OmniVision is shipping a 1-megapixel global shutter image sensor for in-cabin camera modules in passenger vehicles, where driver state monitoring (DSM) and passenger-monitoring cameras need to be small and unobtrusive Semi-autonomous vehicles use DSM to track the driver’s eye gaze and allow the vehicle to take control when the driver becomes drowsy or distracted. DSM ...
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U-blox and University of Bristol have developed a tunable frequency-division duplexing RF front-end that combines passive and active self-interference cancellation. With the proof-of-concept demonstrator, an electrical-balance duplexer is used to passively cancel transmitter noise in the receive band, and an active canceller is employed to suppress self-interference in the transmit band. It has been characterised ...
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Google has got approval from the US FCC to deploy a radar-based gesture-sensing haptic touch device in the 57-64GHz band at power levels consistent with ETSI standards. Concerns had ben expressed by Facebook that the higher power levels would raise interference issues. After discussions, the original power levels proposed by Google were lowered. The sensor ...
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The record high level of component lead times in the second half of 2018 is showing some signs of coming back down with a drop of 5% since Q3. In Q3, a study by Future Electronics showed, among other unprecedented levels of shortage, LV MOSFETs at an astonishing 39-52 weeks lead-time from Infineon and Fairchild, ...
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November semiconductor sales were up 9.8% y-o-y at $41.4 billion but down 1.1% on October, says the SIA. “The global semiconductor industry continues to post solid year-to-year sales increases, and year-to-date revenue through November has surpassed annual sales from all of 2017, but growth has slowed somewhat in recent months, ” says SIA CEO John ...
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The universities of Sheffield, Birmingham, Leeds and Bristol have received a government grant of £26.6 million to develop micro-robots (pictured) which will run through underground pipes to find and mend cracks. “While for now we can only dream of a world without roadworks disrupting our lives, these pipe-repairing robots herald the start of technology that ...
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Jeff Bezos made more money than anyone else last year and Mark Zuckerberg lost more than anyone else, according to the Bloomberg Billionaire’s Index. Bezos was $24 billion richer at the end of 2018 than he was at the end of 2017 and Zuckerberg was $20 billion poorer. Bezos now has $123 billion dwarfing Zuckerberg’s ...
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