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Aeva announces Aeries 4D FMCW lidar-on-chip for autonomous driving; recent Porsche investment

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One of the biggest roadblocks to bringing autonomous vehicles to the mainstream has been the lack of a high-performance and low-cost LiDAR that can scale to millions of units per year. Aeva will unveil Aeries at CES 2020 from 7-10 January at Las Vegas Convention Center (Booth 7525 located at Tech East, North Hall).

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ARPA-E awards $130M to 66 “OPEN 2012” transformational energy technology projects

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sunlight through low-cost, plastic light-guiding sheets and then. If successful, the new crop would have a lower cost of. Turbo-POx For Ultra Low-Cost Gasoline. Improved Manufacturing for High-Performance Magnets. manufacture permanent magnets that are both stronger and. Additive Manufacturing of.

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How USB Came to Be

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keep manufacturing costs down, the engineers designed USB to work with a slender, four-conductor cable that could be as long as 5 meters. That approach allowed USB to work at low speed for low-cost peripherals with unshielded cables and at high speed for devices with shielded cables, such as printers and floppy-disk drives.

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Building a Zero Trust Security Model for Autonomous Systems

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Just last year, a half dozen precisely targeted malicious drones managed to slow oil production in Saudi Arabia for days, and more recently, several low-cost drones caused significant damage to oil tankers in the UAE. Modern system-on-chip designs can accelerate product development for performant and low-cost chip functionality.

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Creating the Commodore 64: The Engineers’ Story

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In January 1982, a home computer incorporating those chips was introduced at the Winter Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas, Nev. Instead, he decided, the chips would go into a 64-kilobyte home computer to be introduced at the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas the second week of January 1982.

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