The eleven German partners in the European project “Integrated Components for Complexity Control in affordable electrified cars”, 3Ccar for short have presented their report. 3Ccar has 48 partners from 14 different countries working on ICs for EVs. By 2030, 50% of newly registered vehicles will be electrically powered, connected or automated, reckons 3Ccar. This requires ...

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Sir Hossein Yassaie, founder and CEO of Imagination, has become a non-exec at Agile Analog, the Cambridge analogue EDA startup. Agile Analog is set on automating the design and delivery of analogue IP. Using its AI-driven approach, Agile Analog has automated the traditionally manual design process and is creating analogue IP that aims to be ...

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Imec, EnergyVille and  PVcase, a Lithuanian software company, are developing a commercial software product that predicts the energy yield of PV power plants. First blind tests of the prototype software have been completed for bifacial PV plants and the go to market is targeted for the first half of 2020. Solar energy is booming and ...

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Ossia, E-PEAS and E-Ink say they have made a prototype of a wirelessly-powered, battery-less Electronic Paper Display (EPD). This system can be operated and wirelessly powered at-a-distance in a dynamic environment, without the need for any wires or batteries. The companies plan to release the technology for commercial use by the end of next year. ...

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Foreign acquisitions by Chinese entities in H1 fell 42% y-o-y to $24.5 billion which represents a fifth of the peak reached in H1 2016, reports Dealogic. The number of foreign acquisitions sank to 251 in H1 – the lowest for five years. Chinese acquisitions in the US have dropped by 87% over the past three years,and by 91% ...

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The Q2 wearables market grew 85.2% in units with shipments of 67.7 million, according to  the IDC Worldwide Quarterly Wearable Device Tracker. Earworn devices (hearables) were among the fastest growing categories, capturing 46.9% of the overall wearables market during the quarter, up from 24.8% a year ago. Driving that growth was a slew of new products ...

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Aldec, the specialist in mixed HDL language simulation and hardware-assisted verification for FPGA, ASIC and SoC designs, has enhanced its HES Proto-AXI software to provide greater support to designers using the company’s HES pre-silicon prototyping solution for hardware verification and software validation. The enhancements include support for QEMU (the open source machine emulator and virtualizer) ...

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