Imagination sets up IMG Labs

Imagination has announced IMG Labs, a specialist division tasked with developing innovations fundamental to new semiconductor products. IMG Labs’ mission is to understand and accelerate future trends in the semiconductor industry, translating these into new licensable technologies that will enable world-leading products for Imagination’s partners. Headed up by Tim Mamtora, IMG Labs’ initial focus is ...

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Graphcore in Supermicro servers

Graphcore customers can now specify Supermicro servers as part of their IPU-POD configuration from Graphcore elite partners, following the successful qualification of the first Supermicro Ultra system.  The AS-1124US-TNRP, which is the first of Supermicro’s highest performance enterprise-class Ultra servers to be approved for use in IPU-POD systems, features the latest third-generation AMD EPYC (TM) ...

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Samsung adds HKMG DDR5 512GB DRAM

Yes Samsung has expanded its DDR5 DRAM memory portfolio with the industry’s first 512GB DDR5 module based on High-K Metal Gate (HKMG) process technology. Delivering more than twice the performance of DDR4 at up to 7,200 Mbps, the new DDR5 will be capable of orchestrating the most extreme compute-hungry, high-bandwidth workloads in supercomputing, artificial intelligence ...

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40A PoL converter in 5 x 7mm package

Vishay has added a 15, 25 and 40A family of synchronous buck regulators in 5 x 7mm thermally-enhanced MLP34-57 packaging. Input voltages from 4.5 to 20V can be handled by SiC45x regulators, as they will be known, which beats the company’s earlier regulators for power density and transient response. “The high power density of the ...

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Qualcomm goes farming

Qualcomm is to engage in 5G RuralDorset’s agritech trials. Qualcomm is supplying high frequency, 5G mm wave modules to the project in order to test their efficacy in 5G connected robotic farming. “Alongside the 5G RuralDorset project and backed by our £200 million trials scheme, we will explore innovative uses for 5G millimeter wave spectrum to revolutionise the agricultural ...

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Menlo Micro switch with IP3 linearity >95dBm

Menlo Micro is shipping a switch in its Ideal Switch range with an IP3 linearity of greater than 95 dBm, enabling significant reductions in distortion for RF systems. Intermodulation distortion is a key industry metric in determining the linearity of an electronic switch. The third-order intercept (IP3) is the extrapolated point where the ideal linear ...

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Liverpool to launch drone test and development initiative

Drone Major Group and the Liverpool City Region Combined Authority (LCRCA) have initiated a drone technology ‘Test and Development Area’ project in the Liverpool City Region. The initiative, dubbed Phoenix I, is the first in a series of interconnected projects developed by Drone Major Group, with several regional partners, to deliver, for the first time, commercially viable, scalable and environmentally sustainable drone services across all environments (surface, underwater, air & space), and in all the ...

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Lockheed Martin, Omnispace exploring 5G from space

Lockheed Martin and Omnispace have agreed to jointly explore developing 5G capability from space to extend terrestrial offerings. The proposed global 5G standards-based non-terrestrial network (5G NTN), say the companies, would offer both commercial and government devices “ubiquitous communications worldwide”. The idea is that a hybrid, space-based 5G global network would enable users to easily ...

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ETSI reveals emergency comms plugfest results

ETSI’s international emergency communications interoperability plugfest revealed that 87% of 285 test pairings were interoperable. The remote event was a cooperation between ETSI, EENA (European emergency number association) and NENA (9-1-1 association) – this was the first time the European event partnered with NENA’s US ICE 9 event. “Crossing borders and oceans, the event helped to ensure ...

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DFRobot kits and SBCs for IoT development

Farnell is aiming at IoT device development with a range of single board computers (SBCs), shields, modules and sensors from DFRobot – including LattePanda processor boards. The company will stock more than 140 DFRobot products, including: Gravity Series: Solderless modular plug-and-play electronics toolkit with expansion modules compatible with Ardunio and micro:bit. Modules include the Ardunio moisture ...

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