After almost a decade of searching the Newport Landfill he is now considering buying itA tragic story it is. James Howells once owned a hard disk with GBP 600 million worth of bitcoin. By accident it was thrown out and landed in...
Published on: February 11, 2025
UK startup VyperCore is launching a cloud-based evaluation platform for its sustainable RISC-V AI accelerator chip and chiplet.The VyperLab platform runs on an FPGA in Amazon Web Services to allow developers to benchmark existing code without the need to recompile.VyperCore supplies the...
Published on: February 11, 2025
Silicon Creations in the US and Poland has taped out clock designs on 2nm silicon with a novel temperature sensor.The designs use the N2P process from TSMC in a move that highlights the 2nm technology is ready to use for next generation...
Published on: February 11, 2025
Volkswagen has unveiled an electric car that it plans to sell for €20,000.The vehicle, as yet unnamed but presumably the id.1, will be launched in 2027 with front-wheel drive, 166kW motor and range of up to 450 km and based on the...
Published on: February 11, 2025
Europe’s pilot line for fully depleted silicon-on-insulator technology (FAMES) has seen support from 44 companies across the continent. This follows the launch of the pilot line in January.The €830m pilot line is developing 10nm and 7nm FD-SOI process technology for applications with...
Published on: February 10, 2025
Brookfield Asset Management has announced a €20 billion infrastructure investment programme for AI datacentre infrastructure in France.$15bn will fund a tripling of AI datacentres across the country with $5bn for data transfer, chip storage and energy generation.The datacentre investment will be led...
Published on: February 10, 2025
Intelligent power and sensing chip company OnSemi has reported falling sales and profits in its 4Q24 and talked of “streamlining” the business during 2025 without providing further details.OnSemi is heavily exposed to automotive and industrial sectors and this has driven sales downwards....
Published on: February 10, 2025
Startup OpenAI, best known as the developer of the generative AI chatbot ChatGPT, will finish the design of an in-house chip for AI processing within a few months, according to Reuters.The design will be sent to foundry TSMC for fabrication and this...
Published on: February 10, 2025
The AIST Group and NGK INSULATORS are jointly researching validation methods for evaluating thermal diffusivity of silicon nitride ceramic substrates used for power semiconductor components and other such applications.The research aims to develop the highest accuracy methods for evaluating cutting-edge products and...
Published on: February 10, 2025
NXP Semiconductors is to buy US edge AI chip startup Kinara for $307m in cash.Kinara was a spinout of Stanford University in 2014 called Deep Vision and developed low power neural network processors that can run many types of AI model at...
Published on: February 10, 2025