International fibre laser maker IPG Photonics is to spend £15m building a UK headquarters in Coventry. To open before next year on a 1.7ha site in Coventry’s Ansty Park, according to the West Midlands Growth Company (see below), it will create 30 jobs in electronic and mechanical production, robotics and laser processing. “IPG Photonics is ...
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Arduino has today launched Arduino SIM, a SIM-only service exclusively for IoT devices based on the Arduino platform, to give developers and manufacturers cellular access to the Arduino IoT Cloud platform from over 100 countries with a single data plan and competitive pricing. Arduino SIM aims to provide the simplest path to cellular IoT device ...
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Achronix has followed the Q4 debut of its 7nm Speedcore eFPGA with the launch of its 7nm Speedster FPGA IC. The 7nm Speedcore IP helped boost Achronix’ IP revenues by 250% last year and the promising thing about the 7nm Speedster is that it’s targeting the same hot market as Speedcore – AI/machine learning. Asked ...
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Globalfoundries continues its programme of divestment with the sale of its seven month old ASIC unit, called Avera Semiconductor, to Marvell. Avera was only set up last November. Marvell will pay GloFo $650 million for the acquisition plus a further $90 million if certain business conditions are met. The agreement includes the transfer of Avera’s ...
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Smiths Interconnect has announced D Series connectors as a high reliability alternative to premium priced autoclave-compatible connectors. Medical environments typically require products to be suitable for autoclave sterilisation whilst also offering scalability to support design-in applications with a wide range of device styles and sizes. The medical device industry continues to develop more disposable and ...
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SIA CEO John Neuffer has responded to the US government’s ban on companies selling ICs to Huawei. “We are troubled by the recent setback in U.S.-China negotiations and the escalation of tensions on both sides, but remain hopeful a mutually beneficial agreement is still within reach,” says Neuffer, “too much is at stake for the ...
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Lattice is focusing on system security with small FPGAs that have their own root-of-trust alongside other security features that can protect processors, GPUs, other FPGAs, and their associated memories. “This is the first small FPGA designed to be compliant to SP 800-193 – as a chip, and enabling our customers to build compliant products,” said Lattice ...
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HP Enterprise is to buy 47 year-old Seattle supercomputer manufacturer Cray for around $1.3 billion net of cash. The price is 17% above Cray’s last closing price before the deal. “Answers to some of society’s most pressing challenges are buried in massive amounts of data,” says HPE CEO Antonio Neri, “only by processing and analyzing ...
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Mining bitcoin is the last thing you’d associate with Raspberry Pi but a £34 pack which claims to make you a Pi Master delivers an understanding of this and more. The Raspberry Pi Mastery Bundle on the Inverse Shop offers: Explore the nexus of hardware and software with Raspberry Pi Learn to program and design for ...
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Imec, and it’s spin-off Bloomlife, have prototyped a wearable 5-channel ECG chip to continuously monitor fetal heart rate and mobility, two important indicators of a baby’s wellbeing. With the development of this chip, a major hurdle has been taken in the creation of a wearable ECG system that can accurately measure the fetal ECG as ...
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