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DMASS warns against over-reaction to 25% decline

Caroline Hayes — Tue, 07 May 2024 10:07:03 +0000

The latest figures from European Components Distribution (DMASS) show a decline in Q1 of 23.3% with semiconductor revenue dropping by 26.5%. DMASS Europe’s chairman, Hermann Reiter, was keen to stress ...

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Mouser signs Edge Impulse; accelerates intelligence at the edge

Caroline Hayes — Wed, 10 Apr 2024 11:18:58 +0000

Mouser reflected one of the major themes at Embedded World 2024, intelligence at the edge, and announced it has signed Edge Impulse, the software framework provider for embedded machine learning ...

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Direct Insight announces partnership with MicroSys Electronics

Caroline Hayes — Tue, 20 Feb 2024 10:01:21 +0000

Systems integrator, Direct Insight, based in Oxfordshire, UK, has partnered with German SoM and SBC provider, MicroSys Electronics. The partnership covers the UK and Ireland. The minority of embedded designs ...

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NXP steers a path for software-defined radar

Caroline Hayes — Tue, 09 Jan 2024 17:01:51 +0000

NXP Semiconductors has announced an extension to its 28nm RF cmos radar one-chip SoC family at CES in Las Vegas. The SAF86xx is the successor to the SAF8500 which is ...

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Ceva adds cores and generative AI to neural processing IP portfolio

Steve Bush — Tue, 08 Aug 2023 12:02:43 +0000

Ceva has filled-out its NeuPro-M family of neural processing units, and boosted its architecture for generative AI algorithms. “NeuPro-M NPU architecture and tools have been redesigned to support transformer networks ...

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Halio adds 208Top/s PCIe processor board, and entry-level AI IC

Steve Bush — Thu, 03 Aug 2023 13:00:51 +0000

AI chip maker Hailo has introduced a 208Top/s PCIe processor card for implementing neural networks, and an entry-level version of its Halio-8 IC. The PCIe cards, called ‘Hailo-8 Century’, execute ...

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RISC-V Summit: Customisable vector unit

Steve Bush — Thu, 01 Jun 2023 10:19:26 +0000

Semidynamics has announced a customisable vector unit for RISC-V processor cores, compliant with RISC-V vector specification 1.0. Vector unit are composed of several vector cores that perform multiple calculations in ...

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Arm announces next GPU architecture for phones

Steve Bush — Wed, 31 May 2023 09:31:56 +0000

Arm has announced its 5th generation of GPU architecture and the first GPUs to be designed on it – Immortalis-G720 for high-end phones, Mali-G720 and Mali-G620. The 5th generation is ...

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A little more on: Cortex-X4, Arm’s most powerful core so far

Steve Bush — Tue, 30 May 2023 16:17:29 +0000

Arm has announced its latest architecture, the 64bit-only Armv9.2, and three grades of processor built on it. At the top-end of single-thread performance will be Cortex-X4, then Cortex-A720 in the ...

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