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• ETH Zurich team builds ultra-thin curved concrete roof

  13-10-2017 17:01
  
  Researchers at ETH Zurich have built an ultra-thin, prototype concrete roof using innovative design and fabrication methods.(Credit: Block Research Group, ETH Zürich/Naida Iljazovic)
  The test structure, which has already been dismantled, was 7.5m high with a surface area of 160m². It was built using a framework net of steel cables covered in a polymer textile. The concrete had an average thickness of 5cm varying between 3cm along the edges of the roof to 12cm at the support surfaces.
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• Alibaba Cloud chooses ST and Xilinx

  13-10-2017 15:59 via electronicsweekly.com
  ST has been chosen to supply building blocks for connecting IoT nodes.
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• Economy sluggish despite upturn in manufacturing sector

  13-10-2017 13:40
  
  The UK’s economy grew at a muted rate in the third quarter of 2017 despite improvements in the manufacturing sector.This is the conclusion of the British Chambers of Commerce’s latest Quarterly Economic Survey, which canvassed over 7,100 businesses in the private sector.
  The proportion of manufacturing firms reporting improved domestic sales and orders both rose in the quarter to their highest level since Q1 2015. Export sales and orders also improved, as stronger recent economic gro
  
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• Dutch team wins 3000km solar car challenge

  13-10-2017 12:19
  
  A team from the Netherlands has won the 2017 World Solar Challenge, a gruelling 3000km solar-powered car race from Darwin to Adelaide along the infamous Stewart Highway.
  The Nuon Solar team celebrates its 2017 victoryThe Nuon Solar team, which is based at the Delft University of Technology crossed the finish line five days after leaving Darwin. It was almost two hours ahead of its nearest rival, a team from the University of Michigan and two and half hours ahead of the third-placed Belgian Punch
  
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• Richard Branson’s Virgin Group invests in Hyperloop One

  13-10-2017 12:13
  
  Richard Branson’s Virgin Group is backing Hyperloop One with an undisclosed investment into technology that could one day transport people from London to Edinburgh in 50 minutes.
  Richard BransonThe rebranded Virgin Hyperloop One aims to move people and cargo in vehicles that travel in tubes at speeds of up to 670mph.
  According to the company, Hyperloop vehicles will accelerate gradually via electric propulsion through a low-pressure tube. The vehicle then floats above the track using magne
  
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• Pi-top open next-generation Raspberry Pi laptop

  13-10-2017 11:58 via electronicsweekly.com
  Pi-top updates its Raspberry Pi-based laptop computer - which is aimed at makers and allows projects to be built inside the chassis.
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• Next-generation Raspberry Pi laptop

  13-10-2017 11:58 via electronicsweekly.com
  Pi-top has updated its Raspberry Pi-based laptop computer – which is aimed at makers and allows projects to be built inside the chassis. The latest pi-top has a 14in 1080p (HD) 14in display, up to eight hours battery life, a full-sized sliding keyboard, and the quad-core 64bit Raspberry Pi 3. It comes with the display ...
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• Flat hybrid molecules offer hope for large-scale energy storage

  13-10-2017 11:54
  
  Conductive metal-organic frameworks could form basis of storage systems for renewable energy, says US team
  The biggest drawback to larger utilisation of renewable energy generation has always been their intermittency. The weather conditions that can be harnessed to generate electricity are, by their nature, transient, and unless energy can be stored and  put onto distribution grids when generation is not possible, renewables will struggle to displace power stations that are available around
  
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• Octopus skin inspires 3D camouflage material

  13-10-2017 11:50
  
  Physicists and engineers from Cornell University have taken inspiration from octopus skin to design a new stretchy camouflage material.(Credit: Pseudopanax via CC)
  Octopuses and cuttlefish have small protrusions called papillae on their bodies, which can take on different shapes to help the cephalopods blend into their surroundings. The Cornell team mimicked this by embedding a laser-cut fibre mesh in a stretchy silicone elastomer. Using pneumatics to actuate the skin, small protrusions cou
  
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• Key stage passed at WMG’s £150m National Automotive Innovation Centre

  13-10-2017 10:12
  
  The external grounds of the £150m National Automotive Innovation Centre at Warwick University were officially completed this week.
  NAIC at WarwickThe new R&D centre, which will open in summer 2018, will become a crucial facility for developing the UK’s automotive sector including technologies like electric drive, lightweighting and driverless cars. It will be the biggest automotive R&D facility in Europe and is a joint agreement between Jaguar Land Rover, TMETC and WMG.
  
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• Samsung Electronics’ CEO resigns – even as company predicts surge in profit

  13-10-2017 09:54 via electronicsweekly.com
  Samsung Electronics’ management turmoil continued this week with the resignation of its chief executives, even as the business said it expected to post record third-quarter profits. Kwon Oh-hyun, who has been with the business for 32 years, resigned citing an “unprecedented crisis” at the South Korean tech giant. He will step down as chief executive and ...
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• Samsung Electronics’ CEO resigns – even as company posts record three-month profit

  13-10-2017 09:54 via electronicsweekly.com
  Samsung Electronics’ management turmoil continued this week with the resignation of its chief executives, even as the business posted record third-quarter profits thanks to strong memory chip sales. Kwon Oh-hyun, who has been with the business for 32 years, resigned citing an “unprecedented crisis” at the South Korean tech giant. He will step down as ...
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• Number of 300mm production fabs worldwide to grow from 98 to 123 by 2021.

  13-10-2017 08:02 via electronicsweekly.com
  The number of 300mm wafer production-class fabs in operation worldwide is expected to increase each year between now and 2021 to reach 123 compared to 98 in 2016, according to the IC Insights’ Global Wafer Capacity 2017-2021 report. As shown in Figure 1, 300mm wafers represented 63.6% of worldwide IC fab capacity at the end ...
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• Imec and ADI to develop low-power sensors

  13-10-2017 08:00 via electronicsweekly.com
  Imec and ADI have entered a broad research agreement on sensor technology with two immediate projects already underway. One of these is, says Imec’s Kathleen Philips “the development of a low-power sensor for highly accurate indoor localization in the context of smart building or smart industry solutions. Concretely, we want this sensor to localize objects with ...
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• Semi market will be worth $411bn this year

  13-10-2017 07:58 via electronicsweekly.com
  The chip market will be worth $411 billion this year says Gartner, representing an increase of 19.7% from 2016. This will be the strongest growth since the 2010 recovery from the financial crisis when revenue increased by 31.8%. “Memory continues to lead the semiconductor market higher and is expected to increase 57 percent in 2017 as ...
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• GloFo launches AutoPro

  13-10-2017 07:24 via electronicsweekly.com
  Globalfoundries has put together a package of process and packaging technologies for the sutomotive market called called AutoPro, AutoPro technologies include SiGe, FD-SOI, CMOS and FinFET nodes, ASIC design services, packaging and IP. GF’s CMOS and RF solutions target sensors (radar, lidar, cameras), ADAS and autonomous processing (sensor fusion and AI compute) and body and ...
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• Auto telematics growing at 17% CAGR

  13-10-2017 07:16 via electronicsweekly.com
  Automotive telematics revenues will grow at a CAGR of nearly 17% to more than $6.7 billion by the end of 2023, according to IHS Markit,. IHS Markit estimates that more than 33 million light vehicles equipped with some form of telematics were produced in 2016 globally. It is expected that production of such light vehicles ...
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