Tesla settles Autopilot lawsuit

Tesla has settled a class action with customers who asserted that the Autopilot feature was “essentially unusable and demonstrably dangerous.” The customers, who paid $5,000 for Autopilot alleged that the automated emergency braking, side collision warnings and auto high beams did not work or were unreliable. They said it braked for no reason and failed to ...

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Gate-all-around key to 5nm SRAM cell

A process flow for six-transistor (6T) SRAM suitable for 5nm chips has been created by Belgian research lab Imec working with Unisantis Electronics Singapore. It uses surrounding gate transistors (SGTs) – a vertical gate-all-around architecture developed at Unisantis – to squeeze the cell into foot prints between 0.0184 and 0.0205μm2. “Studies show that the vertical gate-all-around SGT-based ...

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ST produces safety chip

ST has brought together the latest digital security techniques in a single chip to protect Smart Things and Networks including those for utility infrastructure against cyber threats. Focused on providing security for connected objects, the STSAFE-J100 gives the object an unalterable identity that can be authenticated; it also handles encrypted communications and provides secure storage. ...

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German R&D group for connected car security

SecFor Cars, a three year project to provide security for connected cars, has received a €7.2 million grant from the German government. Participants in the project are: Volkswagen, Audi, Infineon, Bosch, ESCRYPT,  Itemis,  Mixed Mode,  SCHUTZWERK, the University of Ulm, the Technical Universities of Braunschweig and Munich, the Free University of Berlin, the Karlsruhe University ...

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China chips grow 21%

China’s Q1 chip output grew 20.8% y-o-y to $18.1 billion in the first quarter of 2018, according to the China Semiconductor Industry Association (CSIA). The output value of China’s IC design industry sector increased 22% on year to $6 billion in the first quarter of 2018, while that of the IC manufacturing sector climbed 26.2% ...

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Europe should lead the world on internet regulation, says Macron

Europe should lead the world in Internet regulation, Emmanuel Macron, President of France, told a tech audience in Paris yesterday. “For me, the U.S. model is not sustainable because there’s no political accountability,” said Macron, “on the other side, you have a very strong Chinese model. But this model has not the same values as ...

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Autonomy ex-CFO appeals against fraud conviction

Autonomy’s former CFO Sushovan Hussain (pictured) has filed to have his US conviction of fraud overturned before his sentencing on August 24th and a $5 billion civil suit in London in March. Hussain was accused of making fraudulent statements about Autonomy’s value during the 2011 sale of the company to HP for $11.7 billion. 12 ...

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Switching with molecules

Researchers at the Technical University of Munich (TUM) have used a single molecule to switch light signals. The TUM-developed molecules can be switched between two structurally different states using an applied voltage. Such nanoswitches can serve as the basis for a class of devices that could replace silicon-based components with organic molecules. Switching with just a single molecule brings ...

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40mOhm silicon carbide transistor switches 1,200V and 50A

New Jersey-based UnitedSiC has introduced a silicon carbide transistor that can switch 1.2kV and 47A at 100degC. Unusually for SIC transistors, the gate is fully compatible with existing IGBT drivers, and has a 5V gate threshold – avoiding accidental turn-on issues associated with the lower thresholds of SiC mosfets. Called UJ3C120040K3S, its gate characteristics come ...

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