A flow of engineers is the lifeblood of the electronics industry which is why RS Components and Electronics Weekly combine every year to deliver its BrightSparks project. BrightSparks tries to find engineers under 30 working or studying in the UK who can make a difference. https://www.electronicsweekly.com/brightsparks/ See (right) 2017 BrightSparks at the Houses of Parliament: ...
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Renesas has qualified its RX65N Group of MCUs with Amazon FreeRTOS, running on Amazon Web Services (AWS). The Renesas RX65N MCU lineup with Amazon FreeRTOS makes it easy for embedded designers to create a more secure end-to-end Internet of Things (IoT) cloud solution for sensor-based endpoint devices. An RX65N-based design enables sensor data transmission over Wi-Fi ...
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Taiwanese manufacturer, Chilsin, hopes to make a dent in the UK inductor market, and has signed a distribution agreement with Anglia Components. Jerry Kuo, COO of Chilisin said “We have enjoyed good growth in mainland Europe but feel the UK market is still an untapped market for Chilisin.” He added that the company was drawn ...
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Game theory, usually used to used to understand how economic agents decide and interact with each other in order to maximise their own gain, can be adapted to help robots to assist humans in a safe and versatile manner, according to researchers at the University of Sussex, Imperial College and Nanyang Technological University. The team used ...
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Ducati, Ford and Qualcomm are demonstrating driving situations utilizing C-V2X direct communications at CES. The vehicles are equipped with C-V2X technology using the Qualcomm 9150 C-V2X chipset to demonstrate a cooperative intersection use case, exhibiting how C-V2X can be used between vehicles to negotiate the right of way in entering a four-way, non-signalized intersection where intention sharing ...
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Causing a stir, and winning an innovation award, at the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas is the thing dubbed the ‘smart plank of wood’. Behind Mui, as it is actually called, is Kyoto-based Nissha. “Mui is a wooden device with built-in touch sensor and wireless sensor developed by Nissha,” said the firm. “By connecting ...
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Mobileye, Intel’s driverless car subsidiary, has tied up with the Ordnance Survey to get access to high-precision mapping. The Ordnance Survey’s expertise will be paired with Mobileye’s automotive camera-based mapping capabilities to offer a new, highly accurate and customizable location information service to Ordnance Survey customers across energy, infrastructure and other sectors. The service will ...
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Cree is to supply $250 million worth of 150mm Wolfspeed bare and epitaxial SiC wafers to ST. “ST is the only semiconductor company with automotive-grade silicon carbide in mass production today, and we want to press forward to grow our SiC business both in terms of volume and breadth of applications served, targeting leadership in ...
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ON Semiconductor and 3M are to work on improving communication between vehicles and roadway infrastructure. Together, ON and 3M combine image sensing technology and roadway safety experience, to help improve navigation for vehicles equipped with automated driving features. At CES the two companies will display ON Semiconductor’s AR0234AT CMOS image sensor integrated with 3M’s Smart ...
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DXC Technology and Luxoft Holding are to merge in a deal with an equity value of $2 billion. Luxoft provides digital strategy consulting and engineering services for companies with revenues of $911 million over the last four reported quarters. Luxoft offers capabilities such as analytics, UX/UI, IoT and blockchain, and is a significant player in outsourced ...
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