ARM and UMC are to develop multiple physical IP platforms, enabling UMC customers to easily implement ARM Artisan physical IP into SoC designs and reduce time-to-market. The agreement spans applications in automotive, Internet of Things (IoT) and mobile, from a 55ULP platform for IoT applications to a 14nm FinFET test chip for leading-edge mobile applications. …
ARM and UMC tie up for physical IP
ARM and UMC are to develop multiple physical IP platforms, enabling UMC customers to easily implement ARM® Artisan physical IP into SoC designs and reduce time-to-market. The agreement spans applications in automotive, Internet of Things (IoT) and mobile, from a 55ULP platform for IoT applications to a 14nm FinFET test chip for leading-edge mobile applications. …
Intel President Kicks Ass
As if we didn’t know it from the procession of Intel exitees, the new President brought in from Qualcomm for $25 million is kicking ass. “Over the last three months I have conducted numerous project reviews with our execution teams, and there is a clear trend that has emerged in these reviews – a lack …
Governments Must Regulate Against Cyberattacks, says Kaspersky
No nation has enough engineers to protect its infrastructure against cyberattacks, Eugene Kaspersky, founder and CEO of Kaspersky Labs, told a meeting in London yesterday. “We’re living at a time of growing numbers of attacks on infrastructure,” said Kaspersky, ‘ we have seen a case where petrol deliveries were heated above the temperature at which …
Governments Must Regulate Against Cyberattacks, says Kaspersky
Brain implant restores arm movement to paralysed hand
Movement in the hand and fingers of a paralysed man have been temporarily restored using a brain implant linked to electrodes on his forearm. The system has been developed by teams at not-for-profit research firm Battelle and the Wexner Medical Center of Ohio State University, and has been dubbed NeuroLife. Ian Burkhart is the subject. “He participates …
Droidcon London 2016 opens Call for Papers
The organisers of Droidcon London – which is described as the largest Android developer conference in Europe – are calling for papers. The 2016 event runs at the Business Design Centre, in Angel, on October 27th and 28th 2016, which are a Thursday and Friday. The organisers write: We’re putting on two days of expert …
Veolia to provide water reuse solution for Qatar oil & gas project
The Qatar Engineering & Construction Company has awarded a contract to Veolia Water Technologies to engineer, procure and deliver a wastewater treatment plant for Dolphin Energy’s natural gas production and processing facilities in Ras Laffan…
Singapore plans for 55% water recycling with DTSS pre-qualification
National water agency PUB is pre-qualifying consultancy firms and construction companies to build two key components of the Deep Tunnel Sewerage System (DTSS) Phase 2…
SUEZ bags first ZLD contract in China in triple industrial project win
SUEZ has won three new industrial service contracts in China in the Oil & Gas and Petrochemicals sectors worth 19 million euros…
IoT gateway is Microsoft Azure certified
An IoT gateway design kit is the result of a collaboration between Advantech, Intel and Microsoft. The pre-configured system is built around an Intel Celeron J1900 SoC and WES7E running Windows 7 Embedded with 4GB memory and 500GB HDD. The kit’s two two gateways have been verified through the Microsoft Azure Certified for IoT programme. The networking modules are the …