Drone parcel delivery will be trialled in Switzerland this summer by a consortium of Swiss Post, Swiss WorldCargo and Californian drone maker Matternet. “The primary aim of this pilot project is a proof-of-concept to clarify the legal framework, consider local conditions, and explore the technical and business capabilities of the drones,” said the group. The three companies are currently researching ...
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ST suffering strike action
Last Friday Crolles was closed due to strike action and on Thursday this week there will be a strike across all ST sites, says the staff union CAD-ST.
Freescale trims debt
Freescale had Q1 sales of $1.17 billion, compared to $1.10 billion in Q4 2014 and $1.13 billion in the first quarter of 2014.
Empire v Federation: the inspiration
Mouser has partnered with celebrity engineer Grant Imahara to kick off their new Space Exploration Series and Space Challenge. This series includes a debate on the age-old question that has been waged for decades: “Which reigns supreme: Star Wars or Star Trek?”
Ohmite buys 60 year old UK resistor manufacturer Arcol
Arcol the Truro-based power resistor supplier has been acquired by Ohmite Manufacturing. It is the US-based firm’s first manufacturing presence in Europe. Ohmite’s president Greg Pace said: “Arcol is particularly strong in aluminium housed wirewound resistors which is consistent with our customer base and our selling strategy.” Arcol UK was founded in the 1952 and then acquired by Mike Pritchard ...
Infineon’s OPTIGA gets BSI certification
Infineon’s OPTIGA TPM (Trusted Platform Module) with SPI has achieved Common Criteria Certification EAL4+ by the Federal Office for Information Security (known as BSI) at the RSA conference in San Francisco.
Profile: AptCore
AptCore was founded in 2010 in Bristol to design special-purpose programmable DSP cores. Its first product, a radar processor called ACR10x, has already broken into the highly conservative automotive market – products containing it are on the road today. To this it is now adding image processing cores. “We do IP [intellectual property] for silicon SoCs and FPGAs. What sets ...
Data Centre connectivity market is booming, says Ovum
Revenues for data centre interconnect (DCI) grew 16% to $2.5bn says Ovum, with half coming from CSPs (communications service providers) though with the fastest growth, at 64%, coming from ICPs (internet content providers).
UltraSOC enables debugging via USB
UltraSoC, the debugging and analytic specialist, has launched for embedded systems, today USB-based debugging capabilities within its UltraDebug product.
Debugger raises $2m
Cambridge debugger tool specialist Undo Software has had a fourth funding round of $2 million, which will be used to expand the company’s product portfolio, staff numbers, and commercial teams.
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