General Motors is to absorb robotaxi technology developer Cruise to focus on driverless cars for consumers.The plans to realign its autonomous driving strategy and prioritize development of advanced driver assistance systems creates a path to fully autonomous personal vehicles and will save...
Published on: December 11, 2024
STMicroelectronics has introduced the first product of its strategic collaboration with Qualcomm Technologies to simplify development of next-generation wireless for industrial and consumer IoT applications. The collaboration aims to initially deliver IoT modules leveraging the powerful STM32 ecosystem from ST and leading...
Published on: December 11, 2024
A lithium ion battery cell with a silicon anode developed by Sionic Energy is set to top an energy density of 1000Wh/l.Sionic, a spin out of Cornell University in the US in 2011, is using the SCC55 engineered silicon material from Group14...
Published on: December 11, 2024
Researchers at CEA-Leti in France have combined a liquid crystal cell and a custom CMOS image sensor to sense and modulate light in a single solid state device.The compact system provides intrinsic optical alignment and compactness and is easy to scale-up for...
Published on: December 11, 2024
UK/US quantum developer Quantinuum has developed a quantum system with 50 logical qubits with a fidelity of over 98%.This is the largest system with logical qubits using the Greenberger–Horne–Zeilinger (GHZ) state, an entangled quantum state that involves at least three qubits. Logical qubits are vital for...
Published on: December 10, 2024
ST has announced details of its STM32N6 family of 32bit ARM-based microcontrollers with a neural acceleration unit called Neural-Art on-chip.The addition of machine learning capabilities to a microcontroller makes it possible to run computer vision, audio processing, sound analysis and more consumer...
Published on: December 10, 2024
The global market for PCs and tablet computers is on-course to grow to a size of 403.5 million units in 2024, an increase of 3.8 percent on 2023, according to International Data Corp.Although equipment and chip vendors are talking up the AI-PC...
Published on: December 10, 2024
The first projects have been announced for a Photonics and Quantum Accelerator (PQA) in Scotland.The PQA brings together researchers from the Universities of Glasgow, Strathclyde, Heriot-Watt and St Andrews with local companies.In the first round, six projects will share in £237,000 in...
Published on: December 10, 2024
The US government is to provide up to $6.15bn to Micron Technology to bring volume DRAM memory production back to the country.The funding is part of an ambitious $120bn plan to bring back advanced DRAM production in Idaho and New York, including...
Published on: December 10, 2024
Real-Time Innovations (RTI) has announced that the Data Distribution Service (DDS™) standard is now included in the AUTOSAR Foundation Package — a set of shared standards supporting both Classic and Adaptive Platforms.The AUTOSAR Classic Platform serves traditional automotive systems, while the Adaptive...
Published on: December 10, 2024