Today, Japan Display, the loss-making, government-backed, five year-old jv formed from the display operations of Toshiba, Hitachi and Mitsubishi, is expected to announce 3,750 lay-offs. Japan Display is looking for help from Foxconn which bought Sharp last year and from two Chinese display panel manufacturers Tianma Microelectronics and BOE Technology Group. Japan Display has made ...

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DENSO has licensed the MIPS I6500 CPU and PowerVR Series8XT GT8525 GPU from Imagination to create a test chip to exploit the capabilities of technologies such as hardware multi-threading and virtualization for automotive electronic systems including advanced driver assistance systems (ADAS) and autonomous driving. The MIPS I6500 CPU provides a backbone for multi-core designs, scaling ...

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Toshiba is sampling a TeraByte SSD based on 64-layer, TLC 3D NAND flash for mainstream desktops and notebooks, consumer upgrades and applications needing data security. SG6 delivers up to 550 MB/s sequential read and 535 MB/s sequential write, and up to 100,000 and 85,000 random read/write IOPS[5] delivering enhanced application performance. Compared to its previous ...

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Littelfuse has introduced a series of 16A SCR switching thyristors  for electric vehicle on-board charge (EVOBC) applications. S8016xA Series SCR Switching Thyristors can handle Level 1 charging up to 16ARMS at 120V, and Level 2 charging up to 16ARMS at 240V at 100°C and up to 25ARMS at 80°C. The S8016xA Series is the first line ...

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Imec has achieved 23.9% conversion efficency for a 4csq cms perovskite/silicon tandem photovoltaic module – making it the first module-on-cell stack that outperforms the standalone silicon solar cell. Perovskite solar cells have many desirable properties, as they can achieve a high power conversion efficiency, are inexpensive to produce, and have a high absorption efficiency in ...

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A Washington security robot named STEVE (pictured) was recently found in one of the city’s fountains. Although foul play was initially suspected, STEVE’s manufacturer, Knightscope, says it slipped. Knightscope said STEVE had a faulty algorithm which didn’t  detect an uneven surface. STEVE was being trained to be fully autonomous while patrolling a development called Washington ...

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Foxconn is considering building  a “multi-billion dollar” R&D facility in Michigan for self-driving cars, reports the  South China Morning Post. “Automotive development in the US is still more advanced than China,” Foxconn founder Terry Gou told the Post, “besides self-driving technology, I’m also interested in artificial intelligence and deep learning technology.” Last week Foxconn announced ...

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Bosch, Geo++, Mitsubishi Electric and u-blox have formed a jv called  Sapcorda Services to bring high precision GNSS positioning services to mass market applications. The four parties recognized that existing solutions for GNSS positioning services do not meet the needs of emerging high precision GNSS mass markets. As a result, they decided to join forces ...

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Everspin has begun sampling a 1Gigabit Spin Torque Magnetoresistive Random Access Memory (ST-MRAM) with lead customers. A high-endurance, persistent memory with a DDR4- compatible interface, the chip  enables storage system vendors to enhance the reliability and performance of storage devices and systems by delivering protection against power loss without the use of supercapacitors or batteries. ...

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