Power grids could be stabilised by smart control of large air conditioning installations, without building occupants noticing, according to the US Oak Ridge National Laboratory. The lab has devised a method to control the heating and cooling systems of a large network of buildings for power grid stability, “which could allow utilities to harness the ...
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Imec is making available its high-density neural probe, Neuropixels, to the global neuroscience research community. With almost a thousand electrodes, and 384 recording channels on a single shank, the Neuropixels probe provides resolution capable of mapping brain activity. The probes are designed and fabricated on Imec’s advanced silicon platform. Five years ago, in June 2013, ...
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GLOBALFOUNDRIES has set up a custom silicon subsidiary called Avera Semiconductor to deliver ASIC offerings on 14/12nm and more mature technologies while providing access to alternative foundry processes at 7nm and beyond. Avera’s CEO is Kevin O’Buckley who came over to GloFo with the IBM acquisition. Avera offers: ● ASIC offerings on both leading-edge ...
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Imagination has brought out an image compression core which claims to be lossless while 50% smaller than preceding cores. Called PVRIC4, the core will be incorporated in next-generation PowerVR GPUs and is available for licensing now as a standalone IP block The block is already used by Imagination partners, including Chips & Media. PVRIC4 features a ...
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Small Robot Company, the Shropshire agritech start-up, has announced an early version of Wilma, its AI interface. Wilma is the core of an intelligent, autonomous crop management system for arable farming. Wilma can already distinguish Wheat plants from ‘Not-Wheat’, meaning any images of items that are not wheat plants. Wilma is a granular OS for ...
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SiFive, the RISC-V specialist, has announced SiFive Core IP 7 Series Cores, claimed to be the highest performance commercially available RISC-V cores. The 7 Series product family is designed to enable embedded intelligence with features that have not been available until today. The 7 Series includes the E7, S7 and the U7 series. The SiFive Core ...
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