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Renesas Takes a Swing at HMIs With Octal-SPI and RTOS-supported MPUs

The new MPU family hopes to address traditional challenges in the design of HMI systems.

August 08, 2022 by Jake Hertz

Quantum Protection—NIST Taps First Winners of Quantum Cryptography Project

The US Department of Commerce’s National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) has chosen its first round of contest winners to help create quantum-resistance encryption algorithms.

July 11, 2022 by Jake Hertz

RISC-V Shines at Embedded World With New Specs and Processors

At Embedded World 2022 today, RISC-V activity heats up as RISC-V International reveals four new spec approvals and SiFive unveils a new version of its X280 processor.

June 21, 2022 by Jeff Child

Can AI Tools in the Cloud Improve Semiconductor Manufacturing?

Google Cloud’s newest solutions are geared to improve productivity, yield, and ROI in semiconductor fabs.

May 20, 2022 by Jake Hertz

AMD SOM Kit Propels Robotics Beyond Custom Designs

Keen to free industrial robotics from the burdens of custom design, AMD has launched a SOM-based starter kit that puts ROS 2 and predefined interface apps into play.

May 17, 2022 by Jeff Child

5G-AI Marriage—Theme at 2022 Qualcomm 5G Summit

At its annual 5G Summit this week, Qualcomm unveils new solutions and milestones that show 5G and AI joining forces.

May 10, 2022 by Jeff Child

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.

April 26, 2022 by Jeff Child

Robot Highlight—Mini Cheetah Hits New Speeds

Highlighting recent robotics research, MIT's robot "mini cheetah" combines the best of electronics and machine learning to zoom towards the future.

April 23, 2022 by Kristijan Nelkovski

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.

April 06, 2022 by Jake Hertz

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.

March 29, 2022 by Jake Hertz

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.

March 24, 2022 by Jake Hertz

CEVA’s PentaG2 IP Aims to Streamline 5G NR Modem Design

As 5G new radio (NR) technology becomes more complex and challenging, CEVA's second-gen 5G platform architecture hopes to shorten the time to market and ease design hangups.

February 25, 2022 by Jake Hertz

Targeting IoT Interoperability: Matter Hopes to Provide a Secure Solution

As smart home technology continues to flourish among tech consumers, Matter, the new connectivity standard hopes to enhance interoperability in a wide range of smart homes devices and internet of things (IoT) systems.

February 08, 2022 by Abdulwaliy Oyekunle

TinyML Strikes Out to Improve Memory Performance and Ease FPGA Design

As the world of machine learning (ML) grows and finds its use in more applications, researchers and companies are finding ways to leverage it to improve hardware performance and design.

January 31, 2022 by Jake Hertz

CTA Hopes to Make a Splash With New Open Radar API Standard Called Ripple

A collaborative effort between the tech giants, Google and Texas Instruments, along with the Consumer Technology Association (CTA) and others, announced their new radar application programming interface (API) to develop radar-based technologies.

January 20, 2022 by Kristijan Nelkovski

Startup Propels L2-L5 Autonomous Vehicles Forward with PetaFLOPS Chip Family

A new family of co-processors from VSORA hopes to overcome challenges and provide the compute needed to achieve full, level 5 vehicle autonomy.

January 18, 2022 by Jake Hertz

“Heterogeneous and Secure” Architecture Promises to Supercharge ML for Edge AI

As computing moves towards the edge, a heterogeneous computing architecture, NeuPro-M from CEVA, also hopes to bring machine learning (ML) to the edge while boasting performance and power improvements.

January 07, 2022 by Jake Hertz

Hardware-as-a-Service Takes on New Utility in an Era of Remote PCB Design

As the world embraces remote and hybrid work, design for hardware finds itself at a crossroads.

December 14, 2021 by Jake Hertz

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.

November 28, 2021 by Jake Hertz

Macronix and Crypto Quantique Team Up to Push Back on IoT Security Challenges

Hoping to create an end-to-end security solution for the Internet of Things (IoT), Macronix and Crypto Quantique are teaming up to take on IoT security challenges.

October 25, 2021 by Jake Hertz