Today, in Los Angeles, Imec meets Rutgers University in the final of the DARPA Spectrum Collaboration Challenge for a chance to win the $2 million first prize. Imec’s team ‘SCATTER’ finished in the top 10 after two rounds of competition—receiving $750,000 in each round—and will compete against nine other teams to find a solution to ...
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Developers working with TensorFlow will be able to target Imagination’s PowerVR GPUs directly thanks to newly optimised open source SYCL neural network libraries. The first release will be available in November 2019. The SYCL version of TensorFlow supports a very large number of AI operations and is easily user-customisable, meaning that developers using the latest ...
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Melexis has produced a relative pressure sensor IC designed for measuring very low pressures in automotive applications. The MLX90821 is a SIP to measure fuel vapor pressure as low as 50 mbar and up to 700 mbar. This makes the MLX90821 suitable for EVAP systems designed for internal combustion engine or hybrid vehicles. >Implementing fuel ...
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Following a Q1 drop, SSD shipments returned growth in Q2 as demand from the client system market boosted the performance of third-party suppliers like Kingston, says IHS Markit. Q2 SSD shipments rose to 57.9 million units up 9.7% from 52.8 million units in Q1. Q1 shipments declined by 8.4% sequentially. This shift from contraction to ...
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Advanced Linear Devices is aiming at series-connected supercapacitors with precision dual-channel automatic voltage balancers and over-voltage protectors. Called the SABMBOVP2xx family of products, they are small PCBs based around the firm’s ALD9100xx ICs, with added current-boosting output fets. ALD9100xx ICs (circuit below) include two voltage-dependant current sinks that conduct heavily above a certain voltage – acting ...
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Georgia Tech is to develop circuit breakers for >1MW dc power links up to 100kV – with wind farms, electric aircraft and electric ships in mind. Direct current power transmission is more efficient than AC (see below), but high-power dc is far harder to interrupt than ac – there is no current zero crossing in ...
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Low clamping voltage, high surge transient voltage suppressors (TVS) from Alpha and Omega Semiconductor (AOS) are designed for Vbus protection. The AOZ8621UNI series of six TVS are suitable for USB Type-C Power Delivery (PD), in laptops and smartphones and any application using the PD protocol that can deliver up to 100W. The series covers a ...
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SoftBank has offered a $5 billion debt package to WeWork which is set to run out of cash in mid-November. On top of that Softbank will offer $3 billion to buy out existing WeWork shareholders and bring forward to this year a $1.5 billion investment in WeWork which had been scheduled for next year, reports ...
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The LESA Centre at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in New York has pioneered and patented lighting-based Time of Flight sensing for privacy-preserving and occupant position measurement. Lighting-based Time of Flight (ToF) sensing plays an essential role in technologies ranging from safe, autonomous self-driving cars to SMART phones with facial recognition capabilities. Using the same concept, LESA’s precise ...
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SkyWater Technology, the only US-owned pure-play foundry which operates an old 200mm Cypress fab in Bloomington, Minnesota, is to receive a $170 million investment from the US Department of Defense (DoD). SkyWater will be expanding its Trusted Foundry facility to add clean room area and supporting infrastructure to enable Strategic Rad-Hard and other complementary technologies. The initial ...
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