Two Toshiba directors have resigned following receipt by the board of a letter from activist shareholder 3D Investments of Singapore. 3D Investments, which is trying to promote a private equity takeover of Toshiba, wrote an open letter to Toshiba urging the chairman and three directors to resign. 3D has a 7.2% stake in Toshiba. The ...
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AMD grew revenues 92.9%, MediaTek by 88%, Nvidia by 76%, Realtek by 56%, Qualcomm by 53% ans Dialog by 47%, in a sto King Q1, reports TrendForce, AMD saw growth in the PC and server markets as WFH continues to push demand for notebooks and servers. Nvidia gained from crypto mining and Qualcomm from RF ...
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Sierra Space has given a boost to the hopes of Spaceport Cornwall to be the landing centre for space vehicles, such as Sierra Space’s Dream Chaser. The US company – headquartered in Sparks, Nevada – is the new commercial space subsidiary of aerospace specialist Sierra Nevada Corporation (SNC). It has signed a memorandum of understanding ...
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Amazon has announced the first 10 startups to take part in its Amazon Web Services (AWS) Space Accelerator, with a UK thermal imaging company, Satellite VU, among those selected. The AWS Space Accelerator is a four-week business support programme that is open to space startups. The criteria for entry was “seeking to use AWS to ...
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Silicon Labs and Wirepas have brought out a combined hardware and software product for mesh networks. Wirepas Massive – which connects and localises sensors, tags and luminaires – is now available on Silicon Labs’ EFR32BG21 (BG21) and EFR32BG22 (BG22) modules and SoCs. Powered by BG21 and BG22 Bluetooth modules and SoCs, Wirepas Massive delivers flexible ...
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Melexis, the Belgian auto chip specialist, has added to its non-contact position sensors, with devices – MLX90421 and MLX90422 – which are based on the company’s Triaxis magnetic sensing technology. They have the same key features as the MLX90364/5/6/7 devices, but with some additional enhancements incorporated. Intended for use in cost-sensitive automotive applications including powertrain ...
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Toshiba has updated its solid-state lidar, claiming the world’s smallest physical volume. A key improvement is within the silicon photo-multiplier (SiPM) light receiving integrated circuits which have light-receiving cells controlled by transistors. The new chips have smaller transistor modules, replace buffer layers protecting the transistors with newly-developed insulating trenches between the transistors and the light-receiving ...
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Chinese scientists have revealed details of Queqiao, the lunar communications satellite that relays data between the Chang’e-4 moon lander and Earth. Needed because the lander is on a part of the Moon which does not have direct line-of-sight with the Earth, Queqiao has been placed in orbit around the second Lagrange point in the Earth-Moon system. ...
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Intel is reported by Reuters to have offered $2billion to buy six year-old RISC-V chip designer SiFive. When it last raised money – a $61 million Series E last year – SiFive was valued at $500 million. Its 2019 series D raised $65.4 million and its Series C, in which Intel took a major share, ...
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As part of US President Joe Biden’s visit, the UK and US have agreed to develop a science and technology partnership to strengthen the UK-US relationship. The partnership will explore a number of areas for cooperation including research, innovation and commercialisation; defence, security, law enforcement and intelligence; and making sure technology is used as a ...
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