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NOVEMBER 8, 2021

Today, Point One’s product, which began shipping about a year ago, is in series production with two unnamed automotive customers. In these automotive applications, Point One is able to deploy this tech as a software product since new vehicles today have the hardware already required.

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DECEMBER 20, 2022

For instance, it is estimated that the average complexity of software projects in the automotive industry has increased by 300% over the past decade. Today, every piece of hardware is driven by software and most hardware is composed of multiple electronic boards running synchronized applications.

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APRIL 12, 2021

While best known for its automotive components, NGK Spark Plug also manufacturers many other hardware components, including for semiconductor production equipment, cutting tools, medical equipment, industrial ceramics. DNX Ventures launches $315 million fund for US and Japanese B2B startups.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 26, 2021

The system also future-proofs deep learning workloads, allowing them to inherit the power of the latest hardware with less rework. ” Run:AI says that it is currently working with customers in a wide variety of industries, including automotive, finance, defense, manufacturing and healthcare.

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FEBRUARY 3, 2022

TTTech Auto, a Vienna-based automotive safety software provider, is one such company. TTTech Auto just scored the backing of major Tier 1 automotive tech supplier Aptiv, a sign of the supplier’s deepening interest in tech that facilitates advanced driver assistance systems (ADAS).

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 3, 2021

The funding will go toward expanding the company’s reach beyond consumer device charging, into the worlds of enterprise, automotive and hospitality, as well as the development of a 2.0 As we noted late last year, Aira has already made some headway in automotive. version of its charging tech. Image Credits: Aira. Image Credits: Aira.

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DECEMBER 20, 2021

The startup’s chips are “reconfigurable”, meaning they combine the flexibility of software and the high speed of the hardware. Kneron releases its first automotive-grade chip for ADAS and AV systems. at the moment.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 30, 2022

Security researchers Charlie Miller and Chris Valasek shook the automotive industry in 2015 by remotely hacking a Jeep Cherokee driven by Wired reporter , and willing participant, Andy Greenberg. Perhaps it’s not surprising then that automotive cyberattacks have grown in frequency — up more than 225% in 2021 , compared to 2018.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 21, 2022

This isn’t because lasers are especially hard to come by, but “lasers with the right performance parameters to unlock autonomy and have proactive safety that can be met in an automotive qualified environment is a lot harder,” said Eichenholz.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 23, 2021

Ottopia’s software is combined with off-the-shelf hardware components like monitors and cameras to create a teleoperations center. However, most of Ottopia’s resources will continue to be dedicated to automotive, and specifically the deployment of autonomous cars, trucks and shuttles.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 30, 2021

But they’re not going up against Velodyne or any of the upstart lidar companies duking it out in the automotive sector like Luminar and Baraja. “We’re too underfunded to take us through an automotive development cycle,” Stern said — and indeed it’s quite an expensive market to try to break into.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 26, 2022

Areas where the display materials are likely to make an appearance in coming years include smartphones, tablets, laptops, AR and VR headset makers, televisions and potentially automotive applications. Helander said the platform runs using “classic hardware,” with some compute from third-party quantum companies like D-Wave.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 16, 2020

In addition to this new funding round, Ride Vision also today announced a new partnership with automotive parts manufacturer Continental. The hardware on the motorcycle itself is pretty straightforward. YL Ventures, which typically specializes in cybersecurity startups but also led the company’s $2.5

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TechCrunch

MARCH 16, 2021

5 consumer hardware VCs share their 2021 investment strategies. Following that, SMART intends to also pursue bringing SMA tires to the automotive and commercial vehicle industries, too. They’re targeting the cycling market first with their METL tire, which is set to become available to the general public by early next year.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 13, 2022

John Loehr, managing director of automotive and industrial, AlixPartners. Automotive manufacturing is not a business that’s friendly to new entrants,” said John Loehr, a managing director in the automotive and industrial practice at consulting firm AlixPartners. That’s when investors start filing lawsuits.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 4, 2022

Seoul Robotics, an AI-based perception software company, wants to turn first- and last-mile logistics hubs for automotive and trucking into mind hives, wherein one sensor tower controls the movements of a fleet, like a conductor of an orchestra, guiding hundreds of vehicles into place.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 11, 2022

The co-founder said the startup’s battery management systems comply with the Automotive Industry Standards (AIS)-156 that the Indian government introduced last month to address EV battery fire issues. The safety standards are yet to become mandatory for manufacturers, though. “We An electric vehicle is a technologically advanced product. “An

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JANUARY 12, 2023

Raptor is electronic design automation software with an interface for FPGA application design, while Gemini is a 16-nanometer FPGA with hardware including a dual-core Arm processor, external memory controller and ethernet connectivity. based Omnitek and Altera to double down on FPGA-based solutions for video and AI applications.

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JANUARY 5, 2021

“Industrial autonomy for off-road refineries, ports and airports happens on the way to on-road autonomy,” he said, with the focus firmly remaining on providing software that can be used with different hardware. Our point is to be agnostic, to make sure it works on any hardware platform.”

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NOVEMBER 17, 2021

The funds will be used, in part, to scale its “digital twin” service built off crowdsourced dash cam footage for automotive OEMs and cities. But there could be a use case for automotive companies as well, Shir suggested. “If

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TechCrunch

APRIL 19, 2022

The founder spent three years at R&D firm Batelle, where she headed its automotive cyber innovation unit, which was later spun out and then acquired by Honeywell. She then set up and led the North American operations of TowerSec, an Israeli automotive cybersecurity startup that was eventually acquired by Harman.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 13, 2021

As CEO Netanel Davidi (who co-founded the company with Uri Alter and Asaf Karas) describes it, operators like Verizon are interested because of their role as a distributer and reseller of hardware as part of their wider services play, be it for broadband access, or a telematics service or something for the connected home or connected office.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 15, 2020

The company’s goal is to develop software that can identify almost any kind of sound and be used in a wide range of smart hardware, including phones, speakers and cars, co-founder and chief executive Yoonchang Han told TechCrunch. For example, Cochlear.ai

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APRIL 12, 2022

Just as Five had been focused on a pivot to software, Bosch has already been a very active player in that market and how it relates to autonomous systems and other next-generation software and hardware , but it has also been investing in autonomous vehicle companies, too: it’s part of the list of strategic backers of Momenta in China.

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NOVEMBER 23, 2021

It’s arguably part of a wider shift of automotive OEMs distinguishing new cars not by horsepower but by user experiences and technology offerings. Spectralics is an alum of MobilityXlab, an accelerator in Götenborg, Sweden, and is also part of Drive-TLV, a mobility hub in Tel Aviv that connects startups with automotive industry investors.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 25, 2022

Today, a startup called PQShield that is working on “future-proof” cryptographic products — software and hardware solutions that not only keep data secure today, but also secure in anticipation of a computationally more sophisticated tomorrow — is announcing some funding as it finds some significant traction for its approach.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 7, 2021

MindLabs was founded last year by Adnan Ebrahim and Gabor Szedlak, who previously launched and ran CarThrottle, an automotive site and community that was acquired by Dennis Publishing in 2019. MindLabs also eventually plans to release hardware, like an EEG headband, to track health indicators.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 28, 2023

This sector remains largely untapped by existing additive manufacturing and digital inventory platforms that have spread footprints across medical, aviation, automotive and jewelry industries. The global energy spare parts market is valued at over $90 billion, with the Middle East representing about 35% of this sector. All rights reserved.

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JULY 12, 2022

Infusing Digital Metal’s solution into The Digital Forge platform allows us to address new applications in the medical, automotive, luxury goods and other industries,” said Shai Terem, president and CEO of Markforged. “The Digital Metal team has created a robust and scalable solution that complements our existing technologies.

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JANUARY 12, 2022

The new “Nuro” bot, which has twice the cargo volume of the previous model, customizable storage and temperature-controlled compartments to keep items warm or cool, is an automotive production-grade vehicle.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 8, 2022

Increasingly, as Moore’s law rears its ugly head, computer chip developers are adopting “chiplet” architectures to scale their hardware’s processing power. Prior to co-founding Eliyan, Farjadrad spent several years at Marvell as CTO and VP of the company’s networking and automotive division.

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AUGUST 12, 2021

And, honestly, the Chinese hardware maker didn’t do itself any favors with the design here. Xiaomi’s entry into robotics is more about building hardware for Nvidia’s platform. This week, the company announced a deal with Nikon that takes it beyond its existing automotive applications.

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FEBRUARY 21, 2022

Volta’s growth, and the large amount of capital it has now raised — over $325 million to date — are part of a bigger sea change in the automotive world. That is the theory, at least.

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FEBRUARY 10, 2022

Investors these days have good reason to throw money at this industry, too: Sensors are getting cheaper and more capable, talent from the AI and automotive industries is coalescing, the government has introduced a slew of beneficial policies, and demand is rising as China prepares to cope with a drop in its working-age population.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 19, 2021

Eindhoven produces a high number of patents per year considering its small population and has been home to an inordinate number of hardware startups. The local High Tech Campus has a high hardware focus, for instance. Hardware is hands-on — people are still moving in! Worldwide dominance in high-tech hardware scaleups.

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MARCH 8, 2021

Circulor already has a strong footprint in the automotive industry, Peck said, and is working with a major oil company on tracing the share of recycled plastics that have come from that provider. “It has applications across any industry.”

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SEPTEMBER 13, 2021

The startup has no intention of building hardware for its auto clients (though it does work with robotics companies for whom the company does manufacture sensors, a company spokesperson said). Software fundamentally improves with better hardware in each generation that’s released.

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