The MATRIX AI Consortium at the University of Texas at San Antonio (UTSA) has received a $4 million grant to fund the Neuromorphic Commons (THOR) project.The multi-university THOR project offers researchers access to a large-scale neuromorphic computing system that is the first-of-its-kind. THOR...
Published on: October 29, 2024
Compound semiconductor wafer supplier IQE plc (Cardiff, Wales) has announced that CEO Americo Lemos has left the company with immediate effect.Jutta Meier, who joined the company from Intel in January 2024 will take up the position of interim CEO while continuing as...
Published on: October 29, 2024
Collins Aerospace has completed prototype development of a solid-state power controller and power distribution panel as part of the European SWITCH project for an electric aircraft demonstrator.The megawatt-class power distribution components were developed and produced in Nördlingen, Germany and will now be...
Published on: October 29, 2024
UK quantum computer startup Orca Computing has developed a quantum computer system with generative AI capabilities.The PT-2 combines its photonic quantum computer GPUs running the Nvidia CUDA-Q development platform to provide the genAI.This builds on the PT-1 quantum computer which is being...
Published on: October 29, 2024
Alchip Technologies Ltd. (Taipei, Taiwan) has said it has taped out a 2nm test chip and expects to see silicon back in the 1Q25.The company also reports that it is actively engaged with customers on 2nm ASIC designs.Alchip did not name the...
Published on: October 29, 2024
Charles Sporck, long time CEO of National Semiconductor, has died at the age of 96 in Sunnyvale, California.He worked at Fairchild, starting out as manufacturing plant manager with Bob Noyce and Gordon Moore, who went on to found Intel, and Jerry Sanders,...
Published on: October 29, 2024
BoS Semiconductors in Korea is planning to launch an automotive neural network accelerator (NPU) chiplet at CES in January 2025.BoS Semi has joined the UCIe Consortium which is building an ecosystem for chiplet interconnects. The BoS AI chiplet will be used alongside a...
Published on: October 29, 2024
TASKING has made available the latest version of its development environment, SmartCode v10.3r1, for the Infineon TriCore™ AURIX™ TC4x family. The new release simplifies the development of AI-based applications in the automotive sector.AI is playing an increasingly important role in the automotive...
Published on: October 29, 2024
Tasking in Germany has added AI application development and parallel processing to its latest automotive software tool.The latest version of the SmartCode v10.3r1 development environment for the Infineon TriCore AURIX TC4x family. The new release simplifies the development of AI-based applications in...
Published on: October 29, 2024
Infineon has cut the thickness of its silicon power wafer in half to 20µm, reducing the on resistance by 40% and the overall power losses by 15%.“This is a technology breakthrough from Infineon, the thinnest power wafer at a staggering 20 microns,”...
Published on: October 29, 2024