CES 2021 will be a virtual event because of the coronavirus. ‘With the growing global health concerns about the spread of COVID-19, it is not possible to safely convene tens of thousands of people in Las Vegas in early January 2021 to meet and do business in person,” said CES organisers yesterday, “an all-digital CES ...

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Tim Cook, Jeff  Bezos, Sundar Pichai and Mark Zuckerberg – the CEOs of Apple, Amazon, Google and Facebook – face a virtual grilling by the US government’s House Antitrust Subcommittee at 5pm (UK time) tonight. The hearing is to determine whether they are unfairly hurting competitors. However, they are also  likely to be confronted with  allegations of allowing ...

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Arm China is asking the Beijing government to step into the row between Arm UK and Arm China. Arm UK sacked the chairman and CEO of Arm China, Allen Wu, but Wu refused to go. Wu is  is said to have hired his own security guards and won’t let representatives of the Arm China board ...

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CEVA has announced support for Dolby MS12 Multistream Decoder for the CEVA-BX2 audio DSP. As smart TVs, over-the-top (OTT) content services and set-top-boxes evolve into multipurpose digital media receivers, the content is derived from numerous sources, utilizing a variety of audio codecs. Dolby MS12 reduces the complexity of integrating multiple audio technologies into these devices. ...

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ST has released a free STM32 software function pack that lets users build, train, and deploy intelligent edge devices for industrial condition monitoring using a microcontroller Discovery kit. Developed in conjunction with  Cartesiam, the FP-AI-NANOEDG1 software pack contains all the necessary drivers, middleware, documentation, and sample code to capture sensor data, integrate, and run Cartesiam’s ...

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GaN Systems has published a manual titled, “12V High-Efficiency Audio Reference Designs using GaN Power Transistors.” The technical manual was developed in response to the  launch of GaN Systems Class-D audio amplifier evaluation kit in May 2020 and from growing customer interest for designs in the 12V market for automotive, marine, powersports, and other applications ...

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Xilinx has joined the Open RAN Policy Coalition to support the development and deployment of Open RAN 5G technologies. The Open RAN Policy Coalition membership promotes Open RAN as the solution of choice for greater interoperability and security among a multi-vendor ecosystem. Xilinx has been an active member of the O-RAN alliance and a contributor ...

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Google’s CEO, Sundar Pichai (pictured) has sent this email to all staff extending the working-from-home option until June 30th 2021: Hi everyone I’m grateful for everything you’ve been doing to deliver on our mission and be helpful to our users and each other the past few months — I know it hasn’t been easy. I’m ...

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