Russian and US scientists have used machine learning to find ‘atrial fibrillation (AF) drivers’ – small patches of faulty heart muscle that can cause cardiac arrhythmia. The team tested their approach on 11 donated human hearts and located AF drivers with an accuracy of up to 81%. Multi-electrode mapping (MEM) is a technique that can ...
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Farnell has signed a franchise agreement with Industrial Shields, the. manufacturer of industrial automation devices (PLCs and Panel PCs) based on open source hardware from Raspberry Pi and Arduino. The use of open source hardware provides many benefits to design engineers, including the opportunity to bring industrial products to market at a lower cost and ...
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Samsung Electronics had record Q3 sales of $59 billion – up 8% y-o-y – for a profit of $8.3 billion – up 49% y-o-y. Phone sales were up 50% delivering a $4 billion profit and semiconductor sales were up 82%. Operating profit was up 59% to $11 billion. Samsung warned that Q4 server chip revenues ...
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Marvell is buying Inphi for around $10 billion, reports Dow Jones. Marvell will pay 60% of the price in stock. The deal could be announced today. Inphi is expected to see revenue growth of around 90% this year. The deal will make 2020 a record for M&A with Nvidia-Arm at $40 billion, AMD-Xilinx at $35 ...
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Sundance, the embedded module specislist, has launched PolarBerry, a production and deployment-ready SoM with a hardened 64 bit, multicore real-time, Linux-capable RISC-V MPU subsystem to deliver an unparalleled combination of defence-grade security, low power consumption and thermal efficiency for embedded systems development. With Microchip‘s PolarFire SoC field programmable gate array (FPGA) at its heart, providing a ...
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Rambus has brought out its IPsec Packet Engine with integrated DPDK and companion key negotiation toolkit capable of securing 5G network traffic at data rates from 1 to 10 Gbps. A complete IPsec product, the packet engine can be easily integrated into SoCs for a broad range of 5G devices from base stations and cloud, to ...
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The US Federal Communications Commission (FCC) has completed the formalities for the sale of OneWeb to the UK government and Bharti Global. A public notice officially approves the sale of the London-based satellite operator, clearing the way for it to leave its Chapter 11 bankruptcy proceedings. The document confirms the two main parties will hold ...
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The University of Surrey has unveiled a device with unique functionality that could signal a new design philosophy for electronics, including next-generation wearables and eco-disposable sensors. The device, called the Multimodal Transistor (MMT), has immunity to parasitic effects that reduce a transistor’s capacity to produce uniform, repeatable signals. These have hindered traditional “floating gate” designs ever ...
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Silicon Labs has added to its portfolio of pre-certified wireless modules specifically designed to address IoT applications. The portfolio consists of the only modules in the industry with full stack support for multiprotocol solutions to enable commercial and consumer IoT applications, with flexible package options and highly integrated device security. Silicon Labs’ modules are available ...
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SHANGHAI, China—Huawei is planning to build its own chipset factory here as a way to circumvent the U.S. Department of Commerce's decision in August that prohibits U.S. suppliers from providing semiconductor products and components to Huawei and its subsidiaries. The factory will make parts for its telecom hardware business.
