Press Releases

Digital Twin Consortium, OPC Foundation announce liaison agreement

ARC Forum 2023Digital Twin Consortium (DTC) and OPC Foundation have announced a liaison agreement to accelerate the development and adoption of digital twin-enabling technologies. The DTC and the OPC Foundation have worked closely in several open-source reference implementation projects on GitHub and have agreed to collaborate even closer. (more…)

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February 15, 2023

Posted by: Shriya Raban

WISeKey’s semiconductors, NFTs, post quantum, blockchain solutions secure smart cities

Geneva, Switzerland – WISeKey International Holding, a cybersecurity, AI and IoT company, has announced that its security chips are being used to protect all sort of IoT devices connecting smart cities, such as #drones and their captured images, satellite communications and logistics sensors. These semiconductors, when placed on any object, securely issue NFTs to authenticate and track the object, much like an embedded ePassport, and confirm the identity of the object on the blockchain ledger. (more…)

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February 14, 2023

Posted by: Janmesh Chintankar

NIST selects Ascon algorithms to protect data on IoT, small devices

Lightweight electronics, meet the heavyweight champion for protecting your information: Security experts at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) has announced a victor in their program to find a worthy defender of data generated by small devices. The winner, a group of cryptographic algorithms called Ascon, will be published as NIST’s lightweight cryptography standard later in 2023. (more…)

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February 13, 2023

Posted by: Janmesh Chintankar

Northern Gas Networks signs IOTICS ‘to unlock future energy solutions’

Digital cooperation capability from IOTICS is said to be enabling a decentralised data ecosystem for Britain’s Northern Gas Networks (NGN) Customer Energy Village. Northern Gas Networks has selected technology from IOTICS and architecture to enable a multi-party, cross-sector data ecosystem. (more…)

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February 10, 2023

Posted by: Shriya Raban

Biden-Harris Administration announces more than $33.5mn in internet for 12 grants

The Department of Commerce’s National Telecommunications and Information Administration (NTIA) has announced that it has awarded 12 grants as part of the Connecting Minority Communities Pilot Programme (CMC). (more…)

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Posted by: Shriya Raban

Telefonica Tech connects FlashLED’s smart beacons

Telefonica Tech beacon with Narrow Band-IoT (NB-IoT) connectivity will be launched on 1 February by KPS Group‘s road safety and consumer electronics accessory brand FlashLED. The new beacon, ‘FlashLED SOS V16‘, will be available at automotive and consumer electronics shops at a price of 59.95 euros. (more…)

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February 9, 2023

Posted by: Shriya Raban

Siemens advances integrated circuit verification with new, data-driven Questa Verification IQ software

Siemens Digital Industries Software has introduced Questa Verification IQ software, a solution that helps logic verification teams overcome a host of challenges associated with the dramatic rise in design complexity of sophisticated, integrated circuits (ICs). Team-based, cloud-enabled, data-driven and powered by artificial intelligence (AI) technology, Questa Verification IQ helps to accelerate verification closure, streamline traceability, optimise resources and speed time-to-market. (more…)

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Posted by: Shriya Raban

Nordic Semiconductor debuts nRF7002 companion IC to create to create low power Wi-Fi 6 IoT applications

Nordic Semiconductor has announced the availability of the nRF7002 Wi-Fi 6 companion IC and its associated nRF7002 Development Kit (DK). The IC is the first in Nordic’s Wi-Fi product family and is a low power Wi-Fi 6 companion IC providing dual band (2.4 and 5 GHz) connectivity. The nRF7002 IC can be used together with Nordic’s nRF52 and nRF53 Series multiprotocol Systems-on-Chip (SoCs) and the nRF9160 cellular IoT (LTE-M/NB-IoT) System-in-Package (SiP), but can equally be used in conjunction with non-Nordic host devices. The DK makes it easy for developers to get started on nRF7002-based IoT projects. (more…)

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February 8, 2023

Posted by: Shriya Raban

pSemi announces high-linearity sub-6 GHz RF switches reach volume production

pSemi Corporation, a Murata company focused on semiconductor integration, has announced production readiness of two new high-linearity switches targeted for the latest 5G wireless infrastructure and massive MIMO base station deployments. (more…)

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Posted by: Shriya Raban

QuickLogic partners with Andes Technology for eFPGA joint promotion

QuickLogic Corporation, a developer of ultra-low power multi-core voice-enabled SoCs, embedded FPGA IP, and Endpoint AI solutions, has announced that it is partnering with Andes Technology Corporation for eFPGA joint promotion to enable Andes’ customers to integrate QuickLogic’s eFPGA technology with their RISC-V processor-based subsystems to give their SoC customers a wide range of post-manufacturing flexibility benefits. (more…)

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Posted by: Shriya Raban