Since data transfer speed is no longer a guaranteed path to profit, share traders plan private ‘super networks’. A high speed fibre-optic and wireless link connecting Chicago with Tokyo on the far side of the Pacific Ocean is due to go live this year. Called Go West, this is no ordinary communications link. It will ...
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Smart headlighting technology being developed by Osram Opto Semiconductors is its first LED product based on the results of the µAFS research project. Headlight development now uses LED chips with micro-structured pixels, which can shine, or be turned off individually. The high resolution systems now use 84 pixels to more than 1000 pixels. The development ...
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Cambridge Design Partnership is working on a smart packaging development with beauty brand Avon. It is part of a trail for a new anti-ageing product and uses a user insight service developed by CDP to support a new product launch. To optimise use of the anti-ageing product users needed to remember to rotate the double-ended ...
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UK tech investment is on a high and London-based firms attracted the lion’s share of funding, according to a market survey by London & Partners. British tech firms attracted more venture capital funding than any other European country in 2017. According to data compiled for London & Partners by PitchBook, venture capital investment into the ...
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The leading router and carrier Ethernet switch (CES) manufacturers continue to be Juniper Cisco, Huawei and Nokia, according the latest service provider survey from IHS Markit. For providing next-generation routing technologies, Cisco topped the ranking for 100GE, followed by Juniper and Nokia. “Juniper, Cisco, Huawei and Nokia form the top tier of service provider router ...
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Connector maker Harting has awarded Northern Connectors with its Specialist Distributor of the Year Award of 2017. The St Helens-based specialist distributor of connectors and cabling products has been distributing Harting’s products for more than 20 years. Scott Jones, general manager at Northern Connectors believes the key is the firm’s design-in capabilities. “This is the ...
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Charcroft Electronics has published a new linecard representing its specialisation in the design-in and sourcing of COTS, high-reliability and sector-approved components. Likely to be most relevant for avionics, high-end audio, defence, oil and gas, rail and space sectors, the line-card covers passives, electromechanical, opto-electronics, RF and microwave components, as well as magnetics, power supplies, sensors ...
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OKW has added a “wrist-watch” style box to its range of wearable enclosures. Dubbed the Body-case, it is designed for wearable electronics applications including tracking and monitoring; emergency call and notification; bio-feedback sensors for healthcare, wellness and sports fitness. It can also be used for industrial electronics. Each enclosure is supplied with two 18 mm ...
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Anecto was named the supplier of the year to the medical technology sector at the Irish Medtech Awards 2017 held in Galway in December. Anecto is an accredited ISO 17025 test laboratory that provides testing, technical support through the product development cycle, compliance guidance, and other technical services to the Medtech industry. The Galway-based test ...
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MVTec Software, a Munich-based machine vision specialist, says it it now possible to run deep learning functions on embedded boards with Nvidia Pascal architecture. The deep learning inference in the latest version of the firm’s Halcon machine vision software was successfully tested on Nvidia Jetson TX2 boards based on 64-bit Arm processors. The deep learning ...
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