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Can cell phone signals help land a plane?

Can cell phone signals help land a plane?

Sandia Labs, Ohio State look to the skies to protect aircraft against GPS outagesResearchers from Sandia National Laboratories and Ohio State University are taking experimental navigation technology to the skies, pioneering a backup system to keep an airplane on course when it...

Published on: October 23, 2024

Spectrum launches flagship 10GS/s AWG card

Spectrum launches flagship 10GS/s AWG card

Spectrum Instrumentation in Germany has launched a new flagship arbitrary waveform generator (AWG) card that generates nearly any waveform at up to 10 GS/s with a 2.5 GHz bandwidth and 16bit vertical resolution.The four models in the M5i.63xx AWG series have onboard...

Published on: October 23, 2024

First CHERI RISC-V embedded chip and Early Access Programme

First CHERI RISC-V embedded chip and Early Access Programme

SCI Semiconductor in Cambridge has developed the first CHERI-enabled family of chips for embedded designs.The ICENI microcontroller chips are based on the RISC-V RV32E architecture and using the Microsoft CHERIoT-Ibex processor core. The chips are built by GlobalFoundries and is aimed at...

Published on: October 23, 2024

Celestial AI buys Rockley Photonics patents for $20m

Celestial AI buys Rockley Photonics patents for $20m

Celestial AI has bought the silicon photonics intellectual property of Rockley Photonics, including worldwide issued and pending patents, for $20m.This gives Celestial AI one of the strongest IP portfolios in the field of silicon photonics for optical compute interconnect, bringing their total...

Published on: October 23, 2024

Qualcomm aims for Samsung phones with 3nm Snapdragon from TSMC

Qualcomm aims for Samsung phones with 3nm Snapdragon from TSMC

Qualcomm Inc. has announced its Snapdragon 8 Elite processor for use in smartphones. The chip uses 3nm manufacturing process from TSMC could drive Samsung’s Galaxy S25.The Snapdragon 8 Elite includes the first time use of the Oryon CPU which comes in performance...

Published on: October 22, 2024

Mercedes-Benz opens own recycling factory to close the battery loop

Mercedes-Benz opens own recycling factory to close the battery loop

Plant to generate enough recycled materials to produce more than 50,000 new battery modules per yearMercedes-Benz today opened Europe’s first battery recycling plant with an integrated mechanical-hydrometallurgical process making it the first car manufacturer worldwide[2] to close the battery recycling loop with...

Published on: October 22, 2024

Extra talent for microchip sector

Extra talent for microchip sector

The Twente region (The Netherlands) will train more than 1,600 extra talents for the microchip sector in the next five years | Twente UniversityThis ambition is at the heart of Twente’s plan for Project Beethoven. Launched earlier this year, Project Beethoven involves...

Published on: October 22, 2024

Intel seeks foundry alliance with Samsung, says report

Intel seeks foundry alliance with Samsung, says report

Intel CEO Pat Gelsinger has requested an in-person meeting with Samsung Electronics chair Lee Jae-yong to discuss “comprehensive cooperation measures in the foundry sector,” according to Korea’s Maeil Business newspaper.If established, an Intel-Samsung foundry alliance would enable the exchange of manufacturing process...

Published on: October 22, 2024

Dryad plans wildfire drone system

Dryad plans wildfire drone system

Dryad Networks in Germany has raised two grants for its wildfire detection technologies, including drones to put out the fires.A €3.8m grant from the European Regional Development Fund (ERDF) will accelerate the development of a drone-based wildfire suppression project, codenamed “Florian,” while...

Published on: October 22, 2024

The Netherlands seeks smart grid solutions for the energy transition

The Netherlands seeks smart grid solutions for the energy transition

Dutch and US experts are set to share smart grids expertise and discuss investment opportunities through an innovation mission.The Netherlands is pursuing solutions to make energy grids smarter, more sustainable and more resilient, as part of the country’s efforts to accelerate the...

Published on: October 22, 2024