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Royal Mail taps Wiliot for parcel monitoring
Royal Mail in the UK is the world’s first delivery company to use energy harvesting tags from Wiliot to boost efficiency.Royal Mail is tagging its 850,000 wheeled containers with the RF energy harvesting tags that look like stickers. These Bluetooth tags transmit...
Hella, Varta team on battery diagnostics
Hella Gutmann Solutions and Varta are to create a low voltage battery diagnostic services in European automotive workshops.Every vehicle, including electric and hybrid vehicles, requires a low-voltage energy source to ensure the function of important systems. Today, the low-voltage network is increasingly...
UV enhanced die bonder speeds PCB assembly
Electronics Manufacturing Services (EMS) provider Escatec has integrated a UV curing light with a die bonder to boost the precision and efficiency of micro-assembly and printed circuit board (PCB) processes.The team at Escatec Switzerland built a customized UV-curing system with two 365nm...
Denso seals Quadric deal for RISC-V AI core
Leading Japanese automotive supplier Denso is expanding its semiconductor business through a development license agreement for a Neural Processing Unit (NPU) AI core from Quadric in the US, adding its own RISC-V IP.Denso will acquire the IP core license for Quadric’s Chimera...
InBrain raises US$50 million for brain-computer interface
InBrain Neuroelectronics (Barcelona, Spain), a brain-computer interface (BCI) company developing graphene-based neural technologies, has closed of a US$50 million Series B financing round.This brings the total amount raised by the company since its formation in 2020 to US$68 million.The funding round was...
Toshiba and MIKROE introduce BLDC motor driver board
Toshiba Electronics Europe GmbH has partnered with MIKROE to integrate its Smart Motor Control Driver IC (SmartMCD™) into the SmartMCD TB9M003FG board, streamlining the prototyping phase for automotive BLDC motor applications.With a focus on performance, flexibility and ease of integration, the AEC-Q100...
Keysight, ADI team on GMSL test
Keysight Technologies and Analog Devices (ADI) are developing a comprehensive test system for Gigabit Multimedia Serial Link (GMSL2) SerDes devices in automotive designs.The partnership focuses on developing Physical Medium Attachment (PMA) test methods and capabilities for the GMSL2 interface for emerging Advanced...
Ambiq expands Zephyr RTOS support for SoCs/MCUs
Ambiq® has expanded its support for the open-sourced Zephyr Project® Real-Time Operating System (RTOS).The Zephyr RTOS is now available on the Apollo3 Family SoCs, Apollo4 Plus, Apollo4 Blue Plus, and the upcoming Apollo510 MCU, for high-performing AI at the edge. Manufacturers running Zephyr on...
$4m for US neuromorphic AI centre
The MATRIX AI Consortium at the University of Texas at San Antonio (UTSA) has received a $4 million grant to fund the Neuromorphic Commons (THOR) project.The multi-university THOR project offers researchers access to a large-scale neuromorphic computing system that is the first-of-its-kind. THOR...
IQE’s CEO departs amidst C-level shuffle
Compound semiconductor wafer supplier IQE plc (Cardiff, Wales) has announced that CEO Americo Lemos has left the company with immediate effect.Jutta Meier, who joined the company from Intel in January 2024 will take up the position of interim CEO while continuing as...
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