General Motors (GM) has been accused of using a device in its diesel-powered vehicles in order to cheat on emissions tests, similar to Volkswagen scandal. A group of more than 700,000 owners and lessees of GM’s Chevrolet Silverado ...
Tags: General Motors, Diesel Emissions
Alta Devices of Sunnyvale, CA, USA (a Hanergy company) and PowerOasis of Swindon, UK are partnering to develop the first reference design for integrated solar and lithium-ion (Li-ion) battery power systems for small unmanned aerial vehicles ...
Tags: Alta Devices, batteries
On 28 April, Seoul Semiconductor Europe GmbH of Munich, Germany (a subsidiary of South Korean LED maker Seoul Semiconductor Co Ltd) filed a patent infringement claim in Germany at the District Court of Düsseldorf against global ...
Tags: Mid-Power LEDs, Electronics
Global biscuit, chocolate and confectionery firm Pladis signed a preferred supplier agreement with Bosch Packaging Technology at Interpack 2017. Bosch will now serve as one of Pladis’ global preferred suppliers of process and ...
Tags: Bosch Packaging, Packaging
Analog Devices Inc (ADI) of Norwood, MA, USA has launched small-form-factor isolated gate drivers designed for the higher switching speeds and system size constraints required by power switch technologies such as silicon carbide (SiC) and ...
Tags: Analog Devices, GaN Power
III-V optoelectronic foundry Compound Semiconductor Technologies Global Ltd (CST Global) of Hamilton International Technology Park, Blantyre, near Glasgow, Scotland, UK says that, at the III International Conference on Applications in ...
The messaging robot allows kids to keep in contact with loved ones without the need for video chat software. Empath Interactive has announced the launch of the Elfkins Communications robot, the new smart toy that enables safe, screen-free ...
In booth 1827 at the IEEE MTT-S International Microwave Symposium (IMS2017) in Honolulu, Hawaii (6-8 June), Mitsubishi Electric US Inc of Cypress, CA is presenting a hands-on mini lab showcasing its high-efficiency, wide-band gallium ...
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Researchers at the RMIT University in Melbourne and the Beijing Institute of Technology are claiming that they have created the worlds thinnest hologram. This nano-hologram is 1000 times thinner than a human hair and provides us with hope ...
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Microsoft just launched its new Surface Pro, after recently announcing its attempt to take on the MacBook in the form of the Surface Laptop. And while both machines look pretty darn sleek, there's been one small issue with both which has ...
After announcing the framework for standalone Daydream hardware at Google I/O on Wednesday, the firm has followed up with a slew of enhancements for the Android-based VR platform. One day two at Google I/O, the firm said users will be ...
Tags: Google, Daydream 2.0, VR
Ultratech, a supplier of lithography, laser processing and inspection systems used to manufacture semiconductor devices and high-brightness LEDs (HBLEDs), as well as atomic layer deposition (ALD) systems, today announced that it has ...
Tags: laser spike, FinFETs
Researchers in South Korea and the USA claim record 2190cm2/V-s effective mobility for indium gallium arsenide (InGaAs) quantum well (QW) metal-oxide-semiconductor field-effect transistors (MOSFETs) on 300mm-diameter (100) silicon ...
Tags: Transistors, MOSFETs
LED maker Lumileds of San Jose, CA, USA says that, at the IEEE Honors Ceremony in San Francisco on 25 May during the IEEE Vision, Innovations, and Challenges (IEEE VIC) Summit, George Craford (the Lumileds Solid State Lighting Fellow) will ...
Samsung will be adding support for Google’s Daydream VR platform to its latest flagship smartphones later this summer. Since Google launched Daydream last year, there’s been a notable absence of phones that support the ...