UK’s Avanti refinances to shed $550 million of debt

Avanti – the UK-based Ka-band satellite connectivity specialist – has announced its financial debt has been reduced by almost two-thirds, from $810 million to $260 million. The recapitalisation sees HPS Investment Partners LLC, an investment firm, and Solus Alternative Asset Management LP, an investment advisor, become the company’s principal shareholders. The company said the change ...

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Northrop Grumman builds for military, space operations in Albuquerque

Northrop Grumman is building a 25,000-square-foot facility Albuquerque that will support its national security space business operations, space system mission management, and cybersecurity missions. Specifically, it will be serving the Kirtland US Air Force Base and other U.S. military customers. The facility is due to open in early 2023 “This expansion will enhance our ability ...

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NexWafe raises €39m

NexWafe, the Freiburg solar photovoltaic specialist, has had a Series C investment round which takes its total funding to  €39 million. The money will be used to complete product and technology development for NexWafe’s solar photovoltaic products on a prototype line. NexWafe is creating a process to develop and produce monocrystalline silicon wafers directly from inexpensive raw ...

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Loch Fyne aquaculture R&D centre

Agri-EPI Centre and  aquaculture specialist Otter Ferry Seafish (OFS) with funding from Innovate UK, have opened the Marine Aquaculture and Innovation Centre (MAIC) on Loch Fyne to offer fully serviced research and development facilities to aquaculture producers and technology providers. The MAIC comprises a series of replicated small and large land-based tanks, located indoors under ...

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Cadence fluid modelling software gets new flow solver

Following on from acquiring Numeca and Pointwise, Cadence Design Systems has introduced suite of computational fluid dynamics (CFD) software for vertical markets including automotive, turbomachinery, marine and aerospace. Called Fidelity, it “introduces a next-generation flow solver featuring high-order numerics, scale-resolving simulations and massive hardware acceleration”, according to Cadence. Included are specialised flow solvers for marine ...

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AMD ramps up security for Ryzen Pro 6000 laptop processors

AMD has released more information on its Ryzen 6000 Pro series of processors for laptops, with eight 6nm ‘Zen 3+’ cores and RDNA 2 graphics. Much of the announcement was around increased performance and longer battery life when running Microsoft office and videoconferencing software, but there was also significant emphasis on cybersecurity provisions. “We saw new ...

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117dB audio amplifier uses Class-G output stage

STMicroelectronics is using Class-G analogue audio technology to create 117dB S/N ratio, >117dB dynamic range (A-weighted), automotive amplifier. Class-G amplifiers are similar to traditional Class-AB amplifiers except that, to increase electrical efficiency, the output devices are supplied from a low voltage rail when output signals are small, and a higher voltage rail during loud passages. In ...

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Advantest joins Open Invention Network for Linux cooperation

Automated test equipment maker Advantest has joined the Open Invention Network (OIN) patent non-aggression community. OIN’s community, according to the Network, agrees non-aggression in patents in core Linux and adjacent open source technologies by royalty-free cross-licensing of Linux patents to one another. Patents owned by the Network are similarly licensed royalty-free to any organisation that ...

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Lifecycle security and Trustzone management for Renesas RA MCUs

Segger has tied up with Renesas to add DLM (device lifecycle management) and Trustzone partitioning during mass production for Renesas’ Arm Cortex-M33 based RA4 and RA6 microcontrollers. The new features are additions to Segger’s ‘Flasher’ line of in-circuit programmers, and are available to owners of existing Flashers as a software update with “no charge, no ...

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