PC news focuses on desktop, laptop, and workstation developments—from processor architectures and GPUs to memory, I/O systems, and power delivery. Innovations include energy-efficient CPUs, AI-enhanced processing, and advanced cooling systems for high-performance computing. As the PC ecosystem evolves for gaming, productivity, and industrial use, engineers must adapt to changing thermal, power, and integration demands. For Electronics Weekly readers, PC updates provide key insights into hardware trends that influence everything from consumer computing to embedded systems and edge devices.
Aaronia will reveal USB and portable real-time spectrum analysers at the IMS Microwave Symposium in San Francisco next week. Spectran V6 Mobile is the portable analyser (photo right), with a real-time bandwidth of 490MHz. “This means that even the 320MHz wide channels of the new IEEE 802.11ax standard can be fully recorded,” according to the company. “The tablet, which is ...
PC volume is expected to reach 274 million in 2025, growing +4.1% y-o-y, says IDC. For 2026, IDC forecasts a slight contraction due in part from volume stabilization following Windows 11 migration and to a more difficult comparison given a stronger market in 2025. “While enterprises and the public sector led early demand, accelerating upgrades from SMBs are poised to ...
Red Pitaya has upgraded its Stemlab 125-14 four-channel 60Mz software-defined test instrument. “This next-generation series enhances performance and reliability while maintaining backward compatibility,” according to the company. “With improved features such as enhanced RF input performance, USB-C connectivity, and a compact design, the Gen 2 series is designed to facilitate signal acquisition, generation and processing, whether used in educational settings, ...
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 ...
Q3 PC shipments of 62.9 million were down 1.3% y-o-y decline from the third quarter of 2023 after three consecutive quarters of y-o-y growth. “Even with a full lineup of Windows-based AI PCs for both Arm and x86 in the third quarter of 2024, AI PCs did not boost the demand for PCs since buyers have yet to see their ...
Congatec has introduced COM Express Type 6 Compact computer-on-modules with AMD Ryzen Embedded 8000 processors, offering up to 39Top/s for AI processing. The processors have up to eight Zen 4 cores, 16Top/s XDNA NPUs and AI-capable Radeon RDNA 3 graphics with up to 12 compute units, and are available with design powers from 15 to 54W (see table below). Conga-TCR8 ...
Aaeon is aiming at in-vehicle surveillance systems for busses and law-enforcement with a PC built around Nvidia’s Jetson Orin NX artificial intelligence processor and equipped with eight power-over-Ethernet ports. Called Boxer-8658AI, there are two versions: one with a hex-core Cortex-A78AE v8.2 64bit CPU and 8Gbyte of LPDDR5 memory, and the other with 16Gbyte and an octa-core processor. “For in-vehicle or ...
Moxa has created a series of fan-less embedded PCs for use in marine applications. Suiting them to marine use, they offer four NMEA0183 serial ports – ports which are expected by some navigation systems and sonars, for example. Part of the MC-3201 PC family, they offer a choice of Intel 11th gen CPUs, either Core or Celeron, up to 28W. ...
Alpha and Omega Semiconductor is aiming at Meteor Lake and Arrow Lake notebooks with a multi-phase dc-dc converter controller that meets Intel IMVP 8, 9, 9.1, and 9.2 specifications. AOZ71137QI is a three rail seven-phase controller for CPUs that has: up to four phases for the core voltage (‘IA domain’), up to two phases for graphics (‘GT domain’) and one ...
Supermicro has announced edge computers built around Intel’s Atom x7000RE processors. SYS-E100-14AM and SYS-E102-14AM mini-PCs have up to eight ‘Efficient’ cores had dissipate less than 12W. “While the SYS-E102 comes in a form factor of only 190 x 44 x 120 mm, these systems offer up to 16GB of DDR5-SODIMM, dual 2.5 GbE LAN ports, two independent HDMI ports, three ...
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