Fujitsu Labs have developed sensor data analysis technology that can aggregate vibration data with sensors attached to the surface of a bridge, and then estimate the degree of the bridge’s internal damage through the application of “FUJITSU Human Centric AI Zinrai technology,” Fujitsu’s approach to artificial intelligence. This technology was validated using data obtained from ...

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Uber has appointed a new CEO – the head of Expedia Dara Khosrowshahi. Something of a dark horse – Jeff Immelt and Meg Whitman were seen as front-runners – Kosrowshahi has headed up Expedia for 12 years. Kosrowshahi, who is 48 years old, had options worth $180 million at Expedia so Uber must be paying him ...

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Taiwan has launched the first satellite to be designed and built on the island. It cost $189 million. The satellite was entirely designed by Taiwanese engineers and 70% of the hardware came from local components suppliers. SpaceX performed the launch. It had to pay a $2.1 million penalty for being a year late because the ...

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Unit shipments of PCs, including desktop, notebook, and workstations and tablets are expected to decline from 435.1 million units in 2016 to 398.3 million in 2021 – a five-year CAGR of -1.7%, says IDC. Apart from 2018, notebook PCs show small but steady year-over-year growth throughout the forecast. Detachable tablets and convertible notebooks, which represent ...

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Lee Jae-yong, the Chairman of Samsung and grandson of the company’s founder, has been sentenced to five years jail in Korea for bribing the president of Korea, Park Geun-hye, who is herself currently on trial for extortion. Lee was accused of offering Park $38 million in return for governmental favours. The prosecutors had asked for a ...

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Broadcom had calendar Q2 revenues of $4.46 billion – up 7% on Q1’s $4.19 billion and up 18% from $3.79 billion in calendar Q2 2016. Gross profit was $2.14 billion up from $1.98 billion in Q1 and the $1.78 billion of calendar Q2 2016. Opex was $1.5 billion. Operating income was $648 million. Net income, ...

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HTC is in trouble and reported to have engaged advisers to discuss strategic options, reports Bloomberg. The Handset and VR operations could be sold separately. HTC’s handset business has been flagging under the assault on the China market from Huawei, Oppo and Vivo. Its VR business, represented by the Vive headset, saw it recently having ...

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Qualcomm’s president, Derek Aberle, is to leave the the company at the end of the year. Aberle heads the licensing division which is embroiled in a vicious legal battle with Apple and in complex anti-trust wrangles with European and Asian governments and the US FTC. Qualcomm is saying that Aberle’s departure has nothing to do ...

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A shortage of components will hit premium smartphone sales in H2, says Gartner. “We expect a shortage of flash memory and OLED displays will affect premium smartphone supply in the second half of 2017,” says Gartner’s Anshul Gupta,  “we’ve already seen Huawei’s P10 suffer from a flash memory shortage, and smaller, traditional brands, such as ...

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Q2 shipments of mobile DRAM were up 14.8% on Q1, reports DRAMeXchange. Samsung and Micron had 10%+ growth. Samsung has over 60% of the market folloeed by Hynix with 21% and Micron with 15%. Micron’s outage at its Taiwan fab which lost 50K wafers, mainly for mobile DRAM, will affect its H2 numbers. Returning demand and higher ...

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