Fraunhofer IIS seeks to join-up Industry 4.0

The German government has kicked-off a project intended to use artificial intelligence (AI) at various levels of the manufacturing process to enable condition-based, predictive maintenance for factory equipment and to monitor product quality on the fly during production. Called ‘KI-Predict’ it has come out of the German Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF) and ...

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Q1 sales surge drives Raspberry Pi production ramp

After a surge in Q1 sales, Raspberry Pi is increasing production from Q1’s 192,000 units to 250,000 units in Q2. 1.75 million Pis were sold in Q1 and 640,000 were sold in March. Pi boss Eben Upton said the increase demand came from people using them for home schooling and companies using them to implement ...

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Fujitsu develops CNT adhesive sheet with 100W/mK thermal conductivity

Fujitsu Laboratories has announced the development of the world’s first adhesive sheet composed of carbon nanotubes with extremely high thermal conductivity of up to 100 W/mK (watt per metre per Kelvin). Carbon nanotubes have high thermal conductivity and represent a promising candidate for heat dissipation from heat sources including semiconductor devices. Nevertheless, the material remains ...

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LeapMind shows AI inference accelerator performance

LeapMind, the eight year-old Tokyo AI startup, showed the results of the performance estimations conducted on its AI inference accelerator at last week’s  COOL Chips 23 event in Tokyo. The implementation of the ASIC design flow was carried out with Taiwan’s Alchip Technologies. Since deep learning technology generally requires a significant amount of computing resources, its ...

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