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WES Announces Caroline Haslett Lecture and Awards 2023
The Women's Engineering Society (WES) is excited to announce that it will be hosting the Caroline Haslett Lecture and its WES Awards 2023 in London on 13 December 2023. The prestigious event will take place at the Geological Society in Burlington House,...
Apple’s iPhone Assembly Finds New Home in India
Foxconn, the world's largest contract electronics manufacturer, is set to boost its production of iPhones in India. The company plans to increase its Indian production from 12-14% in 2023 to 20-25% in 2024, according to recent reports.Earlier this week, Foxconn filed a...
AWS Unveils Groundbreaking 65 Exaflops Supercomputer
AWS has announced its plans to launch the Project Ceiba supercomputer, which will utilize 16,384 GH200 NVL32 Grace Hopper Superchips. This state-of-the-art computer is expected to provide an impressive 65 exaflops of AI performance and boast up to 9.5 petabytes of total...
Mediatek Founder Wins Noyce Medal, Announces UK Investment
MediaTek, a leading semiconductor company, has announced its plans to invest $12.6 million in the United Kingdom over the next five years. This decision comes shortly after the company's chairman, Ming-Kai Tsai, was awarded the prestigious Robert N. Noyce Medal, the highest...
Elektra Awards 2023: Celebrating the Victors
The Elektra Awards 2023 were presented at a Gala Dinner tonight, at the prestigious Grosvenor House Hotel on Park Lane. And the winners can now be revealed below.The excellent host this year was Paul Sinha – the comedian, professional quizzer, and broadcaster....
EW BrightSparks 2023 Unveiled as Elektra Awards Winners
At the prestigious Elektra Awards last night, the EW BrightSparks of 2023 were announced, highlighting some of the best young electronics engineers in the UK.Now in its sixth year, the EW BrightSparks programme has been looking for the engineers – aged 30...
Revolutionary 10Gbit/s USB Peripheral Controller Unveiled
Infineon, a leading semiconductor manufacturer, has unveiled a new high-speed USB peripheral controller designed for devices that connect to a host via USB-C. The controller, named CYUSB4014-BZXI, boasts impressive features including an Arm Cortex-M4 processing core, a Cortex-M0+ core, 1,024kbyte of RAM,...
AMD Unveils Powerful Industrial Embedded CPUs with Integrated Graphics
AMD is expanding its reach into the industrial automation sector with its latest embedded processor series. The company is also targeting machine vision, robotics, and edge servers with these new processors.The Ryzen Embedded 7000 Series processors, part of the new series, come...
UK Secures Mars Rover Infrared Spectrometer After Russia’s Loss
With the Mars Rover aiming to launch in 2028, a key instrument for the £10m Rosalind Franklin Mars Rover will now be built in the UK, not Russia.The Space Minister Andrew Griffith has announced that a UK team has been awarded £10m...
Nvidia’s Retriever: The Future of AI-Assisted News
NVIDIA NeMo Retriever — a new offering in the NVIDIA NeMo family of frameworks and tools for building, customizing and deploying generative AI models — helps organizations enhance their generative AI applications with enterprise-grade retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) capabilities.NVIDIA has announced a generative...
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