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Renesas’ Intersil Brand 14-Bit, 1-MSPS ADC Delivers Best-in-Class Radiation-Hardened Performance for Satellites, Manned Spacecraft, and Lunar Space Missions

“Renesas Electronics Corporation (TSE:6723), a premier supplier of advanced semiconductor solutions, today announced the industry’s highest performance single-chip 14-Bit, 1-MSPS successive-approximation-register (SAR) analog-to-digital converter (ADC) for radiation-hardened (rad-hard) space applications. Renesas’ Intersil brand ISL73141SEH delivers best in …

Renesas RA Family Adds Ultra-Low Power RA2L1 MCU Group with Advanced Capacitive Touch Sensing for Cost-Effective, Energy-Efficient IoT Node HMI Applications

“32-bit Arm Cortex-M23-based MCUs Offer Best-in-Class Power Consumption with Flexible Power Modes for Lower Average Power in Multiple Applications Renesas Electronics Corporation (TSE:6723), a premier supplier of advanced semiconductor solutions, today announced the expansion of its 32-bit RA2 Series …

RISC-V, the Linux of the chip world, is starting to produce technological breakthroughs

“A decade ago, an idea was born in a laboratory at the University of California at Berkeley to create a lingua franca for computer chips, a set of instructions that would be used by all chipmakers and owned by none …

STMicroelectronics Reveals Compact 60V DC/DC Converters Featured for Extra Flexibility

“The STMicroelectronics L7983 is a compact, 3V-60V, 300mA synchronous DC/DC buck converter with flexible, dynamic-mode selection to satisfy noise-sensitive applications and maximize efficiency at light load. Special ST innovations engineered into the L7983 allow control of the low-side power …

Toshiba Develops World’s First Aqueous Lithium-ion Battery with Nonflammable Electrolyte

“Toshiba Corporation has developed a prototype aqueous rechargeable lithium-ion battery that points the way to realization of the world’s first aqueous large-capacity stationary storage battery that can operate at -30°C. Countering climate change and reducing greenhouse gas emissions …

Beyond AI for Wafer Scale Compute: Setting Records in Computational Fluid Dynamics

“In collaborations with researchers at the National Energy Technology Laboratory (NETL), Cerebras showed that a single wafer-scale Cerebras CS-1 can outperform one of the fastest supercomputers in the US by more than 200 X. The problem was to solve …

First Intel Structured ASIC for 5G, AI, Cloud and Edge Announced

“At Intel FPGA Technology Day, Intel announced a new, customizable solution to help accelerate application performance across 5G, artificial intelligence, cloud and edge workloads. The new Intel® eASIC N5X is the first structured eASIC family with an Intel® FPGA compatible …

Meet the Microsoft Pluton processor – The security chip designed for the future of Windows PCs

“The role of the Windows PC and trust in technology are more important than ever as our devices keep us connected and productive across work and life. Windows 10 is the most secure version of Windows ever, built with end-to-end …

Microchip Delivers First 8-bit MCU Family for CAN FD Networks

“Automotive designers can now increase system capabilities with flexible and easy to use CIPs while connected to a high performing network. Meeting the demand for increased bandwidth and flexible data rates in evolving automotive applications like safety and communication, while …

NVIDIA Doubles Down: Announces A100 80GB GPU, Supercharging World’s Most Powerful GPU for AI Supercomputing

“Leading Systems Providers Atos, Dell Technologies, Fujitsu, GIGABYTE, Hewlett Packard Enterprise, Inspur, Lenovo, Quanta and Supermicro to Offer NVIDIA A100 Systems to World’s Industries NVIDIA today unveiled the NVIDIA® A100 80GB GPU — the latest innovation powering the NVIDIA HGX …