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Global provider of GaN power transistors, GaN Systems, has announced the closing of an investment round led by BMW’s investment arm, BMW i Ventures. Consistent with its investment strategy, BMW i Ventures recognises that GaN Systems’ products maximise the efficiency of electronic systems while dramatically reducing size, weight and overall system cost. The investment will be used to expand global sales and accelerate new product devel...

The smart display market for automotive applications is evolving at a rapid rate. The market is dependent on the demand trends in the automobile industry, buyer’s preferences, technological advancement in digital automotive cockpit electronics, and the progress toward developing autonomous vehicles. Smart displays in automotive applications play an important role in making important driver assistance functions available at a single-touchscr...

Provider of storage, networking, and connectivity semiconductor solutions, Marvell, has announced what it claims to be the industry’s first secure automotive gigabit Ethernet switch, enabling a new level of safe data transmission in next-gen connected vehicles. There are hundreds of computing applications in the car that require a robust, secure in-vehicle-network, making Ethernet the technology of choice for auto manufacturers.

The automotive LiDAR and RADAR market is growing at a substantial rate. The market growth is dependent on the demand trends in the automobile industry, safety regulations, and buyer preferences and lifestyle. LiDAR and RADAR based driver assistance systems play an important role in reducing road accidents and casualties and enhance pedestrian safety. Passenger safety occupies a prime spot in the automobile sector today.

Supplier of advanced semiconductor solutions, Renesas Electronics Europe, has announced that it has developed a development kit for its R-Car that takes advantage of 'emotion engine', an artificial sensibility and intelligence technology pioneered by cocoro SB, a SoftBank Group company. The new development kit enables cars with the sensibility to read the driver's emotions and optimally respond to the driver’s needs based on their emotional...

A new camera that builds on technology first described by Stanford researchers more than 20 years ago could generate the kind of information-rich images that robots need to navigate the world. This camera, which generates a four dimensional image, can also capture nearly 140 degrees of information.“We want to consider what would be the right camera for a robot that drives or delivers packages by air".

The latest IDTechEx Research report,Last Mile Electric Vehicles 2018-2028,concerns goods and people reaching final destination such as down the pathway past the guard dog or riding from the train station. Currently costing up to 55% of shipment costs, today's expensive methods tend to be dangerous, polluting or slow. Solving this 'last mile problem' is key to Amazon's objective of grabbing Wal-Mart's business and other battles of the titans.

Integrated technology and systems innovator for next-gen networks, Rockley Photonics, will, over the next five years, match government funding from the EPSRC, and form a ‘Prosperity Partnership’ with the University of Southampton’s Optoelectronics Research Centre (ORC).The money, totalling around £4.8m, will be used to support research into how silicon photonics technology can be used to improve data centre communication n...

This week sees Royal Birkdale, near Liverpool, host the 146th Open Golf Championship. The iconic status of the world’s oldest golf major is matched only by the prestigious trophy that is presented to the winner each year.

A robot security guard tasked with patrolling car parks and buildings in Washington DC appears to have taken its life into its own hands by rolling into a fountain and drowning itself.In a tweet that quickly went viral, Bilal Farooqui said: “Our D.C. office building got a security robot. It drowned itself. We were promised flying cars, instead we got suicidal robots.”