AI helps drones navigate with low cost cameras and cheap inertial sensors

Imperial College spin-out Slamcore is developing artificial intelligence based tools to help robots both map their environment and navigate through it – ‘slam’ in the name comes from ‘simultaneous localisation and mapping’. “We are experts in the probabilistic fusion of multiple types of sensor,” Slamcore CEO Owen Nicholson told Electronics Weekly. “Our AI algorithms have ...

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Keysight boosts handheld analyser capability

Keysight has revealed the next generation of its multi-purpose handheld FieldFox microwave analyzers – the B-series, including a combination spectrum and vector network analyser with 100MHz real-time bandwidth. “FieldFox B-series analysers offer measurement capabilities that enable 5G network testing in the field,” said the firm. “In addition, these capabilities enable customers to locate and identify the ...

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SEMI billings fall everywhere except Taiwan

Q1 semiconductor manufacturing equipment billings fell 8% sequentially and 19% y-o-y to $13.79 billion, says SEMI. Taiwan Q1 billings grew 36% sequentially and grew 68% y-o-y to $3.81 billion. Korea’s QI billings dropped 8% sequentially and dropped 54% y-oy to $2.89 billion.  China’s Q1 billings were down 13% sequentially and dropped 11% y-o-y at $2.36 billion. America’s ...

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Carbon nitride grown as 2D semiconductor

Berlin researchers have have created a 2D semiconductor with an unusual property – it conducts better (65x better) perpendicular to is planes than along its planes – the opposite to graphene. It is called Triazine-based graphitic carbon nitride (TGCN), was created by Humboldt-Universität and the Helmholtz-Zentrum Berlin, and “should be highly suitable for applications in ...

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Banning China will add 11% to European 5G costs

Banning Chinese 5G switchgear will cost Europe $62 billion says the GSMA.  The GSMA estimates the cost of installing 5G in Europe to be $568 billion. The GSMA says that half of the $62 billion additional cost “would be due to European operators being impacted by higher input costs following significant loss of competition in the ...

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Soitec and GloFo ink supply deals

Soitec and Globalfoundries  have signed multiple long-term supply agreements for 300mm SOI wafers to secure supplies to meet the growing demand for RF-SOI, FD-SOI and photonics ICs. RF-SOI chips are used in all smartphones and FD-SOI has become the standard technology for cost-effective, low-power devices in high-volume consumer and IoT applications as well as for mission ...

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Toshiba into volume production of 50V/3.5A DC brushed motor driver

Yesterday Toshiba started volume production of DC brushed motor driver ICs with a single-channel H-bridge driver offering a maximum rating of 50V/3.5A and what is claimed to be the industry’s lowest standby current. Supplied in a compact, HSOP8 surface mount package and featuring a popular pinout, the TB67H450FNG is ideal for new DC brushed motor ...

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Micron sampling UFS 2.1 64-layer TLC NAND modules for auto

Micron is sampling  UFS 2.1 NAND flash modules for automotive applications with volume scheduled for Q3. They use 64-layer, TLC ICs and come in densities from 32GB to 256GB. The memories deliver up to 940 MB/s reads and 650 MB/s writes. UFS delivers up to 3X faster reads and more than 2X faster writes than e.MMC ...

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