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Intel Adds to Portfolio of FPGA Programmable Acceleration Cards to Speed Up Data Center Computing

“Intel today extended its field programmable gate array (FPGA) acceleration platform portfolio with the addition of the new Intel® Programmable Acceleration Card (PAC) with Intel® Stratix® 10 SX FPGA, Intel’s most powerful FPGA. This high-bandwidth card leverages the Acceleration …

New Digital Signal Controller (DSC) Accelerates DSP Performance for Time-Critical Control Applications

“System designers looking for digital signal processing power with the design simplicity of a microcontroller (MCU) can now utilize a new family of 16-bit Digital Signal Controllers (DSCs) from Microchip Technology Inc. (Nasdaq: MCHP). Designed to deliver faster deterministic performance …

STMicroelectronics Unveils Highly Integrated Mobile-Security Chip Combining NFC Controller, Secure Element, and eSIM

“STMicroelectronics, a global semiconductor leader serving customers across the spectrum of electronics applications, revealed its highly integrated mobile-security solution, the ST54J , a system-on-chip (SoC) containing an NFC (Near-Field Communication) controller, Secure Element, and eSIM. The SoC delivers performance-boosting integration for …

Ampere Announces Availability of eMAG for Hyperscale Cloud Computing and Unveils Aggressive, Multi-Generation Roadmap

“Ampere™, which is developing an Arm®-based server platform for the future of hyperscale cloud and edge computing, today announced availability of its first generation Armv8-A 64-bit processors for data centers. Already selected by Lenovo and several ODMs, the Ampere …

Panasonic Develops the Technology to Visualize Movement of the Lithium Ions in the Next-Generation Batteries During the Charging and Discharging Processes

“Panasonic Corporation succeeded in regionally fixed quantitative visualization of the two-dimensional distribution of the lithium ions (hereafter “Li-ions”) in the LiCoO2 cathode for the first time in the world by charging and discharging the all-solid-state lithium ion battery in the …

Allegro MicroSystems Releases a Fully Integrated, Monolithic Power Monitoring IC with Reinforced Isolation

“Allegro MicroSystems has released a fully integrated, small form factor, power monitoring IC with reinforced voltage isolation. Allegro’s ACS724 and ACS711 current sensor ICs are commonly used in internet connected power outlets and other IOT devices. The ACS71020 improves …

GLOBALFOUNDRIES Reshapes Technology Portfolio to Intensify Focus on Growing Demand for Differentiated Offerings

“Semiconductor manufacturer realigns leading-edge roadmap to meet client need and establishes wholly-owned subsidiary to design custom ASICs GLOBALFOUNDRIES today announced an important step in its transformation, continuing the trajectory launched with the appointment of Tom Caulfield as CEO earlier this …

New Supercomputer at Texas Advanced Computing Center Powered by Next-Gen Intel Xeon Scalable Processors

“The Texas Advanced Computing Center (TACC) at The University of Texas at Austin announced its latest supercomputer, known as Frontera, will be powered by next-generation Intel® Xeon® Scalable processors. Academic researchers hope the new supercomputer will enable important discoveries across …

NVIDIA Reinvents Computer Graphics with Turing Architecture

“Hybrid Rendering Fundamentally Changes Computer Graphics by Fusing Real-Time Ray Tracing, AI, Simulation and Rasterization NVIDIA today reinvented computer graphics with the launch of the NVIDIA Turing™ GPU architecture. The greatest leap since the invention of the CUDA GPU in …

Introducing Snapdragon 670 for superior performance, camera capabilities, and AI tech

“Our Qualcomm Snapdragon 600 Series Mobile Platforms are popular with our customers because of their support for long battery life, superior connectivity, and easy adaptability. The Snapdragon 670 Mobile Platform is the latest addition to the family, and is engineered …