Melexis: Semiconductors for Smarter Cars
Melexis wants to put their talents to work to help create safer; more comfortable, healthier future cars. In today’s DVN-I Newsletter, we introduce the company and their activities by bringing…
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DVN-I Interview: Melexis’ Roland Steger
Melexis is a global supplier of microelectronic semiconductor solutions to make cars (and other products) safer, greener, and smarter. Today we bring you an interview with Melexis’ business development manager for the EMEA region, Roland Steger: DVN-I: Philosophically, how does Melexis approach the automotive industry? Roland Steger: Melexis wants to create the best imaginable future.…
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Nio EL7 Interior: Looks Like High Quality
Nio’s new EL7 electric SUV is positioned as offering world-class levels of equipment; comfort, and digital content, at a Chinese-automaker price. What is striking is the appearance of feel of top quality in the interior, a giant departure from Chinese cars in general. Nio speaks of the car as a ‘second living room”: great power-adjustable…
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Antolin, PersiSkin: Auto-Grade Leather From Fruit Waste
A collaboration agreement has been signed between Grupo Antolin and PersiSkin, a startup producing a plant-based material as an alternative to animal and synthetic leather, for the development and supply of material for use in automotive interiors. PersiSkin, based in Valencia, Spain, uses surplus persimmon harvest to manufacture their product. Unlike other leather alternatives based…
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Bose SeatCentric for Personal Audio Experience
Having a Bluetooth phone conversation in the car is…not optimal. The music stops as soon as the phone rings. Sometimes voices aren’t clear. Passengers in the car can hear the conversation, leaving the driver no privacy. Now comes Bose, the Massachussetts-based famous audio company, to see about fixing that; they’ve designed technologies to provide a…
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Envisics Hologram Technology for AR HUDs
Envisics is a UK startup in the town of Milton Keynes, developing hologram technology to replace car monitors to improve driving safety. The company has been valued at USD $500m; GM and Hyundai were early backers and reinvested during the funding round, while Stellantis and Jaguar Land Rover bought into the company for the first…
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Mobis: Head Protection With New Airbag Concept
Diversified supplier Hyundai Mobis supplies numerous automakers round the world, and they’re the main supplier for many systems to Hyundai-Kia, including interior and safety. The new Brain Injury Prevention Airbag, developed by Hyundai Mobis, received a perfect score in the Brain Injury Criteria in a new crash test conducted by NHTSA, the US National Highway…
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Magna SmartAccess Power Door System
Magna has launched their SmartAccess power door system on the opposing rear doors of the Ferrari Purosangue SUV. The system comprises Magna’s SmartLatch power door drive unit, with cinch actuator and first-to-market Haptronik integration—said to ‘enhance the tactile feel of door movement, enabling effortless opening and closing’. The system—see video—can detect when a vehicle is…
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The Genie
By Athanassios Tubidis
Slices of highly purified silicon ingots serve as the starting substrate and it can take 500 steps to process in specially built manufacturing facilities. In 2021, 1.14 trillion chips were sold (per the IEEE), which is about 140 chips for every person on the planet. Features can be as small as 14nm, in the thousandth-fractions…
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Stadt-up: Research Project for City Automated Driving
The Stadt-up project, launched on January 1, 2023, aims to pave the way to the mobile future. According to a press release, 22 players from industry and research institutions are involved. The goal is to develop concepts and pilot applications for continuous automated driving in urban areas. The project name is a bit of a…
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