NASA selects first “human-tended” suborbital research using Virgin Galactic

A planetary scientist has been chosen to be the first to conduct NASA-funded science experiments while flying aboard a Virgin Galactic commercial spacecraft. Dr Alan Stern – of the Texas-based Southwest Research Institute (SwRI) – is associate vice president of SwRI’s Space Science and Engineering Division. He will fly aboard the “SpaceShipTwo” (pictured) on a ...

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VW adopts NXP BMS

Volkswagen has adopted NXP’s battery management system (BMS) into its MEB (Modular Electric Propulsion) platform to help increase vehicle range, extend battery longevity, and enhance safety.  NXP’s BMS provides flexibility and scalability from an ID.3, a plug-in hybrid, or a luxury electric vehicle like the ID.4, Audi e-Tron or Porsche Taycan. It is battery-agnostic in ...

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Intel reported to be selling NAND business to Hynix

Intel is to sell its NAND business to Hynix for around $10 billion, reports theWall Street Journal. The 3D XPoint  product line – Intel’s phase change memory used in Optane SSDs – will not be included in the deal. Optane is a strategic component of Intel’s offering in the datacentre. The US SSD business is ...

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Enablers for LoRa Edge

Semtech has announced two enablers for its LoRa Edge platform: LoRa Basics Modem-E, a software modem leveraging the LoRaWAN protocol for the LoRa Edge platform that runs inside the LoRa Edge transceiver, and the LoRa Edge Tracker Reference Design, a device-to-Cloud commercial grade reference solution for asset tracking applications. LoRa Basics Modem-E, which forms part ...

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Dialog licenses CBRAM process to GloFo

Dialog has licensed  its Conductive Bridging RAM (CBRAM) technology to Globalfoundries. The resistive ram (ReRAM)-based technology was pioneered by Adesto Technologies which was acquired by Dialog  earlier this year. GloFo will first offer Dialog’s CBRAM as an embedded, NVM option on its 22FDX platform, with the plan to extend to other platforms. Dialog’s CBRAM technology ...

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Sequitur Labs supports Nvidia’s Jetson platform

Sequitur Labs has joined the NVIDIA Partner Network with support for the NVIDIA Jetson platform. The NVIDIA Jetson edge AI platform powers a range of industrial IoT applications that require various performance levels and prices – from AI-powered network video recorders (NVRs) to automated optical inspection (AOI) in high-precision manufacturing to autonomous mobile robots (AMRs). The ...

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Nexans secures FTTH street cabinets

Nexans has developed a way for telecom service providers to tackle the major headache of unauthorised access to their fibre-to-the-home (FTTH) street cabinets. Known as INFRABIRD, the intelligent keyless access and internet of things (IoT) supervision system can be deployed in just a few minutes to turn passive cabinets into smart, cloud-connected assets. The product ...

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Mouser signs Pervasive Displays

Pervasive Displays of Taipei has signed a distribution agreement with Mouser. The deal relates to a range of Pervasive Displays’ e-paper displays and the EXT 2 extension kit development board. The products will be available direct from stock or with short lead times. For those looking for a low-power display which is sunlight readable and ...

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