RollsRoyce’s electric plane called ‘Sprit of Innovation’ beat the existing speed record for electric planes by 132mph – hitting a top-speed of 387.4mph during a 1.9 mile flight over Boscombe Down last week. It also broke, by 60 seconds, the fastest record time to climb to 3,000 metres by doing it in 202 seconds. ‘Following the ...
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DARPA – the US Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency – has awarded BAE Systems multiple contracts to develop quantum technology for radio frequency (RF) sensing. The goal is to break constraints to antenna designs that have persisted for more than a century, says BAE Systems, reducing size, and increase sensitivity and accessible bandwidth by several ...
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BANNOCKBURN, IL—A new IPC study says congressional action is urgently needed to strengthen the health of domestic advanced packaging in the semiconductor value chain to meet increased chip production.
IAR Systems has added support for NXP’s new S32K3 automotive microcontrollers to Embedded Workbench for Arm. “IAR Embedded Workbench for Arm and is used by many large automotive part suppliers,” said IAR automotive director Kiyofumi Uemura. “Thanks to our collaboration with NXP, we have been supporting the S32K1 family since its launch in 2017.” S32K3 MCUs are ...
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NXP has started production of its S32K3 automotive MCU family, built around Arm Cortex-M7 cores, and launched real-time software (called ‘Real-Time Drivers’) alongside it to support S32K3 and all S32 automotive processors featuring Arm Cortex-M or Cortex-R52 cores – so existing S32K1/S32G families too. Intended for body control, S32K3 family includes single, dual and lockstep M7 ...
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Business is booming in the UK connector market says the Interconnect Technology Suppliers Association (ITSA). ITSA member companies reported increases in sales of between 8% to 20% y-o-y and UK orders are now up over 43% on 2020 and up 16% on 2019. 2021 ITSA members’ book to bill ratios are an average of 1.08:1. ...
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Programmierbare Logik & Systeme (PLS) is covering NXP’s new S32K3 automotive MCU family trace and debug in the latest version of its Universal Debug Engine (UDE). S32K3 MCUs are based on the Arm’s Cortex-M7 core in single, dual and lock-step configurations for ISO 26262 functional safety applications up to ASIL D. Devices are offered in a range ...
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Ericsson is to buy Vonage for $6.2 billion in cash to beef up its cloud services business. Cloud communications services represent 80% of Vonage’s $1.4 billion annual revenues. “The transaction builds upon Ericsson’s stated intent to expand globally in wireless enterprise, offering existing customers an increased share of a market valued at $700 billion by ...
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The government is investing £9.4 million for a first-of-a-kind hydrogen project at the UK’s largest onshore windfarm near Glasgow. The project will look to produce hydrogen for storing energy and providing zero-carbon fuel.. The Whitelee green hydrogen project will develop the UK’s largest electrolyser, a system which converts water into hydrogen gas as a way ...
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1.39 billion smartphones will be built next year – 3.8% more than in 2021, says TrendForce, taking production nunbers back to pre-pandemic levels. Samsung’s smartphone production for 2022 is expected to reach 276 million units, a 1.1% YoY growth. Apple is expected to makeV243 million units, representing a 5.4% YoY growth and the second highest ...
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