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Semidynamics RISC-V AI IP selected for LLM applications
A leading IP company for high performance, AI-enabled, RISC-V processors, Semidynamics has announced that it has been selected by UPMEM as its core provider for its next generation of LPDDR5X Processing In Memory (PIM) device.The standard RISC-V architecture with the integrated Tensor...
Robotic fibres with light-emitting, self-healing and magnetic properties
A team of interdisciplinary scientists from the Department of Materials Science and Engineering under the College of Design and Engineering at the National University of Singapore (NUS) has developed flexible fibres with self-healing, light-emitting and magnetic properties.The fibre finds potential applications as...
TSMC, SMIC gain market from Samsung in 3Q24 foundry ranking
TSMC and SMIC took foundry market share from Samsung in a strong 3Q24 but with Intel Foundry Services not ranking in the top ten, according to Trendforce.The market researcher estimates that the total revenue of the world’s top ten wafer foundries increased...
Connecting qubit islands with quantum bridges
Researchers at QuTech have managed to, for the first time, perform coherent logic operations between spin qubits 250 micrometers apart on the same chip. Such ‘enormous’ distances create new opportunities for operations between qubits, as they normally only sustain over 100 nm....
Bird-inspired drone can jump for take-off
EPFL researchers have built a drone that can walk, hop, and jump into flight with the aid of birdlike legs, greatly expanding the range of potential environments accessible to unmanned aerial vehicles“As the crow flies” is a common idiom referring to the...
Semidynamics RISC-V AI IP selected for LLM application
A leading IP company for high performance, AI-enabled, RISC-V processors, Semidynamics has announced that it has been selected by UPMEM as its core provider for its next generation of LPDDR5X Processing In Memory (PIM) device.The standard RISC-V architecture with the integrated Tensor...
Sondrel ships complete turnkey AI accelerator chip
UK design house Sondrel is shipping its first chip produced under a full turnkey contract of concept to silicon.The AI accelerator chip was developed for a US customer on a leading edge node and is a step beyond the previous Sondrel ASIC...
Leaftronics reloaded: Leaf-inspired solution for sustainable water treatment
As the team reports in the renowned scientific journal “NJP Flexible Electronics”, they aim to use the nature-inspired “Leaftronics” design in combination with a unique metallization process for an innovative and ecological form of water treatmentLeaf structures exhibit fractal patterns that evolved...
Imec shows double row CFET standard cell for A7 process node
imec in Belgium is proposing a standard cell architecture for logic and SRAM on a 0.7nm CMOS A7 process and has developed a prototype device on its 300mm wafer line.Intel, TSMC and Samsung are currently pushing their processes to 1.8nm (18A) and...
Americas chip market soars as Asian growth slows
There was a glimmer of an upturn for Europe buried in recently published chip market sales data for October that showed the Americas region up by more than 50 percent year-on-year.The Americas chip market accelerated to a three-month average figure of US$18.67...
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