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1 week ago | 
eetimes.eu | Anne-Francoise Pele |Anne-Françoise Pelé
Software-defined vehicles (SDVs) are transforming the automotive industry, creating opportunities for OEMs, Tier 1s, and other suppliers, and influencing how vehicles are produced and how value is delivered to the customer. To better manage the growing complexity of SDVs and keep vehicle systems safe, secure, and compliant, NXP Semiconductors and TTTech Auto will merge their respective hardware and software capabilities.
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1 week ago | 
eetimes.eu | Anne-Francoise Pele |Anne-Françoise Pelé
The global chip market will grow by 12%, plus or minus 10%, in 2015, Malcolm Penn, founder and CEO of Future Horizons, forecasted in his keynote speech at the recent ISS Europe conference in Sopot, Poland. However, he warned us not to be blinded by this double-digit percentage and to read between the lines, as “the recovery base is fragile”. Despite posting nearly 20% growth in 2024, the semiconductor industry saw little cause for celebration.
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1 week ago | 
eetimes.eu | Anne-Francoise Pele |Anne-Françoise Pelé
The edge is the new place to be for AI. With edge AI, the processing occurs right where data is generated, enabling real-time decision-making, low latency, and enhanced privacy. Beyond the hardware challenge of providing sufficient computing power in restricted environments, the difficulty for edge AI companies has been to develop scalable, affordable AI that can be easily deployed in a wide range of applications.
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2 weeks ago | 
eetimes.eu | Anne-Francoise Pele |Anne-Françoise Pelé
At the recent Nvidia GTC conference in San Jose, Calif., transportation companies such as General Motors, Volvo, Gatik, and Torc showcased their latest advances with Nvidia technologies covering passenger cars, trucks, commercial vehicles, and more. As the Mobility Tech Forum took place just afterwards, EE Times Europe asked one of its keynote speakers to comment on Nvidia’s Halos, an end-to-end safety system for autonomous vehicles (AVs), during the Q&A session.
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2 weeks ago | 
eetimes.eu | Anne-Francoise Pele |Robert Huntley |Anne-Françoise Pelé
The number of use cases for GNSS positioning and navigation continues to grow daily. It used to be that achieving meter-level position accuracy was sufficient. However, as new applications for GNSS flourish, the demand for better and more repeatable positional resolution focuses on delivering centimeter-level location precision. Demand from the industrial sector is strong, with notable use cases such as precision agriculture, delivery robots, and ground robotics.
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3 weeks ago | 
eetimes.eu | Anne-Francoise Pele |Anne-Françoise Pelé
Whether in the cloud or on the edge, the future of AI computing will require new semiconductor architectures. In light of growing demands on performance and power consumption, Soitec has been exploring advanced semiconductor materials and engineering new substrate solutions for next-generation AI hardware.
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4 weeks ago | 
eetimes.eu | Anne-Francoise Pele |Anne-Françoise Pelé
The European Commission aims for climate neutrality by 2050, shifting from fossil fuels to wind and solar power. This will significantly alter power flows in AC transmission networks. High-voltage direct current (HVDC) is seen as the best technology to manage this energy transition. HVDC-WISE, a Horizon Europe project, is set to significantly improve the operation of power grids by developing advanced HVDC grid architectures.
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1 month ago | 
eetimes.eu | Anne-Francoise Pele |Anne-Françoise Pelé
After decades of fluctuating progress, the age of autonomous driving is on the horizon, and it will be decisive for the mobility industry. Robotrucks, robotaxis, roboshuttles, and robotractors now operate autonomously around the clock without on-board safety drivers. L2+ systems are gaining traction, and the first L3 autonomous systems have entered the market—albeit at a slower pace than anticipated.
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1 month ago | 
eetimes.eu | Anne-Francoise Pele |Anne-Françoise Pelé
The U.S. and China are engaged in what many call an AI arms race. Stuck in the middle, Europe is adopting a competitive positioning. January 2025 saw a tidal wave of AI announcements. On Jan. 19, China established an AI investment fund with an initial capital of 60 billion yuan (~$8.2 billion). On Jan. 21, U.S. President Donald Trump unveiled Stargate, a four-year, $500 billion private-sector investment in AI infrastructure spearheaded by OpenAI, Softbank, Oracle, and MGX. On Jan.
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1 month ago | 
eetimes.eu | Anne-Francoise Pele |Anne-Françoise Pelé
The growth of renewable energies over the last decade has created a surging demand for better energy storage solutions. While lithium-ion (Li-ion) technology remains the forerunner in the battery space, sodium-ion batteries are emerging as a promising alternative, especially in applications in which cost is a key criterion. Amsterdam-based startup Moonwatt announced it has raised €8 million to further develop its energy storage system (ESS) utilizing sodium-ion battery technology.
