Arm CEO Simon Segars (pictured) says the company will meet the commitment to double its UK headcount made when Softbank bought Arm in July 2016. The commitment still stands despite Arm becoming loss-making. In Q3 Arm made an operating loss of $11.3 million while Softbank made a loss of $6.4 billion. Arm’s Q3 revenues fell ...
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MIT’s dacing, prancing, jumping footballing cheetahs weigh 20lb and can run at 6mph. The machines can perform a 360deg back-flip from a standing position. ‘When it’s running, its feet are only on the ground for something like 150 milliseconds at a time, during which a computer tells it to increase the force on the foot, ...
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It has now been a few months since the launch of the Raspberry Pi 4, writes Jenny List on Hackaday. While significantly faster than the Pi 3 on paper, its propensity for overheating would end up throttling down the CPU clock even with the plethora of aftermarketheatsinks and fans. The Raspberry Pi folks have been working ...
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Applied Materials has opened its Materials Engineering Technology Accelerator (META Center), aimed at speeding customer prototyping of new materials, process technologies and devices. Located at the State University of New York Polytechnic Institute (SUNY Poly) campus in Albany, New York, the META Center’s cleanroom provides customers and partners access to state-of-the-art process systems to help ...
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The Prince of Wales met the President and Chief Executive Officer, of NMiTE (New Model in Engineering and Technology) Professor Elena Rodriguez-Falcon and NMiTE Trial Learner Samuel Whitby during a visit, last week, to Herefordshire based technology company, ETL Systems. Photo shows: Ian Hilditch, ETL Systems; HRH Prince Charles; Dr Esen Bayar, ETL Systems The Prince of ...
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For National STEM Day Today, RS Components is sending Dr. Lucy Rogers, Ph.D. on a mission to find the engineering edge in sometimes little-known, but important, places. As a follow-up to its “History Makers” podcast, RS Componentsand its online engineering community,DesignSpark, are debuting on National STEM Day (November 8) a new podcast, The Engineering Edge, hosted ...
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Cornish optical firm OMC is looking to cut the cost of custom moulded backlights for customers seeking medium quantities. The scheme is called ‘Mouldshare’, and it does what it says on the tin – a single moulding tool is made to manufacture parts for multiple customers. “In general, setup costs for standard moulded backlights are ...
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Solid State Disks (SSD) has launched HotBackup, a solid state ‘live host’ backup for use in process and mission critical legacy computer systems in the telecommunications, semiconductor manufacturing, industrial process control, engineering and manufacturing, oil and gas, mil/aero and media post-production industries. Utilizing twin CompactFlash cards, HotBackup is presented to the host system as a ...
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Bill Gates has warned against US government paranoia about China. Gates suggested at the New York Times DealBook Conference that Huawei could follow the example of Microsoft and provide source code to the US government which would allay fears about its products. When the event moderator said that the US government was unlikely to see ...
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Smartphone shipments increased 0.8% y-o-y in Q3 after seven quarters of decline, says IDC. 358.3 million smartphones were shipped during the quarter, which was up 8.1% from the previous quarter and enough to return the industry to positive growth. India led emerging markets in total, which together were responsible for propelling worldwide growth, mainly from ...
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