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Cable permits continuous charging at 500A in high-temperatures

HUBER+SUHNER claims to have the world’s first cooled charging cable system that allows continuous charging at 500 Amperes even in high-temperature environments. The HPC500 cable and connecter adds to builds on the the HPC400 family and field experience in cooled cable solutions for EV charging stations. Several improvements and new features make the system ready ...

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Applied Q2 up 12%

Applied Materials had Q2 revenue up 12% y-o-y at $3.96 billion with a gross margin of 44.2% and operating income of $932 million. “As we navigate the challenges created by COVID-19, we have rallied the company around safety, productivity and keeping our customers and the industry moving forward,” says CEO Gary Dickerson, “while the situation ...

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IR LED is 1.6 x 1.6 x 0.81mm

A compact infrared LED from Osram, called Oslon Piccolo, enables gesture control in car interiors Gesture recognition delivers new ways of interacting with displays. For example, when navigating to a destination, the vehicle displays a map with the corresponding route. At the edges of the image, different menu items for operating the display are shown ...

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Aspinity adds analogue analytics capability to Infineon sensors

Aspinity, the Pittsburgh analogue machine learning IC specialist, is joining up with Infineon to bring together Aspinity’s  Reconfigurable Analogue Modular Processing (RAMP) technology with Infineon’s XENSIVTM sensor family. Aspinity’s RAMP chip is an analogue machine learning chip that can analyse raw, unstructured analogue sensor data to determine which data are important at the start of ...

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Sony to add AI processing to image sensors

Sony is about to launch intelligent vision sensors – image sensors equipped with AI processing. Including AI processing on the image sensor enables high-speed edge AI processing and extraction of only the necessary data, which, when using cloud services, reduces data transmission latency, minimizes any privacy concerns, and reduces power consumption and communication costs. AI-enhanced ...

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element 14 Fighting Germs project aims to slow coronavirus

element14 has launched the “Fighting Germs” Project14 design challenge. “Everyone has the opportunity to do their part to help slow the spread of this disease, and that is especially true of our amazing community of engineers, makers and hobbyists,” says element14’s Dianne Kibbey, “our members came to us just as the lock-downs started and asked ...

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Toshiba launches gate driver switch IPDs

Toshiba has launched two new gate driver switch intelligent power devices (IPDs). Fully AEC-Q100 compliant, the TPD7106F and TPD7107F can be used to control the conduction and shut-off of currents being supplied to automotive electronic control units (ECUs), including junction boxes and body control modules. They are also suited to use in power distribution modules ...

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Imec spin-off develops wearable social distancing tool

Imec spin-off Lopos and Ghent University have developed the Lopos SafeDistance wearable that supports companies in remaining active or safely restarting in-person activities during the COVID-19 pandemic. The wearable warns employees through an audible or haptic alarm, when they are violating the social distancing guidelines while approaching each other. The solution guarantees absolute privacy of ...

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Fingerprint on Display sensor shipments booming

Shipments of fingerprint-on-display (FoD) sensors grew 674% last year as FoDs replace silicon-based capacitive chips in smartphones, reports Omdia. A total of 228.3 million FoD sensors were shipped in 2019, compared to 29.5 million in 2018, said Omdia. FoD shipments are expected to top 400 million units this year. Besides Apple, most smartphone brands have ...

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