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ADI wBMS aims to eliminate wired harness for EVs

ADI has announced a wireless battery management system (wBMS), which enables automotive manufacturers increased flexibility to scale their electric vehicle fleets into volume production across a wide range of vehicle classes. This is the first wireless battery management system available for production electric vehicles, and it will debut on General Motors’ production vehicles powered by Ultium ...

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Nvidia-Arm deal announced

 Arm’s sale to Nvidia has been announced this morning. “ARM will remain headquartered in Cambridge,” says Jen Hsun Huang Nvidia’s CEO, “We will expand on this great site and build a world-class AI research facility, supporting developments in healthcare, life sciences, robotics, self-driving cars and other fields.” Nvidia will pay $21.5 billion in Nvidia stock ...

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Adtran extends 60GHz Gbit symmetric services to 500m beyond mesh nodes

Adtran, the Huntsville Alabama networking specialist, has announced the MetNet 60GHz high-powered version 2 (HPv2) CPE. This second generation CPE aims to improve the economics and time-to-market for extending gigabit symmetric services beyond the reach of the existing fiber network, whether it is a residential broadband, enterprise, backhaul or smart city use case. Service providers ...

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Si Catalyst adds four partners

Silicon Catalyst, the Californian incubator, has added four companies to its family of In-Kind Partners (IKP): aDXCorr – Full custom physical design; Efabless – Configurable open-source SoC design templates; SalesDev.Global – Sales training workshops and coaching; Tessolve – Semiconductor and System Engineering services & solutions provider. DXCorr is the last independent stronghold for the art ...

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Renesas reference design for micromobility.

Renesas aims to accelerate the development of e-scooters, e-bikes, UPS and energy storage systems with a reference design and optional functional blocks that can be adopted for many 24V-48V applications such as lawn mowers, electric carts, robot cleaners, power tools, power banks, and more. It also uses 15 Renesas ICs, including three devices: the ISL94216 ...

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Huawei phones to have made-in-China OS

Huawei says its mobile phones will have the HarmonyOS instead of Android next year, reports the Nikkei. “We are going to release all the development kits for smartphones this December,” says Richard Yu, CEO of Huawei’s consumer business, “Huawei will play a role to help all the Chinese developers to expand to the global market ...

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Notebook shipments keep on growing

As WFH and distance education demand continues to propel the notebook (NB) market, TrendForce expects total NB shipment to reach 55 million units for 3Q20, a 4% increase QoQ. Of all product categories within the NB market, Chromebooks are expected to exhibit the highest percentage of YoY shipment growth for 2020. TrendForce currently projects total ...

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Q-CTRL and Quantum Machines hook up on quantum computing

Q-CTRL and Quantum Machines, both quantum computing startups, have agreed to integrate Q-CTRL’s firmware into Quantum Machines’ quantum hardware platform. Quantum computers are extremely fragile and bring with them extraordinary demands on the conventional electronic systems needed to make them run. Most conventional electronic systems designed for the telecommunications industry can’t meet these demands. Addressing this ...

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