Controversy over this morning’s Labour Party initiative to connect every house in the country to fibre and provide broadband services to everyone free of charge, is growing. The head of BT has said Labour’s £20 billion costing is half what the real cost will be. Owners of private networks like Virgin have asked where does ...
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Nvidia’s Q3 revenue was down 5% y-o-y at $3.01 billion and the company expects Q4 revenue of $2.95 billion. Gaming chip revenues were down 6% y-o-y at $1.66 billion but up 26% sequentially. Nvidia says it sees growth in chips for conversational AI. “This quarter, we have laid the foundation for where AI will ultimately ...
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Stealthy, three year-old, processor start-up Groq says it has developed a single chip architecture which can deliver 1PetaOps/sec performance. Groq calls its architecture Tensor Streaming Processor (TSP). Two years back it said it had recruited eight of the ten people who developed Google’s Tensor Processing Unit ((TPU). The company has raised $62.3 million in funding. ...
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iFixit has completed a teardown of the Huawei Mate 30 and this is what it found: 6.53″ OLED display with a resolution of 2400 × 1176 (~409.29 ppi) Huawei Kirin 990 processor with 8-core CPU, 16-Core Mali-G76 GPU, and Neural Processing Unit Quadruple rear cameras—40 MP ƒ/1.8, 40 MP ƒ/1.6, 8 MP ƒ/2.4 with 3x optical zoom, ...
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Applied Materials had calendar Q3 revenue of $3.75 billion with a margin of 43.5% and operating income of $864 million. For its full fiscal year to September 30th, Applied generated revenue of $14.61 billion with a gross margin of 43.7% and operating income of $3.35 billion. “Applied Materials’ fourth quarter results reflect a healthy uptick ...
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Motorola’s Razr has been resurrected. Here it is folded: And here it is unfolded: And these are the underwhelming specs: Main internal folding screen: 21:9 aspect ratio, 2142 x 876 pixels, 6.2-inch POLED (plastic OLED) Front screen: 4:3 aspect ratio, 800 x 600 pixels, 2.7-inch GOLED (glass OLED) 16MP main camera, f/1.7 aperture (no ultra-wide ...
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US engineers have used a remotely-piloted drone to survey power lines without visual or radar contact. Flown as part of the Kansas Department of Transportation’s unmanned aircraft pilot program, the drone used automatic on-board detect-and-avoid systems to make this beyond-visual-line-of-sight (BVLOS) operation possible. “This marks the first true BVLOS flight in the nation and is ...
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Job site Monster and Stemettes, are touring an event called Monster Confidence which aims to show the next generation “girls do STEM too,” and give them the tools and confidence needed to secure a job. Since launching the events in 2016, over 2,000 young women have attended to receive encouragement and guidance from industry experts ...
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Factory automation products in the Festo range from RS Components now include the SOOD and SOOE photoelectric sensors. The distributor has also added VUVS pneumatic solenoid valves. The Festo SOOD and SOOE laser and LED opto-electronic sensor product lines include diffuse sensors with background suppression, through-beam sensors, retro-reflective sensors, retro-reflective sensors for transparent objects, and ...
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A company that claims to be the fastest growing provider of Bluetooth wireless connectivity, Searan, has signed a global distribution deal with Mouser Electronics to supply its royalty-free software development kits (SDKs) for developers of consumer, medical and industrial applications. The SDKs support devices from semiconductor manufacturers, including STMicroelectronics, Texas Instruments, Microchip Technology, Marvell Semiconductor ...
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