HERE, the road mapping company owned by Audi, Daimler and BMW, has bought Advanced Telematic Systems (ATS) which provides OTA (over the air) wireless software updates to connected cars. “The acquisition of ATS is a hugely important strategic investment for us to complement our portfolio as a premium automotive cloud provider,” says Ralf Herrtwich, SVP ...

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DENSO  and NEC have formed a jv called DENSO NEXT CO to develop in-vehicle information and communications equipment critical for fostering a connected environment inside vehicles, such as instrument clusters, head-up displays, and on-board communication equipment. The company will start operations on December 1, 2017. The recent cockpit innovation and advancement of connected technologies have ...

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ARM is under notice that RISC-V is coming for it in high-end products as Esperanto Technologies announces that its developing high-end products with a 64-bit RISC-V family including: An AI “supercomputer-on-a-chip” made on TSMC’s 7-nm process. A 16-core “ET-Maxion” targeting highest single-thread performance A 4,096-core “ET-Minion” targeting performance-per-watt with a vector floating-point unit in each ...

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TI has added Ethernet connectivity to its SimpleLink microcontroller (MCU). The SimpleLink MSP43 Ethernet MCUs are based on a 120-MHz Arm Cortex-M4F core with an integrated MAC and PHY, helping accelerate time to market for grid infrastructure and industrial automation gateway applications. They offer: · MCUs which integrate an Ethernet MAC and PHY, USB, Controller ...

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