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There's a new devboard in town: welcome the BeagleBoard.org BeagleY-AI, which promises to add "4 TOP/S of Edge AI acceleration to a fan-less computing platform".

Q5D Technology, a company specialising in  tools  for automating wiring harness manufacture, has closed a $3 million investment round led by Lockheed Martin. Q5D has developed robotic tools combined with sophisticated computer-aided design and manufacturing software, enabling the autonomous addition of wiring and printed electronics directly onto product surfaces. This automation offers not only improved quality and reliability but also ...

2023  sales of semiconductor manufacturing equipment fell  1.3% to $106.3 billion from 2022’s   record $107.6 billion, says SEMI. China was the biggest market, growing 29% y-o-y to $36.6 billion, followed by Korea which fell 7% to $19.9 billion and Taiwan which fell 27% to $19.6 billion. The US market rose 15%, the EU fell 3%, Japan fell 5% and ...

Mouser reflected one of the major themes at Embedded World 2024, intelligence at the edge, and announced it has signed Edge Impulse, the software framework provider for embedded machine learning (ML) applications. Machine learning is implemented at the edge of the network, explained Mouser’s Mark Patrick in order to make decisions very quickly at the [network] edge. [Edge Impulse’s] products ...

Microchip has created an AVR microcontroller series with 12Mbit/s USB 2.0 and code protection. “As the next generation of Microchip 8-bit MCUs to integrate USB connectivity, the AVR DU family is designed to provide enhanced security features,” said the company. Protection comes from permanently disabling write capability within the programming and debug interface after initial programming, and handing over update ...

Nisshinbo Micro Devices  has launched the NR1620 series voltage regulator with dual input pins to supply low-power microcontroller cores and other applications. The NR1620 has an output current of 150mA, allowing it to handle a wide range of applications and its  quiescent current of 0.4 µA makes it suitable for systems that demand low power consumption and long battery operating ...

TeraSignal,  the photonics specialist, has announced an intelligent re-driver device for scaling AI bandwidth in data centers. The TS8401/02 intelligent 400G (4x100G) PAM4 modulator driver claims to be the industry’s first CMOS IC with digital link training and link monitoring for 800G linear pluggable optical (LPO) modules. “TeraSignal’s intelligent CMOS solution for LPO modules redefines high-speed interconnects, merging low latency and ...

Silicon Catalyst is partnering with Arm on the Arm Flexible Access for Startups Contest. The contest is directed towards early-stage entrepreneurial teams developing a system-on-chip (SoC) design using Arm processor IP. The 2024 Arm Flexible Access for Startups Contest is open to privately owned startup companies in pre-seed, seed and Series A funding that have raised a maximum of $20 ...