Huawei and ST are collaborating on auto and smartphone IC development, according to the Nikkei. ”There is nothing we can say,” an ST spokesperson told EW when asked for a comment. The co-operation is said to be aimed at accelerating Huawei’s ADAS development. Huawei’s chip subsidiary Hi Silicon is far ahead of ST on mobile ...
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TouchNetix has introduced a series of ready-made touch screen assemblies for displays up to 24in. Based in Hampshire, the firm was founded to make high-reliability touch sensors that work in difficult electromagnetic environments, and has its own touch screen controller chip, branded aXiom. The ready-made assembles, branded Chrominance, are supplied as a 0.7mm glass/ITO sensor hot-bonded ...
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Yesterday marked the 25th anniversary of the Global Positioning System, better known as GPS.
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At the IEEE International Solid State Circuits Conference in San Francisco earlier this year, Texas Instruments revealed details of its on-chip bulk acoustic wave oscillator technology, that can replace external crystals in Bluetooth and other RF transceivers. The firm is claiming better than ±30ppm frequency stability over -40°C to 85°C, package stress and 10 years ...
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Aldershot-based Fath Components, normally a maker of enclosure parts and other metal and plastic parts, has added Type FFP2 aerosol filtration face masks to its product repertoire. The company is gearing up to manufacture face masks at its main plant in Germany, planning to produce and dispatch 50,000 masks a day. “From Monday 27th April it has ...
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Following an agreement with Hongfa Europe, Anglia Components is UK and Ireland distributor for its range of electro-mechanical relays. The signing extends the distributor’s range of relay products. Hongfa Europe’s senior sales manager, Greg Ward said the company chose the distributor for its links to customers in the UK. “Anglia is a strategic local partner ...
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Aceinna has announced a triple-redundant, three-axis MEMS accelerometer and gyroscope sensor for automotive driver assistance, drones and robotics. Called IMU383ZA, the 24 x 37 x 9.5mm module is factory-calibrated across -40 to +85°C. “IMU383ZA is an improved pin-compatible version of our IMU381ZA,” according to the company. “It offers 1.3°/hr, 0.08°/√hr performance and a triple-redundant sensor architecture for ...
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ChangXin Memory Technologies (CXMT), the four year-old leader of China’s efforts to get into DRAM, has signed a patent license agreement with Rambus, reports Digitimes. “The agreement with Rambus once again demonstrates our high attention to international intellectual property (IP) related rules and continued efforts to strengthen the company’s IP portfolio,” says Yiming Zhu, chairman ...
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Next month OmniVision is expected to sample a 64 megapixel (MP) image sensor with a 0.7 micron pixel size, enabling 64 MP resolution in a 1/2” optical format for the first time. This allows high end and high mainstream smartphone designers to create the thinnest possible phones with high resolution 64 MP cameras. Built on OmniVision’s ...
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The UK is going down a different technological route on contact tracing to the one which was agreed last weekend between a German-led consortium, a Swiss-led consortium and Apple-Google. The German and Swiss consortia had originally disagreed on whether the data collected by the app should be held on a central database or on mobile ...
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