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The European Space Agency (ESA), MediaTek, Eutelsat, Airbus, Sharp, ITRI, and Rohde & Schwarz are highlighting what they describe as world’s first Rel-19 5G-Advanced NR-NTN connection over LEO satellites. The connection uses OneWeb (Eutelsat) satellites with Ku-band conditional handover. And NR-NTN stands for New Radio-Non-Terrestrial Network. Rel-19 Note that 5G-advanced has also been dubbed as 5.5G. The 3GPP Release 19 ...

Before Hon Hai bought it last year, Sharp was operating like the son of a rich family says Sharp’s president Tai Jeng-wu (pictured). The company has just reported its first FY operating profit for three years. Tai has been scathing about Sharp’s lax cost controls before Hon Hai bought it. Since becoming president, Tai he has ruled that all contracts ...

Automotive display systems will be an $11.6 billion market this year and a $20.8 billion market in 2022, says IHS Centre Stack Displays will have revenues of $6.1 billion. Instrument Cluster Displays will have revenues of $4.8 billion Head-U Displays will have revenue of $731 million. The top five suppliers are with. Collective $6 billion in revenues are: Continental Visteon ...

Sharp, now owned by Foxconn, is to invest $1.84 billion into OLED development and manufacturing over the next four years, reports the Nikkei. Sources have speculated that Apple encouraged, and possibly assisted, Foxconn in its takeover of Sharp because it sees OLED supply as vital to its iPhone and iPad product lines. Sharp has developed a prototype flexible OLED using ...

It looks as though Sharp is going Taiwanese with Foxconn saying it expects to complete its takeover by the end of the month. However, although Foxconn said it had been given preferred negotiating rights over the deal, Sharp said it hadn’t. “There are reports that we have given Foxconn priority negotiation rights, but this is not what we have announced ...

Foxconn’s four year pursuit of Sharp may be coming to an end with its $5 billion bid for the Japanese company. Back in 2012 Foxconn was discussing taking a 10% share in Sharp in return for $800 million but, as Sharp’s financial position declined and its share price fell, the amount Foxconn was prepared to pay for a 10% stake ...

Sharp is entering the European market for bioelectronics devices. Sharp Devices Europe, which sees the European biotech market as a big opportunity, plans to sell biosensing devices and equipment used in biomedical diagnostics. Target end-markets include biotechnology, medicine and food processing. One product being introduced in Europe is the automated two-dimensional electrophoresis AUTO2D system which performs electrophoresis (TTL 100) for protein analysis. ...

Sharp has combined three LED lighting components – a chip-on-board (CoB) emitter, holder and thermal interface – in one solderless assembly. The result is a more straight-forward way to build a high brightness LED assembly by attaching the module to its heat sink by two screws and push-fit electrical connections. According to Silica, which is selling the Intermo module, device’s ...

‘Time to tell The Brats about the Big Idea,’ Ed tells his diary referring to the 20-something year-old super-sharpies who monitor his company for its private equity owners. Ed’s Big Idea is to reduce the increasing costs of increasingly  unpredictable weather events by hugely increasing the number of data collection points for weather phenomena.

‘The thing that bothers me in the dark moments of a sleepless night is why the debt imposed on us by our private equity owners is so high. We can’t expand with this level of debt. We can’t invest to grow the company. We’re condemned to plod along paying down the debt for ever and ever it seems. So what’s ...