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First room-temperature quantum computer in Europe
Fraunhofer Applied Solid State Physics (IAF) in Germany is to install a room temperature quantum computer from Quantum Brilliance, the first in Europe.The purchase of its second-generation Quantum Development Kit (QB-QDK2.0) adds to the existing software suite at Fraunhofer IAF. This includes the...
First room temperature quantum computer in Europe
Fraunhofer Applied Solid State Physics (IAF) in Germany is to install a room temperature quantum computer from Quantum Brilliance, the first in Europe.The purchase of its second-generation Quantum Development Kit (QB-QDK2.0) adds to the existing software suite at Fraunhofer IAF. This includes the...
$1bn US semiconductor digital twin centre approved
The US government is to back a $1bn semiconductor digital twin centre with a $285m grant.The Semiconductor Manufacturing and Advanced Research with Twins (SMART) centre will be based in Durham, North Carolina, with over 150 expected partners across industry, academia, and the...
First DDS provider to meet all major automotive software standards
Real Time Innovations (RTI) has achieved all the major automotive software safety standards for its DDS publish-subscribe interconnect software.RTI Connext Drive has met all automotive industry quality standards by achieving ASPICE CL1, ISO 21434, and ISO 26262 process certifications. The Data Distribution Service (DDS) standard for pusblish-subscribe architectures...
SuperNIC startup Enfabrica raises US$115 million in Series C
Networking chip company Enfabrica Corp. (Mountain View, Calif.) has raised US$115 million as part of an oversubscribed Series C round of funding led by Spark Capital.New investors supporting Enfabrica include: Arm, Cisco Investments, Maverick Silicon, Samsung Catalyst Fund and VentureTech Alliance. Existing...
Climate-friendly electricity is derived from ammonia
Electricity and heat are generated in a single compact system — without CO2 emissions or other harmful by-productsThere are high hopes for hydrogen and its derivatives as sources of energy. They play a central role in the energy transition component of the German...
d-Matrix launches Corsair for AI inference without GPUs, HBM
d-Matrix Inc. (Santa Clara, Calif.), a Microsoft-backed startup, has launched Corsair, its first AI processor, designed to speed through inferencing tasks.Corsair offers performance of 60,000 tokens/second at 1 ms/token for Llama3 8B in a single server and 30,000 tokens/second at 2 ms/token...
Another 500 jobs at AMS-Osram hit by uncertain outlook
Despite posting a profitable 3Q24 AMS-Osram (Premstaetten, Austria) has said it plans to “upsize” its ‘Re-establish the Base’ cost-cutting program, affecting more than 500 employees.As part of reporting its 3Q24 financial results AMS-Osram said that the execution of the ‘Re-establish the Base’...
AI inferencing at 100 times lower MAC power and 20 fold lower cost
Sagence AI™ has emerged from stealth to unveil a groundbreaking advanced analog in-memory compute architecture that directly addresses the untenable power/performance/price and environmental sustainability conundrum facing AI inferencing.Based on industry-first architectural innovations using analog technology, Sagence AI makes possible multiple orders of...
Next-gen 3D printing to harness fusion energy
Advanced 3D printing offers one potential solution to bridging the science and technology gaps presented by current efforts to make inertial fusion energy (IFE) power plants a reality“Now that we have achieved and repeated fusion ignition,” said Tammy Ma, lead for LLNL’s...
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