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UK opens national quantum computing centre
The UK government has opened its National Quantum Computing Centre (NQCC) that will host 12 quantum computer systems.The NQCC facility at Harwell in Oxfordshire will be home to 12 quantum computers, each designed to push the boundaries of what is possible with...
AST ready for 5G from space
AST SpaceMobile has unfolded the solar panels on first five commercial satellites to provide 5G from space.The BlueBird satellites 1 to 5 are preparing for commercial and US government 5G operations.AST SpaceMobile will target 100% nationwide coverage across the United States, providing...
£66m for UK AI hardware projects
The UK’s ARIA innovation agency is funding 57 AI hardware projects with £66m (€70m).The projects funded by the UK’s Advanced Research and Invention Agency (ARIA) include the first for imec UK and £5m for analog in memory compute at Fractile. The agency...
High speed WiFI 7 access point supports IoT protocols
Edgecore Networks in China has launched a WiFi 7 access point that supports data rates up to 9.34Gbit/s and IoT protocols for smart buildings.The EAP105 WiFi 7 (802.11be) tri-band access point supports 2x2x2:2 MU-MIMO in high-density environments such as offices, apartments, coffee...
Siemens teams for digital twin of Dutch grid
Alliander is using digital twin technology from Siemens to reduce grid congestion and increase grid utilization in the Netherlands. Using Gridscale X will allow subsidiary Liander, the biggest distribution system operator (DSO) in the country, to extend the grid usage by 10 to...
Space centre re-opens for testing
The Higgs Centre for Innovation in Edinburgh is relaunching its Space Testing Facility.The centre has upgraded its clean rooms and test equipment with £400,000 funding from the Science and Technology Facilities Council (STFC).The upgrade enables the site to support early-stage tech start-ups...
TI converts Japanese 200mm fab to GaN, quadruples capacity
Texas Instruments has begun the production of gallium nitride (GaN) semiconductors at a 200mm wafer fab in Aizu, Japan.Together with production at Dallas, Texas, this will quadruple TI’s GaN manufacturing capacity and allow it to reduce dependence on outsourced supply. TI said...
SK Hynix scores record profits, doubles sales on AI demand
The leading position of SK Hynix Inc. (Seoul, South Korea) in high bandwidth memory (HBM) DRAM enabled the company to make a record net profit of about US$4.14 billion in the 3Q24 on sales revenue that nearly doubled year-on-year to about US$12.65...
Siemens, Microsoft boost global copilot rollout
Over 100 companies in Europe and the US are using a generative AI copilot from Siemens for automation, with thyssenkrupp Automation Engineering the first with a global roll out.Thyssenkrupp is planning the rollout of the Siemens Industrial Copilot Copilot in 2025, using...
Next generation AI chip design exploration at imec UK
In its first project, the UK wing of Belgian R&D lab imec is developing a tool to optimise the energy of next generation AI chips across compute, memory and connectivity.imec UK in Cambridge has been funded by the UK’s Advanced Research and...
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