Philips and Renault demo smart car-home interraction

Philips Lighting has collaborated with Renault on a concept car that interacts with a smart home, both unveiled at the Frankfurt Motor Show today. The Renault Symbioz autonomous electric car is pitched as an extension of the home. The vehicle’s on-board technology connects the passengers to other cars, people and technologies in the smart home ...

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Xilinx SDAccel available on AWS

The Xilinx software defined development environment, SDAccel, is now available on Amazon Web Services (AWS) for use with Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) F1 instances. Amazon EC2 F1 instances provide reconfigurable, custom-hardware acceleration with 16nm Virtex UltraScale+ FPGAs enabling customers to meet the demands of compute-intensive workloads like data analytics, video processing and machine ...

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Socionext joins XVTEC to pursue video over IP

Socionext, the Matsushita-Fujitsu SoC jv, has joined up with XVTEC, the  Israeli video streaming specialist, to develop IP video streaming products. The partnership is part of the Socionext “Media Cloud” initiative that addresses the ever-increasing and compute-intensive mass consumption of high-quality video. The collaboration with XVTEC is to strengthen Socionext’s contribution to the IP streaming ...

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Renesas and Cogent combine on parking-assist board

  Renesas and Cogent have developed a 3D surround view board product to assist drivers during parking or low speed maneuvers. Designed for parking assist systems in entry- and mid-level cars, the implementation combines the Renesas R-Car V3M system-on-chip (SoC), which incorporates a dedicated image rendering unit (IMR) that delivers realistic 360-degree surround view, with ...

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Samsung and China drive fab equipment spend past $55bn

Spending on chip production equipment will grow 37% this year to $55 billion and 5% next year to $58 billion, says SEMI. The last record spending year was 2011 with $40 billion. Korea is spending the most this year – $19.5 billion compared to $8.5 billion last year. China is expected to be in second place ...

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Soitec to stsrt FD-SOI wafer production in Singapore

 Soitec, the SOI wafer manufacturer, is to spend $40 million setting up an FD-SOI wafer pilot line at its Singapore production facility. This is the first stage in beginning FD-SOI production in Singapore and providing multi-site FD-SOI substrate sourcing to the global semiconductor market. “Our decision to launch this FD-SOI line in Singapore, as well ...

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UltraSoC raises $6m and opens Bristol design centre.

UltraSoC, the Cambridge embedded analytics specialist, has completed a funding round of $6 million and is opening a design centre in Bristol. New investors are Atlante Tech, Enso Ventures and Oxford Capital. “We’ve seen an increase in customer engagements; we’re now well into double figures in terms of licensees for our IP,” says UltraSoC CEO ...

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QuickLogic eFPGA available on SMIC 40nm

QuickLogic and SMIC have announced availability of  QuickLogic’s ArcticPro eFPGA technology on SMIC’s 40nm Low Leakage (40LL) process. QuickLogic’s architecture, mature software and IP ecosystem, in combination with the SMIC 40LL process, offers SoC designers an easy-to-implement,  reliable and low power eFPGA solution. The ArcticPro eFPGA technology, which is already in production on a variety ...

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