Purdue University will have spawned 275 startups within the next 12 months backed by more than $400 million dollars in VC support and other investments, making it the third best US university for startup creation according to IP Watchdog. Companies have invested $2.3 billion to acquire 10 Purdue startups, which are: Endocyte Inc., a life ...

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Qualcomm has come up with a chip for smartwatches called  Wear 4100.   It is made on a 12 nm process and has four 1.7GHz Cortex A53 CPUs. A “+” version of the chip is for watches with an always-on displsy. It has dual DSPs which deliver, says Qualcomm  “optimal workload partitioning, support for dynamic ...

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VARTA is to get €300 million via an IPCEI  (Important Project of Common European Interest) project. Funds are coming  from the German Federal Ministry of Economics (BMWi) and the states of Bavaria and Baden-Württemberg. The project will focus o developing small-format lithium-ion cells with higher energy densities.  These new battery formats are to be optimised on ...

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For D-Sub as well as M12 and M8 crimp sleeves, PROVERTHA offers new cost-effective Multicrimp pliers in four versions (TMCCH1 to TMCCH4) for different cable diameters. The pliers can be used universally and flexibly with a Multicrimp die for four or eight spanner sizes. This means that one pair of pliers can be used for ...

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The government is reported to be proposing to spend $500 million buying 20% of OneWeb, the bankrupt satellite company. OneWeb has launched 74 out of a planned constellation of 648 satellites. If a buyer cannot be found for them, the UK government, as the licensing authority, has to take responsibility for them. OneWeb makes low-orbit ...

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South Cambridgeshire District Council has given Huawei planning permission to build a $1 billion R&D facility in Sawston village. The permission was granted despite reservations expressed by the Parish Council of Little Shelford about the development’s impact on nesting birds. Others to object were the US Secretary of State and the US ambassador to the ...

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Infineon has come out with a sensing and balancing IC for Hybrid and EV car batteries. It measures the voltage in up to twelve battery cells with an accuracy of ± 5.8 mV over the entire temperature and voltage range as well as the operating life cycle. It supports up to five external temperature sensors, ...

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Smart Mimic has integrated Semtech’s LoRa devices and the LoRaWAN protocol into its MimicGO line of consumer products for securing rooms and belongings. The LoRa-based devices deploy indoor or outdoor to monitor condition changes in a range of applications, including door sensing, belongings movements and tampering, motion sensing in rooms, and open/closed status in drawers ...

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