The US Federal Government today announced several modest but public steps to encourage the development of fusion energy technology. US Secretary of Energy Jennifer Granholm said the Biden Administration has set aside $50 million to help build a fusion energy facility in the US., and Rep. Chuck Fleischmann stated that the Omnibus Spending Bill that […]
Quadric, the startup building accelerator chips for computer vision and AI acceleration, has raised $21 million in a Series B funding round. The round was once again led by NSITEXE, a group company of Japanese automotive Tier 1 supplier Denso, with additional investment form MegaChips alongside existing investors. The company has raised a total of […]
EE Times is turning 50 in 2022. We published our first issue only a few months after Intel ushered in the modern computing era with the introduction of the first microprocessor in November of 1971. This newspaper provided front-line reporting from the original microprocessor wars. We subsequently pioneered reporting of embedded computing, and of artificial […]
It’s been a banner week for the RISC-V ecosystem. The profile of the open-source instruction set architecture (ISA) has been raised by a pair of announcements. Let’s take a closer look. Intel support Earlier this week, Intel announced it would join RISC-V International as a premier member. Intel Foundry Services (IFS) will embrace designs built […]
TSMC, now chugging along with its N5 process node, said it will have its evolutionary N4 node ramped up to volume production this year. The N3 node, which will provide more of a technological leap than N4, is planned to go into volume production in the second half of 2022. N3 will indeed offer customers […]
When considering which market sector would be first to generate significant 5G revenues, the Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT) comes a close second, only behind consumer devices. Why then is the IoT seen as such a good fit for 5G, particularly for industrial applications? Which applications are likely to be the most important? And what […]
Industry sectors around the world have adjusted to pandemic-driven employment. For many in deep-tech industries, this has meant working from home: 18 months on, many are still working remotely. With the widespread availability of Covid-19 vaccines in the U.S., tech giants have reached the stage where they are considering longer term plans for their remote […]
Proponents of quantum technology believe its will change the world. Others remain skeptical, as they do of technologies like fusion energy. Speaking at a quantum developers’ forum, IBM Distinguished Engineer Jan-Rainer Lahmann retraced the history of quantum computing, reviewing IBM’s hardware and development roadmaps and describing the ingredients of “Raspberry Pi quantum”. The history of quantum computing […]
Engineers frequently have to make important decisions as to where to place their code: in the cloud, on an edge device, or on-premise. This decision always involves tradeoffs — accounting for the right combination of software, firmware, development tools and hardware that are available for each set of circumstances. On Samsara’s machine learning and computer […]
Wolfspeed, formerly Cree, kicked off its rebranding with a major design win: A supply chain agreement with GM to develop and produce silicon carbide (SiC) semiconductors for the automaker’s EVs. In August, Wolfspeed expanded its multi-year agreement with STMicroelectronics with an $800 million deal to supply 150-mm bare and epitaxial SiC wafers. Both transactions highlight […]