The support or use of AI (artificial intelligence) in electronics, including ML (machine learning), whether in software (supervised, unsupervised or reinforcement learning tools) or hardware (accelerators, GPUs, etc).
Australian space startup Fleet Space has raised AUS$150 million ($95m) in a Series D funding round for its space-based mining insights. The new investment will be used to expand ExoSphere, its “end-to-end exploration platform” for accelerating the discovery of critical minerals. It uses 3D subsurface imaging, from space, along with AI analysis. Such minerals are needed for a clean energy ...
Google has announced Android XR, a new version of the Android platform designed to bring Gemini AI to Android-based headsets and glasses. XR stands for extended reality and the search giant has worked with Samsung and Qualcomm to create the new Android platform. The promise, says Google, is “to extend your reality to explore, connect and create in new ways”. ...
Based on Synopsys’ Ethernet and PCIe IP, the Ultra Ethernet IP help developers of AI/HPC infrastructure chips and systems. Hyperscale data centres will need to scale to hundreds of thousands of accelerators and rely on efficient and fast connections to support large language models which process trillions of parameters in large language models for HPC and AI operations, continued Ron ...
The 2024 PC and tablet market will grow 3.8% to 403.5 million units in 2024, says IDC. Tablets are expected to grow 9.8% this year and PCs are expected to grow 0.8%. Next year, PCs are expected to grow 4.3% with the commercial segment of the market growing 5.1%. AI is not yet featuring as a purchase motivator. “There seems ...
Broadcom is shipping its 3.5D eXtreme Dimension System in Package (XDSiPTM) platform technology which enables consumer AI customers to develop custom accelerators (XPUs). The 3.5D XDSiP integrates more than 6000 mm2 of silicon and up to 12 high bandwidth memory (HBM) stacks in one packaged device to enable high-efficiency, low-power computing for AI at scale. Broadcom says it has launched ...
Nvidia made a profit of $19.3 billion on sales up 94% y-o-y at $35.1 billion in the quarter to the end of October. For the current quarter Nvidia is forecasting revenue growth of 69.5% y-o-y to reach $37.5 billion. Datacentre sales grew 112% y-o-y to $30.77 billion compared to 154% y-o-y growth in the previous quarter. “The age of AI ...
Dave Doherty, president of DigiKey, was philosophical about the future of the electronics market at electronica. We met in Munich a week after the US presidential election result was announced. The market is cyclical, he said. “We can’t foresee Q1 or Q2 but clearly we are at the start of the next upcycle,” he told Electronics Weekly. The election result ...
A telecoms network with servers integrated into the cell-towers to enable them to run AI networks is the aim of a collaboration between Nvidia and Softbank. In trials, SoftBank has demonstrated that its Nvidia-accelerated AI-RAN technology achieves carrier-grade 5G performance while running AI inference workloads. “Our cell towers used to just carry bits for telecommunication and internet surfing,” says Masayoshi ...
Driven by AI requirements, datacentres will need 160% more electricity in the next two years, says Gartner. Gartner estimates the power required to run incremental AI-optimised servers will reach 500 terawatt-hours (TWh) per year in 2027, which is 2.6 times the level in 2023. By 2027: reckons Gartner, 40% of data centres will be operationally constrained by power shortages and ...
Wise design decisions will make the smart home brilliant. Ankur Tomar sheds some light on the smart home. First there was clapping to activate light switches, then voice-activated speakers taking song requests and now, with the explosion of AI, smart homes are progressing to the next level. There are thousands of smart home examples, planned and yet to be imagined. ...
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