Cambridge-based Blighter Surveillance Systems has made its first sale into India for its Blighter B400 series ground surveillance radar. The contract was awarded by system integrator Tata Power following a trial organised by India’s border management organisation in Gwalior in 2016. Blighter radars will be deployed by Tata during 2018 as part of the Indian ...
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Scientists have written an open letter proposing the establishment of a huge European initiative to develop AI. They write: “We are at a crossroads where machine learning is at the heart of a technological and societal artificial intelligence revolution involving multiple sister disciplines, with large implications for the future competitiveness of Europe, Europe is not ...
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Arduino has launched a global contest that challenges users of its open-source electronics platform to create innovative products that help advance the development of Industry 4.0 automation and robotics applications. The contest is being run in partnership with electronics and automation distributor Distrelec, ( https://distrelec.com/global/ ) and is hosted at the Arduino Project Hub. ( ...
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China’s three main memory companies will be in trial production in H2 with mass production in Q1, reports DRAMeXchange. They are: Yangtze River Memory Storage owned by Tsinghua Unigroup, Fujian Jin Hua IC (JHICC) a jv between the city of Fujian and UMC, and Hefei Chang Xin also called Innotron. They intend to make, respectively: ...
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ST’s STSPIN233 is a low-voltage motor driver suitable for both single-shunt and three-shunt brushless-motor driving integrating a 200mΩ 1.3Arms power stage in a 3mm x 3mm package. The chip’s standby current is less than 80nA. It can be put into standby mode under logic control, making it suitable for extending operation from batteries in equipment ...
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AMS says that Q2 sales may fall to $220-250 million from $452.7 million in Q1 because of lower orders and lower forecast orders from a major customer which is believed to be Apple. AMS supplies the image sensor used to provide face recognition in the iPhone X which, it is rumoured, will be discontinued. AMS ...
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This year Queen’s Awards for Enterprise as usual feature many electronics companies. One such is Cambridge IC, maker of rotary and linear position sensing chips, which was awarded a ‘Queen’s Awards for Enterprise – International Trade’. “Our international trade has increased 5x over the last four years,” founder David Ely told Electronics Weekly. “Almost all ...
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Ikalogic has introduced four-channel USB logic analysers, primarily for debugging serial data busses. Protocol decoding for 30 busses including I2C, SPI, RS232, CAN or 1-Wire are available. Called ScanaQuad, the devices are 50x50mm in size and operate with the firm’s ScanaStudio software running on a host Windows PC, Linux PC or Mac. “The software lets ...
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The House of Lords EU Internal Market Sub-Committee has written to Sam Gyimah MP, Minister of State for Universities, Science, Research and Innovation, to raise concerns about the progress of, and the Government’s commitment to UK space programmes after Brexit. The letter calls on the Government to act quickly to achieve an agreement that preserves UK ...
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RS Components (RS) has unveiled a beta version of a new platform called DesignSpark Marketplace which enables makers, pro-makers, start-ups and small businesses to promote and sell their own inventions and product creations to a wide audience of fellow makers and engineers, including more than 650,000 members of the RS DesignSpark engineering and maker community. ...
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