AI

The emerging market for AI PCs does not yet have a clear definition, says TrendForce. One the software side, Microsoft has launched its AI assistant, Copilot, which is powered by the GPT LLM, with sales starting in November. This service, requiring Windows 11, is available for $30 per month. On the hardware side, the focus for CPU manufacturers is to ...

Alif Semiconductor’s 32bit ‘Ensemble’ AI-enabled MCUs are now available, according to the company. Built around various Arm cores with added security to protect stored intellectual property, they are intended to run AI algorithms locally in battery-powered devices. “There are many Edge ML applications that require 50 to 250Gop/s to become useful,” said Alif marketing v-p Mark Rootz. “Typical 32bit MCUs ...

Kuva Space, the Earth observation company, has raised €16.6m in series A funding. It will be used accelerate the development of its patented hyperspectral camera, double its team size, and launch its AI analytics platform. Kuva also says it plans to expand its presence in “key markets” beginning with the United States. The funding round was led by existing investors ...

Delvitech is proud to announce and show a new generation of Automated Optical Inspection systems for the electronic and mechanical manufacturing. Electronic assembly process is moving towards more and more hidden complexity. Varied shaped parts increasing difficulties related to shadows, large components with small pins, high components with short pins, continuous changeover in production due to parts availability, mix of ...

Faster on-die memory access for AI processing could spring from a collaboration between network-on-chip intellectual property company Arteris and the Fraunhofer Institute for Experimental Software Engineering (Fraunhofer IESE). Memory access is important with neural network algorithms as their execution requires large quantities of data to be transferred between processing elements and memory, increasing emphasis on the performance of the access ...

AI rock fall detection has been installed on the railway between Dawlish and Dawlish Warren stations in Devon, where it runs beneath cliffs. The “platform uses cutting-edge analytics and machine learning to provide automated incident alerts and previously hidden data insights”, according to Warwick-based infrastructure company Telenet. It “can send incident alerts in real time to station control rooms by ...

Qualcomm has developed a smartphone processor for on-device generative AI. Called Snapdragon 8 Gen 3, “this platform unlocks a new era of generative AI enabling users to generate unique content, help with productivity, and other breakthrough use cases,” claimed company general manager Chris Patrick. Certain large language (LLM) and language vision models (LVM) will be supported locally, as will transformer ...

AI represents 4.3GW of power demand today, according to an estimate by Schneider Electric, growing at a CAGR between 26 and 36%, to reach 13.5 to 20GW by 2028. 4.3GW is about as much as Denmark consumes*. “This growth is two to three times that of overall data center power demand CAGR of 11%,” according to the company. “One key ...

Novocomms, the UK antenna design and manufacturing specialist, has announced it is restructuring as part of growth plans for the next five years, including the establishment of three manufacturing divisions. The plans have the potential to create up to 300 new jobs in Birmingham, said the company. Note that we have already previously reported on 100 of these in June. Operating ...

Infineon has opened a quantum electronics and AI-based power analysis laboratory. Established near Munich, its objectives are to develop and test support ICs for ion trap quantum computers, and to develop AI algorithms for the early detection of variances in power systems. ~20 researchers will be employed, and the lab has a cryostat for research down to 4K (-269°C). One ...