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[luckyorange] 20/5/2017 11:50

Good job they didn't ask you to spell it skylite 'Hauwei', otherwise you would never have got the contract :-)

Nice story.

[skylite] 20/5/2017 11:21

Interesting company Hauwei; in a previous role at my last company they were a client of ours for hosted Telco services. Their UK offices were largely staffed by Chinese over here on secondment for 6-12 months, so we often had a change of personnel for meetings. They didn't use their given names when meeting Western partners but had adopted, or been given, Western names by the Dept for Names. I met some oddly old fashioned names for such young people (Elvis, Alfed etc), down right weird (Wilson, Trevor) and many others that left one with an amused look when introduced. Best advice I got was from an old army type who was their front of desk security. I'd been going there quite a bit so we became quite friendly, one day I was there for a presentation to push our services into their German marketplace and whilst I was waiting he told me the best way to ingratiate yourself with them was to pronounce Hauwei exactly as they do in a particular Chinese dialect; so he tutored me in reception. Try Hauwei as Hwow-Why, pronouncing the H before wow and breathing out slightly as you say it. Anyway apparently I was a natural, they loved it, hardly looked at the presentation, just kept bring staff in to listen to me and clap. German contract signed and a bottle of best whiskey for the old boy. They also started using their Chinese names with me from that meeting onwards but tbh I wish they'd carried on with their strange 1950s first names because I'd opened a whole world of pain.

[rogerbridge] 20/5/2017 10:36

Wow some very interesting posts. Only have phone at moment, difficult to read as I am on a sunbed in Tenerife. Will investigate when back indoors.

[luckyorange] 20/5/2017 08:28

Huawei will knock Nokia into a tin hat if it keeps sitting on it's laurels!

[superg1] 20/5/2017 07:57

Lots of bits about Huawei and graphene, this one is interesting re batteries.

I note this line in it too.

"Back in 2015, Huawei already announced its co-study program on the application of graphene with Manchester University,"

Just hunting around having found that name at a Cambridge event due shortly. VRS CEO there on the day.

[superg1] 20/5/2017 07:48

This is not a glorify, ramp or anything like that more of a concern re the wording in some news about Huawei.

They are a massive company and having just found the interest in Cambridge graphene I've just started to search around to see why they have appeared.

One the first hits for Huawei and Cambridge on a gale search is this.



The paragraph of concern is this.

Huawei bought IoT trailblazer Neul for $25 million last year. Neul positioned itself at the heart of the whole Internet of Things acceleration process and this was the attraction for Huawei, which is a world-leading ICT provider.

The particular stand out line of that being that Neul had in Huawei's opinion had positioned itself at the heart of IOT.

VRS have positioned themselves at the heart of graphene in the UOM/NGI and with Cambridge and both as shareholders. That may or may not have Huawei interested.

Pure speculation, I've literally just found it so will look at Neul to see what I can understand they mean by "at the heart" of IOT.

[superg1] 20/5/2017 06:24

Hmmmm

We knew Nokia are active there and obvious Emberion is a spin off from Nokia.

I don't believe we know about the others that will be there on the day. So we can add Huawei and Ericsson interested in what is going on there. I've only just spotted that event and those names so will have a dig around.

Matteo Bruna – Nokia

Michael Robertson – Huawei

Antonio D'Errico – Ericsson

Piers Andrew – Emberion

[festario] 20/5/2017 00:07

Skylite... you can order Thai brides off Amazon??Put me down for 2. Just as long as I can return them when they get horrible.In my experience I'd say that's about 1 year after delivery.

[luckyorange] 19/5/2017 22:13

Are Emberion the ones to watch as well



University of Cambridge scientists, in conjunction with tech industry experts, have developed a novel graphene-based infrared (IR) detector with record high sensitivity for thermal detection. The technology paves the way for high-performance IR imaging and spectroscopy.

The work was undertaken as part of a collaboration within the Graphene Flagship – the European research consortium aiming to bring graphene technologies to commercial markets within ten years.

Collaborators included the Institute of Photonic Sciences in Barcelona and the University of Ioannina in Greece, as well as Nokia UK and Emberion, who are local industrial partners of the Cambridge Graphene Centre.

Published in Nature Communications, the team’s efforts demonstrate the highest reported temperature sensitivity for graphene-based uncooled thermal detectors, capable of resolving temperature changes down to a few tens of µK. Only a few nanowatts of IR radiation power are required to produce such a small temperature variation in isolated devices, about 1000 times smaller than the IR power delivered to the detector by a human hand in close proximity.

Emberion, based at Sheraton House on Castle Park in Cambridge develops and produces graphene photonics and electronics that it says will revolutionise infrared photodetectors and thermal sensors in applications ranging from hyperspectral and thermal imaging to night vision and X-ray detection. The Emberion team demonstrated their new detector evaluation kit at Mobile World Congress (MWC) in Barcelona recently.

Emberion focuses on design and productisation of high-performance optoelectronics based on graphene, other nanomaterials and CMOS integrated circuits. In addition to its product business, Emberion engages in technology licensing and can deliver integrated end products.

It has R & D sites in Cambridge, UK, and Espoo, Finland with 20 world-leading experts. The company spun-out of Nokia’s R & D in Finland and the UK, based on private equity funding and spin-out expertise from VersoVentures and was co-founded with Emberion employees.

[luckyorange] 19/5/2017 21:47

Nokia had or was part of a $1.35 billion grant in 2013

Their latest patent is for a co2 sensor

Is there any way of finding out what the grant has been spent on to date?

[serratia] 19/5/2017 19:15

hxxp://www.thegraphenecouncil.org/general/recommended_links.asp

[serratia] 19/5/2017 19:10

Nuclear industry -

[superg1] 19/5/2017 18:08

Doh

I was trying to wind someone up.

Flown in by drone Sky?

[skylite] 19/5/2017 17:30

I use Amazon Prime to get mine Sg.

[luckykids] 19/5/2017 17:11

wrong thread superg

[superg1] 19/5/2017 15:38

Yes Jointer

Its quite staining what what on in Berlin re the things said by companies. If we could all sit and watch it we'd be blown away.

As he says it's opening the doors to technologies that couldn't exist before and we know the tech giants will storm into that space. Google are onto graphene for printed electronics of all types.

processors are near their peak as are batteries. Engines have been bashed to death to get the emissions down and now for Aerospace to Auto they were turning to light-weighting. Then like a gift up pops graphene to allow such progress to be made.

I'm not convinced progress will be typically slow as a door just opened when they had more or less hit the buffers on many fronts.

[spike_1] 19/5/2017 14:06

Reverse camber: essentially where the inside of a bend (on a road / race track etc)is lower than the outside is camber. If the inside is higher that's reverse camber which is never good news if you are cornering fast.

Best wishes - Mike

[jointer13] 19/5/2017 13:35

superg1 re your post

the founder is confident.....said 5 years ago

"chances of this material are sky high to lead to new important technology"

"from everything I know graphene is my best bet for the next disruptive technology"

[skylite] 19/5/2017 11:23

Reverse camber?

[superg1] 19/5/2017 11:19

See if that had been a graphene enhanced composite bike the extra flex would have been able to cope with the extra forces the extra for on the outside wheels preventing the roll.

Of course the other option is the sheer power and speed was just beyond the capabilities of any machine on such cornering. However as the bend looks bigger than the turning circle of an ocean going oil tanker I suspect it was driver error. :-)

[superg1] 19/5/2017 10:58

:-)

Surely the beers are on him.