Schurter gets another collaborative robot for production

Schurter has installed more collaborative robots (cobots) in its German and Netherlands factories. They are used to support humans on assembly lines, for example. “Above all, the use of cobots reduces the workload for employees through automated and precise process steps such as loading, fixing, assembling lamination, dispensing and quality inspection, and frees up space ...

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Ford restructures to catch up in EV

Earlier this week, Ford announced it is splitting the company in two separating its ICE business from its EV division. The ICE division, called Ford Blue, will be run in a  cost-effective manner in order to provide profitability and cashflow for the entire company. The EV division, called Model e, is designed to bring “the ...

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Lockheed Martin invests in Satellite Vu for US focus

Satellite Vu has closed the second round of its Series A funding, bringing total investment to £20 million. New participants included Lockheed Martin, Contrarian Ventures and In-Q-Tel. The company said the investment would help “building and expanding our relationship with partners overseas, particularly the US.” “We are thrilled to have raised further funding to propel ...

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Atomera launches MSTcad v 2.0

Atomera has availability of version 2.0 of its MSTcad (Mears Silicon Technology Transistor Computer-Aided Design) technology, a toolset that provides  analyses of how Mears Silicon Technology improves semiconductor processes. MSTcad version 2.0 introduces the following new capabilities: Widely expanded, silicon-verified modeling of interaction of MST with multiple dopant species and point defects (silicon self-interstitials and ...

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Amphenol adds to SMA connector series

Amphenol RF has added to its SMA connector series with additional reverse polarity (RP) configurations. These RP-SMA jacks are compact and lightweight connectors for use with ultraminiature micro-coax cable types. RP-SMA front-mount bulkhead and crimp jacks are suitable for vibration resistance applications that require a less bulky, flexible solution such as Wi-Fi devices. These RP-SMA ...

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Ukraine invasion fallout blocks OneWeb satellite launches

OneWeb, the satellite company partly-owned by the UK government, is involved in a Ukraine-related row with the Russian-operated Baikonur spaceport, which has been used for launching its constellation. The board of OneWeb has decided to suspend all launches from Baikonur (which is actually located in Kazakhstan) it has announced, following an apparent ultimatum for the ...

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Graphcore adds WoW to IPU.

By moving its 7nm  IPU to TSMC’s Wafer-on-Wafer technology, Graphcore has increased its performance by up to 40% and its power efficiency by 16%, says the company. WoW stacks two flipped  wafers together, connects them through TSVs and bonds them  before dicing. Graphcore says this is the first commercial use of the technology. In the ...

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800Gbit/s optical demo by AMD and Ranovus

Aiming at data centres, Ranovus and AMD are demonstrating 800Gbit/s optical comms at OFC 2022. The optical interface and its fibres, emerging from under the aluminium block The optical module co-packages Xilinx Versal ACAP (adaptive compute acceleration platform) and Ranovus’ Odin 800Gbit/s ‘CPO 2.0′ module. Odin is a protocol agnostic optical engine build around Ranovus’ 100Gbit/s/λ ...

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Open standard for RISC-V verification is announced at DVCon

At this year’s (virtual) functional design and verification conference, DVCon US 2022, the RISC-V Verification Interface (RVVI) was announced by Imperas Software. The interface is available at github. The draft open standard defines “a number of interfaces required to bring together several of the subsystems required for RISC-V processor design verification”. Components based on the open ...

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