Avnet and Aaware enhance sound capture for AI applications

At CES18 (9 – 12 January), Aaware will introduce its Sound Capture platform, based on Avnet’s MiniZed Zynq SoC.  It integrates algorithmic acceleration and a flexible microphone array board with the dual-core Xilinx Zynq-7000 All Programmable SoCs. It is designed to help development teams create far-field, voice-to-machine communications functionality that is more natural and robust than available ...

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Powermat joins the Wireless Power Consortium

Powermat has joined the Wireless Power Consortium (WPC), the standards development group- responsible for developing a standard for wireless power. The Israeli company says it will contribute its inductive charging technology to the consortium to advance inductive wireless charging capabilities while maintaining backwards compatibility to the existing Qi ecosystem. “Powermat was one of the pioneers ...

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Infineon sampling 3D image sensor for face recognition

Infineon has developed a new 3D image sensor in its REAL3 chip family, based on Time-of-flight (ToF) technology. It enables camera modules for integration in smartphones with a footprint of less than 12 mm x 8 mm, including the receiving optics and VCSEL (Vertical-Cavity Surface-Emitting Laser) illumination. Market forecasts expect smartphones with 3D sensing functionality ...

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Spectre and Meltdown: ARM mitigates cache speculation side-channel vulnerability

Arm has published a list of processors vulnerable to Spectre and Meltdown cache speculation side-channel attacks, a description of the attack mechanism and detailed mitigation techniques. Available here, the list includes Arm Cortex-R7, R8, A8, A9, A15, A17, A57, A72, A73 and A75, although the firm points out Cortex-Rx processors are used in closed environments unlikely to be accessible ...

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Moshe Gavrielov hands Xilinx reins to Victor Peng

Moshe Gavrielov has informed Xilinx’s board that he is retiring from the company and the board, effective January 28, 2018. Gavrielov’s decision to step down from his operational role will bring to a close a 40 year career in semiconductor and software related companies. The board has elected Victor Peng, the company’s COO to succeed ...

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Plessey to be first to market monolithic microLED display

Plessey has committed to being the first to market with a monolithic microLED based display based on GaN-on-Silicon. Plessey has also commenced an extensive licensing programme that will see the company license out its GaN-on-Silicon expertise to microLED manufacturers in line with its new business strategy of becoming the photonic industry’s foremost technology platform provider. ...

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Over $100bn revenues for fabless for first time

Fabless IC company sales have topped  $100 billion for first time with two Chinese companies —HiSilicon and Tsinghua Unigroup –  in the top 10 fabless companies. Figure 1 shows the top 10 ranking of fabless IC suppliers for 2017. Unlike the relatively close annual market growth relationship between fabless IC suppliers and foundries, fabless IC company ...

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Toshiba sells Westinghouse

Toshiba has sold Westinghouse the bankrupt nuclear contractor which has caused it all the trouble of having to sell its prized memory unit. Westinghouse ran up such huge liabilitites that Toshiba put the memory business up for sale. Now Westinghouse has been sold for $4.6 billion to provate equity fund Brookfield Businees Partners. Brookfield is ...

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Mouser signs Stadium Group

Mouser has signed Stadium Group to distribute their range of  power supplies, HMI modules such as single illuminated capacitive switches, and wireless IoT devices. Recently, Stadium Group bought  PowerPax UK Limited, a UK-based distributor of of power supplies, battery chargers and LED products. Earlier in 2017, it bought UK-based Cable Power Limited adding further electronic, ...

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Autotalks and ST collaborating on DSRC

Autotalks and ST are collaborating on  DSRC (Dedicated Short Range Communication) -based Vehicle-to-Everything (V2X) communications technology including Vehicle-to-Vehicle (V2V) and Vehicle-to-Infrastructure (V2I) use cases. It uses  ST’s Telemaco3 telematics platform and Autotalks’ CRATON2 chipset, which is the most advanced and secure V2X communication solution in the form of a commercial module. The technology,  which is ...

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