Magenta Venture Partners launches $100m VC fund for industrial AI startups
FacebookTwitterLinkedinemailIsrael’s venture capital firm Magenta Venture Partners has announced a new $100 million fund for early-stage Israeli startups focused variously on autonomous vehicles, Industry 4.0, smart cities, and fin-tech, and …
What is Society 5.0? Japan’s model for a digitally-inspired ‘imagination society’
FacebookTwitterLinkedinemail“The kaleidoscope has been shaken, the pieces are in flux.” It is a phrase written for a different time, and another sphere – a generation ago, which seems like a …
Siemens wins digital transformation deal with Chinese coal mining company
FacebookTwitterLinkedinemailGerman industrial giant Siemens has been contracted to increase productivity and reduce downtime at a coal mine in China by connecting, analysing and optimising the performance of four mine hoist …
Siemens bolsters digital factory proposition with new AI and edge tools
FacebookTwitterLinkedinemailSiemens has bundled a number of edge devices running artificial intelligence (AI) applications into its digital enterprise portfolio, and bolstered its partner activity and support around its MindSphere platform alongside. …
NXP opens Hamburg lab to develop bespoke industrial IoT solutions
FacebookTwitterLinkedinemailIndustry 4.0 enablement prompts NXP investment NXP Semiconductors has opened an Industry 4.0 development centre in Hamburg, in Germany, to support global manufacturing customers in pursuit of bespoke industrial IoT …
Nokia unveils Future X framework to help unlock “trillions” of industrial IoT dollars
FacebookTwitterLinkedinemailNokia has grouped its industrial IoT solutions into a new architectural framework and enterprise division, called ‘Future X for industries’. The strategy is designed to drive faster digital transformation of …
Manchester glimpses tech revolution in ambitious industrial strategy
FacebookTwitterLinkedinemailGreater Manchester in the UK has issued a progress report on its developing industrial strategy to harness technological innovation, in tandem with private enterprise and academic research, to deliver on …
Why AI is the only way for telcos to create order and opportunity in the 5G era
FacebookTwitterLinkedinemailThere is massive disruption in the telecoms space, driven in the main part by the shift from proprietary hardware to commoditised hardware, and by the virtualisation of network functions in …
Five reasons to bet (now) on a fourth industrial revolution
FacebookTwitterLinkedinemail“The kaleidoscope has been shaken; the pieces are in flux.” It is a phrase written for the political age, almost two decades ago. But as an analogy for ground-shaking change, …
The URLLC debate (pt1): Is 5G just a testbed for 6G? (Whisper it, is 5G the new 3G?)
FacebookTwitterLinkedinemail“5G will do the boring stuff first”. The low-latency pyrotechnics that will fire the industrial sector into a new gear for the first time will come much later. The version …
