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Viavi Solutions announced that Etisalat Group company Mobily has expanded their use of VIAVI location intelligence, selecting the NITRO GEO solution to enable increased operational efficiency and capacity for improved profit margin. Mobily is a leading provider of telecom and IT services, operating one of the largest mobile networks in Saudi Arabia. Mobily enhanced their deployment of VIAVI location intelligence, deploying the NITRO...

Machine-learning technology classifies movement data to improve activity tracking Embedded intelligence and additional enhancements greatly reduce power for longer battery runtime in smartphones, wearables, and game controllers STMicroelectronics has integrated machine-learning technology into its advanced inertial sensors to improve activity-tracking performance and battery life in mobiles and wearables. The LSM6DSOX iNEMO sensor contains a machine-learning core to classify motion data based on...

ipoque GmbH announced record growth in 2018, with three of the five leading virtualized evolved packet core (vEPC) vendors embedding ipoque’s R&S PACE 2 into their solutions. To meet increased customer demands, ipoque grew its employee headcount by nearly 115 percent year-over-year, making significant additions to its development team. The company also expanded geographically, opening a new office in...

Nordic Semiconductor has partnered with one of the world's largest international cellular carriers in voice, data, and IoT services, iBASIS, to make global LTE-M and NB-IoT cellular IoT connectivity ultra-easy, automatic, and instant when using its nRF9160 System-in-Package (SiP) module. Nordic has achieved this by bundling a globally-usable iBASIS eSIM with 10 MB of free initial data into all its...

Rohde & Schwarz strengthens its leading position in WLAN signaling testing. The R&S CMW270 wireless connectivity tester allows developers to test the RF characteristics of WLAN 2x2 MIMO stations in line with the IEEE 802.11ax standard. Multiple input multiple output (MIMO) is a multi-antenna method that uses multipath propagation to boost data rates in wireless communications. The transmit and receive...

AAEON releases the BOXER-8120AI, a powerful and compact controller for edge AI applications. Powered by the NVIDIA Jetson TX2, the BOXER-8120AI supports 256 CUDA cores and a range of AI frameworks including TensorFlow, Caffe2, and MXNet. The device is able to process images, video, and speech in real time, and without a connection to the cloud. The system features 8GB...

Sapporo Medical University, Fujitsu Limited, and Fujitsu Hokuriku Systems Limited today announced that this month they will begin development of an AI machine learning model to optimize prescription of oral hypoglycemic medicines in the treatment of diabetes, as part of joint research on AI use with clinical data. This joint R&D project aims to...

Adoption of lithium-ion batteries has been a significant subject of industry investment with a CAGR of 8%. The global market for lithium batteries is likely to reach 28 billion dollars by the end of 2018. Be it Tesla—leading autonomous cars manufacturer—or Apple and Samsung—the leading tech giants—everyone is rushing forward to invest in the Li-ion market. In a recent...

For the fourth quarter of 2018, highlights include: Revenue of $1,503.1 million Gross margin of 37.9 percent GAAP operating margin of 14.8 percent and non-GAAP operating margin of 16.8 percent Operating cash flow of $421.0 million and free cash flow of $289.0 million GAAP earnings per share of $0.39 and non-GAAP earnings per share of $0.53 For 2018, highlights...

Vishay Intertechnology introduced the new WSBS5216 and WSBS5216...14 12 W Power Metal Strip battery shunt resistors in the compact 5216 case size. With extremely low resistance of 100 µΩ, the Vishay Dale AEC-Q200 qualified devices increase accuracy and lower costs compared with Hall Effect current sensing solutions, while the optional Sn terminal plating of the WSBS5216...14 assists with PCB mounting and provides improved...