Foxconn has invested in a three year-old Californian blockchain start-up called Abra which has a blockchain-based app for bitcoin dealing. “We’ve added some great investors, including Foxconn’s venture subsidiary HCM International, Silver8 Capital and Ignia,” says Abra co-founder and CEO Bill Barhydt. Other investors include Arbor Ventures, American Express Ventures, Jungle Ventures, Lehrer Hippeau and ...

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Flex Logix is demo-ing an MCU with embedded FPGA. “It shows designers a complete implementation of embedded FPGA and provides a “breadboard” for MCU and SoC architects to experiment with the architecture to develop their own products,” says Flex Logix CEO Geoff Tate, “a  flexible microcontroller or SoC has a block of embedded FPGA, with appropriate ...

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Delphi Automotive, the auto parts manufacturer, is to buy driverless car software specialist nuTonomy for $400 million in cash with another $50 million if performance targets are met. The two companies have been testing automated vehicles in Singapore. Buying nuTonomy adds 100 engineers and scientists to Delphi’s automated driving team bringing it up to around ...

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EDA luminary Professor Alberto Sangiovanni-Vincentelli has been appointed non-executive chairman of UltraSoc. Sangiovanni-Vincentelli been with UC Berkeley for 41 years and was involved with the founding of Cadence and Synopsys. “The industry is now benefitting from the power of embedding UltraSoC IP into systems not only to debug the silicon in development, but to analyse ...

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