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SemiFive, HyperAccel complete design of LLM processor

SemiFive, HyperAccel complete design of LLM processor

Contract design work on HyperAccel’s a 4nm generative AI processor IP called ‘Bertha’ has been completed with silicon IP now targeting mass production in 1Q26.HyperAccel Co. Ltd. (Seoul, South Korea) is a 2023 startup that has developed a large language model processing...

Published on: October 13, 2024

IEDM: Samsung speeds selection of selector-only memory materials

IEDM: Samsung speeds selection of selector-only memory materials

Samsung has used computer modelling to accelerate the selection of a material system for selector-only-memory (SOM). Researchers are due to present a paper on the work at this year’s International Electron Devices Meeting (IEDM) coming up in December, in San Francisco.SOM is...

Published on: October 12, 2024

September foundry sales: a tale of differing fortunes

September foundry sales: a tale of differing fortunes

Strong demand for foundry TSMC’s leading-edge wafer processing continued in September allowing the company to beat the sales guidance it gave for 3Q24 back in July.In September TSMC’s net revenue was NT$251.87 billion (about US$7.83 billion), up 0.4 percent sequentially but up...

Published on: October 12, 2024

Tesla robot cars aren’t coming quite yet

Tesla robot cars aren’t coming quite yet

Tesla’s plans for a fully driverless ‘cybercab’ in 2026 is optimistic to say the least. This is not because the technology is not advancing, as Honda and Mercedes are both demonstrating.Tesla is also planning an unsupervised version of its Full Self Driving...

Published on: October 12, 2024

Nissan to launch bi-directional charging for V2G first in the UK

Nissan to launch bi-directional charging for V2G first in the UK

Nissan is planning to launch affordable bi-directional charging on selected electric vehicles in 2026 for vehicle to grid (V2G) applications starting in the UK.The Nissan Leaf had bi-directional charging and has been a key electric vehicle for testing V2G technology in over...

Published on: October 11, 2024

Portable test chassis for VNX+

Portable test chassis for VNX+

Elma Electronic has released a portable development chassis that accelerates the development and testing of VNX+ plugin cards (PICs).The VNX+ standard defines an extremely compact footprint that reduces per-slot size by up to 70% over 3U VPX, making it ideal for space constrained...

Published on: October 11, 2024

Battery prices set to fall to $80/kWh by 2026

Battery prices set to fall to $80/kWh by 2026

Research by Goldman Sachs is predicting the cost of EV batteries will fall to 480 per kilowatt hour in the next two years.Global average battery prices declined from $153 per kilowatt-hour (kWh) in 2022 to $149 in 2023, and Goldman Sachs Research...

Published on: October 11, 2024

Large area fingerprint sensors for automotive designs

Large area fingerprint sensors for automotive designs

Infineon Technologies has launched two new automotive-qualified fingerprint sensors optimized for its Traveo T2G microcontroller family.The sensors offer fingerprint identification and authentication capabilities for in-vehicle personalization and payment authentication, such as charging, parking or other services, as well as for authentication and...

Published on: October 11, 2024

Analog Devices launches first embedded software tool suite

Analog Devices launches first embedded software tool suite

Analog Devices (ADI) has launched its first developer portal with a suite of tools for developing embedded edge applications.CodeFusion Studio is an embedded software development environment based on Microsoft’s Visual Studio and is the first fully integrated suite of software and security...

Published on: October 11, 2024

IEDM: CFETs make progress at 5nm and 7angstrom

IEDM: CFETs make progress at 5nm and 7angstrom

Researchers from TSMC, IMEC, IBM and Samsung are all due to report on progress vertically-stacked complementary field effect transistors (CFETs) at this year’s International Electron Devices Meeting (IEDM) coming up in December, in San Francisco.Engineers from foundry TSMC have a paper on...

Published on: October 11, 2024