Japanese brewing company Sapporo has agreed to acquire US-based Anchor Brewing for an undisclosed amount. Sapporo aims to continue Anchor’s traditions and legacy in San Francisco while growing the brand globally. Anchor Brewing ...
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Qualcomm and Nichicon have signed a wireless electric vehicle charging (WEVC) license agreement. Nichicon will include Qualcomm Halo WEVC technology in its product portfolio and will focus on commercializing WEVC systems for Plug-In ...
Continental has showcased its Cruising Chauffeur, a self-driving car platform which provides an insight into the company’s vision of the future of what it calls “highly automated driving” on highways. Highly automated ...
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Mitsubishi Heavy Industries America (MHIA) has completed the construction of a two-train polyethylene facility in the US for ExxonMobil Chemical. MHIA, a subsidiary of Mitsubishi Heavy Industries (MHI), secured the construction order from ...
Toyota has announced the Japanese launch of a completely redesigned Camry, which intends to test the limits of performance and intelligence, infusing the high-end sedan with a refined feel. Camry, which was first introduced back in 1980 ...
Futamura has reported better sales growth and record levels of operational efficiency in the year since its purchase of Innovia Films’ cellulose business. The acquisition was announced back in April last year. The company stated ...
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Here Technologies has entered into a partnership with Increment P, a mapping subsidiary of Pioneer Corporation, with the aim of enabling global mapping solutions for the autonomous driving era. The intent to enter into this partnership ...
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Tokyo-based Solar Frontier – the largest manufacturer of CIS (copper indium selenium) thin-film photovoltaic (PV) solar modules – has announced the installation of 2848 of its solar panels (equivalent to 484.16kW in capacity) on ...
Dowa Holdings Co Ltd subsidiary Dowa Electronic Materials Co Ltd of Tokyo, Japan has developed a deep ultraviolet LED chip with dimensions of 1mm × 1mm and what is claimed to be the industry’s highest output power of 75mW at a ...
Quality OLED televisions are still priced prohibitively highly, setting UK customers back thousands of pounds per set – but is that about to change? When it comes to television panels, the industry gold standard is OLED, or organic ...
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German automotive manufacturing firm Continental has become a development partner and system integrator of the collaboration between BMW Group, Intel and Mobileye for automated driving. It is the goal of the BMW Group, Intel and Mobileye ...
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At the 2017 Symposia on VLSI Technology and Circuits in Kyoto, Japan (5-8 June), nanoelectronics and photovoltaics research centre Imec of Leuven, Belgium unveiled new process improvements for next-generation devices. For the first time it ...
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At the 2017 Symposia on VLSI Technology and Circuits in Kyoto, Japan (5-8 June), nanoelectronics and photovoltaics research centre Imec of Leuven, Belgium reported record values below 10-9Ω.cm2 for PMOS source/drain contact ...
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The global UV LED market will increase from $288m in 2017 to $526m in 2020 while it rises at a compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of 34% during 2015-2020, projects LEDinside (a division of TrendForce). UV LEDs are used particularly in ...
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Japanese automaker Honda is planning to introduce Level 4 automated driving capability into its vehicles by 2025. The decision is line with the company’s plans to introduce automated freeway driving capability (SAE Level 3) into ...
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