Prize winners recognised for unmanned underwater vehicle charging station

Northrop Grumman and Seatrec have been announced as winners of an Explorer Prize sponsored by the Department of Energy (DOE) and the National Oceanic & Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) in the United States. The competition sought to encourage innovative technology in marine renewable energy, to enable “more persistent and pervasive ocean observing”. The two companies together ...

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Wurth releases ‘performance’ grade 1206 SMD energy storage chokes

Wurth added high saturation current versions to the 1206 surface-mount shielded energy storage chokes in its WE-PD family. Identified by ‘1260P’ (with the ‘P’ indicating a performance parts within the PD family) the parts use a different core material. “Thanks to its MnZn core, the storage choke offers the highest ferrite-based saturation current and is ...

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Picocom adopts Andes RISC-V cores for O-RAN SoC

Picocom has selected the AndesCoreÔ N25F RISC-V 32-bit core integrated with the AE350 peripherals platform for its forthcoming 5G small cell distributed unit (DU) System-on-Chip (SoC). Picocom is a 5G open RAN baseband semiconductor company with vast experience in the field of small cells. Its chosen partner, Andes Technology, is a leading supplier of high-performance, ...

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Flutter 1.20 updates for autofill, pan and zoom

Google has announced version 1.20 of Flutter, its system for creating – in native ARM code – embedded graphic components for both iOS and Android from a single codebase. As well as promised performance improvements, the release includes some UI enhancements. For example, support for autofill, a new way to layer widgets to support pan ...

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Raspberry Pi makes Japanese keyboard

Raspberry Pi has come up with a Japanese keyboard. It required a  new moulding set to cover the 83-key arrangement of the keys. It’s quite a complex keyboard, with three different character sets to deal with. ‘Figuring out how the USB keyboard controller maps to all the special keys on a Japanese keyboard was particularly ...

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Tax holiday for China’s 28nm manufacturers

China has introduced a ten year tax holiday for logic companies which have been in existence for 15 years and use 28nm and better processes. Only two companies in China qualify for the incentive – SMIC and Hua Hong. For companies using nodes between 65nm and 28nm there is a tax incentive worth 50% of ...

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