Xerox has made a tender offer direct to HP’s shareholders to buy all HP’s shares for $24 per share, comprising $18.40 in cash and 0.149 Xerox shares for each HP share, valuing HP at nearly $35 billion. Xerox has a market cap of $7.24 billion. “Our proposal offers progress over entrenchment,” said John Visentin, vice ...
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Researchers from Purdue University’s biomedical engineering school have developed a handheld paper device that quickly and accurately detects coronavirus MERS-CoV and could be used to detect COVID-19. Developing a process to manufacture it would cost at least a couple of million dollars. “Paper-based devices are already manufactured – pregnancy tests are paper-based. Because this device has ...
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High-end inertial sensors are becoming a significant market, says Yole Developpement Defence accounts for 40% of the market while commercial aerospace accounts for 26% Commercial shipping has 18% share and industrial has 16%. Defence, commercial aerospace and maritime should have between 3 and 4% CAGRs, while industrial applications look the most promising with more than 10% ...
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TI has come up with a digital isolator that is qualified to the Grade 0 ambient operating temperature specification of the Automotive Electronics Council (AEC)-Q100 standard. The ISO7741E-Q1 features a 1.5-kVRMS working voltage and supports temperatures up to the Grade 0 maximum of 150°C. The isolator enables engineers to better protect low-voltage circuitry from high-voltage ...
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Announced at Embedded World 2020, four Alvium cameras with a USB3 Vision interface have been added Allied Vision’s 1800 C series. The Alvium range is designed for embedded vision systems, which necessitate compact, lightweight design. The devices are available as single-board modules or with open housing for integration into small systems. They measure 7x26x26mm in ...
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At Embedded World 2020, UltraSoC announced CAN Sentinel, an IP to add a hardware-based security layer into CAN bus, the industry-standard interconnect for automotive manufacturers. The CAN Sentinel resides on the bus, monitoring transactions with a vehicle’s electronic control units (ECUs), identifying suspicious activity, preventing malicious messages and silencing attacks. Approaches to secure the CAN ...
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Viavi Solutions has brought out a test suite for O-RAN specifications. Open Radio Access Network (O-RAN) is being adopted by operators and equipment manufacturers worldwide, to reduce infrastructure procurement, deployment and operational costs and lower the barrier to entry for new product innovation. VIAVI has developed a test suite with modules for lab validation, field deployment and ...
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Researchers at the Harvard have created an octopus-inspired soft robotic arm that can grip and manipulate objects, learning that the taper of such arms is important. “Most previous research on octopus-inspired robots focused either on mimicking the suction or the movement of the arm, but not both,” said researcher August Domel. “Our research is the first to ...
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An engineered substrate is the key to a stretchable OLED display built by Korean lab KAIST. Photo: the display bent over a fingerip The novel substrate is there to allow rigid pixels to be incorporated. “Traditional intrinsically stretchable OLEDs have commercial limitations due to their low efficiency in the electrical conductivity of the electrodes,” according ...
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Samsung has started building a $220 million R&D centre in Vietnam which will employ between 2,200 and 3,000 people. Construction is scheduled to be completed by the end of 2022. Last year Samsung closed its Chinese phone factory at Huizhou which it had operated for 17 yeas and which had employed about 6,000 workers. In ...
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