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Over the last two years, Fraunhofer IIS/EAS and the semiconductor manufacturer GLOBALFOUNDRIES have worked together in the project 'MARS' to advance the development of highly reliable 22nm FDSOI components. These components should pave the way for 'tactile intelligent systems' made in Dresden. Areas such as autonomous driving and applications in intelligent production will benefit enormously from such wirelessly networked systems capable of commu...

Technology that could be used in self-powered smart cities of the future will soon be demonstrated at the NASA Kennedy Space Center’s Visitor Complex at Cape Canaveral, Florida. Ilan Stern, a senior research scientist with the Georgia Tech Research Institute, and colleagues, are collaborating on a $2 million project supported by NASA contractor Delaware North Corporation to build a 40,000-square-foot lighted outdoor footpath demonstrating a...

More and more personal information about consumers is being collected today by businesses in order to deliver actionable insights that are having a genuine business impact.Nowhere is this more prevalent than in the connected car market, where much is being done to test a variety of artificial intelligence (AI) solutions for the major challenges faced in autonomous driving such as safety, security and trust. Guest piece written byAkihiro Kurita, ...

The automotive industry and u-blox found each other back in sometime around 2005. It was exactly anticipated or planned, but looking back, it’s been a fantastic adventure.Since, u-blox has sold dozens of millions of positioning and communication devices to automotive Tier Ones and OEMs. Theautomotiveindustry has become one of our most important verticals, generating over a quarter of the revenue.

Mitsubishi Electric had a very busy show at this year’s SPS Drives showcasing a range of new products and solutions from collaborative robots, to modular linear transfer systems and smart carriages, especially as the company was like many, concentrating on the big focus of the show Industry 4.0 and digitalisation.Anna Flockett, Engineering Specifier editor attended the Mitsubishi press breakfast at the SPS show, where the first innovation t...

The modern automotive industry does not revolve around vertically integrated companies with end-to-end control from production to assembly to sales. Author: Sam Chase,The Connected Car

The UK & Ireland electronic component market is forecast to grow in the range 6.5%-to-10.5% in 2018, achieving a mid-point of 8.5%, according to figures released by UK distribution association afdec. According to market analyst Aubrey Dunford, the UK and Ireland distribution market will grow 17% in 2017, and the distributors’ share of the overall Total Available Market (TAM) in the UK will have risen to 40%.

Automotive manufacturer and part of Liberty Vehicle Technologies is set to expand its product development programme for high performance road vehicles following a successful debut season on the Formula One track.

Allied Motion Technologies has introduced the WheelMaxSteering Series wheel drive assemblies. The steering Drives are fully-integrated, electrically powered traction wheels with on-board steering systems for electric vehicles.

A series of five high performance Inertial Measurement Units (IMUs) have been announced by Analog Devices (ADI) that address the navigation and safety-related needs of industrial applications in several emerging markets, while also reducing their system complexity and cost.The ADIS16470, ADIS16475 and ADIS16477 IMUs deliver performance improvements in smallest size with standard surface mount assembly.