u-blox and Arvento Mobile Systems of Turkey have developed a compact people and asset tracking device with a long battery life. The Arvento Treyki Mini has eight operating modes, including special settings for tracking kids (with Geofencing), senior citizens (with an integrated fall sensor), and for use in sports, racing, and asset management. It can ...

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Socionext is shipping its latest display controller, the SC1711, developed for in-vehicle head-up displays (HUDs) alongside the software development kit. It features SEERIS 2D graphics engine, high-speed APIX2 interface, as well as comprehensive safety functions, making it suitable for highly safe and cost-competitive in-vehicle display systems. The SC1711 was designed to meet the specific needs of HUDs, ...

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Imagination has launched its latest neural network accelerator (NNA) architecture. A single Series3NX core scales from 0.6 to 10 tera operations per second (TOPS), while multicore implementations can scale beyond 160 TOPS. Thanks to architectural enhancements, including lossless weight compression, the Series3NX architecture claims a 40% boost in performance in the same silicon area over ...

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Contract prices for DRAM are now being negotiated on a monthly, rather than a quarterly basis, and fell twice in November, reports 4GB PC modules have dropped 3.2%  and 8GB PC modules have dropped 1.6%.  In Q4, DRAMeXchange expects the price to drop nearly 8% q-o-q with PC DRAM, server DRAM and specialty DRAM dropping ...

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IAR Systems and SiFive have formed a partnership in deliver RISC-V implementations. By tightly integrating IAR Systems’ compiler and debugging tools with SiFive’s RISC-V core IP, the companies will provide developers with complete solutions enabling users to get started quickly. SiFive brings a platform for designing, testing and building RISC‑V-based core IP and chips, accelerating ...

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Leti has extended its 300mm line to allow new technological modules to be inserted in, or made compatible with, industrial flows. Targeted technological routes and related targeted applications for the 300mm line extension include: memory: phase-change RAM (PCRAM), oxide-based resistive memory (OxRAM), conductive-bridging RAM (CBRAM) vertical image sensors photonics: III-V on silicon, integrated photonics… power ...

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Q3 billings for sales of semiconductor manufacturing equipment were $15.8 billion which was 5% down on Q2 but 11% higher than Q3 2017. The data are gathered jointly with the Semiconductor Equipment Association of Japan (SEAJ) from over 95 global equipment companies that provide data on a monthly basis. The quarterly billings data by region ...

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Ultrahaptics has raised a $45 million Series C round. The new funding will support new product development and further B2B customer acquisition across global markets and industry sectors. The round was oversubscribed and will enable Ultrahaptics to further develop and commercialise its  haptic technology in next generation user interfaces and experiences. The new funding is ...

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