In September 2020, Prophesee made available its Metavision Intelligence Suite, a development toolkit that includes 100 algorithms available through APIs, 67 code samples and 11 open-source, use-case specifi c application modules for designing and implementing event-based vision technology in machine vision systems. This “initial offering”, the result of 5 years of work, is comprised of three components – Player, Designer, and SDK – and will be constantly expanded with new use cases modules and code.
"For the robotics sector, the role, importance, and impact of innovation has never been greater,” said Dan Kara, vice president of robotics at WTWH Media. “With this year’s RBR50 Robotics Innovation Awards, Robotics Business Review highlights those critical innovations, and the organizations responsible for them, that will spur the development of new robotics solutions and drive robotics adoption forward."
Up almost 3x from its low in March 2020, at the current price of $137 per share, we believe Synaptics Incorporated stock (NASDAQ: SYNA) has further upside potential. Synaptics, a human interface hardware and software developer, has seen its stock rise from $47 to $137 off its March 2020 low, much more than the S&P which increased by over 85% from its lows. Further, the stock is up around 70% from the level it was at before the pandemic. However, we believe that Synaptics stock could rise around 10% to set fresh highs above $150, driven by expectations of steady demand growth and strong Q3 2021 results. Our dashboard What Factors Drove 269% Change In Synaptics Stock Between 2018 And Now? has the underlying numbers behind our thinking.
Synaptics stock’s rise since late 2018 came despite a 21% drop in revenues from $1.63 billion in FY 2018 to $1.29 billion in FY 2020 (Synaptics’ fiscal year ends in June). Combined with a 3.5% rise in the outstanding share count, RPS (revenue-per-share) dropped 24% from $47.70 to $36.40 over this period.
However, Synaptics’ P/S (price-to-sales) multiple rose from 0.8x in 2018 to 2.5x by 2020 end, and has further risen to 3.8x currently. We believe that the company’s P/S ratio has the potential to rise further in the near term on expectations of continuing demand growth and a favorable shareholder return policy, thus driving the stock price higher.
It’s one of those unsolvable problems – a Catch 22
We want our electric cars, our underfloor heating, our iPhones and our iPads, and all the other electrical gadgetry – but in order to work they all need power.
Recently, Texas has felt the full brunt of this problem. After the big freeze in February caused significant problems for its grid, it became apparent that Texans would have to cut back on their electricity at a time when there have never been so many electrical devices they “need” to plug in.
This might shock you, but parts of the US electrical grid are over a hundred years old!
Seventy percent of the grid’s transmission lines and power transformers are over 25-years old, and the average age of the power plants is over 30-years old. But, our electricity needs are more sophisticated and the strain on the grid is higher than ever.
We are constantly being told that clean power is the way to go. The US aims to phase out new internal combustion-engine cars within the next 20-years and will be replaced with electric vehicles (or EVs as they are known).
As anyone with an electric vehicle will know, charging away from home is a hit and miss affair right now. Traveling long distances is only viable on well-established routes between major cities and hubs.
There are not enough charging stations for the existing 1.4 million plug-in electric vehicles that have been sold since they came into the market in 2010. There are still around 282 million internal-combustion engine (i.e., diesel and petrol-driven) vehicles to be replaced.
Vision is our most important sense. It follows that some of the greatest human inventions mimic its design. Cameras, televisions, computers and smart phones all rely on the medium of vision, in turn defining the way our world works. But for nearly 200 years, we've been taking pictures the same way. Is it still the most effective method? MVPro's writer, Joel Davies, sits down with the CEO and co-founder of Prophesee to discuss the future of vision and how he's changing the way we take pictures.
Security cameras and image sensors are pretty stupid, as we’ve explained before. Yet they’re important for a range of applications that have nothing to do with taking selfies at the beach.
Thibaud Hug de Larauze is a French businessman and entrepreneur. He is the chief executive officer of a company called Back Market.
While the U.S. is often hailed as the capital of innovation, digital health hubs are sprouting up all over the world. To the north, Canadian health tech companies are beginning to emerge.
The Holy Grail of sampling in consumer research is finding the most relevant and honest participants. And in doing so, meeting the time constraints of modern-day sampling.
Let me acknowledge up front that Avery isn’t the most visible EDA company around. If you know of them, you probably know their X-propagation simulator. Widely respected and used, satisfying a specialized need. They have also been quietly building over the years a stable of VIPs and happy customers, with a special focus on VIPs for PCIe and standards building on PCIe such as NVMe, CXL and CCIX. All hot standards in data centers. Avery claims, and I have no reason to doubt them, that they are the #1 provider of VIPs in this area.
As I've been following and writing about Synaptics over the last few years, I've witnessed a fascinating and transitional time for the company. I've seen Synaptics turn around its financials under its adept new CEO, Michael Hurlston, and lean hard into its IoT efforts. So much so that I believe it's more apt these days to call Synaptics an "IoT" company.
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