China has made a big move toward the introduction of autonomous vehicles with the roll-out of national standards for testing smart autonomous cars on roads. A report in the China Daily said the move is expected to facilitate the development of autonomous driving in the country, which is already the world’s largest car market and ...
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Lithium metal batteries can be stabilised using ceramics, according to the University of University of Michigan, following the University of Texas announcement last year that glass can be used for stabilisation. Using lithium metal has the potential to increase the capacity of lithium-based rechargeable cells significantly compared with lithium-ion cells – Michigan claims doubling capacity. ...
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Mazda has used hardware-in-the-loop, including a robot, to test and verify the function of a complete car electronic system. This is in addition to the traditional practice of testing and verifying individual units and sub-systems separately. “Increasingly, one system’s operation is dependent on results from other systems. In addition to testing systems individually, multi-system tests ...
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The Q2 NAND market grew 3.5% q-o-q despite a 15-20% drop in ASP, says DRAMeXchange, which expects a 10% decline in Q3 NAND prices due to over-supply. There is upside to the ASP fall for the NAND guys – while it denies them revenue, it encourages users to increase the NAND content of their products ...
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The hybrid photonic integration platform PolyBoard, developed at Fraunhofer HHI, enables the flexible and efficient combination of various optical functionalities on a single chip. This toolbox will be further developed in the coming years as part of the “Quantum Flagship” of the European Union to meet the specific requirements of novel quantum technologies. The project ...
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Uber is being urged by investors to scrap its autonomous driving unit called its Advanced Technologies Group, reports Reuters. The unit is reported to have lost between $750 million and $1.2 billion in the last six quarters. Earlier this month Uber announced it was withdrawing from its autonomous truck driving operation. Two years ago Uber ...
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Integra Technologies, the El Segundo RF and microwave transistor and amplifier specialist, is offering an IFF avionics transistor offering 120W peak output power using GaN technology. Designed for IFF avionic applications, IGN1011L120 is a high power GaN transistor, specified for use under Class AB operation. This transistor operates at 1.03 – 1.09 GHz, and supplies a ...
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Electrochromic materials are the key to low-cost simple displays, according to Swedish firm Rdot Displays, which claims wide viewing angles and high contrast for its reflective technology. Mass-production of flexible displays is possible on plastic substrates without needing metal or ITO layers – by either sheet-to-sheet or roll-to-roll printing. The underlying technology involves organic materials ...
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Kyocera has developed tiny ceramic UHF RFID tag that can be attached to metal tools in the aerospace industry for identification and tracking. RFID tags will be attached to workshop tools of maintenance and repair service providers. The attached tag will withstand harsh environments which are typical for workshops, including impacts and dirt (e.g. oil, ...
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Purdue University researchers have created a design for FETs which makes them promising candidates for next generation nanodevices. The re-engineered Purdue FET can offer better switching behaviour for computers and devices than traditional FETs. “Our technology merges lasers and transistors,” said Purdue’s Tillmann Kubis, “there is traditionally not a lot of overlap between these two ...
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