Nvidia is building a supercomputer called Cambridge-1 which will be running by the end of this year. “The Cambridge-1 supercomputer will serve as a hub of innovation for the UK, and further the groundbreaking work being done by the nation’s researchers in critical healthcare and drug discovery,” said CEO Jen Hsun Huang (pictured) earlier today. ...
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Simon Beresford-Wylie (pictured) is to become CEO of Imagination. Beresford-Wylie was previously Chief Executive of Arqiva, a provider of communications, broadcast and media services. Prior to Arqiva he was Global Executive Advisor and Executive Vice President to the Networks Business Unit of Samsung Electronics. Beresford-Wylie has also been founding CEO of Nokia Siemens Networks, and a member of the Group Executive Board ...
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Symetrix announced today it will continue its development of CeRAM nonvolatile memories and other technologies in collaboration with Cerfe Labs, the recently formed ARM spin-out. CeRAM harnesses the quantum phase transition known to exist in carbon-doped transition metal oxide (TMO) materials, a transition that produces a huge change in resistance due to a voltage and ...
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Arm has announced the spin-out of Cerfe Labs to develop and license new types of non-volatile memories based on correlated electron materials (CeRAM) and ferroelectric transistors (FeFETs). Arm CeRAM researchers will join Cerfe Labs and assume ownership of the Arm joint development project with Symetrix Corporation. As part of the spin-out, Arm will transfer its ...
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The US Department of Defense has awarded Intel the second phase of its State-of-the-Art Heterogeneous Integration Prototype (SHIP) programme. The SHIP program enables the U.S. government to access Intel’s semiconductor packaging capabilities in Arizona and Oregon. The project is executed by the Naval Surface Warfare Center, Crane Division, and administered by the National Security Technology ...
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In tests conducted with Yamaguchi-University, Stanley Electric has achieved 99.9% ‘inactivation’ of Covid-19 virus SARS-CoV-2 using its aluminium nitride-based 265 nm UV-C leds. Inactivation here, said the company, is defined as the inability to multiply after exposure through damage to DNA and RNA. “10ml of virus solutions [5 x 105 PFU/ml] in dishes were irradiated ...
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The Huawei Cyber Security Evaluation Centre (HCSEC) found ‘nationally significant’ vulnerabilities in Huawei switchgear, a report issued yesterday reveals. The report says that HCSEC “does not believe that the defects identified are as a result of Chinese state interference”, and there is no evidence the vulnerabilities were exploited. “Poor software engineering and cyber security processes ...
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Arteris IP is to buy Magillem Design Services in a deal which combines Arteris’ network-on-chip (NoC) interconnect IP with Magillem’s chip design and assembly environment. As part of Arteris, Magillem’s software products will continue to be offered separately from the Arteris interconnect IP offerings and the joined company will continue to execute on Magillem’s existing product ...
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A system capable of automatically turning words into molecules has been developed by researchers at Glasgow University. The researchers claim it will lead to the creation of a ‘Spotify for chemistry’ – a vast online repository of downloadable recipes for important molecules including drugs. The creation of such a system could help developing countries more ...
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Renesas has chosen the AndesCore IP 32-bit RISC-V CPU cores to embed into ASSPs that will begin customer sampling in the second half of 2021. “Renesas and Andes share the same vision to welcome the era of RISC-V being the mainstream CPU instruction set architecture (ISA for SoCs,” says Frankwell Lin, President of Andes, “it marks the ...
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