KDPOF Automotive Optical Gigabit Ethernet Receives Compliance Approval from Premier Japanese Automotive Industry Body

Tokyo, Japan – JASPAR (Japan Automotive Software Platform and Architecture) announced that KDPOF’s automotive optical Gigabit Ethernet technology has successfully achieved their conformance tests. With the KD1053, KDPOF provides the first IEEE® Std 802.3bv compliant automotive 1000BASE-RHC PHY to deliver 1 Gbit/s data rates over Plastic Optical Fiber (POF). Hideki Goto, Chairman of JASPAR’s Next […]

Consumer Electronics Show Opens in Las Vegas with IBM Keynote

IBM will officially open CES by featuring its president and CEO, Ginni Rometty. Rometty will share a unique outlook for how technology — built on a foundation of responsibility and trust — will significantly improve how businesses operate and people work and live. CES® 2019 is the largest and most influential tech event in the world […]

Tesla Breaks Ground on Factory in China

According to a report on Seeking Alpha, Tesla (NASDAQ:TSLA) broke ground on its Chinese Gigafactory where it plans to mass produce Model 3 and Model Y electric vehicles. “We think with the resources here we can build the Shanghai Gigafactory in record time and we’re looking forward to hopefully having some initial production of the Model 3 […]

McKinsey Says Blockchain Has an Occam Problem

Blockchain has yet to become the game-changer some expected, say McKinsey’s Matt Higginson, Marie-Claude Nadeau, and Kausik Rajgopal. A key to finding the value is to apply the technology only when it is the simplest solution available, as Occam’s Razor mandates. Blockchain over recent years has been extolled as a revolution in business technology. In the nine years […]