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ST backs Innoscience IPO as shares start trading

ST backs Innoscience IPO as shares start trading

Shares in Chinese GaN chip supplier Innoscience are set to trading this week following the backing of STMicroelectronics.The shares will be listed on Hong Kong Stock Exchange on December 30th, and the IPO was underwritten by ST Hong Hong at US$50m, the...

Published on: December 29, 2024

Processing-in-memory startup gains microphone design win

Processing-in-memory startup gains microphone design win

Startup company PIMIC Inc. (Cupertino, Calif.) has gained a design win for its neural networking noise cancellation chip inside a digital microphone from ZillTek Technology Corp. (Hsinchu, Taiwan).The Clarity NC100 is designed for use in single-microphone applications in edge and wearable devices...

Published on: December 28, 2024

Nvidia tapes-out B300 Blackwell, says report

Nvidia tapes-out B300 Blackwell, says report

Nvidia Corp. has taped-out an upgraded Blackwell GPU, the B300, and tipped an improved Grace-Blackwell component, the GB300, according to SemiAnalysis.The B300 design targets the same 4NP 4nm-nominal manufacturing process from foundry TSMC that is used for B100 and B200. However, tweaks...

Published on: December 28, 2024

Solid state cooling boost for ARM AI laptop PC

Solid state cooling boost for ARM AI laptop PC

Frore Systems has demonstrated its MEMS-based solid state cooling system in a proof of concept using the latest ARM-based Samsung Galaxy Book4 Edge notebook AI PC.The 14in notebook is the thinnest on the market at just 10.9 mm and integrates two AirJet...

Published on: December 27, 2024

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