Intel Announces Unmatched AI and Analytics Platform with New Processor, Memory, Storage and FPGA Solutions
What’s New: Intel today introduced its 3rd Gen Intel® Xeon® Scalable processors and additions to its hardware and software AI portfolio, enabling customers to accelerate the development and use of artificial intelligence (AI) and analytics workloads running in data center, network and intelligent-edge environments. As the industry’s first mainstream server processor with built-in bfloat16 support, Intel’s new 3rd Gen Xeon Scalable processors makes AI inference and training more widely deployable on general-purpose CPUs for applications that include image classification, recommendation engines, speech recognition and language modeling.
“The ability to rapidly deploy AI and data … Read More → "Intel Announces Unmatched AI and Analytics Platform with New Processor, Memory, Storage and FPGA Solutions"
Imec Overcomes Fundamental Operation Challenge for Voltage-Controlled Magnetic Random-Access Memories (RAM)
LEUVEN (Belgium), June 16, 2020 — This week, at the 2020 Symposia on VLSI Technology and Circuits, imec, a world-leading research and innovation hub in nanoelectronics and digital technologies, presents a deterministic write scheme for voltage-controlled magnetic anisotropy (VCMA) magnetic random access memories (MRAMs), obviating the need for pre-reading the device before writing. This significantly improves the write duty cycle of the memory, enabling ns-scale write speeds. As a second improvement, a manufacturable solution for external-field-free VCMA switching operation was demonstrated. Both innovations address fundamental write operation challenges for VCMA MRAMs, making them viable candidates … Read More → "Imec Overcomes Fundamental Operation Challenge for Voltage-Controlled Magnetic Random-Access Memories (RAM)"
Percepio Launches Open Beta Program for Tracealyzer 4.4 With Support for Linux® Tracing
Västerås, Sweden, 17th June 2020 * * * Percepio, the leader in visual trace diagnostics for embedded systems and IoT, announces an open beta test program for the upcoming Tracealyzer version 4.4, which provides much improved support for visualization and analysis of embedded Linux® software, packaged in an intuitive and modern user interface. … Read More → "Percepio Launches Open Beta Program for Tracealyzer 4.4 With Support for Linux® Tracing"
Picocom selects UltraSoC in-system analytics and monitoring IP for 5G New Radio small cell SoC
CAMBRIDGE, UK – 17 June 2020
UltraSoC today announced that Picocom, the 5G open RAN baseband semiconductor and software specialist, has selected UltraSoC’s hardware-based analytics and monitoring IP for use in Picocom’s upcoming baseband system-on-chip (SoC) for 5G small cells. The UltraSoC IP enables Picocom and its customers to monitor, analyze and fine-tune the performance of their systems throughout the whole product lifecycle, starting in the lab for silicon bring-up and software development, through to deployment and in-field optimization.
Picocom President Peter Claydon commented: “As a result of this partnership with UltraSoC, Picocom customers can accelerate … Read More → "Picocom selects UltraSoC in-system analytics and monitoring IP for 5G New Radio small cell SoC"
BlueNRG-2 Development Kit from STMicroelectronics Unleashes Bluetooth® 5.0 Performance and Efficiency
Geneva, June 17, 2020 – The STMicroelectronics STEVAL-IDB008V1M Bluetooth® Low Energy 5.0 (BLE) evaluation platform accelerates application development with modules featuring BlueNRG-2, the Company’s second-generation BLE System-on-Chip (SoC).
BlueNRG-2 supports the Bluetooth 5.0 certification, which allows enhanced security with … Read More → "BlueNRG-2 Development Kit from STMicroelectronics Unleashes Bluetooth® 5.0 Performance and Efficiency"
New 4th Generation SiC MOSFETs Featuring the Industry’s Lowest ON Resistance
ROHM announces the cutting-edge 4th Generation 1200V SiC MOSFETs optimized for automotive powertrain systems, including the main drive inverter, as well as power supplies for industrial equipment.
In recent years, the proliferation of next-generation electric vehicles (xEVs) has been accelerating the development of smaller, lighter, and more efficient electrical systems. In particular, improving efficiency while decreasing the size of … Read More → "New 4th Generation SiC MOSFETs Featuring the Industry’s Lowest ON Resistance"
Imec Demonstrates Excellent Performance of Si FinFET CMOS devices with Integrated Tungsten Buried Power Rails
LEUVEN (Belgium), 15 June, 2020 — This week, at the 2020 Symposia on VLSI Technology and Circuits, imec, a world-leading research and innovation hub in nanoelectronics and digital technologies, presents a tungsten (W) buried power rail (BPR) integration scheme in a FinFET CMOS test vehicle, which does not adversely impact the CMOS device characteristics. When interfacing the BPR with Ru M0A lines through a Ru via contact, excellent resistance values and electromigration behavior have been measured. A complementary assessment study shows the advantages at system level of implementing BPRs as a scaling … Read More → "Imec Demonstrates Excellent Performance of Si FinFET CMOS devices with Integrated Tungsten Buried Power Rails"
Microchip Technology and KIOXIA America Successfully Complete the Industry’s First 24G SAS End-to-End Storage Interoperability Testing
CHANDLER, Ariz., June 17, 2020 – Microchip Technology (Nasdaq: MCHP) and KIOXIA America, Inc. (formerly Toshiba Memory America, Inc.) today announced the successful completion of the industry’s first 24G SAS End-to-End Storage interoperability testing. Industry-standard 24G SAS Infrastructure delivers improved performance, security and reliability to data center, cloud, hyperscale and enterprise server/storage customers while preserving existing investments in SAS infrastructure.
This interoperability testing demonstrates that Microchip’s industry-leading suite of 24G SAS products and KIOXIA 24G SAS Solid-State Drives (SSDs) can be utilized together as part of next-generation storage solutions. Microchip’s 24G SAS … Read More → "Microchip Technology and KIOXIA America Successfully Complete the Industry’s First 24G SAS End-to-End Storage Interoperability Testing"
Command The 5G Network: VIAVI Extends Capabilities of O-RAN Test Suite
San Jose, Calif., June 16, 2020 – Viavi Solutions Inc. (VIAVI) (NASDAQ: VIAV) today announced that the TeraVM 5G virtualized testing solution now supports load testing of … Read More → "Command The 5G Network: VIAVI Extends Capabilities of O-RAN Test Suite"
