What topics have your peers been reading? ARM chip security, neural nets, 350kW charging, Chinese smartphones and asteroid mining all figure prominently this week...

UK design house 42 Technology has developed a quickly-installed smart current monitor for the UK power grid. Branded FuseOhm, is self-powered data-logger that offers real-time measurement and recording of current (1A – 1,000A), voltage, phase angle and local temperature. Power dissipation is <6W. Sensing is resistive, and based on the firm’s existing ‘Triple Ohm’ intellectual property. Data can be logged ...

Engineers from the UK-based Cockcroft Institute claim to have made discoveries that could improve the design of next generation particle accelerators. Working closely with colleagues from around the world at CERN, the North West England based team has demonstrated that it is possible to create head-on collisions of proton beams using a crab-like motion.  Work at the centre on plasma ...

Infineon’s founding CEO Ulrich Schumacher always went for the unexpected. When Infineon was still Siemens Semiconductor he was offered the job of marketing either telecommunications chips or DRAM chips. Telecoms chips were a stable and prosperous area but DRAMs were in a mess. He chose DRAMs. Why? “I had already been through a couple of cycles of taking a challenging job, ...

What topics have your peers been reading? ARM chip security, neural nets, 350kW charging, Chinese smartphones and asteroid mining all figure prominently this week...

MintBox Mini 2 (MBM2) is the 4th generation of miniature fan-less PCs from Compulab and the folk behind Linux Mint – of each MBM2 sold, 5% is donated to Linux Mint. Processing comes from a quad-core ‘Apollo Lake’ Celeron J3455, and the machine ships with the Mint 19 ‘Tara’ Cinnamon installed. Other Mint variants, or other Linux variants, or even Windows ...

Software’s role in creating new business models around IoT hardware, with the use of snaps

Here's a good one. Why would you build a driverless motorbike? We haven't even finished driverless cars yet...

Eta Compute and Rohm Semiconductor are to create sensor nodes compatible with Wireless Smart Ubiquitous Network (Wi-SUN) – combining Rohm’s sensors and Eta’s microcontrollers to make nodes that can be powered by harvested energy. Wi-SUN is based on IEEE 802.15.4g and backed by the Wi-SUN Alliance. “Our partnership with Rohm gives our customers access to leading sensor technology combined with ...

Green Hills Software has announced that its Integrity Multivisor secure virtualization and advanced development tools now support implementation of Automotive Grade Linux (AGL) on different 64-bit automotive grade SoCs.  This means that AGL applications can be added to automotive systems meeting the ISO 26262 safety levels. So that AGL-based connected car applications will run in secure partitions alongside safety-critical and security-critical functions ...