£30m of public and private funding aims to combine industrial ingenuity with 5G technology Projects in Sunderland, Preston, Liverpool, Manchester, Brighton and Suffolk have been announced by the DcMS. The use of AI-controlled traffic lights to reduce pollution and congestion will be tested in Manchester and the potential for remote music festivals using 5G will ...
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element14 has announced the winning designs of its “Fighting Germs” Design Challenge, where participants helped to fight COVID-19 by creating projects that protect vulnerable populations and help people cope with the crisis. The Grand Prize winner, Shabaz Yousaf from the UK, created contact-less virtual buttons that are motion-sensor based, allowing the user to make selections without ...
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China’s 14th five-year plan (2021-2025) will include a 40% expansion in foundry capacity and a move to 7nm processing, says Digitimes Research. China’s IC manufacturing industry is planned to double to $34.28 billion in 2020 from 2016, and may also move 12nm to production by the end of the year after having volume produced 14nm ...
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Huawei shipped more smartphones worldwide than any other vendor for the first time in Q2 2020, says Canalys. It is the first quarter in nine years that a company other than Samsung or Apple has led the market. Huawei shipped 55.8 million devices, down 5% year on year. But second-placed Samsung shipped 53.7 million ...
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SiTime is sampling a differential MEMS oscillator for 100G – 800G optical modules. Volume production is planned for Q1 2021. The SiT9501 is for applications such as datacentre switches, telecom routers, edge servers, AI/graphics cards, and storage controllers. “Over the past 15 years, SiTime has developed and shipped two generations of MEMS resonators that are used ...
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Harting has released the Han 1A rectangular series of connectors, aimed at Ethernet-based data networks in the industrial arena. They are described as compact, lightweight and versatile connectors in a rectangular plastic housing, suitable for shielded (e.g. control cabinets) and unshielded settings. Harting says the series is particularly well suited to connecting decentralised devices and ...
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Inphi and NeoPhotonics have demonstrated interoperability of OIF 400ZR compliant coherent transceivers, operating successfully across the C-Band over 120km of optical fiber. Transceiver pairs consisting of Inphi’s COLORZII QSFP-DD with its Canopus 7nm Coherent DSP and NeoPhotonics 400ZR ClearLight OSFP were successfully linked. Both 400ZR coherent optics transceivers carried error-free traffic over a typical data center ...
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Renesas has brought out an optically isolated delta-sigma (ΔΣ) modulator which claims to deliver the industry’s highest accuracy compared to other 10MHz clock output optically isolated devices. It includes a precision ADC with ENOB of 13.8 bits (typ) for converting an analogue voltage input into a digital output one-bit data stream across the isolation barrier. ...
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The push-pull version of the M12 connector with inner locking from Yamaichi Electronics is the first M12 push-pull design, which has been defined as an international standard (IEC 61076-2-012). Therefore, M12 push-pull design-ins are possible now for M12 push-pull systems, without using proprietary solutions. Yamaichi has been setting a new standard with the M12 push-pull ...
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Virgin Galactic, the spaceflight company which is looking to provide flights for space tourists, has shown off the cabin interior of its first SpaceshipTwo vehicle, VSS Unity, in a virtual event. The company is hoping to create demand for thousands of trips on suborbital flights. Features the passengers can expect include 12 cabin windows for ...
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