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Inventec and Renesas are to jointlybdevelop a Proof of Concept (PoC) for connected gateways based on the  R-Car system-on-chip SoC. Renesas will provide Inventec with its latest offering of R-Car SoCs, analogue and power products, along with engineering support to assist Inventec in developing thevPoC. The first PoC will integrate cybersecurity and OTA features for connected gateway applications and is ...

In Q2 the collective revenues of the top ten ten foundries declined 1.1% y-o-y representing $26.2 billion, says TrendForce, with whatever urgency there was in the supply chain fuelled by demand for LDDI and TDDI components TSMC’s  Q2 revenue fell 6.4% q-0-q to $15.66 billion. While  7/6 nm revenues flowed freely, the 5/4nm sectors witnessed a contraction. 3nm should start ...

Thanks to The Corner for this – the top 27 countries for WFH measured by the number of days per week spent at home: “Never before has any kind of event reshaped work so profoundly in such a short time,” says Mathias Dolls, one of the study’s authors.

Last year, the US National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) selected four algorithms designed to withstand attack by quantum computers. Now the agency has begun the process of standardizing these algorithms — the final step before making these mathematical tools available so that organisations around the world can integrate them into their encryption infrastructure. This week NIST released draft ...

O-RAN and vRAN revenues declined in W2 2Q23, marking the first quarter of y-o-y contraction since 2019, says Dell’Oro. “After a couple of years where Open RAN revenues exceeded expectations and advanced at an accelerated pace, the current slowdown doesn’t come as a surprise,” says Dell’Oro vp Stefan Pongratz,  “projections for 2023 were more tempered, considering that it would take ...

Yesterday, Terry Gou, the Foxconn founder, said he will run for the presidency of Taiwan as an independent after failing to win the nomination for the China-friendly Kuomintang (KMT) party. Gou says he will bring peace to the China-Taiwan situation, “Taiwan should absolutely not become Ukraine. I shall never let Taiwan be the next Ukraine,” said Gou, “I can guarantee ...

Private equity firm Veritas Capital has made an offer to buy BlackBerry, reports Reuters. Other prospective buyers are in talks with the company which has been conducting a strategic review. The amount of the Veritas offer  is not disclosed but, after news of the bid surfaced, Blackberry’s shares rose 17% giving the company a market cap of $3.1 billion. In ...

Scientists at the University of Bristol are using AI to help two robot arms to share the handling of objects – something they call bi-manual manipulation. “With our system, we can train AI agents in a virtual world within a couple of hours to achieve bi-manual tasks that are tailored towards the touch,” said research engineer Yijiong Lin. “More importantly, ...

Glasgow University researchers are part of a cross-Europe project which is aiming to develop a new method of treating neurological disorders. The Wireless Deep Brain Stimulation Through Engineered Multifunctional Nanomaterials project, or BRAINSTORM, is setting out to develop tiny injectable magnets which could help restore function to damaged neurons in patients’ brains. The BRAINSTORM team hope that their research could ...

The customer spend on quantum computing will grow from $1.1 billion in 2022 to $7.6 billion in 2027, representing a 48.1% CAGR, says IDC. The new forecast is considerably lower than IDC’s previous quantum computing forecast, which was published in 2021. In the interim, customer spend for quantum computing has been negatively impacted by several factors, including: slower than expected ...