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Graphic shows Nvidia, US domination of chip industry

Graphic shows Nvidia, US domination of chip industry

An infographic of the semiconductor industry shows market capitalization as area while being organized by geographic region. US companies account for 71.5 percent of the industry’s market capitalization, according to the dataset used.

Published on: January 20, 2025

HiPEAC – twenty years of connecting students, researchers and companies

HiPEAC – twenty years of connecting students, researchers and companies

With three keynote talks, 41 workshops, six tutorials, 26 sponsors, more than 750 delegates, 75 student-activity participants, HiPEAC is celebrating its twentieth yearThe HiPEAC conference is now happening in Barcelona and eeNews will follow up interviewing Margaret Martonosi (Princeton University), Giovanni De...

Published on: January 20, 2025

Error correction boost for AI memristor array

Error correction boost for AI memristor array

Researchers in South Korea have developed a neuromorphic AI processor using memristors that can both learn and process data.The team at KAIST developed the chip with a 32 x 32 crossbar array with a highly stable memristor design using interfacial-type titanium oxide...

Published on: January 20, 2025

Self-supervised memristor AI chip

Self-supervised memristor AI chip

Researchers in South Korea have developed a self-supervised neuromorphic AI processor using a memristor arry that can both learn and process data.The team at KAIST developed the chip with a 32 x 32 crossbar array with a highly stable resistor memory (memristor)...

Published on: January 20, 2025

Researchers develop novel dataset to boost robot grasping accuracy

Researchers develop novel dataset to boost robot grasping accuracy

Researchers form the College of Engineering, Shibaura Institute of Technology, Japan and Hanoi University, Vietnam has developed designed dataset aimed at enhancing the performance of 6D pose estimation algorithms. Accurate object pose estimation refers to the ability of a robot to determine...

Published on: January 20, 2025

GloFo plans to create advanced packaging center in New York

GloFo plans to create advanced packaging center in New York

US foundry GlobalFoundries Inc. has said it plans to create a center for advanced packaging and test of chips within its Malta, New York, manufacturing facility.The company said it plans to spend US$575 million backed by investments from the Department of Commerce...

Published on: January 20, 2025

ARM refreshes senior management with EVP of operations, CMO

ARM refreshes senior management with EVP of operations, CMO

ARM Holdings plc has appointed Eric Hayes (above) as executive vice president of operations with immediate effect. The appointment of Hayes comes two months after that of Ami Badani as chief marketing officer (CMO).Hayes is responsible for end-to-end execution of operational activities...

Published on: January 20, 2025

Motif Neurotech wins UK award to create a brain-computer interface

Motif Neurotech wins UK award to create a brain-computer interface

Motif Neurotech, a Houston-based neurotechnology company, has won a multimillion dollar UK Government award from the Advanced Research and Invention Agency (ARIA) for the development of a therapeutic brain-computer interface (BCI) to treat cognitive and psychiatric conditions.The brain-computer interface award will fund...

Published on: January 20, 2025

Chinese buyers swoop on BelGaN equipment assets

Chinese buyers swoop on BelGaN equipment assets

Chinese companies were among the main buyers at bankruptcy auction of chip manufacturing equipment belonging to BelGaN, according to The Brussels Times.Plans for a possible purchase of the wafer fab have come to nought resulting in bankruptcy and the loss of 400...

Published on: January 20, 2025

First open-source full stack ion trap quantum computer

First open-source full stack ion trap quantum computer

Five organisations have teamed up to produce the world’s first full stack open source quantum computer with the software running on ion trap hardware.Photonic quantum computer maker Xanadu is working with University of Waterloo, Unitary Foundation, and Haiqu in the US to...

Published on: January 20, 2025