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NXP Semiconductors i.MX RT1160 Evaluation Kit | New Product Brief

NXP Semiconductors i.MX RT1160 Evaluation Kit | New Product Brief

This New Product Brief (NPB) is part of a video series highlighting the features, applications, and technical specs of newly-released products.


SiFive Seeks to Fuel Next-Gen Designs with Automotive RISC-V Cores

SiFive Seeks to Fuel Next-Gen Designs with Automotive RISC-V Cores

With its new portfolio of automotive RISC-V processor cores, SiFive aims to solve challenges in the design of evolving digital cars.


News Sep 15, 2022 by Jake Hertz
Cornell Professor Modifies Microwave to Evenly Dope Semiconductors

Cornell Professor Modifies Microwave to Evenly Dope Semiconductors

Using a modified microwave oven, a team of Cornell researchers have solved a limiting challenge in semiconductor manufacturing.


News Sep 13, 2022 by Jake Hertz
US Semi Fab SkyWater Seeks to Co-innovate in Quantum, Photonics, and…Free Silicon?

US Semi Fab SkyWater Seeks to Co-innovate in Quantum, Photonics, and…Free Silicon?

SkyWater CTO Steven Kosier explains how a US-based semiconductor foundry is innovating in the silicon world without chasing Moore’s Law scaling. This includes efforts in superconductors, quantum, photonics, biosensing, and heterogeneous integration.


Apple Event Highlights: iPhone 14 Lineup and Apple Watches Galore

Apple Event Highlights: iPhone 14 Lineup and Apple Watches Galore

In its latest live event, Apple announced the new iPhone14 lineup and Apple Watch Ultra, along with updates to other Apple Watches.


News Sep 12, 2022 by Darshil Patel
Arm Sues Qualcomm Over NUVIA’s Custom Cores

Arm Sues Qualcomm Over NUVIA’s Custom Cores

Arm has accused Qualcomm of breaching its licenses and wants the chipmaker to destroy its NUVIA CPU designs, plus offering up compensation.


News Sep 05, 2022 by Chantelle Dubois
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
Startup SiMa.ai Rolls Out SoC Tuned for Edge AI

Startup SiMa.ai Rolls Out SoC Tuned for Edge AI

A new “software-first” SoC aims to enable unprecedented AI computing at the edge.


News Sep 02, 2022 by Jake Hertz
AMD Announces Desktop Processors With the “Fastest Core in Gaming”

AMD Announces Desktop Processors With the “Fastest Core in Gaming”

AMD's much-anticipated Ryzen 7000 series is set for release Sept. 27.


News Sep 01, 2022 by Jake Hertz
Considerations for Choosing Edge ML Application Hardware

Considerations for Choosing Edge ML Application Hardware

As edge machine learning (ML) applications keep growing, EEs need to understand ML at the edge, especially concerning processing and processing hardware.


Chinese Startup Biren Technology Takes on NVIDIA in GPU Market

Chinese Startup Biren Technology Takes on NVIDIA in GPU Market

At Hot Chips 34, a new player entered the high-performance GPU market.


News Aug 31, 2022 by Jake Hertz
Andes and Green Hills Collab Yields RISC-V-based SoC for Automotive Safety

Andes and Green Hills Collab Yields RISC-V-based SoC for Automotive Safety

The two companies intend to introduce advanced safety functionalities via RISC-V to target use cases in the automotive industry.


News Aug 30, 2022 by Abdulwaliy Oyekunle
LeapFive Eyes High-performance Realm with 1.8 GHz RISC-V SoC

LeapFive Eyes High-performance Realm with 1.8 GHz RISC-V SoC

Setting out to enter the high-end processing niche within RISC-V, startup LeapFive has unveiled a quad-core 1.8 GHz RISC-V SoC.


News Aug 30, 2022 by Chantelle Dubois
H-bridge DC Motor Control Using Complementary PWM, Shoot-through, and Dead-time

H-bridge DC Motor Control Using Complementary PWM, Shoot-through, and Dead-time

Learn about the role of non-overlapping or complementary pulse width modulation (PMW) in DC motor control using an h-bridge circuit, taking into consideration PWM shoot-through and dead-time PWM.


Software Solutions Aim to Accelerate AI, Quantum, and GPU Processing

Software Solutions Aim to Accelerate AI, Quantum, and GPU Processing

With the goal of accelerating various types of advanced computing, including AI, GPU, and quantum processing, a variety of software solutions have recently been unveiled.


News Aug 26, 2022 by Ikimi .O
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
Amid Chip Shortages, Companies Bet on RISC-V

Amid Chip Shortages, Companies Bet on RISC-V

The RISC-V architecture continues to gather momentum as organizations make efforts to leverage the open-source ISA technology and innovate with new RISC-V solutions.


News Aug 24, 2022 by Lianne Frith
Nordic Semiconductor Rolls Out Its First Wi-Fi IC

Nordic Semiconductor Rolls Out Its First Wi-Fi IC

Complementing its existing wireless IoT offerings, Nordic Semiconductor has unveiled a dual-band Wi-Fi 6 companion chip.


News Aug 22, 2022 by Jake Hertz
Researchers Worldwide Come Together on “NeuRRAM” Neuromorphic Chip

Researchers Worldwide Come Together on “NeuRRAM” Neuromorphic Chip

The teams have developed the first compute-in-memory chip to tackle a range of AI applications at lower energy and higher accuracy than other platforms.


News Aug 22, 2022 by Jake Hertz
Inspired by Pavlov, Researchers Use Light to Bring Classical Conditioning to AI

Inspired by Pavlov, Researchers Use Light to Bring Classical Conditioning to AI

A team at the University of Oxford drew inspiration from Pavlov's dog to design a photonics-based neural network.


News Aug 20, 2022 by Ikimi .O