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Renesas Microprocessors with Dual-core Arm® Cortex®-A55 (1.2 GHz) CPUs | Digital Datasheet

Renesas Microprocessors with Dual-core Arm® Cortex®-A55 (1.2 GHz) CPUs | Digital Datasheet

AAC’s Digital Datasheet video series introduces the specs and applications of components—both new and familiar—straight from their datasheets.


AMD Scoops Up Pensando To Expand Data Center Processing Solutions

AMD Scoops Up Pensando To Expand Data Center Processing Solutions

Hoping to keep the momentum rolling for data center processing, AMD has set its sights on acquiring Pensando for its portfolio of data center processing solutions.


News Apr 06, 2022 by Jake Hertz
Mojo Vision Keeps an Eye on the Future With Mojo Lens Prototype

Mojo Vision Keeps an Eye on the Future With Mojo Lens Prototype

Mojo Vision unveils an advanced prototype of its Mojo Lens——an augmented reality (AR) based contact lens that's packing eye-tracking technology and a digital display all in one.


News Apr 04, 2022 by Darshil Patel
Arduino and Foundries.io Lock Their Sights on Embedded IoT Security

Arduino and Foundries.io Lock Their Sights on Embedded IoT Security

As newer engineers are looking for more ways to break into the Internet of Things (IoT) space, a team-up between Arduino and Foundries.io is hoping to create an easy, secure solution: the Portenta X8.


News Mar 29, 2022 by Jake Hertz
Ep. 42 | Groq CEO and Ex-Googler Jonathan Ross on the Petaflop AI Chip and First Ever TPU

Ep. 42 | Groq CEO and Ex-Googler Jonathan Ross on the Petaflop AI Chip and First Ever TPU

Groq’s chip architecture is something all electrical engineers will drool over. It not only focuses on high-performance computing (HPC), artificial intelligence (AI), and machine learning (ML), but it can do 1 PetaOp—1 quadrillion operations per second. “Which is four commas, not three... yeah,” Groq’s CEO Jonathan Ross emphasizes while confirming it is indeed 300X faster than NVIDIA’s chip. This “successful college dropout” designed Google’s TPU (tensor processing unit) and came up with $10B ideas at X - the moonshot factory, but “never in a million years” thought he’d be Groq’s CEO.


Chiplet Design Hopes to Rise Up as a Contender for Sidestepping Moore’s Law

Chiplet Design Hopes to Rise Up as a Contender for Sidestepping Moore’s Law

To overcome Moore's Law and die-to-die interconnection issues, the world’s top companies are turning to chiplet design for their next-generation computing hardware.


News Mar 28, 2022 by Jake Hertz
Understanding Side Channel Attack Basics

Understanding Side Channel Attack Basics

Learn the basics of side channel attacks (SCAs), the threat they pose security for hardware-level security, and why they can be so powerful.


Photonic Wire Bonding Process Could Open Door to More Photonic Electronics

Photonic Wire Bonding Process Could Open Door to More Photonic Electronics

As photonics technology seeks its niche in the industry, one hurdle to overcome is a scalable fabrication process. One technique called photonic wire bonding (PWB) hopes to push photonics forward.


News Mar 26, 2022 by Abdulwaliy Oyekunle
NVIDIA Boasts “World’s Most Advanced Chip” in Latest Tensor Core GPU

NVIDIA Boasts “World’s Most Advanced Chip” in Latest Tensor Core GPU

Taking aim at creating a future supercomputer, NVIDIA has created a new H100 Tensor Core graphics processing unit (GPU) leveraging its latest architecture, Hopper.


News Mar 25, 2022 by Jake Hertz
Inter-satellite Optical Links: A New Frontier for Communications Technology

Inter-satellite Optical Links: A New Frontier for Communications Technology

With an eye on widespread internet access and defense, many space agencies and companies have zeroed in on laser-based systems for satellite-to-satellite communication.


News Mar 24, 2022 by Arjun Nijhawan
Nvidia’s Hopper Architecture Leaps in With Tons of New Tech for HPC and AI

Nvidia’s Hopper Architecture Leaps in With Tons of New Tech for HPC and AI

Continuing to unpack NVIDIA's GTC Conference releases, one stand out was the Hopper architecture targeting high-performance computing (HPC) and AI/machine learning.


News Mar 24, 2022 by Jake Hertz
NVIDIA Unveils New Grace CPU “Superchip” for AI and HPC

NVIDIA Unveils New Grace CPU “Superchip” for AI and HPC

At this year's GTC Conference, NVIDIA released a variety of impressive new computing technology. One stand out was its Grace "Superchip" CPU (central processing unit).


News Mar 23, 2022 by Jake Hertz
The Six Female Programmers Behind the ENIAC

The Six Female Programmers Behind the ENIAC

Thanks to research conducted by computer scientist Kathy Kleiman, we can all know the story of the brilliant women who were instrumental in the creation of the world’s first general-purpose digital computer.


News Mar 22, 2022 by Robert Keim
Ep. 41 | Qualcomm’s VP of XR Hugo Swart Explains How VR, AR, MR, and Metaverse Will Change The World

Ep. 41 | Qualcomm’s VP of XR Hugo Swart Explains How VR, AR, MR, and Metaverse Will Change The World

How do you design hardware for an idea as big, ambitious, and mysterious as the Metaverse? Qualcomm’s VP & GM of XR, Hugo Swart, takes us behind the scenes to discuss the Extended Reality (XR) technology that one day may immerse us in a virtual universe and change the way we work, live, and play.


Processing Tech Highlight: MWC 2022 Wraps Up

Processing Tech Highlight: MWC 2022 Wraps Up

Another year at Mobile World Congress (MWC) Barcelona wraps up with a tech highlight on processors and system-on-chips (SoCs) from Intel, MediaTek, and Qualcomm.


News Mar 12, 2022 by vishvachi
Tokyo Researchers Hit the Lottery Ticket Theory with “Hiddenite” AI Chip

Tokyo Researchers Hit the Lottery Ticket Theory with “Hiddenite” AI Chip

A new, low-power AI processor leverages a bleeding-edge neural network theory: the lottery ticket theory.


News Mar 11, 2022 by Jake Hertz
New 3D IPUs Go for “WoW Factor” with TSMC’s Wafer-on-Wafer Technology

New 3D IPUs Go for “WoW Factor” with TSMC’s Wafer-on-Wafer Technology

Graphcore has revealed new intelligent processor units (IPUs) based on 3D wafer-on-wafer (WoW) technology. Next up for the company: an AI computer system.


News Mar 11, 2022 by Darshil Patel
AAC Exclusive: A Chat With IBM Researchers Who Built the New “VTFET” Transistor

AAC Exclusive: A Chat With IBM Researchers Who Built the New “VTFET” Transistor

In December, IBM and Samsung announced a new transistor architecture said to defy conventional FinFETs. We spoke with two of IBM's leading researchers on this project for details.


News Mar 07, 2022 by Ingrid Fadelli
And That’s a Wrap: ISSCC 2022 Teases Out a Lot of New Tech

And That’s a Wrap: ISSCC 2022 Teases Out a Lot of New Tech

As this year's International Solid-State Circuits Conference (ISSCC) wraps up this week, let's take a look at some of this years interesting announcements.


News Mar 03, 2022 by Ikimi .O
Indium Oxide Semiconductors May Keep Moore’s Law Going

Indium Oxide Semiconductors May Keep Moore’s Law Going

Researchers around the world are continually finding new ways to prolong Moore's law. Now, Purdue researchers have found another means to this end: using an atomic layer deposition technique for indium oxide-based transistors.


News Feb 28, 2022 by Darshil Patel