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When Volkswagen unveiled its self-driving 'Sedric' concept this past March, some people couldn't help but chuckle. It didn't have anything to do with the underlying concept, which was that Sedric would be 'the ideas platform for autonomous driving in the Volkswagen Group'. Rather, it was the physical appearance of the car. With a wide body, a vertically elongated windshield and hanging wheel wells covering the tires completely, it looked like not...

Imagination Technologies has revealed its complete, standalone hardware IP neural network accelerator, with area efficiency delivered by a specialised PowerVR architecture implementation for neural networks (NNs).Companies building SoCs for mobile, surveillance, automotive and consumer systems can integrate the new PowerVR Series2NX Neural Network Accelerator (NNA) for high-performance computation of neural networks at very low power consumption ...

Former Standard Products division of NXP, Nexperia, has announced a new series of Trench 9 power MOSFETs, targeted primarily at the automotive industry, which combine the company’s low voltage superjunction technology with its advanced packaging capability to deliver high performance and ruggedness.

After the inauguration of Europe’s first 150mm GaN production line at OMMIC, EpiGaN and OMMIC have announced their partnership on GaN/Si epiwafers supply for RF power products aiming at future 5G wireless communication.EpiGaN and OMMIC are collaborating in the development of RF GaN/Si technology on 150mm diameter wafers.

You need a robot to be accurate and repeatable when it comes to the purpose of using a robot to automate a process.As robots move from environments where they were traditionally used behind cages to open environments, it is important that their power solutions keep up. Here, Michele Windsor, global marketing manager at global battery specialist Ultralife Corporation, explains why plant managers need to consider smart batteries for industrial and ...

On the 5th September 2017, DRIVEN consortium unveiled the first three of its proposed fleet of six self-driving vehicles, a white and blue 2014 Ford Fusion Titanium hybrid, a 2017 Ford Mondeo hybrid and a Range Rover Evoque.

There is no denying that the automotive industry is evolving, with disruptive players like Google, Tesla and even Apple entering the market. With a current value of over a trillion dollars worldwide, the automotive manufacturing sector has been a significant driver of economic growth for decades. Taavi Madiberk, CEO of Skeleton Technologies explains.

Steve Rogerson reports from last month’s AutoSens conference in Brussels.There is no single sensor technology that can handle the complexities of data gathering that will be essential if the vision of autonomous vehicles is going to be realised. As such, car makers and their tier-one suppliers are wrestling with the difficulties of finding the best mix of vision systems, radar, lidar, ultrasonics and even sonar to provide the car with the n...

Steve Rogerson looks at some of the news that may have missed the front page.I can’t wait for Halloween to watch all the trick-or-treaters wondering why the new facial security feature on their iPhones has stopped working.

Robotic technology will transform the forklift industry, causing a colossal transfer of value from human-provided driving services, towards spending on autonomous industrial material handling machines, thus fuelling an industry revenue boom far exceeding recent growth trends. By Dr Khasha Ghaffarzadeh, Research Director, IDTechEx