Bosch, Geo++, Mitsubishi Electric and u-blox have formed a jv called  Sapcorda Services to bring high precision GNSS positioning services to mass market applications. The four parties recognized that existing solutions for GNSS positioning services do not meet the needs of emerging high precision GNSS mass markets. As a result, they decided to join forces ...

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Everspin has begun sampling a 1Gigabit Spin Torque Magnetoresistive Random Access Memory (ST-MRAM) with lead customers. A high-endurance, persistent memory with a DDR4- compatible interface, the chip  enables storage system vendors to enhance the reliability and performance of storage devices and systems by delivering protection against power loss without the use of supercapacitors or batteries. ...

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Intel’s Core i9 processors are on sale this month. Made on Intel’s three year-old 14nmm process, they have up to 18 cores and 36 threads and are aimed at applications likeb VR, gaming and content creation. ‘Content creators can expect up to 20%?better performance for VR content creation2 and up to 30 percent faster 4K ...

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Renesas has started volume shipment of its first R-Car system-on-chip (SoC) incorporating  Automotive Grade Linux (AGL)-based software. AGL is a cross-industry effort to develop a fully open software stack for the connected car. Renesas considers AGL as an essential step to expand the base of software developers. The Renesas R-Car Starter Kit and AGL-based software is ...

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Escalating their spat, Toshiba says Western Digital will not get supplies of 96-layer NAND flash. “As of today, SanDisk will not receive any capacity from Fab 6 which includes the latest generation of 96-layer BiCS memory products,” says Toshiba. SanDisk is the company which Western Digital bought  which had a jv with Toshiba sharing NAND ...

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The Ministry of Transport has issued cyber protection guidelines for internet-connected vehicles to protect them from being hacked. “Whether we’re turning vehicles into wifi-connected hotspots or equipping them with millions of lines of code to become fully automated, it is important that they are protected against cyber-attacks,” says Transport minister Lord Martin Callanan (pictured), “our ...

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The AR/VR market will double every year for the next five years going from $11.4 billion this year to $215 billion in 2021, says IDC, as use cases proliferate. This year, the US market will worth $3.2 billion, Asia/Pacific (excluding Japan) $3 billion and Europe $2 billion. The consumer segment will be the largest source ...

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The CBI has welcomed the announcement of the Government’s Data Protection Bill which includes bringing the European Union’s General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) into domestic law. Compared to the current Data Protection Act the the GDPR increases the scope of data protection and provides much tougher punishments for those who fail to comply with new ...

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Two AI-enabled chatbots in China, called BabyQ and XiaoBing, which operated on Ten Cent’s QQ messaging service, have been making politically incorrect statements. When BabyQ was asked if it loved the Communist Party it replied ‘No’. BabyQ also stated: ‘Democracy is a must’. XiaoBing said its dream was to go to America. XiaoBing was also ...

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