Microprocessors

Volvo will use the Xavier AI computing system in its next-generation of autonomous vehicles.

Nvidia is bringing artificial intelligence to medical instruments.

Microchip and Google Cloud have come up with an IoT rapid development board enabling designers to prototype connected devices within minutes.  The board has  an AVR MCU, a CryptoAuthentication secure element IC and a  Wi-Fi network controller. Once connected, Google Cloud loT Core makes it easy to collect, process and analyse data to inform decisions at scale. The AVR-loT WG ...

Xilinx Developer Forum, California: Arm Cortex-M1 and Cortex-M3 cores have been added to the DesignStart portfolio in a collaboration with Xilinx to bring instant and license-free access to developers. The announcement in San Jose is an extension of the DesignStart development portal and also marks a change in the business mode. Phil Burr, Director of Portfolio Product Management at Arm, ...

Cypress adds support for 'AliOS Things' embedded IoT operating system to some of its microcontrollers

ST has introduced two STM8 Nucleo development boards which give full access to all STM8 MCU I/Os through ST morpho headers, and contain Arduino Uno connectors that simplify functional expansion by accessing open-source Arduino-compatible shields. The two STM8 Nucleo boards are supported by the Cosmic IDEA toolchain, the IAR EWSTM8 Integrated development environment, and the free STVD IDE from ST. Support ...

Canadian firm D-Wave Systems has calculated its way through a ‘topological phase transition’ using its 2,048-qubit ‘annealing quantum computer’. Several huge organisations have bought D-Wave computers – including Google and NASA (Lockheed-Martin even up-graded its D-Wave system) – but, in a world where folk are having trouble quantum-coupling a handful of qubits, there remain questions over whether D-Wave’s are ‘proper’ ...

Fujitsu has announced the specifications for the A64FX CPU to be featured in the post-K computer, a supercomputer being developed by Fujitsu and RIKEN as a successor to the K computer, which achieved the world’s highest performance in 2011. The organizations are striving to achieve post-K application execution performance up to 100 times that of the K computer. A64FX is ...

Arm has announced a roadmap for its client CPUs, and plans for a new CPU later this year

Intel has said it has found three new flaws in its processors. ‘When a program attempts to access data in memory, the logical memory address is translated to a physical address by the hardware, says Intel, accessing a logical or linear address that is not mapped to a physical location on the hardware will result in a terminal fault.’ ‘Once ...