Tesco and VW are to set up an EV charging network based on Tesco’s srprores. In the next three years, the plan is to install 2,400 charging posts in 600 stores. That would increase the number of UK charging points by 14%. The installation will be done by Pod Point which has installed 2,500 charging ...

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Wave Computing, the edge computing start-up, has taken its VC funding tally to $117.3 million with its latest Series E round of $86 million which was, says Wave, oversubscribed. Wave is one of a host of ‘neural’processor start-ups claiming to have a new way of processing large data-sets on-chip. Wave calls its technology DataFlow and ...

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Plextek RFI, the Cambridge design house specialising in microwave and millimetre-wave IC design, has designed and supplied a microwave power amplifier (PA) module for California-based satellite manufacturer and space mission operator Astro Digital. The module designed by Plextek RFI incorporates a power GaN output device and a GaAs driver circuit. It will form part of a propulsion system ...

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Premier Farnell has enhanced its maintenance and safety offering by expanding its range of products from leading global suppliers and introducing a dedicated maintenance and safety area on its website. The new resource provides a range of support information including videos, technical data and industry guideline, as well as covering new developments in the world ...

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Packaging dedicated to automotive electronics is growing and will be a $7 billion sector in 2023, say analysts Yole Developpement. Despite the high degree of regulation, consumer packaging types are slowly adapted to, and adopted by, the automotive market. The market is showing significant market drivers that are supporting the growth, says Yole:  electrification, connectivity, ...

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ADI and Princeton University have produced a processor using in-memory computing which computes using on-chip storage to avoid the power penalty involved in fetching data from outside the chip. They mark the chips: ‘ProgInMem’   The chip is designed for deep-learning inference systems such as self-driving vehicles, facial recognition systems and medical diagnostic software where ...

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The first worldwide Standards for the drone industry are being released today by the International Standards Organisation (ISO). The new Standards have been developed after several years of global collaboration between standards institutions from across the world and are expected to trigger rapid acceleration of growth within the drone industry as organisations throughout the world ...

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 October semiconductor manufacturing equipment billings were 0.9% down on September at  $2.06 billion, reports SEMI. The billings figure is 2%  higher than the October 2017 billings level of $2.02 billion. “October billings of North American equipment suppliers reflect near-term weakening of demand for PC, mobile phones and servers,” said Ajit Manocha, president and CEO of SEMI. “Additionally, ...

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