Huawei opens machine vision lab in King’s Cross

Huawei has opened an R&D lab employing 60 computer vision engineers at 1, St Pancras Square, King’s Cross (pictured) opposite the new Facebook and Google offices, reports Business Insider. It is reported that Huawei intends to increase the number of engineers on the site to 200 – working on AI as it relates to computer ...

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Big pay-back for TSMC capex

TSMC’s  heavy investments in advanced wafer-fab technology are set to pay off significantly as it continues the production ramp of 7nm ICs in the second half of this year, according to an analysis in IC Insights’ September Update to the 2019 McClean Report. Figure 1 provides an updated outlook for TSMC’s 2019 sales using quarterly ...

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Farnell enhances discounts for academic and research institutions

Farnell has enhanced its discount scheme for educational and research establishments, helping them maintain and improve their labs whilst managing their budgets. Up to 30% discounts are available from a growing supplier range which includes Tektronix, Keithley, Keysight Technologies, Fluke, Fluke Networks, Flir Systems, Aim TTi, Rohde & Schwarz, BK Precision, Sefram, Klein Tools, Pace and ...

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Flexible OLED pilot line

CPI, a UK-based technology innovation centre and a founding member of the High Value Manufacturing Catapult, is part of a consortium aiming to develop a flexible-access pilot line that will accelerate the adoption of flexible OLEDs. On 7thNovember, a workshop will take place at Fraunhofer FEP to showcase the outcomes of the LYTEUS OLED pilot ...

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Phones can have laser time-of-flight auto-focus

AMS is claiming operation through smudged and dirty glass for a miniature time-of-flight auto-focus sensor intended for phones. “TMF8801 maintains high accuracy through use of its on-chip histogram processing”, according to the firm – which includes automated dirt and smudge detection and compensation – and the circuit “enables dark and sunlight environment distance measurement within ...

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Robust IR thermometer works from 0 to 1,000°C

RS Components has added a 0 to 1,000°C non-contact infra-red thermometer to its RS Pro range. “Maintenance engineers often ask RS for a small temperature sensor that can fit into tight spaces, and that shows the measured temperature in situ, so they do not have to return to the control room to check it,” said ...

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First silicon for Flex Logix validation chip

Flex Logix says it has received working first  silicon of its validation chip for the EFLX 4K eFPGA IP cores running on GLOBALFOUNDRIES (GF) 12nm Leading-Performance (12LP) FinFET platform and newly announced 12LP+ solution. A validation chip consisting of 4 EFLX cores (2 DSP and 2 Logic, for a total of 14K LUT4s and 80 ...

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CSEM puts CMOS radar mmWave IP on GloFo 22nm.

CSEM, the Swiss non-profit R&D body, is developing ultra-low power Bluetooth Low Energy (BLE), CMOS radar mmWave IP and embedded machine-learning accelerators on GLOBALFOUNDRIES’ 22nm FD-SOI process. The combination of GF’s 22nm FD-SOI and CSEM’s “IcyTRX” dual mode Bluetooth Low Energy and Bluetooth classic RF is expected to achieve 50% lower power and 50% lower ...

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Power supplies for medical applications

XP Power has released two series of external power supplies that are intended for modern medical applications, including safety approvals for home-based healthcare, and IT applications where energy efficiency and international safety approvals are critical. Typical efficiencies for ALM150 models reach 93%, and 92% for the ALM200 models. All of the new PSUs meet Energy ...

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Pico links vector network analyser

PicoVNA Interface Wizard links Pico Technology’s PC-based vector network analyser National Instruments’ AWR Design Environment. It allows: Controlling and viewing PicoVNA output from inside a design environment One-click measurement transfer to electronic design automation (EDA) software Comparison of ideal, modelled and measured component through to subsystem data between test and simulation environments Extension of measured data ...

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