socionext lineup includes two types of cameras to meet the growing and expanding needs for 360-degree camera applications. The prosumer model is based on the company’s SC2000 high-performance processor, which is capable of real-time image stitching ...
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The Multicore Association, the processor standards body with a focus on multicore processor implementations, has announced the availability of an enhanced implementation of its Multicore Task Management API (MTAPI) integrated into an open source framework called Embedded Multicore Building Blocks (EMB2). The MTAPI takes care of task scheduling and execution on embedded parallel systems. While ...
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Memory sales are expected to set record highs this year due to fast-rising ASPs but unit shipments are sluggish, says IC Insights. DRAM unit shipments are actually forecast to show a decline this year, while NAND shipments are forecast to increase only 2%. DRAM and NAND ASPs first began increasing in H2 2016, and continued ...
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Driverless car start-up Nauto has raised a $159 million Series B led by Softbank and Greylock Partners. Its Series A in April in 2016 raised $12 million. Other investors are GM, BMW, Toyota and the insurance company Allianz but the company has yet to become a Unicorn, says CEO Stefan Heck. Nauto collects information about ...
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The FBI has warned about the dangers to children of Internet-connected toys. “These toys typically contain sensors, microphones, cameras, data storage components, and other multimedia capabilities – including speech recognition and GPS options,” says the FBI, “these features could put the privacy and safety of children at risk due to the large amount of personal ...
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GaN Systems, the GaN power transistor specialist, has closed an investment round led by BMW’s investment arm, BMW i Ventures. Consistent with its investment strategy, BMW i Ventures recognizes that GaN Systems’ products maximize the efficiency of electronic systems while dramatically reducing size, weight and overall system cost. The investment will be used to expand ...
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Plessey has extended its LED product portfolio into a variety of mid-power LED packages and now offers lighting equipment manufacturers a complete and competitive portfolio of solid-state lighting products and solutions for all general illumination market applications. Plessey’s mid-power LED product offering, called MIDION, includes products with leading-edge performance with efficacies up to 210 Lm/W, ...
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