At Hot Chips, today, IBM showed its Telum Processor, designed to bring deep learning inference to enterprise workloads to help address fraud in real-time . Telum is IBM’s first processor that contains on-chip acceleration for AI inferencing while a transaction is taking place. Three years in development, this on-chip hardware acceleration is designed to help customers achieve business ...
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BYD Semiconductor, the chip-making subsidiary of Chinese EV manufacturer BYD, has been forced to postpone its IPO by a regulatory intervention. It is the latest in a series of regulatory moves harming Chinese companies. BYD Semiconductor had hoped to raise$420 million to invest in its business to expand output during the chip shortage. The Chinese regulator ...
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The semiconductor industry needs to double its capacity in the next 8-10 years to meet demand, says Globalfoundries CEO Tom Caufield. “It needs our industry to double capacity in the next eight to 10 years,” said Caufield at Semicon Southeast Asia earlier today, “it took 50 years for the semiconductor industry to grow to half ...
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Tough and clean environments are the target for stainless steel lockable solid door enclosures made by Hylec and now offered by BCL Enclosures. Called the BEDSS series, they are IP66 rated to protect their contents against water and dust, and are also able to withstand impact to IK10 specifications and temperature ranging between -20 and ...
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Upgrades to linked processing markers, Microsoft Word reporting and J1939 multi-frame support are amongst the improvements in version 2021.4 of DewesoftX, the software that runs alongside Dewesoft’s data acquisition hardware. Linked processing markers: FFT markers available on the 2D graph widget now have dedicated marker output channels allowing for the export and analysis of marker readings. ...
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Taiwan’s Economy Minister Wang Mei-hua says that auto chip shortages should be over by Q4. A statement from the Taiwan Economics Ministry says: “Though the automotive chip industry chain is long and complex, with the full cooperation of our country’s firms, the industry estimates that supply and demand for auto chip production by chip manufacturer should ...
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Intel is looking to be an industry consolidator. “There will be consolidation in the industry,” Pat Gelsinger tells the Wall Street Journal, “that trend will continue, and I expect that we’re going to be a consolidator.” Intel did not deny stories that it made an approach to Mubadala the owners of Globalfoundries to buy the ...
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The IGBT market is set to grow at a 7.5% CAGR 2020-26 to reach $8.4 billion by 2026, says Yole Developpement, with the IGBT modules segment to represent 81% of the total market in 2026 boosted by EV/HEVs adoption. More than 80% of the market will be focused on the 600V-1,200V nominal voltage ranges by 2026. At ...
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Researchers at the Department of Energy’s Oak Ridge National Laboratory have developed a robotic disassembly system for spent electric vehicle battery packs to safely and efficiently recycle and reuse critical materials while reducing toxic waste. With the anticipated growth in EVs over the next two decades comes the issue of how to recycle the large ...
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An experiment at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory’s (LLNL’s) National Ignition Facility(NIF) made a significant step toward ignition, achieving a yield of more than 1.3 megajoules (MJ). This advancement puts researchers at the threshold of fusion ignition, an important goal of the NIF, and opens access to a new experimental regime. The experiment was enabled by ...
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