British luxury car-maker TVR has confirmed that it will build a new factory in the Ebbw Vale Enterprise Zone in South Wales. The project will provide about 150 new high skilled jobs. Apart from creating new jobs, setting up the factory ...
Tags: TVR, Ebbw Vale Enterprise Zone, Sports Cars, Wales
Mercedes-Benz introduces its V-Class multi-purpose vehicle (MPV) in China, which has been tailored to the needs of Chinese customers. Production at Daimler's local joint venture Fujian Benz Automotive Co. Ltd (FBAC) in Fuzhou has already ...
Tags: Mercedes-Benz, V-Class Vans, MVP
VerifyMe agreed to provide its anti-counterfeit features for GuardLab's products and packaging. GuardLab is a custom mouthguard company using 3D scanning and printing technologies to provide athletes with the most custom fit and ...
Japanese Omron Automotive Electronics (OAE) has agreed to plead guilty and pay $4.6m fine for its involvement in rigging bids for power window switches in Honda Civics, the US department of justice (DoJ) said. The justice department said ...
Tags: OAE, Bid rigging case
McLaren has added two more models, 570S GT4 and 570S Sprint to its sports series. These two models will enter an intensive season-long development program in the British GT championship. McLaren Automotive CEO, Mike Flewitt, ...
GE Aviation (an operating unit of GE) has been awarded a $2.1m contract from the US Army to develop and demonstrate silicon carbide (SiC)-based power electronics supporting high-voltage next-generation ground vehicle electrical power ...
Tags: GE Aviation, SiC power devices
Machine vision uses machines to measure and judge instead of human eyes. Typical machine vision systems can be divided into PCB machine vision system and embedded machine vision system (smart cameras). In 2015, the global machine vision ...
Italian automotive component manufacturer Eldor will invest about $75m in the Botetourt County of Virginia, US. The plant will create 350 jobs in the region which will be Eldor's first plant in the country. The company manufactures ...
IBM announced that its Watson IoT technology is being used by Honda R&D for monitoring and analyzing data from more than 160 sensors in Formula One (F1) cars. Now, drivers and crews can apply data and analytics in real-time to help ...
Tags: IBM, Watson Iot Tech, Formula One cars
In booth 1655 at the Applied Power Electronics Conference & Exposition (APEC 2016) in Long Beach, CA, USA (20–24 March), Monolith Semiconductor Inc of Round Rock, TX, USA is demonstrating its fast-switching silicon carbide (SiC) ...
Tags: SiC MOSFET, SiC Schottky barrier diodes, SiC power devices
X-FAB Silicon Foundries of Erfurt, Germany - a mixed-signal IC, sensor and micro-electro-mechanical systems (MEMS) foundry – has entered wide-bandgap semiconductor production by announcing the availability of silicon carbide (SiC) ...
Tags: SiC MOSFET SiC Schottky barrier diodes SiC power devices
At the Light + Building 2016 trade fair in Frankfurt, Germany (13-18 March), Osram Opto Semiconductors GmbH of Regensburg, Germany is unveiling its Duris P 10 LED, suitable for use in professional outdoor lighting systems. Offering typical ...
Gimv has announced that its Belgain company Punch Powertrain has been 100% acquired by Chiense Yinyi group. The valuation agreed upon in the context of this transaction indicates that the contemplated sale could have a positive impact of ...
Tags: Gimv, Yinyi group, Punch Powertrain, Aquisition
Deposition equipment maker Aixtron SE of Herzogenrath, near Aachen, Germany says that Seoul-based LG Innotek (a subsidiary of South Korean electronics company LG Group) has selected an AIX G5 WW (Warm-Wall) reactor for the development of ...
Tags: SiC Epiwafers, Aix G5 WW System
Japanese company Fuji Heavy industries, the maker of Subaru, has unveiled Subaru global platform which will be single platform to build its next generation of vehicles. The single platform will help enhance the overall vehicle ...