The US should put up any evidence they may have that Huawei switchgear has been used for spying, says Vodafone boss Nick Read (pictured), The US has been pressuring countries and companies not to use Huawei gesr. However, says Read, not to use it involves a  “massive swap of equipment hugely disruptive to national infrastructure ...

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The Ultimate Arduino Challenge was announced at Embedded World by Arduino co-founder Massimo Banzi. The Ultimate Arduino Challenge is divided into three categories: Data Collection, Industrial IoT, and Anything Goes. The Data Collection category tasks engineers with collecting data using an Arduino board and various sensors; The Industrial IoT contest tests engineers’ skills in designing ...

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Samsung is ramping up production of its 512GB eUFS 3.0 3D NAND flash memory module. In H2 it plans to launch a 1TB device. Samsung’s 512GB eUFS 3.0 stacks eight of the company’s fifth-generation 512Gb 3D NAND die and integrates a high-performance controller. At 2,100 MB/s,  the new eUFS doubles the sequential read rate of Samsung’s ...

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China car manufacturer Geely, Qualcomm and IoT specialist Gosuncn have teamed upto0put  5G-linked cars on the road in China in 2021. proposed its four steps G-Pilot strategy for autonomous driving in 2018. Presently, its autonomous driving is at Level 2 and will now provide Level 3 services with 5G and C-V2X technologies in 2021 for ...

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Hua Hong Semiconductor, the China foundry,  is looking to acquire a 14nm process next year. It also  plans to develop 7nm and 5nm processes. Hua Hong says it will add capacity to its fabs in Shanghai (Jinqiao, Zhengjiang and Kangqiao) and Wuxi, to achieve 350,000 wpm capacity next year.. Hua Hong’s first 12-inch fab dubbed ...

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Intel has ended its year-old deal to co-develop 5G modems with the Tsinghua Unigroup-owned wireless chip company Unisoc. Intel says the partnership has not been ended because of pressure from the US government, “We decided mutually that we would not continue the partnership,” said Robert Topol, GM of Intel’s 5G strategy and program office at MWC in ...

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Melexis has announced a new version of its  FIR thermal sensor array. The device has lower thermal noise compared to the current MLX90640, an increased refresh rate of 64 Hz and an elevated operating temperature up to 125 °C. The technology allows for simplified integration of temperature measurement into applications that enhance safety, efficiency, convenience ...

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Leti has prototyped an optical chemical sensor using mid-infrared silicon photonics that can be integrated in smartphones and other portable devices. Mid-IR chemical sensors operate in the spectral range of 2.5µm to 12µm, and are considered the paradigm of innovative silicon-photonic devices. In less than a decade, chemical sensing has become a key application for ...

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