SMIC Rift: Rare Peek into China IC Industry
We decided to write up what we had learned about SMIC Co-CEO Haijun Zhao, because Zhao's rumored resignation has opened the door to a rare opportunity to see what's brewing inside the Chinese semiconductor industry.
By Junko Yoshida, March 26, 2019
It's Still Early Days for AI
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Qualcomm and Apple each declared victory after splitting a couple of rulings made by the U.S.
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Tech Taps into Recyclable Plastics
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Our vision is that waste plastics will become a renewable resource on a global scale.
Moore's Law Ending? No Problem
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An Arm fellow describes, "how I learned to stop worrying and love the end of Moore's Law."
By  Rob Aitken 03.27.19
Apple v. Q'comm Cases and Impacts
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An analyst describes the many cases between Apple and Qualcomm and their potential impacts for the companies and the cellular industry.
By  Prakash Sangam 03.26.19
Power Distribution for High-Voltage/High-Current Circuits Creates Challenges
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When designers encounter high-power applications involving current levels up to 1,000 A or voltages up to 70 kV, careful consideration of relay or contactor features and functions are a must.
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Tsinghua Lures SMIC Co-CEO Zhao to Bolster DRAM
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China's Tsinghua Unigroup, the state-owned holding company that controls most of the nation's semiconductor assets, may snatch a co-CEO from SMIC to revive a plan to build a domestic DRAM industry.
By  Alan Patterson 03.26.19 3
10 Views of Nvidia's GTC 2019
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Robots, augmented reality glasses, cars, and servers using Turing-class GPUs drove plenty of excitement on the show floor at Nvidia's annual event.
By  Rick Merritt 03.22.19 0
Mobileye, Nvidia AV Safety Models Collide
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The latest rift between Intel/Mobileye and Nvidia surfaced last week when Nvidia rolled out its own safety model called Safety Force Field. Intel/Mobileye described it as "a close replica" of the Responsibility-Sensitive Safety (RSS)" Mobileye pioneered two years ago.
By  Junko Yoshida 03.25.19 2
Sensors, Networks Enable Precision Agriculture
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With a growing population and a fixed amount of arable land, food production is becoming increasingly critical. The proliferation of IoT technologies along with data analytics, however, is dropping the cost of sensor-based crop, livestock, and resource management practices known as precision agriculture.
By  Rich Quinnell 03.21.19 0
China Sees U.S. Ahead in AI
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Your competitive position in the global rush to deep learning varies depending on where you sit, according to a story of recent articles in EET-China.
By  Rick Merritt 03.22.19 0
Air Force Tests ‘Attritable’ Weapons
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The maiden flight of the XQ-58A is the first step toward cheaper, expandable weapons.
By  George Leopold 03.22.19 2
Kamen Aims to Deliver AI to FedEx
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The engineer behind the Segway and First Robotics Competition discusses his team's current work for FedEx on a delivery robot using neural networks.
By  Rick Merritt 03.21.19 0
What’s Next for Human-Machine Interface: Touchless Control
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There is a race to market the first devices with touchless/gesture control. Contenders at MWC Barcelona include LG, Google, and Apple, introducing products featuring human-machine interface (HMI) in 2019.
By  Nitin Dahad 03.21.19 2
AI Silicon Sprouts in the Dark
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Deep learning has spawned work on a wide variety of novel chips, but the most interesting architectures have yet to be designed, let alone benchmarked.
By  Rick Merritt 03.25.19 0
Lidar Startup Uses Metamaterials to Steer Beams
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Metamaterial technology has opened the door for Lumotive, a startup backed by Intellectual Ventures, to develop a high performance, long-range lidar that can steer beams with no moving parts.
By  Junko Yoshida 03.20.19 0
Data Centers Open-Source Silicon
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The Open Compute Project announced its first open-source RTL amid a flood of projects from the group of big data center operators and vendors.
By  Rick Merritt 03.15.19 0
Making Agriculture More Precise — and Bountiful
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Growers are up against it these days. Milk prices have cratered for dairy operations, corn and soybeans farmers are being squeezed by Trump's trade war with China. What to do? Software is the "new fertilizer," proponents claim.
By  George Leopold 03.14.19 4
Chips-as-a-Service on Startup’s Menu
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Zac Smith wants his latest data center startup to act as a new sales channel for high-end processors and AI chips and a pioneer in edge networks.
By  Rick Merritt 03.14.19 1
Fab Tool Sales Continue to Plunge
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Sales of semiconductor manufacturing equipment continued their steep decline in February, falling on an annual basis for the fourth consecutive month.
By  Dylan McGrath 03.25.19 0
Rough Q1 Seen for Foundry Sales
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The world's top chip foundries are all expected to experience double-digit decreases in sales in the first quarter compared to the first quarter of last year, according to one market watcher.
By  Dylan McGrath 03.25.19 0
AI Trolls for Data Center Woes
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Neural networks require time, expertise, and plenty of computer power, said a senior engineer reporting on a project at Hewlett-Packard Enterprise.
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LT3094 - Negative LDO Features 0.8µ VRMS Noise at 1MHz
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LT3094 - Negative LDO Features 0.8µ VRMS Noise at 1MHz
The LT3094, a high performance low dropout negative linear regulator, features ADI’s ultralow noise and ultrahigh PSRR architecture for powering noise sensitive applications. It can be paralleled to increase output current and spread heat on a PCB.
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