Scottish Enterprise invests in recent Diodes acquisition in Greenock

Diodes has received £13.7m in funding from Scottish Enterprise towards a £47m project enabling its future growth in Greenock, first minister Nicola Sturgeon announced. Diodes acquired the former Texas Instruments business in the town in April 2019, safeguarding all 300 jobs on site, in a deal facilitated by Scottish Development International (SDI), the Scottish government ...

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Harman presents vehicle-to-pedestrian 5G Technology at CES 2020

Samsung subsidiary Harman has unveiled an ADAS use case called vehicle-to-pedestrian, which forewarns drivers and pedestrians to potential safety conflicts through the use of its vehicle-to-everything (V2X) technology. Part of Harman’s safety system technologies, vehicle-to-pedestrian can be enhanced through 5G-fueled C-V2X networks. In the car, vehicle-to-pedestrian can work on low latency 5G peer-to-peer signals to ...

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CES: Arduino launches Portenta

At CES Arduino has  announced the Arduino Portenta. Designed for demanding industrial applications, AI edge processing and robotics, it features a new standard for open high-density interconnect to support advanced peripherals. The first member of the family is the Arduino Portenta H7 module – a dual-core Arm Cortex-M7 and Cortex-M4 running at 480MHz and 240MHz ...

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Pervasive Displays releases larger e-paper displays at 5.8” and 9.7”

Taiwan’s Pervasive Displays has introduced two electronic paper display modules, the E24581JS084 5.8-inch and E2969JS084 9.7-inch. The tri-color modules offer bi-stable image resolution of 134 dpi and 121 dpi respectively. The displays feature integrated timing controllers, an operating temperature range of 0-40°C and one-time programmable (OTP) capability. These additions to Pervasive Displays’ portfolio are designed ...

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Nexeon sampling silicon-enhanced batteries

Nexeon – the Oxfordshire company developing silicon materials for next generation Li-ion batteries – is sampling silicon-enhanced batteries to potential customers for evaluation. The move marks the halfway stage in its £10million SUNRISE (Synthomer, UCL & Nexeon’s Rapid Improvement in the Storage of Energy) project. SUNRISE is on target to develop materials based on silicon ...

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CES: Dirac and NXP collaborate on audio platform using i.MX 8M chipsets

Swedish digital audio specialist Dirac and NXP Semiconductors have announced a collaboration for CES 2020. OEMs can now use NXP’s i.MX 8M family of chipsets equipped with Dirac’s digital audio platform. This announcement is being made at CES 2020 at Dirac Booth #18123. The Dirac digital audio platform includes a suite of tuning tools. The ...

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CES: Smallest ToF sensor

At CES Infineon and 3D Time of Flight system specialist pmdtechnologies are presenting what they claim to be to the world’s smallest and most powerful 3D image sensor measuring 4.4 x 5.1 mm. The sensor, REAL3 (IRS2887C),  enables an accurate 3D image of faces, hand details or objects which is relevant when it must be ...

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CES: LG to demo WebOS Auto

LG will show off  webOS Auto, an OS for connected cars derived from its smart TV system and co-developed with Qualcomm and Microsoft. WebOS Auto  is based on Qualcomm’s Automotive Development Platform (ADP) and supports iHeartRadio, Mapbox, and Cerence. The OS goes up against incumbents Apple CarPlay and Android Auto. At CES, LG will demo ...

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CES: Bezel-Less TV

Here’s Samsung’s bezel-less TV unveiled yesterday at CES:   Samsung’s  Q950TS 8K QLED TV Has the company’s new Infinity Screen that, says Samsung, is 99% screen on the front face. The Q950TS is 15mm deep with a Full Array Local Dimming backlight. It offers ‘deep-learning AI upscaling’  and offers a redesigned smart user experience that ...

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