The University of Cambridge has developed a squishy jelly with 80% water content that is unfazed by being run over with a car. “At 80% water content, you’d think it would burst apart like a water balloon, but it doesn’t: it stays intact and withstands huge compressive forces,” said Professor Oren Scherman who led the ...
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Advantech has based a series of small AI inferencing computers around the Nvidia Jetson family. The AIR-020 series is 139 x 110 x 44.5mm, and the company sees them being used in automated guided vehicles (AGV), autonomous mobile robots (AMR), medical imaging, traffic monitoring, defect inspection and people counting. AIR-020X – Nvidia Jetson Xavier NX SoM embedded, up to ...
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Kontron has announced a series of industrial mini-STX motherboards built around AMD’s Ryzen Embedded V1000 and R1000 processors, including Vega graphics. This is its first completely new motherboard since the acquisition of Fujitsu’s industrial motherboard division. Aimed at Windows 10 or Linux-64, and called D3714-V/R mSTX, they support up to four independent 4K displays for industrial PCs, medical ...
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A team of physicists at the Universities of Bristol, Vienna, the Balearic Islands and the Institute for Quantum Optics and Quantum Information (IQOQI-Vienna) has shown how quantum systems can simultaneously evolve along two opposite time arrows – both forward and backward in time. The study necessitates a rethink of how the flow of time is understood ...
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The University of Glasgow is building a test facility for 6G communications systems after securing a £2.6m equipment grant. The Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC) have backed the University’s plans to expand the existing Microwave and Terahertz research lab at its Electronic Systems Design Centre with new equipment. Researchers from the University’s James Watt School ...
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SEMI’s October billings figure was up 0.6% on September’s $3.72 billion at $3.74 billion, and 41.3% up on the $2.65 billings of October 2020. “Monthly billings of North America-based semiconductor equipment manufacturers showed continued strength in October,” said Ajit Manocha, president and CEO of SEMI. “The push towards digital transformation along with robust demand for ...
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The Institute of Microelectronics (IME) at the Agency for Science, Technology and Research (A*STAR) and ST have started a SiC R&D announced collaboration for power-electronics applications in the automotive and industrial markets. The collaboration sets a foundation for a SiC ecosystem in Singapore and creates opportunities for other companies to engage with IME and ST ...
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Sierra Space – a recent spin-off from Sierra Nevada Corporation – has announced $1.4 in Series A funding, its first capital raise. It was, according to the company, the second-largest ever private capital raise in the aerospace and defense sector, globally. The investment was led by General Atlantic, Coatue and Moore Strategic Ventures, with participation ...
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The Belgian satellite service provider SatADSL and satellite communications provider Milano Teleport (MT) are partnering to provide greater access to VSAT (very small aperture terminal) connectivity for maritime and terrestrial sectors. Under the terms of the agreement, MT will use SatADSL’s neXat platform to both provide capacity over Africa and deliver advanced maritime services worldwide. ...
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