Thank you to NASA for this Picture of the Day - an artist's impression of the Mars Helicopter, which is a small, autonomous rotorcraft that will travel with NASA's Mars Perseverance rover.

A genius who invented the alternating current electricity transmission system and who has a New York street corner and a car named after him, fell in love with a pigeon – a white, female pigeon. “I loved that pigeon as a man loves a women, and she loved me,” said the genius, “as long as I had her, there was ...

Picocom has licensed and deployed the CEVA-XC12 DSP in its forthcoming distributed unit (DU) baseband offload System-on-Chip (SoC) for 5G small cells. Picocom is a semiconductor company that designs and markets products for 5G New Radio infrastructure. Along with Airspan, Intel, IP Access and Qualcomm, Picocom is a key contributor to the Small Cell Forum (SCF) 5G Functional API (FAPI) ...

Picocom has licensed and deployed the CEVA-XC12 DSP in its forthcoming distributed unit (DU) baseband offload System-on-Chip (SoC) for 5G small cells. Picocom is a semiconductor company that designs and markets products for 5G New Radio infrastructure. Along with Airspan, Intel, IP Access and Qualcomm, Picocom is a key contributor to the Small Cell Forum (SCF) 5G Functional API (FAPI) ...

Congatec has announced a COM Express Type 6 module with AMD Ryzen Embedded V1404I Series processors for use across -40°C to +85°C. Called conga-TR4, it is available with optional burn-in and cold-soak stress screening for increased reliability. “The most demanding graphics and compute workloads benefit from the modules’ four cores, eight threads and eight GPU of AMD’s Zen microarchitecture in ...

After delving into Texas Instrument’s crystal-replacing bulk acoustic wave (BAW) oscillator recently, Electronics Weekly is taking a look at an advanced version of the humble RC oscillator, reported at the International Solid State Circuits Conference earlier this year (ISSCC 2020). The work of Delft University of Technology, the 180nm CMOS oscillator has been given so much digital enhancement that, after a ...

Keysight announces LoadCore 5G Core Testing software, which simulates complex subscriber models.

Announcing Q1 revenues up 15% y-o-y for a net profit up 22% y-o-y of  $10.8 billion, Microsoft said: “COVID-19 had minimal net impact on the total company revenue.” ‘In the Productivity and Business Processes and Intelligent Cloud segments, cloud usage increased, particularly in Microsoft 365 including Teams, Azure, Windows Virtual Desktop, advanced security solutions, and Power Platform, as customers shifted ...

RetroPie 4.6 has been launched with official support for Raspberry Pi 4. RetroPie 4.6 has moved to Raspbian Buster as a base for its pre-built Raspberry Pi images. Raspbian Stretch is no longer supported by Raspberry Pi Trading Ltd. RetroPie will continue to support Stretch for a while longer, but will likely stop updating binaries for it later this year. ...

HiSilicon, the IC design arm of Huawei, has overtaken Qualcomm in the China domestic smartphone AP market, according to CINNO Research, a China analyst. In Q1 2030, HiSilicon had a 43.9% market share of the China AP market, says CINNO, compared to Qualcomm’s 32.8%. This represents a sharp reversal from Q1 2019, when HiSilicon had a 24.3% share and Qualcomm ...