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QuickLogic sees $6.5m more for rad hard FPGA

QuickLogic sees $6.5m more for rad hard FPGA

QuickLogic has received $6.5m in its fourth tranche of funding from the US Department of Defense (DoD) for its radiation hard FPGA programme.The funding will support the continued development and demonstration of Strategic Radiation Hardened (SRH) high reliability Field Programmable Gate Array...

Published on: December 27, 2024

1200V GaN uses hafnium gate

1200V GaN uses hafnium gate

Sandia National Laboratories in the US has demonstrated a high power 1200V MOSFET using gallium nitride (GaN) using a hafnium gate with a high-K electric. The 1200V MOSFET uses a 100nm hafnium dioxide (HfO2) gate dielectric to achieve a current density of  330...

Published on: December 27, 2024

AI closes in on matching human general intelligence

AI closes in on matching human general intelligence

H2O.ai has announced that its h2oGPTe Agent has secured the top position on the GAIA (General AI Assistants) benchmark leaderboard with an unprecedented score of 65% — outperforming the Google Langfun Agent at 49%, Microsoft Research at 38%, and Hugging Face at...

Published on: December 26, 2024

Age against the machine – AI frameworks show signs of dementia

Age against the machine – AI frameworks show signs of dementia

Medical researchers have charted the performance of AI frameworks over time with tools that are used to measure dementia in humans.The peer-reviewed research, ‘Age against the machine’,  showed that all the framework chatbots, from OpenAI’s GPT 4o to Google Gemini 1.5, show...

Published on: December 26, 2024

Honda converts powertrain plant to hydrogen fuel cell production

Honda converts powertrain plant to hydrogen fuel cell production

Honda is converting a powertrain plant in Japan to make fuel cell systems for hydrogen vehicles.The plant in Moka City, Tochigi Prefecture, was closed in October 2024 but will now produce the next-generation fuel cell system being developed independently by Honda, starting...

Published on: December 26, 2024

Japan certifies electrode for mass production solid state battery

Japan certifies electrode for mass production solid state battery

The Japanese government has certified a negative electrode developed by Toyo Kohan for a solid state battery ahead of mass production.The certification, announced on Dec 25th, is part of the supply chain assurance scheme for batteries from the Ministry of Economy, Trade,...

Published on: December 26, 2024

US extends China trade war to SiC, legacy chips

US extends China trade war to SiC, legacy chips

The US is extending its trade sanctions against China to cover silicon carbide and legacy semiconductor devices on older process.The Office of the U.S. Trade Representative announced a Section 301 investigation on Christmas Eve to examine China’s targeting of foundational semiconductors (also...

Published on: December 25, 2024

Electric aircraft startup Lilium finds a buyer.

Electric aircraft startup Lilium finds a buyer.

Struggling German electric jet maker Lilium has found a buyer for its assets as it makes thousands of staff redundant.The last minute deal on Christmas Eve saw an asset purchase agreement with Mobile Uplift Corporation GmbH, a company set up by a...

Published on: December 25, 2024

Boltz-1, a fully open-source model for predicting biomolecular structures

Boltz-1, a fully open-source model for predicting biomolecular structures

MIT scientists have released a powerful, open-source AI model, called Boltz-1, that could significantly accelerate biomedical research and drug developmentDeveloped by a team of researchers in the MIT Jameel Clinic for Machine Learning in Health, Boltz-1 is the first fully open-source model that...

Published on: December 24, 2024

ARM teams on virtual head unit development

ARM teams on virtual head unit development

ARM is working with Mapbox in the US on a cloud-based Virtual Head Unit (VHU) for automotive designs.The design speeds up integration, testing, and validation of navigation systems by virtualising ARM-based in-vehicle hardware integrated with the Mapbox navigation stack. With the VHU,...

Published on: December 24, 2024