Foxconn invests in blockchain start-up

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 puts eFPGA on MCU

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 buys nuTonomy

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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Sangiovanni-Vincentelli appointed chairman of UltraSoC.

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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Andes core fabbed in FD-SOI

Andes Technology has implemented 32bit CPU IP cores in 22FDX, the 22nm FDSOI process from Globalfoundries.   “Our newest products, N25 32bit and NX25 64bit RISC-V based cores coupled with a mature toolchain, will provide even more value to customers in these advanced nodes by providing both high speed and power efficiency,” says Andes CTO ...

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800A resistor gets tapped holes for mounting and connections

Vishay has added tapped holes to some of its high-current shunt resistors to aid PCB and wire mounting. WSBS8518…M3 and WSBS8518…M4 are 36W battery shunt resistors featuring M3 and M4 tapped holes (close to the centre in the photo), respectively. The resistors are 85 x 18 x 3mm With resistance values down to 50µΩ, Vishay ...

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Ink jet printed photonic structures

Advances in ink jet printing have allowed photonically active structures to be printed, according to researchers at the University of Cambridge and the Hitachi Cambridge Laboratory. “Most inkjet printers push the ink through the nozzle by heating or applying pressure, producing ink droplets about the size of the diameter of a human hair,” said Dr Vincenzo ...

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VoW and VoM next year, says Qualcomm.

Qualcomm says it will launch video-over-wireless (VoW)  products utilising video over mesh networks (VoM)  next year. “Qualcomm  a mesh Wi-Fi solution that provides the flexibility for carriers to deploy advanced video services through traditional wireless gateways and set-top-boxes or through mesh architectures, so that consumers can enjoy a resilient network that supports their growing entertainment ...

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Plextek joins global community for mission-critical comms

Plextek, the Cambridgeshire-based RF design firm, is joining global mission-critical communications organisation, TCCA. TCCA addresses the ongoing development of the TETRA open standard as well as promoting the development of mission-critical broadband communications. For its part, Plextek is involved in the development of systems for both Long-Term Evolution (LTE) and digital Professional Mobile Radio (PMR) ...

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