Access station monitors body temperature and facial recognition

A contactless check-in station available from Review Display Systems (RDS) provides contact-free body temperature measurement and facial recognition for employee safety as they return to work post-pandemic isolation. The access station comprises an eight-inch display, safety body temperature measurement check, optional facial recognition (that also works when employees are wearing face masks). A kiosk version ...

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More on: Jet-powered submarine is

Chemnitz University of Technology has reported a steerable jet-powered micro-submarine, built using wafer processing techniques. Curious, Electronic Weekly got in touch with the team to find out more. A note on the diagram (right) – this is the best diagram of the basic structure we can get our hands on, although it is of a ...

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Sustain The World

Element 14  and Infineon are harnessing technologies that make life easier, safer and greener with the “Sustain The World” design challenge. This challenge encourages the element 14 community to create a new design with a positive environmental impact that can be applied to a variety of sustainable ventures including recycling, CO2 monitoring, pollution monitoring, and more. ...

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HiSilicon enters Top Ten

HiSilicon has become the first Chinese company get into the top ten semiconductor league table, according to IC Insights. Fabless vendor HiSilicon jumped five spots in the ranking to 10th place after  year-over-year sales rose 54% in 1Q20. V Figure 1 In total, the top-10 semiconductor companies’ sales increased by 16% in 1Q20 compared to ...

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SMIC aims to raise $3bn on Shanghai STAR market

SMIC, the Shanghai foundry, is to sell 1.69 billion shares on the Shanghai STAR market. The sale could raise $3.2 billion at the compony’s current market cap of $11 billion. SMIC is listed on the Hong Kong exchange and plans to issue new shares for the STAR offering. SMIC has cash of $2.2 billion. The ...

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Q2 China market AP units to drop 37.8% y-o-y

Shipments of APs in the China market are expected to fall 37.8% y-o-y in Q2 due to weak consumer confidence prompting China’s handset makers to work down inventories, reports Digitimes Research. Q1 AP units in China totalled 135 million – down over 30% from Q4 2019,  down 12.2% from Q1 2019. Qualcomm was the top ...

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TTA systems for two-way radio networks

Filtronic, the RF, microwave, and mmWave specialist, has  launched a range of Tower Top Amplifier (TTA) systems designed for use in two-way radio networks, particularly for public safety systems such as P25. Filtronic’s “SGG” Series TTA systems operate in the 700MHz and 800MHz public safety bands. The SAC Tower Amplifiers combined with the SEG Control Units ...

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MathWorks expands deep learning capabilities

MathWorks has introduced Release 2020a with expanded AI capabilities for deep learning. Engineers can now train neural networks in the updated Deep Network Designer app, manage multiple deep learning experiments in a new Experiment Manager app, and choose from more network options to generate deep learning code. The new release introduces an enhanced Deep Learning ...

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