A*STAR of Singaporevand arQana Technologies are to jointly develop capabilities in mmWave Phased Array System for 5G cellular infrastructure, drone detection radar, and satellite communication on the move (SOTM). The three-year collaboration will see an investment of S$10M by arQana to develop differentiating performance factors that are currently missing in the industry such as greater ...

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Imec has chosen nine new tech startups for the imec.istart accelerator programme. In addition to a pre-seed funding of €50,000, they will receive one year of tailor-made coaching for their specific market, in order to make the transition to the market easier. The rising trend in the number of promising international start-ups applying is also ...

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Spectrum Intrumentation has released an optional module for its latest range of 16-bit digitizers and AWGs that adds 16 synchronous digital lines to the analogue data. The additional digital lines extend the four multi-purpose XIO lines that are already standard on these digitizer and AWG cards. This makes, in total, 20 fully programmable XIO lines ...

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Oracle has built a supercomputer from 1060 Raspberry Pi’s. It runs on Oracle Autonomous Linux. The Raspberry Pis are connected to a series of  Ubiquiti UniFi Switch 48s and uplinked  with SFP+ 10GbE transceivers. They are powered by USB power supplies. A 1U Xeon server acts  as a central storage server for the supercomputer. Custom, ...

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2020 semiconductor sales are forecast to rise 5-7%, reports SEMI. Yesterday, Future Horizons forecast that the 2020 market rise would be 4%. SEMI blamed the cloud service providers’ capex cutbacks for the memory market downturn this year, which will lead the industry to a 15% fall in 2019, according to Future Horizons.. Chipmakers remain trapped ...

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MathWorks has  introduced Release 2019b with a range of new capabilities in MATLAB and Simulink,including those in support of artificial intelligence, deep learning and the automotive industry. In addition, R2019b introduces new products in support of robotics, new training resources for event-based modeling, and updates and bug fixes across the MATLAB and Simulink product families. Release highlights ...

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Farnell is shipping the Avnet SmartEdge Industrial IoT Gateway; the low-cost industrial gateway powered by Raspberry Pi. Since the launch of the product at Embedded World Germany in February 2019, there has been significant demand for the gateway for use in a range of applications, including: building management, vehicle monitoring, industrial automation and predictive maintenance. The ...

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UltraSoc, the Cambridge analytics IP specialist, has opened a design centre in  Warsaw and started the process of recruiting a team of software engineers and data scientists to support the growth of its embedded analytics business worldwide. The new team, which is headed up by Director of Systems Engineering Marcin Hlond, will be located at ...

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Fab investment next year is expected to reach $50 billion, says SEMI, up from $12 billion this year. Fifteen new fab projects with a total investment of $38 billion will have started construction by the end of 2019 with 18 more fab projects forecast to start construction in 2020. Of the 18, 10 fab projects ...

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The SIA has written to US Department of Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross to try and get permits for sales to Huawei approved. There have been 130 requests for permits but none have been granted. Huawei is on the US Entity List which bans sales to it by US companies but the SIA has asked for ...

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