The US Federal Aviation Administration (FAA”) has updated Virgin Galactic’s existing commercial space transportation operator licence to allow the spaceline to fly customers to space. The spaceflight company, for private individuals and researchers, says it marks the first time the FAA has licensed a spaceline to fly the paying public. Virgin Galactic has held a ...
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Texas Instruments has introduced a low-drift humidity sensor, the first in a family. For the device – HDC3020, or HDC3020-Q1 for the automotive version – the company is claiming “<0.21% relative humidity accuracy drift per year and less than 5% relative humidity drift from temperature and humidity stress, tested up to 85% relative humidity and 85°C”. Again ...
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Progranalog of Oregon has opened its European office in Cornwall, at the Tremough Innovation Centre in Penryn. “Cornwall offers us an alternative way to access the European technology market without relocating to the city,” according to Progranalog head of UK operations Rob Misselbrook. “We’re paying almost a quarter of what we would for office space in ...
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Sumida is aiming at filtering in digital audio amplifiers with a series of shielded high-power inductors. Called DEP1623 and measuring ~27 x 17 x 23mm, “this inductor is wound by flat wire and assembled with the Mn-Zn ferrite core. It is typically used in digital amplifier filters in home theatre and large LCDs”, according to ...
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Hundreds of tech jobs will be up for grabs with some of Britain’s best-known employers during a one-day hiring event hosted by the UK’s largest job site Indeed. Household names BT and Asos, as well as the financial giants HSBC and Lloyds Banking Group, are among those interviewing candidates – and potentially making on-the-spot offers ...
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Panasonic has sold its stake in Tesla making a profit of nearly $3 billion on the holding. When Panasonic and Tesla entered into a battery supply agreement in 2010, Panasonic bought 1.4 million Tesla shares valued at around $730 million. Tesla shares were worth around $21 at that time and peaked at $900 last Spring. ...
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Weebit Nano claims to have created the industry’s first commercial integration of an oxide-based ReRAM (OxRAM) cell with an ovonic threshold switching (OTS) selector, a critical step in the company’s commercialisation path for the discrete memory market. This is a significant step towards broadening Weebit’s target market beyond embedded non-volatile memory to include discrete memory technology, ...
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Rakuten Mobile, NEC and Intel have achieved a performance of 640 Gbps per server for the containerised User Plane Function (UPF) on the containerised 5G SA core network. Containerized UPF performance is crucial to maximize the value of 5G deployment because the control plane (C-plane) and user plane (U-plane), which were historically collocated, are completely ...
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SatixFy and SWISSto12 are teaming up for the development and commercialisation of end-to-end MEO (Medium Earth orbit) and GEO (geostationary orbit) telecom satellite payloads. According to the announcement, the companies are working together on multiple advanced payload programmes and opportunities for telecommunication satellites. SatixFy is a UK manufacturer of electronic systems for communications over satellite based ...
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Made Smarter Adoption programme in the North West has added five more manufactures of electronics to its tally of funded companies, making its total “161 businesses with £3.9m of matched funding for 201 projects, leveraging £10.5m of private sector investment”, according to the programme. “This technology adoption is forecast to create 990 jobs, upskill 1,845 ...
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