A Japanese government proposal to be considered by Japan’s Cabinet next week is to give the four main Japanese telcos, NTT, KDDI, Softbank and Rakuten, permission to instal 5G base stations on traffic lights. The idea was included in the government’s IT strategy as a route to accelerating the roll-out and reducing the cost of 5G deployment. The plan covers around 200,000 traffic signals ...

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Renesas has launched Perception Quick Start Software for its R-Car V3H SoC which delivers camera obstacle detection (COD), LiDAR obstacle detection (LOD), and road feature detection (RFD) – three key recognition areas for sensor-based Level 2+ autonomous vehicle systems. The R-Car V3H SoCs deliver a combination of high computer vision performance and artificial intelligence processing at low power ...

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H&D Wireless of Sweden and the Korea Institute for Advancement and Technology (KIAT), have formed an alliance called C-PALS (Cyber-Physical, Assembly and Logistics Systems). Other project partners from Sweden are Ericsson, Scania and the Royal Institute of Technology (KTH). The project starts on July 1 and continues for 3 years. The purpose of the project ...

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Infineon is to buy Cypress in a transaction which should create a company with over $10 billion in revenue and take the No.8 position in the semiconductor world rankings. Infineon is paying $23.85 per share compared to the $17.82 closing price on Friday giving  Cypress an enterprise value of  €9 billion compared to its market ...

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Nicomatic, the French interconnection specialist, has DMM Micro D mixed signal connectors available with single or two-piece backshells for 360° shielding and protection of the cable/connector interconnect. The devices are available on a six-to-eight week leadtimes. Nicomatic’s  DMM connectors comply with MIL-DTL-83513G specifications yet save space when compared to other Micro D connectors and enable ...

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2019 smartphone volumes will decline 1.9% from 2018, says IDC. This will mark the third consecutive year of market contraction driven by highly saturated markets in developed countries and slower churn in some developing economies. IDC expects shipments in the first half of 2019 (1H19) will be down 5.5% compared to 1H18, but the second ...

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The STM32G4 Series combines a 32-bit Arm Cortex-M4 core (with FPU and DSP instructions) running at 170 MHz combined with 3 different hardware accelerators: ART Accelerator, CCM-SRAM routine booster and mathematical accelerators. The STM32G4 Series also offers: Rich advanced analog peripherals (comparator, op-amps, DAC) ADC with hardware oversampling (16-bit resolution) Dual-bank Flash memory with error-correcting ...

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