Picture Gallery: Elektra Awards 2017 Attendees – The awards dinner (II)

Continuing our Elektra party theme, here is another picture gallery of Elektra Awards 2017 guests, this time from the dinner itself. Can you spot yourself – or your colleagues and friends – among this year’s attendees? More pictures to follow shortly. The Elektra European Electronics Industry Awards 2017 were presented at a Gala Dinner at the Grosvenor ...

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Microwave kit for in-car 24GHz radar design

An evaluation kit with a fully operational 24GHz radar movement detector is being sold by Aspen Electronics. The K-LD2 evaluation kit has been developed by RFbeam Microwave, a German supplier of planar radar sensors, K-band measuring equipment and engineering. The kit’s digital signal processing capability allows for evaluation of radar motion sensing. The K-LD2 sensor ...

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NI adds MAC layer support to LabVIEW for 5G

NI has announced MAC layer support for its LabVIEW Communications 802.11 Application Framework. The multiuser MAC layer enhancements to the 802.11 Application Framework to go beyond the PHY layer to address complex network-level problems that will arise for 5G system development. One example of this is 5G network slicing across different radio access technologies. Wireless ...

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Picture Gallery: Elektra Awards 2017 Attendees – The reception

Check out our gallery of Elektra Awards 2017 guests – can you spot yourself or your colleagues among this year’s party people? More to follow shortly. The Elektra European Electronics Industry Awards 2017 were presented at a Gala Dinner at the Grosvenor House Hotel, and here is picture gallery from the reception before the dinner and awards ...

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Toshiba launches 14TB HDD

Toshiba has brought out a 14TB Conventional Magnetic Recording (CMR) HDD. Using a 9-disk, helium-sealed design, the  MG07ACA Series provides the power-efficient capacity and storage density needed by cloud-scale and enterprise storage solution providers to achieve their TCO objectives. “We have raised the bar with the new MG07ACA Series 9-disk helium-sealed design,” says Toshiba’s  Akitoshi ...

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BlackBerry and Qualcomm to work together on connected cars

BlackBerry and  Qualcomm are to extend their co-operation in connected car technologies. Qualcomm hardware will be used with  BlackBerry’s QNX software to enable virtual cockpit controllers, telematics, including eCall and Cellular Vehicle-to-Everything technology, electronic control gateways, digital instrument clusters and infotainment systems. BlackBerry and Qualcomm will optimise BlackBerry over-the-air software and BlackBerry Secure Credential Management Services for ...

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China IC design industry tops $30bn

China’s IC design industry revenue will reach $30 billion in 2017, says Trendforce, and a growth rate of 20% is expected to deliver $36 billion industry revenue in 2018.   HiSilicon and Sanechips (ZTE Microelectronics) provide NB-IoT chipS, Cambricon Technologies and Horizon Robotics are developing AI chips. Unigroup Spreadtrum RDA, Datang, and HiSilicon have made chips ...

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LETI makes 4T SRAM with 6T functionality

Leti has  combined FD-SOI technology with its 3D CoolCube monolithic stacking technology to create 4T SRAM bitcells with the same functionality level of 6T bitcells, reducing die size by 30%. With SRAM taking up to 90% of some SoCs, this is a major innovation. “In the longer term, Leti’s CoolCube technology will be able to ...

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Sheffield suspends Uber

Sheffield has suspended Uber as from either December 18th or until an appeal against the decision is completed. A Sheffield Council spokesman said: “Uber’s licence was suspended last Friday (29 November) after the current licence holder failed to respond to requests, made by our licensing team, about the management of Uber.” Uber had asked for ...

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Laird’s TEM accommodates laser diode butterfly package

Laird has developed a thermoelectric module (TEM) that accommodates a laser diode butterfly package. Primarily used to stabilize the temperature of sensitive optical components in telecom and photonics industries, the miniature OptoTEC Series is designed for applications that have lower cooling requirements of 10 watts or less. The OptoTEC Series combines a small geometric footprint ...

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