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£66m for UK AI hardware projects

£66m for UK AI hardware projects

The UK’s ARIA innovation agency is funding 57 AI hardware projects with £66m (€70m).The projects funded by the UK’s Advanced Research and Invention Agency (ARIA) include the first for imec UK and £5m for analog in memory compute at Fractile. The agency...

Published on: October 27, 2024

High speed WiFI 7 access point supports IoT protocols

High speed WiFI 7 access point supports IoT protocols

Edgecore Networks in China has launched a WiFi 7 access point that supports data rates up to 9.34Gbit/s and IoT protocols for smart buildings.The EAP105 WiFi 7 (802.11be) tri-band access point supports 2x2x2:2 MU-MIMO in high-density environments such as offices, apartments, coffee...

Published on: October 26, 2024

Siemens teams for digital twin of Dutch grid

Siemens teams for digital twin of Dutch grid

Alliander is using digital twin technology from Siemens to reduce grid congestion and increase grid utilization in the Netherlands. Using Gridscale X will allow subsidiary Liander, the biggest distribution system operator (DSO) in the country, to extend the grid usage by 10 to...

Published on: October 26, 2024

Space centre re-opens for testing  

Space centre re-opens for testing  

The Higgs Centre for Innovation in Edinburgh is relaunching its Space Testing Facility.The centre has upgraded its clean rooms and test equipment with £400,000 funding from the Science and Technology Facilities Council (STFC).The upgrade enables the site to support early-stage tech start-ups...

Published on: October 25, 2024

TI converts Japanese 200mm fab to GaN, quadruples capacity

TI converts Japanese 200mm fab to GaN, quadruples capacity

Texas Instruments has begun the production of gallium nitride (GaN) semiconductors at a 200mm wafer fab in Aizu, Japan.Together with production at Dallas, Texas, this will quadruple TI’s GaN manufacturing capacity and allow it to reduce dependence on outsourced supply. TI said...

Published on: October 25, 2024

SK Hynix scores record profits, doubles sales on AI demand

SK Hynix scores record profits, doubles sales on AI demand

The leading position of SK Hynix Inc. (Seoul, South Korea) in high bandwidth memory (HBM) DRAM enabled the company to make a record net profit of about US$4.14 billion in the 3Q24 on sales revenue that nearly doubled year-on-year to about US$12.65...

Published on: October 25, 2024

Siemens, Microsoft boost global copilot rollout

Siemens, Microsoft boost global copilot rollout

Over 100 companies in Europe and the US are using a generative AI copilot from Siemens for automation, with thyssenkrupp Automation Engineering the first with a global roll out.Thyssenkrupp is planning  the rollout of the Siemens Industrial Copilot Copilot in 2025, using...

Published on: October 25, 2024

Next generation AI chip design exploration at imec UK

Next generation AI chip design exploration at imec UK

In its first project, the UK wing of Belgian R&D lab imec is developing a tool to optimise the energy of next generation AI chips across compute, memory and connectivity.imec UK in Cambridge has been funded by the UK’s Advanced Research and...

Published on: October 25, 2024

Equal1 opens Dutch lab, teams with TNO on quantum processors

Equal1 opens Dutch lab, teams with TNO on quantum processors

Quantum computer startup Equal1 in Ireland and the Netherlands Organisation for Applied Scientific Research (TNO) are to build quantum system on chip devices using spin qubits.The strategic collaboration will boost the fabrication of quantum system-on-chip (QSoC) processors using the expertise and facilities...

Published on: October 25, 2024

Lilium runs out of cash

Lilium runs out of cash

European electric aircraft developer Lilium is entering administration after its fundraising collapsed.Lilium had been looking to raise up to €200m from the German federal and Bavarian governments, which was turned down last week. It was also raising €219m from the French government...

Published on: October 25, 2024