2.4 exaflop computer fighting coronavirus

A computer capable of 2.4 exaflops – 12x more than the 200 petaflops IBM Summit which  holds the traditional computing speed title – has been created by linking almost a million PCs. The link up was organised by Folding@Home to perform a task called protein folding which involve calculating the structural shape which amino acids form ...

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51.9% Q1 dip for China phones

Q1 sales of smartphones in the  China market fell 51.9% sequentially and 38.9%  y-o-y, reports Digitimes Research. The top five vendors – Huawei, Vivo, Oppo, Apple and Xiaomi – had a 96.7% market share. Huawei had a 40% share. Digitimes Research expects demand for handsets in the China market to gradually recover from Q2 onwards ...

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NXP, Infineon, Renesas, TI, ST stay top five for auto ICs

NXP, Infineon, Renesas, Texas Instruments and STMicroelectronics maintained their positions in the top five of Strategy Analytics’ annual assessment of the automotive semiconductor industry vendor market share rankings. Total automotive semiconductor revenues taken by vendors in 2019 were down 1.3% to $37.2 billion, compared to 2018, with NXP, Infineon, Renesas, Texas Instruments and STMicroelectronics maintaining ...

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STM32Cube software now on GitHub

ST is  publishing STM32Cube embedded software on GitHub. The intention is to open the STM32 embedded software offer to collaborative and community-friendly development and leverage faster, more efficient distribution of updates. Publishing all STM32Cube original code through GitHub lets users of more than 1000 STM32 Arm Cortex -M microcontroller variants and heterogeneous Cortex-M/-A microprocessors easily store, ...

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800G MACsec engine

Rambus has announced an 800G MACsec (Media Access Control security) offering for next-generation networking infrastructure. The 800G MACsec solution delivers hardware-based, point-to-point security for 800 Gigabit Ethernet links and is a critical element of end-to-end network security. Protecting data in motion, MACsec can identify and prevent security threats such as denial of service, intrusion, man-in-the-middle, passive ...

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