33 years ago a company was founded to pursue SPARC processors. It was named after its founder – a renowned processor designer. It had three distinguished directors – T.J.Rodgers, L.J.Sevin and John Doerr. It was backed by Cypress. After seven years it was sold to Fujitsu and after ten years it was closed down. Moral: …

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Published by MITeen Press, this book – Become An App Inventor – is aimed at young inventors, wanting to design and publish their own apps.

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NevadaNano, has brought out the MPSTM Mini –  a miniaturised version of the Molecular Property Spectrometer (MPSTM) Flammable Gas Sensor. The sensor claims to be the world’s most accurate hydrocarbon sensor in its class and eliminates the need for maintenance during its 10+year lifetime. The sensor measures the thermodynamic properties of the air-gas mix and …

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Inmarsat is highlighting research that suggests a rapid increase in adoption of industrial IoT in 2021 across global supply chains. According to its report, “Industrial IoT in the Time of Covid-19”, this applies in agriculture, electrical utilities, mining, oil and gas, and transport and logistics sectors. The company is involved in this area through its …

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Glasgow Prestwick Spaceport has secured a launch partner for its development: the UK-based ‘horizontal’ launch service provider Astraius, which is promising to provide state of the art launch facilities. A Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) has been signed with Astraius for the organisations to collaborate for the orbital launch of small satellites from 2023. They will …

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The Q4 DRAM ASP will likely drop 3-8% q-o-q, says TrendForce. PC DRAM is expected to drop 5-10% as  notebook production of  is expected to decline in 4Q21, propelling the sufficiency ratio of PC DRAM to 1.38%. The current spot prices of PC DRAM modules are far lower than their contract prices for 3Q21. Server …

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The UK has launched its first National Artificial Intelligence (AI) Strategy  with plans to launch a programme to support R&D, publish a white paper on the governance and regulation of AI to build confidence in its use and support organisations to capitalise on the power of AI technologies. The UK is ranked third in the world for …

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The recently released Arduino Nano RP2040 Connect and Raspberry Pi Pico development boards are available from stock at Farnell. They are designed to accelerate development time and time-to-market. They are also competitively priced for deployment in production systems, adds Farnell. The new-to-market Arduino Nano RP2040 Connect and Raspberry Pi Pico provide differentiated development platforms for …

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NVIDIA and Open Robotics have entered into an agreement to accelerate ROS 2 performance on NVIDIA’s Jetson edge AI platform and GPU-based systems. These initiatives will reduce development time and improve performance for developers seeking to incorporate computer vision and AI/machine learning functionality into their ROS-based applications. Open Robotics will enhance ROS 2 to enable …

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AWS is announcing Licensing Accelerator, a new AWS Ground Station feature which provides commercial businesses, space start-ups, and universities access to resources to help them more efficiently secure spectrum licenses required for their operations and missions. Licensing accelerator is free-of-charge to AWS Ground Station customers. AWS Ground Station is a fully managed service that lets customers control satellite communications, process satellite data, and scale their satellite operations. With Licensing Accelerator, AWS Ground Station customers can launch and scale their spacecraft operations faster by leveraging the latest, centrally located information about satellite licensing regulations such as space station licensing, remote sensing licenses, and International Telecommunications Union (ITU) coordination.