Siemens and  Tsinghua University are to set up a robotics research centre in Beijing. “China’s digital transformation is already having a profound impact on its economy. With Made in China 2025 and the Belt and Road Initiatives, China intends to upgrade its national industry and boost its global competence through digitalization-focused innovations,” says Siemens CTO ...

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SLLIMM-nano intelligent power modules (IPM) from ST  introduce extra package options and integrate additional components to accelerate development and simplify assembly of motor drives from very low power up to 300W. The 3A and 5A modules contain state-of-the-art 600V super-junction MOSFETs to maximize energy efficiency in equipment such as compressors, fans, pumps, and other appliances. ...

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 Synaptics has leveraged the technology acquired from its purchase of Marvell’s multimedia business to bring out a 4k HDR video,p processor  for the STB market. The BG5CT  VideoSmart device is pin compatible with the  previous-generation Android TV SoC (BG4CT) and offers key feature upgrades including Advanced HDR and higher performance. The BG5CT integrates a 1.6 ...

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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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  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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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, 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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