Movidius Ltd. (San Mateo, Calif.), a private company that set out in Dublin, Ireland, to develop vision processors more than a decade ago, has announced the...
Electrically-driven and thus locally emission-free passenger airplanes could make mobility more sustainable and flexible in the future. Within the next decades...
Researchers at the Niels Bohr Institute (København, Denmark) have shown that light sources can be made much faster by using a principle that was predicted...
Silicone (not silicon) is so soft that it yields under the pressure of a finger. Researchers make use of this property to control systems and instruments...
After initiating a large test of automated driving under real-world traffic conditions in Gothenburg (Sweden), Volvo now plans to execute a similarly broad...
To spur the weak demand for electric and hybrid cars, the German government has agreed with the automotive industry to pay a buyer’s premium of 4000 euros for...
With cars becoming increasingly turning entities of silicon and software, the European Executive Forum of the Global Semiconductor Alliance (GSA) took a close...
NEC, NEC Tokin and Tohoku University have co-developed a thin-film spin Seebeck thermoelectric device which they hope could be cheaply produced at low...
A team at the University of California, Irvine report – almost inadvertently - inventing nanowire-based battery material that can be recharged hundreds of...
Officials from Samsung Semiconductor Inc. (SSI) detailed the company’s foundry roadmap, which includes expanding FD-SOI production and offering low-cost...
Founded in 2005 to develop and license its own architecture of low-power processor cores and associated development tools, Andes is still privately held but has received significant minority investment from fabless chip company MediaTek Inc. (Hsinchu,Taiwan). MediaTek is also a licensee. Although Andes may not be well known in Europe it has achieved design wins in numerous wireless connectivity chips and touchscreen controllers and Andes IP has... Read more
