Following yesterday’s funding announcement from competitor SambaNova, data center AI chip startup Groq has announced completion of a Series C funding round of $300 million. This brings Groq’s total funding to $367 million, a sizeable total, but still less total funding to date than key startup competitors SambaNova ($1.1 billion) and Graphcore ($710 million), though […]
Open RAN pioneer and cheerleader Mavenir and Xilinx have stolen a march on rivals with an end-to-end massive MIMO portfolio for 4G and 5G networks based on the emerging RAN technology specifications. The device will be able to support bandwidths up to 400 MHz. The companies say the 64TRX ( 64 transmit and 64 receive […]
It’s that time of year when consumer electronics companies launch their latest gizmos for the year. That’s always trouble for a person like me who has been trained to want the latest and greatest. It can be expensive, too. So I don’t fall for the four-figure TV upgrades. My 43-inch TV is all that will […]
An Intelsat satellite launched in 2004 got a new lease on life this week after a Northrop Grumman subsidiary carried out its second successful on-orbit servicing mission — and its first involving an operational satellite. SpaceLogistics LLC said its robotic Mission Extension Vehicle-2 (MEV-2) docked with the Intelsat commercial communications satellite in geosynchronous orbit, delivering […]
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Today at ProMat, a company called Pickle Robots is announcing Dill, a robot that can unload boxes from the back of a trailer at places like ecommerce fulfillment warehouses at very high speeds. With a peak box unloading rate of 1800 boxes per hour and a payload of up to 25 kg, Dill can substantially […]
Tesla sales in China more than doubled in 2020, to nearly $6.6 billion, accounting for 21 percent of the company’s booming worldwide total. But Tesla no longer makes China’s most popular electric car: Meet the tiny Wuling Hong Guang Mini EV, whose equally microscopic price helped it find 36,700 buyers in January. That easily kneecapped […]
A leaked draft of EU regulation around the use of AI sets hefty fines of up to €20 million or four percent of global turnover (whichever is greater.) The regulation (PDF) was first reported by Politico and is expected to be announced next week on April 21st. In the draft, the legislation’s authors wrote: “Some […]
Manufacturing is undergoing some major changes and turning toward a digital transformation. Technology is becoming more intertwined with one another thanks to the Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT) and other concepts are bringing everything together. The world is heading toward a digitalized future. With these changes, though, come new risks, particularly on the cybersecurity front, […]
Italian company BEAMIT Group has acquired 3T Additive Manufacturing, based in the UK. According to the company, 3T Additive Manufacturing holds AS 9100 certifications for aerospace and ISO 13485 for medical production and is an approved supplier for serial production to OEMs across the UK, Europe, US and Japan. The company has around 40 employees […]