What caught your eye this week? (Laptop GPUs, Supply Chain, Apple)

We’re talking Nvidia AI, semiconductor sovereignty, optical encoding of data, and a UKESF and Apple initiative…

The Electronics Weekly team share some fingerposts – their picks of the week, in terms of announcements, developments, product releases, quotes or anything else in the wide world of electronics that caught their eye…

Caroline Hayes, editor
Nvidia building on Ada the Lovelace architecture for laptop GPUs. The latest GPUs bring powerful AI to mobile graphics processing.

David Manners, components editor
What caught my eye this week was the USA saying it is aiming to set up a complete domestic semiconductor supply chain.

Steve Bush, technology editor
A research team in Shanghai has managed to optically encode 100 layers of data into a transparent optical surface with such density that 200Tbyte of information could be saved on something the same size as a DVD.

Alun Williams, web editor
What caught my eye was the UK Electronics Skills Foundation (UKESF) and Apple continuing and strengthening their Girls Into Electronics programme. What a worthy initiative.

Off site links

  • Samsung’s SDI battery-making unit has announced – reports The Register – that it “will start mass production of solid state batteries in 2027, and that the parts it pushes will have energy density of 900 watt-hours per liter (Wh/L).”
  • Percepio wants more UK software engineering students to apply for a free Tracealyzer licence. You can find out if your academic institution or group qualifies for a free licence on that link.
  • Mongolia becomes the latest country to enter the global space industry with the launch of two low-orbit nano satellites, (Ondosat-Owl-1 and Ondosat-Owl-2) – which were built by Mongolian company Ondo Space – via SpaceX’s Falcon-9 rocket.

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