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Mercedes-Benz partners with Luminar to develop automated driving systems

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Mercedes-Benz and Luminar Technologies has agreed a partnership to accelerate development of future automated driving technologies for passenger cars.

A central component of this is the optimal access to new technologies and global competencies.

The new partnership with Luminar underlines Mercedes-Benz’s policy of continuously expanding its network of top-flight tech partners and suppliers for passenger cars. [Read more…] about Mercedes-Benz partners with Luminar to develop automated driving systems

Samsung and AT&T create US 5G manufacturing ‘Innovation Zone’

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Samsung Electronics America (SEA) and Samsung Austin Semiconductor (SAS) are working with AT&T to create America’s first manufacturing-focused 5G “Innovation Zone” in Austin, Texas, USA.

With 5G promising to eventually usher in a new era for manufacturing, this new zone will help provide crucial insight into how smart manufacturing can evolve and strengthen the industry at large.

5G is set to be the next generation of mobile communications. Its delivery objectives, covering chipsets, devices, and other equipment, include reduced latency, high data rates, higher system capacity and massive device connectivity.

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Apple to expand manufacturing in America

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Apple CEO Tim Cook during a visit to the company’s facility in Austin, Texas, where the Mac Pro is assembled. Picture courtesy MacRumours.com

Tech giant Apple looks to have decided to expand its manufacturing operations in the US. The company filed a notification in the Federal Register apparently to that effect. 

A statement on the Federal Register website says that Apple already has authority to manufacture within the Mesa, Arizona region. “The new request would add finished products and foreign status materials and components to the scope of authority,” it says.

TechCrunch notes that the statement included a mention of Apple’s plan to build data centre server cabinets, which is not a consumer product Apple sells and, therefore, TechCrunch presumes, would be “used for building out its own data centers”.  [Read more…] about Apple to expand manufacturing in America

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