The billions of devices that are expected to proliferate in the coming years at the “edge” of networks, such as autonomous vehicles and embedded Internet-of-Things, present manufacturers with a quandary: the manufacturers want to add smarts to the devices via machine learning, but they can’t know what exactly to add until they test their neural… Continue reading Chip startup Efinix hopes to bootstrap AI efforts in IoT
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Qualcomm tops Q4 earnings targets, eyes 5G growth
Qualcomm published better-than-expected fourth quarter financial results on Wednesday. The semiconductor giant reported non-GAAP earnings of 90 cents per share on revenue of $5.8 billion, down two percent year over year. Wall Street was looking for earnings of 83 cents per share with $5.52 billion in revenue. Featured stories For the full fiscal year 2018,… Continue reading Qualcomm tops Q4 earnings targets, eyes 5G growth
Three UK to invest over £2bn in new 5G infrastructure
Mobile network operator Three UK has announced its commitment to pump more than £2bn into an infrastructure upgrade that will prepare it to deliver ‘market leading’ 5G services to customers in 2019. Those services will include wireless home broadband, via Three’s UK Broadband-operated subsidiary Relish. So far, Three has focused spending on the following areas:… Continue reading Three UK to invest over £2bn in new 5G infrastructure
SK Telecom trials self-driving cars for car sharing
SK Telecom, together with South Korea’s Transportation Ministry, has successfully trialled self-driving cars to answer customer calls, the company has said. Car-hailing firm Socar and Seoul National University also took part in the trial, which saw 100 participants call five self-driving cars using their smartphones and drive around 2.3 kilometres across Siheung City, Geonggi Province.… Continue reading SK Telecom trials self-driving cars for car sharing
Hyundai and Kia invest $250m in car-sharing Grab for EV adoption
Hyundai and Kia will invest $250 million into car sharing company Grab, aiming to push the adoption of electric vehicles (EVs) in Southeast Asia. The funding follows Hyundai’s $25 million investment in the firm, announced in January. The three companies will launch a series of EV pilot projects in 2019, starting with Singapore. The EVs… Continue reading Hyundai and Kia invest $250m in car-sharing Grab for EV adoption
AI startup Flex Logix touts vastly higher performance than Nvidia
Featured stories Twenty-eight years ago, Geoff Tate helped create a chip company called Rambus. Its technology is in every DRAM memory part that ships today. But Tate thinks he’s now found a bigger market in artificial intelligence and machine learning. “I think neural networks is going to be a bigger market than what we did… Continue reading AI startup Flex Logix touts vastly higher performance than Nvidia
Samsung posts Q3 record profit despite mobile setback
Samsung Electronics has posted its highest ever operating profits of 17.57 trillion won, up 21 percent from a year ago, in the third quarter of 2018, the company announced. Revenue was 65.46 trillion won, its second highest figure ever, the firm’s third quarter earnings report said. Its semiconductor business contributed operating profit of 14.56 trillion… Continue reading Samsung posts Q3 record profit despite mobile setback
Ericsson and Fujitsu partner on 5G
Ericsson and Fujitsu have announced a 5G partnership, with plans to combine their radio access and core network portfolios to deliver 5G mobile network services and solutions across Japan. “Ericsson and Fujitsu’s strength in research and development will ensure the best path for bringing global 5G solutions to Japan, as well as exploring a wider… Continue reading Ericsson and Fujitsu partner on 5G
MIT reveals who self-driving cars should kill: The cat, the elderly, or the baby?
It is a classic problem and a test of where our morality lies: if a runaway trolley is uncontrollably heading down a set of tracks and you have the ability to use a lever and choose between either five people or one, what would you do? Featured stories Extend this to cars: would we prefer… Continue reading MIT reveals who self-driving cars should kill: The cat, the elderly, or the baby?
Comroads launches first community for sharing dash cam footage
Featured stories Traffic accidents occur quickly and often the driver responsible for causing the crash leaves the scene of the incident before proper information can be exchanged. While a single dash cam can help catch some of the details, one dash cam is often not enough to provide a full picture of what happened. Tel… Continue reading Comroads launches first community for sharing dash cam footage