The IEEE’s International Solid-State Circuit Conference in San Francisco featured an overview of next-generation high-performance CPUs. AMD revealed aspects of Zen 5, its x86-64 microprocessor for desktops and laptops. Built on TSMC’s 4nm FinFET process, the 55mm2 eight cores have a total of 8.6bn transistors. Each core has a 1Mbyte private L2 cache and there is 32Mbyte of shared L3. ...
Mouser has teamed up with Analog Devices to create an e-book about power circuits. A brief affair (~22 pages), ‘Powering the future: Advanced power solutions for efficiency and robustness’ is a like a series of ADI application briefs, each with at least a few nuggets that are worth absorbing. “ADI has a long history in the field of power management ...
Qualcomm has developed a smartphone processor for on-device generative AI. Called Snapdragon 8 Gen 3, “this platform unlocks a new era of generative AI enabling users to generate unique content, help with productivity, and other breakthrough use cases,” claimed company general manager Chris Patrick. Certain large language (LLM) and language vision models (LVM) will be supported locally, as will transformer ...
Ceva has filled-out its NeuPro-M family of neural processing units, and boosted its architecture for generative AI algorithms. “NeuPro-M NPU architecture and tools have been redesigned to support transformer networks in addition to convolutional neural networks,” according to the company. “This enables applications leveraging the capabilities of generative and classic AI to be developed and run on the NeuPro-M NPU.” ...
At ISSCC this in San Francisco this week, the National Taiwan University revealed a processor custom designed to crunch the vast amount of data that emerges as hundreds of millions of short DNA segments are analysed en-route to producing a three billion nucleotides gene sequence. The biological detective work flow includes four steps: short-read mapping, haplotype calling, variant calling and ...
Alibaba Group’s T-Head chip design company has adopted Imagination Technologies B-Series GPU and Series3NX neural network accelerator for an artificial intelligence IoT SoC. The Hertfordshire company joined T-Head’s ‘Wujian platform alliance’ in 2019 . “Imagination has been collaborating with T-head to build a heterogeneous GPU-NPU architecture based on Xuantie C910,” said Imagination. Yesterday, Wujian 600 platform was unveiled at the ...
Mouser Electronics is now stocking the i.MX 8Quadmax and 8Quadplus applications processors from NXP Semiconductors. The multi-core applications processors are suitable for applications in automotive infotainment, advanced industrial human machine interface (HMI) and control, heads-up displays, and machine vision and tracking devices. The i.MX 8Quadmax and 8Quadplus enable multi-OS platform deployment through full-chip hardware virtualisation and domain protection. Based on ...
Fully-depleted silicon on insulator (FD-SoI) technology i.MX7ULP applications processors from NXP Semiconductors are now available from Mouser Electronics. They support low power graphics operation and include 2D and 3D graphics processing units (GPUs) for graphics applications in portable medical devices, wearable products, smart home controls, gaming accessories and portable printers and scanners. The processors are based on Arm Cortex-A7 and ...
Using only resources built into a phone, University of Washington researchers have developed an app that uses inaudible sonar to monitor someone’s breathing rate, and can deduce when drug overdose has stopped breathing. Called Second Chance, it is claimed to detects opioid overdose-related symptoms ~90% of the time, and can track someone’s breathing from up to ~1m away. “Here we ...
Having become addicted to the works of Linear Tech apps engineer Jim Williams, I have learned to respect the addition of discrete transistors to op-amps to improve certain characteristics. Imagine my interest when I stumbled across an app note on the website of Linear Systems that advocates the use of discrete low-noise fets in all sorts of circuits, describing along ...
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