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Microsoft Taps Ampere’s Arm Chip to Power Azure Virtual Machines

Microsoft Taps Ampere’s Arm Chip to Power Azure Virtual Machines

Running on Ampere’s 80-core Arm-based processors, Microsoft's Azure Virtual Machines (VMs) have been made generally available.


News Sep 02, 2022 by Chantelle Dubois
Intel GPU Muscles Up for Media Processing and the Visual Cloud

Intel GPU Muscles Up for Media Processing and the Visual Cloud

Optimized for media streaming, Intel’s new GPU family hopes to meet the video processing needs of data centers and the cloud.


News Aug 25, 2022 by Jake Hertz
Ep. 50 | AWS VP of Engineering Bill Vass on AI, Quantum Computing, and the Metaverse

Ep. 50 | AWS VP of Engineering Bill Vass on AI, Quantum Computing, and the Metaverse

Bill Vass of Amazon Web Services talks AI/ML, quantum computing, servers in space, the Metaverse, and how AWS wants to help engineers “just focus on being an engineer.”


AMD Ups Performance with 2nd-gen Ryzen Embedded SoC

AMD Ups Performance with 2nd-gen Ryzen Embedded SoC

Aimed at industrial IoT and vision systems, AMD’s new generation of its Ryzen Embedded R-Series SoCs, doubles core count, links to four 4K displays, and includes Windows 11 support.


News Jun 21, 2022 by Jeff Child
IoT Solutions Roll for Security, Antenna Selection, and Edge Compute

IoT Solutions Roll for Security, Antenna Selection, and Edge Compute

Designing Internet of Things (IoT) systems can be a tricky juggling act. To help engineers keep pace, new IoT products are helping solve problems in security, connectivity, and edge computing.


What is Machine Learning? An Intro to ML Basics

What is Machine Learning? An Intro to ML Basics

This article aims to contextualize machine learning (ML) for hardware and embedded engineers, what it is, how it works, why it matters, and how TinyML fits in.


Ep. 46 | Microsoft VP Marcus Fontoura on Architecting Azure, the “World’s Computer”

Ep. 46 | Microsoft VP Marcus Fontoura on Architecting Azure, the “World’s Computer”

Behind the scenes with a Microsoft Technical Fellow and Corporate VP who discusses the software, hardware, and infrastructure behind Azure cloud computing, the software-defined data center, and what makes the most efficient, sustainable data centers in the world.


Arm Unveils New M85 Core and Expands IoT Virtual Hardware Offerings

Arm Unveils New M85 Core and Expands IoT Virtual Hardware Offerings

Six months after its Arm Total Solutions for IoT rollout, today Arm is growing the initiative with a new Cortex-M processor, expanded ecosystem tools, and new virtual hardware—all aimed at IoT.


News Apr 26, 2022 by Jeff Child
The Pros and Cons of Moving EDA to the Cloud

The Pros and Cons of Moving EDA to the Cloud

Taking EDA to the cloud, Synopsys’ new software-as-a-service (SaaS) offerings for EDA and IC design raise the question: is cloud computing a good choice for chip design?


News Apr 11, 2022 by Jake Hertz
Altium Education Brings Free PCB Design Courses to Students

Altium Education Brings Free PCB Design Courses to Students

Altium Education guides college students from the basics of PCB design through developing their first printed circuit board.


News Mar 22, 2022 by Arjun Nijhawan
Altium Unveils the First “Design With Manufacturing” Platform

Altium Unveils the First “Design With Manufacturing” Platform

Announced at AltiumLive, the new Altimade application brings designers, supply chain experts, and manufacturers all on the same continuous digital thread.


News Jan 27, 2022 by Jake Hertz
A3D3 Institute With MIT Use ML Algorithms to Help Tame Data for Researchers

A3D3 Institute With MIT Use ML Algorithms to Help Tame Data for Researchers

Hoping to take on real-time processing in more niche areas of research, a team from MIT along with A3D3 Institute, are using deep learning models to make digesting large data sets easier.


News Dec 18, 2021 by Ikimi .O
Team Up Leverages Neuromorphic-based Processor IP for Edge-based AI Solutions

Team Up Leverages Neuromorphic-based Processor IP for Edge-based AI Solutions

Moving away from Cloud-based AI to the network Edge reduces power and bandwidth demands. Akida, the neuromorphic Edge AI processor from BrainChip might help to facilitate that move along with MegaChips' help.


News Nov 29, 2021 by Adrian Gibbons
Keeping Its Roots in Service: New Amazon SDK Gives Alexa Design Power to ODMs

Keeping Its Roots in Service: New Amazon SDK Gives Alexa Design Power to ODMs

As tech giants lean towards creating in-house hardware, Amazon releases a new software development kit that allows original device manufacturers (ODMs) to add Alexa services to any hardware device.


News Nov 28, 2021 by Jake Hertz
CubeSAT Project Launches Deep Learning Into Space

CubeSAT Project Launches Deep Learning Into Space

An onboard image processor from Teledyne e2v will bring deep learning capabilities to a smart nanosatellite.


NVIDIA Hits the Road with Autonomous Vehicle Hardware at GTC

NVIDIA Hits the Road with Autonomous Vehicle Hardware at GTC

At NVIDIA's GPU Technology Conference, the company unveiled its roadmap to bring autonomy to more vehicles—dependent on chipsets, sensors, GPUs, cameras, and more.


News Nov 16, 2021 by Tyler Charboneau
Flux, a Google Doc-style Collaboration Tool for Hardware Design, Changes the Face of Remote Engineering

Flux, a Google Doc-style Collaboration Tool for Hardware Design, Changes the Face of Remote Engineering

Inspired by GitHub, a new browser-based hardware development tool has recently raised $12M in funding.


News Oct 14, 2021 by Jake Hertz
World’s First TinyML Vision Challenge Crowns 2021 Winners

World’s First TinyML Vision Challenge Crowns 2021 Winners

Competitions are always an exciting way to test the limits and ingenuity of both technology and the designer. This week the winners of the first inaugural TinyML Vision Challenge were announced.


News Oct 13, 2021 by Jake Hertz
Intel “Reverse Engineers the Brain” With Loihi 2 Neuromorphic Chip and Lava Framework

Intel “Reverse Engineers the Brain” With Loihi 2 Neuromorphic Chip and Lava Framework

Packing one million neurons, the Loihi 2, along with an open-source software framework Lava, is pushing the limits of neuromorphic computing.


News Sep 30, 2021 by Jake Hertz
Researchers Speed Up Quantum Computing with Advances from Algorithms to Sensors

Researchers Speed Up Quantum Computing with Advances from Algorithms to Sensors

As the push for better quantum computing heats up, researchers hope to tackle the issues with developments in quantum sensors, algorithms, and quibits.


News Sep 06, 2021 by Kristijan Nelkovski