Toyota has opened up the GR GT’s chassis, and the most interesting part may be what happens if owners push the supercar too far on a racetrack. The GR GT is Toyota’s first vehicle with an all-aluminium body frame. It uses nine large aluminium castings connected to aluminium tubes and extrusions,...
Executive Summary: The component cost crisis: Driven by the explosive demands of Artificial Intelligence data centres, global smartphone memory prices skyrocketed. This pushed flagship Bill of Materials (BOM) costs up by nearly USD 300, forcing smartphone OEMs to cut costs in their structural...
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Announced ahead of the 2015 International CES, the new ATIV Book 9 combines a dazzling 12.2-inch display and an all-aluminium body construction with a 10-hour battery life. Samsung said in the lead up to this year's Consumer Electronics Show that tech journalists and consumers shouldn't expect any...
Heavy Engineering Corporation (HEC) here is all set to manufacture components for the supersonic cruise missile BrahMos. The country's biggest integrated engineering complex is in the final round of talks with the Defence Research and Development Organisation (DRDO) and is likely to bag the order...
Over two years has passed since the Puritalia 427 first came to the world’s attention, but the Italian sports car has finally arrived. Launched in Italy, the 427 is a two-seat roadster with styling reportedly inspired by the Shelby Cobra, and a 5.0 litre Ford V8 under the bonnet to firm the...
The new Jaguar XF might be unveiled at the 2015 New York Motor Show before going on sale later next year. The new car is expected to carry styling cues inspired by the younger sibling XE and a lightweight aluminium chassis that is bound to make it more efficient and dynamically better than the...
Today Jaguar confirms that it will bring an all-new mid size sports sedan to production; the Jaguar XE. Speaking at the Geneva Auto Show Dr Ralf Speth, Chief Executive Officer, Jaguar Land Rover, confirmed: “We announced just a few weeks ago that our new Engine Manufacturing Centre would produce a...
BMW will launch the electric i3 in India next year. The car which is powered by a 125kw motor run by lithium-ion batteries has a range of about 150km on a single charge. The i3 is also the first car to roll out under BMW's new sub-brand BMW i. BMW i has been created specifically for vehicles that...
According to The News Tribe, the new smart phone is going to be bigger and better than previous models and sport a screen 4.5 to 5 inches in size. The Retina+ display offers a larger screen without adding to the overall size of the iPhone with edge-to-edge display. The new iPhone 6 is also rumored...
Based on talks about chassis orders for the second half of 2014, demand for aluminum unibody chassis processed using CNC tools will continue until then for use in mid-range and high-end slim consumer electronics, according to Taiwan-based chassis makers. The sources pointed out that most makers are...
The C-X17 has been created as a design study to introduce Jaguar’s all-new advanced aluminium monocoque chassis architecture, codenamed iQ[Al], in which an exciting range of future Jaguars will be built. This new philosophy underpins the entire innovative future of the Jaguar brand. A modular and...
Jaguar has been eyeing the slice of the pie that BMW's 3-Series is squatting over for quite some time (does not sound appetizing) and the time to jump into that market segment is neigh. While I've only experienced the BMW 3-Series briefly, it was a very disappointing 20 minutes, so if Jag can...
In Win has introduced a very special chassis, the Tòu. The name is Mandarin for transparent, which immediately reveals the key design aspect of the enclosure. The Tòu is made of hardened (security) glass with a 3 mm thickness. The panels have a special coating that gives them a mirror-like...
Nokia's feature phone portfolio has got a new addition, Nokia 515. The all-new Nokia 515 has been built from a single piece of anodized, sandblasted aluminium. The feature phone features a 2.4-inch QVGA display with 240x320 pixels and boasts a pixel density of 166ppi while also possessing the...
Analysts believed at the time of Galaxy S4's launch that Samsung’s next flagship smartphone will have radically different design language, that it will not follow the design paradigm it has for quite some time now. A number of manufacturers have moved to metal chassis for their devices, HTC One is...
Showa Denko K.K. has developed high-performance aluminum reflector for crystal liquid displays for use in personal computers and television sets. Sample shipments started last month. This product is an extension of SDKs ST-60 aluminum alloy with high thermal diffusivity comparable to that of pure...
Cubitek has announced a new ICE Series of aluminum chassis that will feature five different models ranging from Mini ICE for mini ITX motherboards all the way to HPTX ICE chassis that supports HPTX form factor motherboards. The entire new ICE Series features an anti-vibration design with sturdy...
AN all-new Jensen Interceptor will be launched next year, after CPP Global Holdings was appointed to engineer, develop and build the new car by the brand’s owners, Healey Sports Cars Switzerland Ltd (HSCS). CPP, the British specialist automotive group, will finalise the new car’s development in...
Ducati will take the first step towards toning down the radical design of its Desmosedici MotoGP machine, when Valentino Rossi swaps carbon fibre for an aluminium front-section during this weekend's Aragon round. The seven-time MotoGP champion, who is sixth in the world championship with just one...
Power supply unit (PSU) maker ENG Electronic has recently cut into the aluminum material supply industry and will start shipping aluminum materials and ingots to chassis makers such as Ju Teng, Catcher Technology and Foxconn Technology, and indirectly cut into Apple's supply chain, according to...
