Velodyne has announced a 128-channel LiDAR sensor which, it says, has ten times the resolving power of the company’s previous  model, the HDL-64. As well as doubling the channel numbers, channel density has been tripled and the zoom resolution doubled, enabling it to detect objects more clearly and identify them more accurately. The resulting range is ...

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e-peas, the Belgian energy harvesting IC specialist, has begun building a distribution network snd has appointed three disties. In the UK, the company has appointed Solid State Supplies (www.sssltd.com), while Unitronic (www.unitronic.de) and Kamaka (www. kamaka.de) will be providing coverage for the DACH region (Germany, Austria and Switzerland).   Each of these disties has the  application ...

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Renesas and HELLA Aglaia, the visual sensor systems specialist, have announced their open and scalable front camera system for ADAS. Thefront camera system combines the R-Car V3M, Renesas’ high-performance, low-power image recognition SoC for New Car Assessment Program (NCAP), and HELLA Aglaia´s  camera software designed to meet level 2 (partial automation) and level 3 (conditional ...

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Riot Micro, a Vancouver LTE start-up, comes out of stealth mode today to announce it is sampling a baseband processor for the NB-IoT and LTE Cat M1 standards which claims to beat existing chips for power and price. The chip isdesignated RM1000 and comes in an 8 x 8-mm 68-pad QFN package or a 3.5 ...

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The president of PEZY Computing, a fabless Japanese chip company which makes processors for Japan’s supercomputer projects, has been arrested for fraud. PEZY designed the processors for Japan’s Gyoukou supercomputer which was ranked last month as the world’s fourth most powerful supercomputer at 19.4 petaflops. PEZY’s president is Motoaki Saito. Another PEZY employee, Daisuke Suzuki, ...

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Imec has used an optimised CMOS process to fabricate vertically stacked gate-all-around (GAA) silicon nanowire transistors in a functional ring oscillator. The demonstrator shows the enormous promise this technology holds for realizing sub-5nm technology nodes. Gate-all-around (GAA) MOSFETs based on vertically stacked horizontal nanowires or nanosheets are promising candidates to succeed FinFETs in sub-5nm technology ...

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Q3 billings for semiconductor manufacturing equipment billings were $14.3 billion, reports SEMI, which is a record. Q3 bIllings were 2% up on Q2 and 30% up on Q3 2016. The strongest Q3 growth was in Europe while Korea remained the largest market. Q3 Billings by Region $bn. % change from Q316 Korea. 4.99. 139% Taiwan ...

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ST has put a 600V/8A single-phase MOSFET full bridge in a 13mm x 11mm SiP for use in industrial motor drives, lamp ballasts, power supplies, converters, and inverters. With a footprint 60% smaller than a comparable circuit built from discrete components, the PWD13F60 can also boost end-application power density. By integrating four power MOSFETs, it ...

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