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Intel has secured AWS as a customer for its 18A process. ‘Intel  and Amazon Web Services today announced a co-investment in custom chip designs under a multi-year, multi-billion-dollar framework covering product and wafers from Intel,” says an Intel statement, “this is a significant expansion of the two companies’ longstanding strategic collaboration to help customers power virtually any workload and accelerate ...

PQShield,  the quantum-safe cryptography provider, and SiFive have partnered to deliver post-quantum cryptography on SiFive’s Essential and Performance high-performance processor families, protecting critical aerospace, consumer, defence, and automotive systems from quantum attacks and accelerating the adoption of NIST post-quantum cryptography standards on RISC-V technologies. Quantum computers will be able to crack the current encryption standards. This also presents the immediate ...

Researchers from  Sandia National Laboratories of the US have used silicon photonics to perform the quantum sensing technique atom interferometry, an ultra-precise way of measuring acceleration, which could enable a kind of quantum compass for navigation when GPS signals are unavailable. “Accurate navigation becomes a challenge in real-world scenarios when GPS signals are unavailable,” says Sandia scientist Jongmin Lee. In a ...

H, a French AI startup founded last May with a ‘seed’ round of $220 million, has seen three of its five founders resign. The three, who cited ‘operational differences’ as their reason for resigning, are Karl Tuyls, Daan Wierstra and Julien Perolat. Karl Tuyls was a research director at DeepMind, where he worked on game theory and multi-agent research.  Daan ...

Apple is reported to be planning to launch the iPhone 16 on September 10 with a possibility of AI features and a removable battery. If Apple follows previous practice, phones are expected to be available on September 20.  “Apple Intelligence” is expected to deliver  ChatGPT to the phone and extend voice control of of its apps. Speculation on the colours ...

The IEEE Electronic Components and Technology Conference (ECTC), the technical conference and product exhibition for the world’s semiconductor packaging industry, has announced a Call for Papers for ECTC 2025, the conference’s 75th anniversary. The 75th annual ECTC will take place May 27-30, 2025 at the Gaylord Texan Resort & Convention Centre in Dallas. More than 2,000 scientists, engineers and business ...

HBK has launches what it describes as a “tactical-grade” embedded inertial navigation system in a 38 x 24 x 8.6mm 8.3g package – 18% thinner and 20% lighter than its earlier 3DMCV5. 3DM-CV7-INS, as it will be known, has 1.5°/hr gyro bias instability – which is where the tactical grade comment comes from, and is calibrated over its operating range ...

Malaysian Prime Minister Datuk Seri Anwar Ibrahim yesterday opened the first phase of Infineon’s 200mm SiC fab site. “Infineon’s remarkable project reinforces Malaysia’s position as a rising major global semiconductor hub” said the Prime Minister,  “this major investment, which will locate the world’s largest and most competitive SiC power fab on our shores, will create jobs and opportunities, as well ...

LightSolver, an Israeli optical computing startup, is to receive an initial grant of €2.5 million from the EIC Fund combined with a future equity investment of €10 million, totalling €12.5M. LightSolver’s processor, the Laser Processing Unit  (LPU), uses light to execute complex mathematical operations in applications such as CAE and bio-science computations. “The amount of energy consumed by computing globally ...