The UK’s Information Commissioner Elizabeth Denham asked for access to Cambridge Analytica’s servers by 6pm last night. She didn’t get it. Denham is now going to apply for a warrant to gain access. “I’m not accepting their response so therefore I’ll be applying to the court for a warrant,” says Cenham, “we need to get ...
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Imagination has brought out a a new version of PVRTune, the PowerVR GPU performance analysis tool. With the new capabilities in PVRTune 2018 Release 1, developers can analyse the performance of their applications running on PowerVR GPUs in real-time and use the fine-grain performance information to identify bottlenecks. With this release, PVRTune is now ‘API ...
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Manufacturing in the defence sector is rising to the challenges presented by new demanding environments
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Cypress Semi is providing the new Wi-Fi and bluetooth chip in Raspberry Pi’s Model B+, released last week. The chip is the CYW43455, which can operate 802.11ac Wi-Fi at 2.4 and 5GHz, as well as simultaneous Bluetooth and Bluetooth Low Energy (BLE). Prior to this, Raspberry Pi used the firm’s CYW43438 802.11n 2.4GHz Wi-Fi and Bluetooth combo. ...
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Bosch has launched a 6 axis MEMS inertial measurement unit with a 3 axis 16bit accelerometer and 3 axis, 16bit gyroscope in a single package. Called BMI085, it is intended for virtual reality (VR) and augmented reality (AR) applications as well as navigation, body motion tracking and gaming. “Its ultra-precise instantaneous detection of head movements reduces ...
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Xilinx is going full tilt for the datacentre market with a new class of product which will tailor the server to the workload to minimise opex. “Datacentre is our overall target area – our highest priority segment today,” says Xilinx’s new CEO Victor Peng (pictured). Peng, a designer of CPUs, GPUs and ASICs in ...
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The Big Three DRAM producers will be putting 16Gbit parts into mass production in H2, says DRAMeXchange. The Koreans will be moving to 16Gbit die in Q3 which will deliver 64GB modules. Although China’s demand for servers will grow 20% in Q2, total server demand will grow in dingle digits, says DRAMeXchange. Q1 server DRAM ...
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Philips Lighting is has changed its name to Signify. ‘The choice of our new company name originates from the fact that light becomes an intelligent language, which connects and conveys meaning,’ says Philips/Signify. The company will continue to use the Philips brand. The new company name satisfies the company’s contractual requirements under the Company Name ...
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Paul Jacobs (pictured), son of Qualcomm co-founder Irwin Jacobs, who stepped down as execurive chairman last week, will not be re-nominated to the Qualcomm board when it meets for the company’s AGM on March 23rd. jacobs told the board that he was looking at taking Qualcomm private and had talked to various possible sources of ...
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Toshiba has launched n-channel mosfet drivers for power switching the positive rail in rapid-charging and other load switching applications. Designed to drive a pair of back-to-back power mosfets (to block power flow in both directions), the devices include a charge-pump to provide gate drive above the positive rail. There are two parts, identical except for ...
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