IC design consultancy Sondrel has announced plans to recruit 100 electronic engineers in its European operations in the next three years.
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Intel has introduced a neural computing engine for accelerating deep learning inferences at the edge. It is included on an SoC called Myriad X, aimed at drones, robotics, smart cameras and virtual reality. “The Myriad X architecture is capable of 1Tops maximum performance, based on peak floating-point computational throughput on deep neural network inferences,” said the ...
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Littelfuse, the Chicago circuit protection component specialist, has bought Californian power semiconductor company Ixys for $750 million. Littelfuse says it can make more than $30 million of annualised savings in the next two years. Earlier this year Littelfuse bought a controlling stake in Monolithic Semiconductor. Ixys is the company which bought Zilog. Littelfuse sees the Ixys ...
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The Volkswagen engineer who wrote the code which fooled US auto emission testers has been sentenced to 40 months in jail and a $200,000 fine. The judge called the crime “a stunning fraud on the American consumer,” adding “this is a very serious and troubling crime against our economic system.” The judge said he hoped ...
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Western Digital CEO Stephen Milligan is in Tokyo trying to get a deal with Toshiba finalised by Thursday – the date for Toshiba’s next board meeting. It is reported that Toshiba’s bankers have pressured Toshiba to get an early resolution to its marathon sale saga. WD is joined in its bid by KKR, and the ...
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Fujitsu Labs have developed sensor data analysis technology that can aggregate vibration data with sensors attached to the surface of a bridge, and then estimate the degree of the bridge’s internal damage through the application of “FUJITSU Human Centric AI Zinrai technology,” Fujitsu’s approach to artificial intelligence. This technology was validated using data obtained from ...
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Uber has appointed a new CEO – the head of Expedia Dara Khosrowshahi. Something of a dark horse – Jeff Immelt and Meg Whitman were seen as front-runners – Kosrowshahi has headed up Expedia for 12 years. Kosrowshahi, who is 48 years old, had options worth $180 million at Expedia so Uber must be paying him ...
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Taiwan has launched the first satellite to be designed and built on the island. It cost $189 million. The satellite was entirely designed by Taiwanese engineers and 70% of the hardware came from local components suppliers. SpaceX performed the launch. It had to pay a $2.1 million penalty for being a year late because the ...
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Unit shipments of PCs, including desktop, notebook, and workstations and tablets are expected to decline from 435.1 million units in 2016 to 398.3 million in 2021 – a five-year CAGR of -1.7%, says IDC. Apart from 2018, notebook PCs show small but steady year-over-year growth throughout the forecast. Detachable tablets and convertible notebooks, which represent ...
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