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Lithium-niobate photonic processor offers more efficient AI

Lithium-niobate photonic processor offers more efficient AI

Startup company Q.ANT GmbH (Stuttgart, Germany) has launched a commercial photonic processor based on lithium niobate electro-optic material in rack-mount and PCIe board-level formats.The move to LiNbO3 allows many basic operations – such as matrix multiplication – to be done as a...

Published on: November 19, 2024

EgoTouch Creates Simple Interfaces for Virtual and Augmented Reality

EgoTouch Creates Simple Interfaces for Virtual and Augmented Reality

A recent paper by researchers in Carnegie Mellon University’s Human-Computer Interaction Institute introduces EgoTouch, a tool that uses artificial intelligence to control AR/VR interfaces by touching the skin with a fingerThe team wanted to ultimately design a control that would provide tactile...

Published on: November 19, 2024

Exotic form of matter with potential for quantum computing

Exotic form of matter with potential for quantum computing

New work suggests the ability to create fractionalized electrons known as non-Abelian anyons without a magnetic field, opening new possibilities for basic research and future applications – MITMIT physicists have shown that it should be possible to create an exotic form of...

Published on: November 19, 2024

Climate-Friendly Electricity Derived from Ammonia

Climate-Friendly Electricity Derived from Ammonia

Electricity and heat are generated in a single compact system — without CO2 emissions or other harmful byproductsThere are high hopes for hydrogen and its derivatives as sources of energy. They play a central role in the energy transition component of the German...

Published on: November 18, 2024

Morse Micro and Vantron to drive IoT with Wi-Fi HaLow

Morse Micro and Vantron to drive IoT with Wi-Fi HaLow

Vantron Technology has announced a strategic partnership with Morse Micro to drive innovation and excellence in the application of Wi-Fi HaLow, further revolutionizing IoT connectivity.Through the partnership, the two companies will work together to provide robust and energy-efficient connectivity that meets the...

Published on: November 18, 2024

Esperanto, NEC team on RISC-V supercomputers

Esperanto, NEC team on RISC-V supercomputers

RISC-V processor developer Esperanto Technologies Inc. (Mountain View, Calif.) is working with Japan’s NEC Corp. on a roadmap for chips and software for high-performance computing.The two companies will be working on the architecture supercomputers based on the RISC-V instruction set. The cooperation...

Published on: November 18, 2024

MediaTek fires the starting gun on WiFi 8

MediaTek fires the starting gun on WiFi 8

MediaTek has early prototypes of chips for the next generation IEEE802.11bn WiFi 8 standard.WiFi 7, or 802.11be, was approved in September, but chips have been available for the last two years. The four year cycle means that WiFi8 chips will be ready...

Published on: November 18, 2024

e2v preps 15-core AI processor for space

e2v preps 15-core AI processor for space

Teledyne e2v in Grenoble is radiation testing a multicore ARM processor for space designs.The LX2160 has 15 ARM Cortex-A72 processor cores that provide 200k DMIPs of performance for servers and AI processing in space.The chip uses the  WRIOP capable to handle high-speed...

Published on: November 18, 2024

SK Hynix prepares 16-layer HBM3e DRAM for 2025

SK Hynix prepares 16-layer HBM3e DRAM for 2025

SK Hynix has announced that its 16-layer HBM3e DRAM will be available in 2025. The device is expected to sample in 1H25.The company’s CEO, Kwak Noh-Jung, announced the development of the 16-layer HBM3e memory with a capacity of 48Gbytes at the SK...

Published on: November 18, 2024

Radiation-hardened-by-design 512 Mbit QML-qualified NOR flash memory

Radiation-hardened-by-design 512 Mbit QML-qualified NOR flash memory

Infineon Technologies AG has announced the first radiation-hardened-by-design 512 Mbit QSPI NOR Flash memory for space and extreme environment applications. It offers a fast quad serial peripheral interface (133 MHz) and the highest density, radiation, and single-event effects (SEE) performance available in...

Published on: November 18, 2024