European project to boost electric vehicle performance

Better drive-trains for third-generation electric vehicles is the target of a European Horizon 2020 project, to be headed by French research lab Leti. Called ModulED, the three-year, €7.2m project will consist of 10 European research institutes, selected from the automotive-industry and universities (see below), and will cover boosting drivetrain performance, efficient manufacturing, reduced environmental impact and vehicle cost. ...

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Software bugs fixed automatically with AI and Big Data

Fujitsu Laboratories has created artificial intelligence that automatically creates patches for software bugs after learning from archived bug reports and bug patches. It works on bugs in object-oriented programmes, typically used for business application software development, and reduces average time to diagnose and fix single-fault-location bugs by 28.8%, claims Fujitsu, compared to the conventional heuristic-search-based patch generation ...

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Green Hills verifies multicore OS for future airborne systems

Green Hills Software is to verify conformance of its Integrity-178 operating system with the technical standard for Future Airborne Capability Environment (FACE) edition 2.1. Certon, the critical systems certification firm, will help carry out the verification Time-Variant Unified Multi Processing (tuMP) operating system for three different multicore architectures, or Units of Conformance (UoC): Intel, ARMv8 and PowerPC/QorIQ. ...

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Intel invests in 15 Big Data start-ups

Intel Capital has invested $60 million in 15 start-ups in the big data area which takes the amount of start-up capital it has invested this year to $566 million. “The world is undergoing a data explosion,” says the president of Intel Capital Wendell Brooks (pictured) , “by 2020, every autonomous vehicle on the road will ...

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September SEMI billings take a dive

SEMI’s September billings report shows billings of $2.03 billion which is 6.9% lower than the August level of $2.18 billion, and is 36% higher than the September 2016 billings level of $1.49 billion.   “Global semiconductor equipment billings of North American headquartered suppliers for September were $2.0 billion, down 12% from the peak level set ...

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Qualcomm joins China AI unicorn SenseTime to develop mobile AI

Qualcomm is to get together with China’s AI specialist unicorn SenseTime to develop AI for mobile. ‘The companies expect to drive the popularity and development of on-device AI in areas such as innovative vision and camera-based image processing,’ says the announcement, ‘devices such as smartphones and connected cameras are becoming more intelligent with the proliferation ...

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