Fujitsu Labs has found a better way to parallel graphics processors (GPU) for deep learning applications. Using ‘AlexNet’, 64 GPUs in parallel achieve 27x the speed of a single GPU for, as far as Fujitsu can determine, the world’s fastest processing. A conventional method to accelerate deep learning is to use multiple computers equipped with GPUs, networked and arranged in ...

Hirose of Japan and Harting of Germany are to develop a miniature connection for 10Gbit Ethernet. “As a form of the Internet of Things, there is one thing that Industry 4.0 requires above all else: an Ethernet connection to each and every Industry 4.0 component,” claimed Harting chairman Philip Harting. “The standardisation and international norms for new high-performance components and ...

Products using the ULE (Ultra-Low Energy) networking standard will be on show at IFA in Berlin this week. ULE is a modified form of the DECT cordless phone standard, and is another wireless system vying to under-pin IoT communications. “Companies like Panasonic, VTech, Crow, Gigaset, and Sercomm have developed a range of new products such as sensors and detectors, dimmable ...

Fujitsu Semiconductor and Mie Fujitsu Semiconductor have begun begun developing carbon nanotube based memory products based on Nantero’s CNT NRAM technology for multiple markets. The licensing agreement between Fujitsu and Nantero covers joint development and licensing of ultra-fast, ultra-high-density NRAM, non-volatile RAM using carbon nanotubes Fujitsu’s initial product will be a 55nm embedded memory based on planar NRAM scheduled to ...

After 15 years, $90 million in equity funding and $50 million in licensing and customer support revenues, Nantero is productising its carbon nanotube memory technology which it calls NRAM. The company has twelve customers, including several top in the ten, who have multiple fabs running NRAM wafers including one on 28nm. NRAM’s speed is the same as DRAM but with ...

Atmel’s ATA8520D is a transceiver IC for 868MHz Sigfox proprietary networks, intended to be used for IoT and machine-to-machine comms with the Sigfox protocol. It has an RF front end for up and down-link , a digital baseband and a microcontroller in the same device. The transmit path uses a closed loop fractional-N modulator, while a serial peripheral interface (SPI) ...

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Complete with substrate, an active matrix for a flexible display need only be 4μm thick, according to the Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST). The matrix of ultra-thin n-type transparent oxide thin-film transistors (TFTs) for the backplane were initially fabricated on a sacrificial laser-reactive substrate. Laser irradiation from the backside of the substrate split off only the oxide ...

Samsung says it is in mass production of the Exynos 7 Quad 7570 built on 14nm process technology for the budget smartphone market and IoT devices. It is Samsung’s first Exynos processor to integrate a Cat.4 LTE 2CA modem, Wi-Fi, Bluetooth, FM and GNSS in one chip. Exynos 7570, with four Cortex-A53 cores in 14nm, delivers 70% improvements in CPU ...

TI says its reference design that adds Wi-Fi connectivity to an electric vehicle (EV) charging station is an industry first. EV owners will be able to remotely monitor and control the charging of their vehicles from just about anywhere with Wi-Fi, presenting dozens of potential use cases from home automation to checking the availability of nearby public charge points. Battery ...