Inertial measurement units (IMUs) from Bosch Sensortec are now available from Mouser. The BMI088 is a low noise, six-axis inertial sensor is designed for industrial applications as well as drone and robotic applications. The IMU has a 16bit digital, triaxial accelerometer and a 16bit digital, triaxial gyroscope to measure orientation and detect motion along three ...
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As lead times have shortened from six months earlier this year, to 12 to 13 weeks, on chip resistors and passives, Steve Rawlins, CEO, Anglia Components, has warned that while availability has improved, there may be instability in pricing ahead. Rawlins cited weak demand for iPhones and a softening in the Chinese economy due to ...
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Phototonics has been called one of the fastest developing areas in healthcare. It is the use of light to diagnose and treat medical conditions with non-invasive, cost-efficient methods from wound, skin and cancer treatment to use in the fields of neurology and ophthalmology. Academic groups around the UK are conducting research into photonics and now ...
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Component distributor, and manufacturer, Solid State has bought optoelectronic component company, Pacer. Solid State is reported to have paid $3.7million for Pacer, which has offices in Pangbourne and Weymouth in the UK and a US subsidiary in Florida. Founded in 1971, Solid State manufactures computing, power and communications products in addition to component distribution. Pacer will ...
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Industry body, DMASS, has released the latest figures for the European semiconductor distribution industry, reporting with €2.3 bn in sales in Q3, an increase of 6.3% compared to Q3 2017. The overall growth rate for semiconductor distribution in Europe was also 6.3% for Q3 2018. The trouble with averages is that they can mask some ...
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Image compression technology in the PowerVR PVRIC4 IP block enables random access, visually lossless image compression for bandwidth and memory savings for DTVs, smartphones and tablets, says Imagination Technologies. Claimed to halve memory bandwidth and footprint, the IP block targets SoC development for consumer applications to meet the needs of the higher resolution demanded by ...
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In a bid to advance AI and robotics, Arrow Electronics will offer Nvidia’s latest Jetson Xavier AI computer. The computer is designed to create autonomous machines in industrial settings. According to Nvidia, the collaboration with Arrow and its customer database will “open the door to the development and deployment of AI solutions for manufacturing, logistics, smart cities, healthcare ...
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GPU Technology Conference, Munich: According to Nvidia founder and CEO, Jensen Huang, there are two dynamics controlling the computing industry today – the end of Moore’s law and software that can write itself, artificial intelligence, or AI. The end of Moore’s law, which states that the density of a chip doubles every two years, while ...
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Volvo will use the Xavier AI computing system in its next-generation of autonomous vehicles.
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GPU Technology Conference, Munich: Nvidia is bringing artificial intelligence to medical instruments, with the Clara platform, based on the company’s Xavier AI computing module and Turing GPUs introduced earlier this year, and the Clara software development kit. It has been developed to address the increasing number of computing functions in today’s medical healthcare, with CT ...
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