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Mediatek adds Llama 3 generative AI to smartphone chips
Mediatek adds Llama 3 generative AI to smartphone chips
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Mediatek has added the latest open source transformer-based generative AI model, Llama 3, to its Dimensity smartphone chips. Meta has…
Low power in-memory AI for vision applications
Low power in-memory AI for vision applications
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Analog Devices is showing a vision AI application using its MAX78000 microcontroller with a custom Convolutional Neural Network Accelerator with…
Synopsys drives 2nm analog IP, photonics with TSMC – update
Synopsys drives 2nm analog IP, photonics with TSMC – update
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Synopsys and TSMC are developing an end-to-end electronic and silicon photonics reference flow alongside developing analog IP on TSMC’s 2nm…
NXP details S32N55 processor for real time central vehicle control
NXP details S32N55 processor for real time central vehicle control
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NXP Semiconductor has detailed the first member of the S32N family of vehicle super-integration processors for real-time vehicle control in…

Second cohort for Intel Ignite London
Second cohort for Intel Ignite London
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Intel Ignite is launching its second cohort of startups in the United Kingdom The second UK cohort for Intel Ignite, based in Kings Cross, London, ranges from next generation energy…
Silicon Labs launches first energy harvesting wireless chips, teams with e-peas
Silicon Labs launches first energy harvesting wireless chips, teams with e-peas
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Silicon Labs has launched its first wireless microcontroller optimized for energy harvesting and worked with Belgium PMIC supplier e-peas on shields for its development kit. The xG22E family is the…
Faraday licenses its first ARM automotive core
Faraday licenses its first ARM automotive core
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Faraday Technology in Taiwan is to use the latest ARM Cortex-A720AE IP for AI-enabled vehicle ASICs, its first move into automotive. Faraday has been a global ARM licensee since 2002…
Octavo doubles up SiP system in package integration
Octavo doubles up SiP system in package integration
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Packaging pioneer Octavo is looking to combine two of its systems to boost the integration. Octavo developed two types of SiP for the STM32MP2 processor with embedded AI. The OSD32MP2-PM…
Intel breaks a billion neurons for world’s largest neuromorphic computing system
Intel breaks a billion neurons for world’s largest neuromorphic computing system
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Intel has developed the world’s largest neuromorphic computing system with over 1bn neurons. The Hala Point neuromorphic computing system, initially deployed at Sandia National Laboratories, uses Intel’s Loihi 2 processor…
Rivos ramps RISC-V with $250m raise
Rivos ramps RISC-V with $250m raise
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RISC-V startup Rivos has raised over $250m in an oversubscribed funding round to tap eout its first chips. Despite a battle with Apple, the Series A-3 funding round saw participation…
Moffett AI raises more funds for sparse computing
Moffett AI raises more funds for sparse computing
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Moxin Artificial Intelligence Technology (Shanghai) Co. Ltd., otherwise known as Moffett AI or Ink Core, has announced it has closed two rounds of financing each worth hundreds of million yuan.
Top articles from Embedded World – visitor update
Top articles from Embedded World – visitor update
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Catch up on news from Embedded World in Germany this week. The Embedded World how was dominated by AI, whether with TinyML embedded models for the Internet of Things ,…
CEO interview: Geoffroy Gosset of e-peas  
CEO interview: Geoffroy Gosset of e-peas  
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E-peas in Belgium has raised €17.5m to scale up its energy harvesting chip business. CEO and co-funder Geoffroy Gosset talks to Nick Flaherty at eeNews Europe about the plans, including…
Three winners for the ST wireless innovation competition
Three winners for the ST wireless innovation competition
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Three Frenchmen have won the STMicroelectronics STM32 Wireless Innovation design competition. Cédric Jiminez from Chambéry, Alain Romaszewski from Amélie-les-Bains, and Balthazar Deliers from Sequedin developed projects based on the STM32…
System in Package for the STM32MP2 embedded AI processor
System in Package for the STM32MP2 embedded AI processor
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Octavo Systems has launched two system in package devices using a multicore embedded AI processor from STMicroelectronics. The Octavo OSD32MP2 family consists of two System-in-Package (SiP) modules: the OSD32MP2 and OSD32MP2-PM. The OSD32MP2…
Google announces ARM-based CPU for its datacenters
Google announces ARM-based CPU for its datacenters
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Google has announced it has developed its first custom ARM-based processors for the data center called Axion. Google claimed that Axion, which is based on Neoverse V2 processors cores, outperforms…
Alif’s ‘Matter’ wireless MCU includes NPU for AI
Alif’s ‘Matter’ wireless MCU includes NPU for AI
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The Balletto family of wireless MCUs from Alif Semiconductor has support for Bluetooth LE and features DSP acceleration and a neural processor unit (NPU) to support AI and machine learning…
Three team for configurable zonal controllers  
Three team for configurable zonal controllers  
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Green Hills Software, STMicroelectronics and Cetitec are developing a configurable in-vehicle communications platform for automotive zonal controllers. Cetitec, a Porsche company and a software specialist for the development of connectivity…
64bit RISC-V core integrates with security frameworks
64bit RISC-V core integrates with security frameworks
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Imagination Technologies has developed a 64bit RISC-V IP core with a focus on security in AI for consumer and industrial devices. The Imagination APXM-6200 CPU is the next core in the…
Entry Level Renesas RA0 MCUs target power consumption
Entry Level Renesas RA0 MCUs target power consumption
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Renesas Electronics has introduced a low cost microcontroller with the industry’s lowest overall power consumption for general purpose 32bit MCUs. The Renesas RA0 devices are based on the ARM Cortex…
Synaptics launches 64bit multicore SoCs for general purpose edge AI
Synaptics launches 64bit multicore SoCs for general purpose edge AI
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Synaptics is aiming to tap into the boom around edge AI with a general purpose 64bit ARM processor and AI framework platform called Astra. The Synaptics Astra platform, launched at…
NXP aims for Bluetooth localisation with MCX W wireless microcontroller
NXP aims for Bluetooth localisation with MCX W wireless microcontroller
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NXP is adding to its MCX range of microcontrollers with a wireless version with a 2.4GHz multiprotocol radio and localisation launched at Embedded World in Germany this week. The NXP…
Dracula, ST team on energy harvesting modules
Dracula, ST team on energy harvesting modules
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Dracula Technologies in France has adapted its Organic Photovoltaic (OPV) technology for the latest STMicroelectronics ultra-low power microcontrollers. The Dracula Layer OPV module has been teamed with the STM32U0 microcontrollers for…
Sima says next MLSoC will ‘transform’ AI at the edge
Sima says next MLSoC will ‘transform’ AI at the edge
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Sima Technologies Inc. (San Jose, Calif.) has said its second-generation MLSoC AI chip is coming in 1Q25 and will be manufactured on TSMC’s 6nm manufacturing process. Sima claims that its…
SemiDynamics aims to future proof embedded AI chip designs
SemiDynamics aims to future proof embedded AI chip designs
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Spanish AI IP supplier SemiDynamics has combined its RISC-V core and AI accelerator blocks into a single package to future proof embedded AI chip design. SemiDynamics has combined its RISC-V…
RISC-V International details recent ratifications
RISC-V International details recent ratifications
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Ahead of Embedded World next week, RISC-V International has highlighted 40 technical specifications it has ratified in the past two years covering the key areas of efficiency, vector and virtualization.
Red Semiconductor announces VISC extension to RISC-V
Red Semiconductor announces VISC extension to RISC-V
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Startup chip company Red Semiconductor Ltd. (Oxford, England) has announced VISC, its RISC-V based instruction set architecture with extensions for edge AI and cryptography. VISC stands for Versatile Intrinsic Structured…
Green Hills ports RTOS to Infineon Aurix TC4x chips
Green Hills ports RTOS to Infineon Aurix TC4x chips
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Infineon Technologies and Green Hills Software have launched an integrated microcontroller-based processing platform for safety-critical real-time automotive systems. The platform combines the µ-velOSity safety-certified real-time operating system (RTOS) from Green…


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