Qualcomm fined €242m for Icera gambit

The EC has fined Qualcomm €242 million for abusing its market dominance in 3G baseband chipsets. Qualcomm sold below cost, with the aim of forcing its competitor Icera out of the market. Icera, of Bristol, founded by Stan Boland with Nigel Toon and Simon Knowles who now run Graphcore, was sold to Nvidia for $367 ...

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Electronic fuel injection reference design for small engines

With increasingly tight global pollution standards for even small engines, STMicroelectronics and Arrow Electronics have produced am electronic control unit (ECU) reference design for single and twin-cylinder fuel-injected petrol engines. Called SPC5-L9177A-K02, the ECU reference design is aimed at motorcycles, scooters, and three wheelers – particularly those which must satisfy Euro 5, Bharat Stage VI (BSVI), and China ...

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Turkey dominates student avionics and aeronautics competition in Texas

Turkish universities dominated the annual global ‘CanSat’ avionics and aeronautics competition, getting first, second and fifth places. Held this year in Texas, the competition has nothing to do with satellites, but it does involve rockets, payload deployment, telemetry and, this year, autogyros. In a nut shell, CanSat 2019 required students to construct a two-part payload that ...

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UltraSoC Gets £2m grant from Innovate UK

UltraSoC has been given a  £2 million grant by Innovate UK for a project that will improve the safety and security of tomorrow’s connected and autonomous vehicles (CAVs). The project, a collaboration between UltraSoC, the Universities of Southampton and Coventry, and cybersecurity specialist consultancy Copper Horse, aims to improve the security and safety of citizens and infrastructure by developing the ...

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Toshiba Memory to change its name

Toshiba Memory will re-brand in October, from whence it will call itself ‘Kioxia’ – pronounced ‘kee-ox-ee-uh’. “I am delighted to take the next step in our company’s evolution,” said Toshiba Memory Holdings executive chairman Stacy Smith. Toshiba Memory Europe GmbH will become Kioxia Europe GmbH on 01 October, and the name Kioxia will be adopted for the ...

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Samsung ramping 12Gb LPDDR5 mobile DRAM

Samsung has begun mass producing 12Gb LPDDR5 mobile DRAM, which has been optimized for enabling 5G and AI features in future smartphones. Samsung also plans to start mass producing 12-gigabyte (GB) LPDDR5 packages later this month, each combining  eight of the 12Gb chips. “With mass production of the 12Gb LPDDR5 built on Samsung’s latest second-generation ...

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170wph for EUV as ASML sees another growth year

ASML had Q2 net sales of €2.6 billion, net profit of  €476 million and a gross margin of 43% The company  Q3 2019 sales of around  €3 billion and a gross margin between 43% and 44% (Figures in millions of euros unless otherwise indicated) Q1 2019 Q2 2019 Net sales 2,229 2,568 …of which Installed ...

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Four centres opened to develop EV charging systems

Schneider Electric and  Edmundson Electrical have combined to open four EV Centres of Excellence.in Manchester, West Bromwich, Glasgow and Twickenham to develop expertise in smart, interoperable EV charging systems. This will support contractors in meeting growing EV infrastructure and energy demands. As EV charging systems scale in size and complexity, the opening of the centres ...

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Socionext encoder generates live 8K video streams

Socionext, the video data processing specialist, has developed a streaming encoder unit – the “e8 – which generates live 8K video streams for expanding the use of HD high-quality video. It will be available worldwide in September 2019. The e8 is equipped with Socionext’s multi-channel, real-time encoder SoC, the MB86M31. It is capable of real-time encoding of 8K/60p ...

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