WorldStack raised half a million dollars in seed round investment from angel investors. “This round of funding will be used to evolve WorldStack’s intelligence platform, Providence, and expand the team to bolster the software development, intelligence operations, product support and sales areas of the business,” says COO and co-founder, Eric Flis. WorldStack is an Australian ...

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Foxconn’s plan to build an LCD factory in Wisconsin may be canned, reports Reuter’s. The announcement of the Wisconsin plant was made from the White House in the early months of the Trump Presidency.  It supported the new president’s campaign promises that he would repatriate jobs to the USA, and Wisconsin was said to be ...

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In the bidding process for the Israeli datacentre connectivity company Mellanox, Intel is said to have offered $5.5-5.6 billion. Xilinx is also reported to be engaged in the process which is being run by an investment bank. Mellanox’s customers are datacentre owners and the companies which build datacentres. Xilinx is making a bid for datacentre ...

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Today, the  Department for Culture, Media and Sport (DCMS) is to announce a programme budgeted at up to £30 million to look at how  technology could be used to tackle global challenges. The projects include: A partnership between leading conservation charities. Tech Hub and technology experts to reduce the level of illegal trade of wildlife ...

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X-FAB, the analogue/mixed-signal and specialty foundry, has begun  full volume production of its high temperature galvanic isolation semiconductor process. The technology is fully automotive qualified. Galvanic isolation electrically separates circuits in order to improve noise immunity, remove ground loops, and increase common mode voltage. It can also protect human interfaces from contact with high voltages. An example ...

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Samsung has begun mass producing the industry’s first 1TB embedded Universal Flash Storage (eUFS) 2.1, for use in mobile applications. Phones will have storage capacity comparable to a premium notebook PC, without having to pair their phones with additional memory cards. “The 1TB eUFS is expected to play a critical role in bringing a more ...

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AMD has announced the 7th amendment to its wafer supply agreement with GLOBALFOUNDRIES  see this link. ‘AMD remains an important strategic partner as we reshape our portfolio to intensify investment in the technologies that provide the most value to customers,’ says GloFo, ‘we are proud to be a critical supplier of AMD’s current-generation 14nm and 12nm ...

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Osram Opto Semiconductors is introducing its second-generation blue multi-mode laser diode, which double the range of previous LED solutions up to 600 metres. It also simplifies system design when used in the auxiliary high beam lights of vehicles. Used as a light source for auxiliary high beams, Osram’s PLPT9 450D_E A01 laser makes driving at ...

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