L’Oréal hopes to further improve its track record on water management after partnering with t SUEZ in a three-year agreement…

Fujitsu is sampling a 128kbit FRAM designed for an operating temperature of up to 125°C. The chip is qualified according to AEC Q100 industrial standard and is aimed at automotive and industrial markets. The MB85RS128TY incorporates 128kbit FRAM memory density, SPI serial interface with a maximum operating frequency of 33MHz, an extended operating voltage range …

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X-Fab has made its first GaN-on-Silicon devices made on 200mm wafers. The wafers used substrates fabricated at Exagan’s 200-mm epi-manufacturing facility in Grenoble, France. Exagan was founded in 2014 by CEA-Leti and Soitec to pursue GaN technology. X-Fab and Exagan have been working on the GaN-on-Silicon project since 2015. These epi wafers meet the physical …

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Drone maker Erle Robotics has come up with a autopilot daughterboard for the Raspberry Pi Zero. Called PXFmini, it can be used to create a ready-to-fly autopilot with support for Dronecode’s open source unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) platform and APM flight stack. The daughter-board, priced at €69, has been designed specially for the Raspberry Pi …

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The European Investment Fund (EIF) is already reducing funding for UK start-ups two years ahead of Brexit, reports the FT. The EIF provides two thirds of the total investment in UK-based VC funds. The situation has got worse for UK VC funds since Article 50 was triggered, according to Michael Collins, CEO of Invest Europe. …

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Here’s an interesting chart from Bernstein Research showing TSMC’s and Foxconn’s client base. Out of 450 customers at TSMC , two provide a quarter of TSMC’s revenues and 60% 0f Foxconn’s..  

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Could this be the year we start to see artificial intelligence (AI) starting to make an impact on businesses and our lives? According to a recent market survey by online marketplace OnBuy.com, the market expects AI to have its largest impact in engineering, administration and customer service. Cas Paton, managing director, OnBuy.com writes: “It’s interesting …

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Imagination has announced its  GPU IP core based on its PowerVR Furian architecture, the Series8XT GT8525. Furian aims to deliver high-resolution, immersive graphics content and data computation for sustained time periods within mobile power budgets. The two-cluster GT8525 targets  SoCs for products such as high-end smartphones and tablets, mid-range dedicated VR and AR devices and …

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A showed me a clever thing, a 1Hz reference based on a quartz clock module. These are inside just about every ‘quartz clock’ and are powered by a single AA cell. Apparently, the pcb inside provides narrow pulses to two outputs, across which a high-resistance solenoid is wired. This solenoid pushes the hands around via …

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Hon Hai founder and chairman Terry Gou is in something of a dilemma. After his trip to see President Trump he appears to have given a commitment to build a manufacturing plant in the US. Reuters reports that construction could begin this year. Whether it is to be a display factory or an assembly plant …

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