China companies will spend $11.0 billion in semiconductor industry capex in 2018, which would represent 10.6% of the expected worldwide outlays of $103.5 billion, says IC Insights. Not only would this amount be 5x what the Chinese companies spent only three years earlier in 2015, but it would also exceed the combined semiconductor industry capital ...
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A relatively new company, Avatar, focuses on physical design implantation. It presented the Aprisa full functional block level place and route system, and Apogee, a top-down hierarchical prototyping floor planning and chip assembly tool. The tools are built on ATopTech technologies which were the subject of a lawsuit brought by Synopsys. Following that, the tools ...
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Artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning were popular themes at the 55 th DAC, held at the Moscone Center West in San Francisco (24 to 28 June 2018). Flex Logix Technologies was one of the companies that announced a product suitable for AI, machine learning and deep learning applications. by Caroline Hayes at DAC The ...
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Ac-dc PSU stand-by power can be as low as 10mW with STMicroelectronics’ STCH03 off-line power controller, aimed at mobile chargers, power adapters and auxiliary supplies. Energy-saving features include ‘zero-power’ high-voltage start-up circuitry, as well as burst-mode switching when the load is very low or disconnected (see below), are intended to help chargers meet legislation such ...
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Daimler has tied up with Xilinx to create automotive artificial intelligence hardware. “When Daimler started working on this programme, it had issues finding solutions that were technically capable of implementing artificial intelligence or a neural network on a device that combined price, power and availability, and was automotive qualified,” Xilinx marketing manager Stephan Janouch told ...
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Roboticists at Queensland University of Technology are using neural networks to help robots quickly and accurately grasp objects in cluttered and changing environments. “We have been able to program robots, in very controlled environments, to pick up very specific items. However, one of the key shortcomings of current robotic grasping systems is the inability to ...
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Seeking to create the most waft-able air movement sensor ever, that can detect sound as well as air movement, a US researcher has turned to spider silk and a 400V field. “The goal was to create a sensor that only resists gravity,” said Professor Ron Miles of Binghamton University. “The sensor needed to stay connected ...
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Fujitsu in mass production of an 8Mbit FRAM. The chip has an SRAM compatible parallel interface, offering a much more efficient alternative to battery backup SRAM. Based on the unique features of FRAM as a non-volatile memory, such as fast overwrite at 150 ns and read/write endurance of 1013, MB85R8M2T can replace anSRAM and remove ...
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China’s annual $200 billion import bill for semiconductors could be off-set by nearly $30 billion in domestic production this year, reports Digitimes. This includes chips made in China-based fabs owned by foreign companies like TSMC, Intel, Samsung, UMC, Hynix and SMIC. China’s aspiration is to have 40% of its IC usage supplied domestically by 2020 ...
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FlexLogix has implemented an FPGA core consisting of an array of MACs with smaller multipliers (8/16bit) than MACS optimised for DSP which claim to deliver more neural network processing per sq mm than DSP-optimised MACs The core is called the EFLX4K AI eFPGA. It claims to improve deep learning performance 10x AI needs more MACs/second, more ...
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