Q2 sales of NEVs (including battery electric vehicles, plug-in hybrid electric vehicles, and fuel cell vehicles) reached 2.192 million units, 53.5% y-o-y, according to TrendForce. Sales of battery electric vehicles (BEV) reached 1.608 million units, 64.9% YoY, and sales of plug-in hybrid electric vehicles (PHEV) were 580,000 units, 29% YoY. In BEV brand rankings, although …

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Viavi Solutions is supporting 6G academic and industry research worldwide through its new 6G Forward program. The program is designed to provide vital expertise, technology, and funding to promising avenues of research, which may lead to breakthroughs for the next generation of wireless technology. At the University of Surrey, Viavi is a founding member of …

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Pliops, the five year-old provider of data processors for cloud and enterprise data centres, has closed a $100 million Series D funding round, bringing total investment in the company to more than $200 million since its founding in 2017. Led by Koch Disruptive Technologies (KDT) – with SK hynix, Lip-Bu Tan, Chairman of Walden International, …

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Kioxia is sampling new industrial-grade flash memory devices. This new lineup uses Kioxia’s latest generation BiCS FLASH 3D flash memory with 3-bit-per-cell (triple-level cell, TLC) technology, and is available in a 132-BGA package. Densities range from 512 gigabits (64 gigabytes) to 4 terabits (512 gigabytes) to support the unique requirements of industrial applications – including telecommunication, …

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Frans van Houten (pictured) ,CEO of Philips, is to step down in October following a product recall which has halved Philips’ share price. Houten has been CEO for 12 years and was due to leave the job in April. Roy Jakobs, head of Connected Care will take over. Philips is in the middle of a …

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Apex TG.66 from Taoglas is a hinged monopole antenna designed to cover all global 5G and 4G frequencies between 600MHz and 6GHz. “Despite its miniature size, the TG.66 has omnidirectional radiation patterns and provides stable gain across the hemisphere,” according to distributor Anglia, which is stocking the part. “The antenna packs a punch for its …

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Amazon Kinesis Data Analytics is now available in the Asia Pacific (Jakarta) region.

Amazon Rekognition Custom Labels is an automated machine learning (AutoML) service that allows customers to build custom computer vision models to detect objects and scenes specific to their business without in-depth machine learning expertise. Starting today, Custom Labels can automatically scale inference units of a trained model based on customer workload. This reduces model inference cost as customers no longer need to over-provision inference units to support spiky or fluctuating image volumes.

AWS Glue has upgraded its serverless Python Shell jobs to add Python 3.9 support and an updated bundle of pre-loaded libraries. These jobs allow you to write complex data integration and analytics jobs in pure Python.

You can now use an Amazon Interactive Video Service (Amazon IVS) basic channel for HD (720p) and Full HD (1080p) quality streams, in addition to SD (480p). The expanded functionality is designed to enable streamers and viewers globally to enjoy higher video quality when using a basic channel. A basic channel will deliver only the original input video quality to viewers, whereas a standard channel provides multiple qualities of output, allowing better playback quality across a range of devices and network conditions.