As we move towards more ubiquitous, always-on sensing and computing, power becomes increasingly important. There’s perhaps no better an example of where this is important than the voice-activated devices on our desks, in our pockets, and distributed around our homes. As we saw last year, keyword spotting in particular is currently a target for all […]
As anticipated, Verizon came out well on top in the FCC’s latest spectrum auction that raised just over $81.2 billion, with the company’s spend put at $45.5 billion. AT&T came in second, with $23.4 billion, followed by T-Mobile with just over $9.3 billion. Some of the smaller winners included US Cellular ($1.28 billion) and New […]
President Biden on Wednesday signed, as expected, an executive order that paves the way for allocation of $37 billion federal government investment to address the chip supply shortfall. Industry reaction has been positive with both the Semiconductor Industry Association (SIA) and the Information Technology and Innovation Foundation (ITIF) immediately issuing statements showing relief that the […]
The International Solid-state Circuits Conference kicks of this weekend with a series of tutorials starting Saturday. It was previously suggested that covering top tier conferences like ISSCC might be more useful once the technology areas are distilled down to a few of the most currently topical: System-on-chip (SoC) Memory Automotive Machine Learning / Artificial Intelligence […]
If, as analysts note, pandemic uncertainty is ultimately beneficial for life-line technologies like cloud computing, we can expect continuing double-digit growth in the public cloud sector during 2021 and beyond. Cloud revenues for the last three months of 2020 confirm this view. Synergy Research Group reports that fourth quarter enterprise spending on cloud infrastructure services […]
NEC is not the name that immediately comes to mind when discussing the companies driving the concept of the Open RAN. However, that could be changing soon as the Japanese conglomerate spreads its wings and becomes a more serious player in wireless infrastructure. Over the last few weeks the company has announced potentially significant deals […]
TAIPEI — Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co. (TSMC) said that it plans two sales of bonds that would raise about $9 billion to expand production, possibly helping to ease a critical shortage of silicon. In a Feb. 9 board meeting, the world’s largest chip foundry approved the issuance of corporate bonds in Taiwan for as much […]
WiBotic announced the launch of Commander, an energy management software package designed specifically for large fleets of robots. Commander is a platform with the goal of optimizing the energy supply of drones or any battery-powered robot employing WiBotic’s charging technology. The software library package provides API to control battery parameters. In an interview with EE […]
DRAM nodes are going back to the beginning of the alphabet. Micron Technology has unveiled its 1-alpha node DRAM, which the company said offers a 40% improvement in memory density over its 1z node DRAM, as well as a 15% improvement in power-savings for mobile devices. This latest memory node supports densities from 8Gb to 16Gb, […]
Quantum computing holds extraordinary promise, but before quantum computers can be commercialized there are challenges to be resolved. One of the most important is finding ways to identify and correct errors in quantum computer hardware. Q-CTRL aims to solve the fundamental problems facing quantum technology, improving hardware performance and accelerating pathways to useful quantum computers […]