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Nissan unveils new approach to electrified powertrain development
Nissan today unveiled its new approach to electrified powertrain development called X-in-1. Under the approach, core EV and e-POWER powertrain components will be shared and modularized, resulting in a 30% reduction, compared to 2019, in development and manufacturing costs by 2026. Through the X-in-1 approach, Nissan aims to further increase the competitiveness of its EV…
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Fujitsu AI technology for Image Inspection delivers 25% reduction in product inspection man-hours
Fujitsu today announced the successful development of an AI technology for image inspection that enables highly precise detection of a wide variety of external abnormalities on manufactured goods, including scratches and production errors. The technology leverages an AI model trained on images of products with simulated abnormalities, without having to prepare training data that uses…
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Samsung Begins Mass Production of its Most Advanced Data Centre SSDs Customized for Hyperscale Environments
Samsung has begun mass producing its most advanced line of data center SSDs, the PM9A3 E1.S. The new PM9A3 fully complies with the Open Compute Project (OCP) NVMe Cloud SSD Specification to satisfy the rigorous demands of enterprise workloads. Defined by leading data center providers including Facebook, the OCP Specification is a set of unified…
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Samsung Develops Industry’s First 12-Layer 3D-TSV Chip Packaging Technology
Samsung today announced that it has developed the industry’s first 12-layer 3D-TSV (Through Silicon Via) technology. Samsung’s new innovation is considered one of the most challenging packaging technologies for mass production of high-performance chips, as it requires pinpoint accuracy to vertically interconnect 12 DRAM chips through a three-dimensional configuration of more than 60,000 TSV holes,…
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Honda Undertaking Full Model Change of GCV Series of General Purpose Engines
Honda today announced that its GCV Series of general purpose engines (as a power unit for lawnmowers and pressure washers) is undergoing a full model change and the all-new GCV Series engines will go on sale in September 2018 for manufacturers (OEMs) of various power products in Europe. All-new GCV Series underwent a fundamental overhaul…
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Samsung Begins Mass Production of Industry’s First 256GB Embedded Universal Flash Storage for Automotive Applications
Samsung has begun mass production of a 256-gigabyte (GB) embedded Universal Flash Storage (eUFS) solution with advanced features based on automotive specifications from the JEDEC UFS 3.0 standard, for the first time in the industry. Following the memory breakthrough of the automotive industry’s first 128GB eUFS in September, 2017, Samsung’s 256GB eUFS is now being…
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Total Production of NIKKOR Lenses for Interchangeable Lens Cameras Reaches 95 Million
Nikon announced today that total production of NIKKOR lenses for Nikon interchangeable lens cameras reached ninety-five million in the middle of July, 2015. In 1959, Nikon (then Nippon Kogaku K.K.) released the Nikon F, as well as its first NIKKOR lenses for Nikon SLR cameras, including the NIKKOR-S Auto 5cm f/2. The NIKKOR tradition has…
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Renault Nissan takes over Avtovaz-Lada to become the third-biggest auto force in the world
Renault Nissan announced a big step in the Russian market on Thursday, heading for control of the Lada brand to become the third-biggest auto force in the world. Avtovaz owns one of the biggest car factories in the world at Togliatti, a town on the banks of the Volga River about 1,000 kilometers from Moscow…
