Your new best friend could be called Neon. In a pre-CES teaser Samsung says it will reveal an an “artificial human” called Neon at the show. ‘Have you met an artificial?’ asks the teaser, while company posts say it is an ‘artificial intelligence being’ and a ‘best friend.’ Samsung says Neon is unrelated to its ...
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Tong Hsing and Kingpark, the Taiwan CMOS Image Sensor (CIS) packagers have agreed to merge in a deal which will make them one of the world’s largest packaging firms for the CIS segment, reports Digitimes. Target markets are smartphone, advanced driving, IoT, IoV, VR and AR markets. 60% of the CIS market is for smartphones ...
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BeBop Sensors, the smart fabric sensor specialist, will display the Forte Data Glove – a VR haptic glove – at the show. It is designed for Oculus Quest, Oculus Link, Oculus Rift S, Microsoft Windows Mixed Reality, HTC Vive Cosmos, HTC Vive Pro, HTC Focus Plus, and Varjo VR headset technology. The gloves provide touch feedback and make ...
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Loongson, formerly known as Godson, the China CPU designer, says it has made CPUs that use no third party IP. Loongson’s latest quad-core 3A4000 and 3B4000 processors are claimed to have equivalent performance to AMD’s 2015-vintage 28nm Excavator processors. Both chips have the GS464V microarchitecture, are made on ST’s 28nm FD-SOI process and come in ...
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BES of Heywood has completed an £8.1 million project for the South Wales Compound Semiconductor Cluster to design, construct and commission an IS07-classified cleanroom along with a number of laboratory environments, including a photonics lab, a power electronics lab, an advanced packaging suite, an evaluation lab, a radio frequency lab and a high-power lab. All labs and ...
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Monzo, the four year-old cash-burning UK digital bank, is looking raise £50-100 million to add to the £113 million it raised in June in a Series F round done at a valuation of $2 billion. So far Monzo has raised about £300 million. Monzo lost £50.7 million on revenue of £9.2 million in the 12 ...
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Japan Display Inc (JDI) is in talks with Apple and Sharp to sell its main Hakusan factory in Japan, reports the Nikkei. The price is said to be between $730 million to $820 million. Apple paid up-front for half the Hakusan factory’s $1.5 billion construction cost. It is said that Apple and Sharp are considering ...
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Huawei has responded to allegations in the Wall Street Journal that, over the last 20 years, it has received $75 billion in state aid. The aid, says the WSJ, was made up of: $46 billion in loans, lines of credit, and other financing from state lenders $25 billion in tax breaks for tech companies $2 ...
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Parcel deliveries by drone are a step nearer with the CAA starting tests in February for the use of drones beyond an operator’s line of sight, which is currently illegal. “Enabling everyday drone flying beyond visual line of sight is a game changer, providing the opportunity for unmanned vehicles to monitor critical infrastructure, make deliveries ...
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“The piezoelectric market for sensors, actuators, and transducers is expected to reach $48.5 billion in 2024, with a 12.6% CAGR from 2018 – 2024 on comparable devices in bulk and thin-film technologies.» says Jérôme Mouly of Yole Développement (Yole), ”thin-film piezo-based devices are driving the market’s growth, though market share is still in favour of ...
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