ST launching an “Open Innovation Challenge” for startups (“Challenge”) during the upcoming CES 2019. The effort, based on ST’s product portfolio including the STM32 microcontroller platform, is aimed to promote ST technology and solutions to founders and developers of French Tech startups in France and overseas. In addition, the Challenge offers development and promotional expertise ...

This story continues at ST innovation challenge for start-ups

Or just read more coverage at Electronics Weekly

Small Robot Company, the Shropshire  agritech start-up, has reached  its Crowdcube equity crowdfunding funding target of £500,000 within minutes of its launch. The campaign is continuing to gather momentum, and the company is now working to reach its stretch targets. The company’s successful start to its campaign was was overwhelmingly due to backing from the ...

This story continues at Small Robot raises £500,000

Or just read more coverage at Electronics Weekly

BrainChip, the spiking neural net specialist,  has announced the BrainChip Studio 2018.3 update for its AI-powered video analysis software. The latest update has acnew mode that improves the software’s face classification accuracy by 10-30 percent. To date, BrainChip Studio utilized spiking neural networks to enable facial classification on partial faces. This partial-face mode is useful ...

This story continues at BrainChip updates video analysis software

Or just read more coverage at Electronics Weekly

MinerEye, the AI-powered data governance specialist, has been awarded an SME Instrument Grant from the EC worth $2.5 million. The Grant organization selected MinerEye’s Data Tracker to provide EU companies with a solution to ensure secure and compliant cloud adoption which is currently lacking in the market today. According to the Grant organization, “The solution is ...

This story continues at MinerEye bags up $2.5m grant from EC

Or just read more coverage at Electronics Weekly

Despite its political woes, Huawei has won top spot in the IHS IoT Platform Vendor rankings. Cisco, Microsoft, and PTC  were No.s 2, 3 and 4. Completing the top ten were:, Alibaba, AWS, GE, IBM and SAP. “Huawei was the leading IoT platform vendor, based on its market-leading number of devices under management, the high ...

This story continues at Huawei No.1 for IoT

Or just read more coverage at Electronics Weekly

Purdue researchers are using the 2D material molybdenum ditelluride to make memory ICs. “We haven’t yet explored system fatigue using this new material, but our hope is that it is both faster and more reliable than other approaches due to the unique switching mechanism we’ve observed,” says Purdue professor  Joerg Appenzeller. A system using molybdenum ...

This story continues at Purdue uses 2D material to make memory ICs

Or just read more coverage at Electronics Weekly

An energy storage project developed by X – an Alphabet lab – has been spun off into a start-up company calked Malta. Malta has been backed with $26 million in funding led by Breakthrough Energy Ventures whose investors include Bill Gates, Jeff Bezos, Michael Bloomberg and Masa Son. Concord New Energy Group of Hong Kong ...

This story continues at Billionaires back energy storage start-up

Or just read more coverage at Electronics Weekly

Siglent Technologies have introduced a new member in its Portfolio of Oscilloscopes. TheSDS2000X-E Oscilloscope offers a 2 GS/s Sample Rate and will be available with bandwidths of 200 MHz and 350 MHz. With all its standard features and functions, it is suitable for analogue circuit design and fit well for the needs of any service ...

This story continues at Siglent adds to ‘scope portfolio

Or just read more coverage at Electronics Weekly