Leti and Intel to combine on chiplet packaging

Leti today announced a new collaboration with Intel on advanced 3D and packaging technologies for processors to advance chip design. The research will focus on assembly of smaller chiplets, optimizing interconnection technologies between the different elements of microprocessors, and on new bonding and stacking technologies for 3D ICs, especially for HPC applications.  In 2019, Intel ...

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Want a Risc-V PC? Try this development board

SiFive has created a PC-style motherboard as part of a platform for native Risc-V code development that “enables developers to create the Risc-V-based software they need for Risc-V platforms”, it said. “From real-time operating systems to custom Linux distributions, and the compilers, libraries, and applications that go with product design. Called ‘HiFive Unmatched’, at its ...

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UK made: PXI test module simulates current loop sensors

Essex-based Pickering Interfaces has announced a PXI-based module that simulates current loop based sensors in industrial control applications – a PXIe version is also available. Called ’41-765 Analog output/current loop simulator’, it is intended to tests transceivers using 4-20mA current loops. In addition, is also simulates other interfaces including 0-24mA, +/-24mA, 0-5V, +/-5V, and +/-12mV. A channel ...

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Stronger haptic feedback for unambiguous automotive control

Alps Alpine has revealed more about its high-power haptic vibrator, following Dialog Semi’s announcment of the driver chip inside it yesterday. Haptic Reactor Heavy Type is intended for touch feedback, primarily in automotive applications. “There is currently growing demand for vibrational feedback, which allows more intuitive control and does not require any shift of gaze,” according ...

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Untether AI rethinks Von Neumann architecture for AI inference accelerator cards

AI chip provider, Untether AI, has based its tsunAImi accelerator cards on its runAI200 chips, which, the company claims, are the first at-memory computation engines. They offer up to 8TOPS/W efficiency to deliver more than twice the computation rates of any other PCIe card, says the company. Instead of a conventional Von Neumann architecture which ...

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Kioxia to start building Fab 7 In the Spring

Kioxia is to start buildIng a new fab, Fab 7, at its Yokkaichi site in Spring 2021. Fab7 will be built on the north side of Yokkaichi Plant, where land development is underway. Construction will be divided into two phases, with the first phase of construction scheduled to be completed by the Spring of 2022. ...

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Floadia raises $11.5m Series C

Floadia, the Tokyo-based Renesas spin-out specialising in embedded non-volatile memory IP, has raised $11.5 million in a Series C financing round. Floadia will use the money to  expand its existing embedded memory business and develop a new semiconductor memory technology that can make a breakthrough in AI edge computing with ultra-low power consumption. Teijin took ...

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Electronica goes virtual

Electronica will take place digitally for the first time from November 9 to 12, 2020. In addition to the exhibitors’ digital presentations, there will be a four-day online forum program. On November 11 and 12, the Cyber Security Forum will demonstrate practical examples of security in the digital world from the automotive, embedded, medical and ...

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Leti to build entangled photon comms system

 CEA-Leti today announced plans to build a quantum-photonics system for hack-proof communications. Quantum technology is expected to provide unconditionally safe data encryption required by the finance, health care, energy, telecommunications, defense and other essential industries and sectors.  Funded by the R&D network Carnot, the project will build on CEA-Leti’s silicon-photonics platform complemented with new quantum ...

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Infineon launches Raspberry Pi-based design kit for secure smart home devices

Infineon has come up with  a kit to help the design and evaluation of secure smart home devices based on an OPTIGAP Trust M security solution for Raspberry Pi. Using this kit, device manufacturers can experience the strong security of Infineon’s security hardware in combination with the new Connected Home over IP standards that are ...

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