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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Mouser-Phoenix e-book for IIoT connectors

Mouser and Phoenix Contact have brought out an e-book offering an in-depth look at connector designs and their importance in the  Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT). In Trusted Connection, Trusted Design, experts from Phoenix Contact provide guides on PCB design, locking systems, and new connecting technologies, offering readers valuable insights on how to leverage connectors for more reliable ...

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Average semi content of electronic systems to fall to 26.4%

If IC Insights’  forecasts for the electronic systems market and the semiconductor market are right, then the average semiconducor content in an electronic system will drop to 26.4% after reaching a record 31.1% last year. IC Insights forecasts that the 2019 global electronic systems market will grow 4% to $1,680 billion. IC Insights’ forecast for ...

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Secure MCU for e-banking and e-identification – contact and contactless

ST microelectronics has introduced a secure microcontroller that includes a 13.56MHz RF interface for contactless operation and a serial interface for contact operation. Called ST31P450, it is built on a 40nm flash process and is aimed at contactless and contact applications in banking, identity, transportation and pay-television. The RF interface includes an RF UART for contactless comms ...

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