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Atom x7000RE on VME

Concurrent VME RHEA block

  Concurrent Technologies has put Intel Atom x7000RE Amston Lake processors into a VME board, adding image processing and AI audio processing accelerators to the venerable form factor. CPU choice on the board, called Rhea, is either the four-core 1.5GHz x7433RE, or the two-core 2GHz x7213RE. “Whilst no longer the cutting edge of technology, VME continues to be a widely ...

Embedded World: Atom x7000RE SMARC processor modules for industry

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Congatec announced SMARC modules based on Intel’s Atom x7000RE ‘Amston Lake’ processors. “Specially designed for industrial requirements, they deliver eight processor cores, double the previous generation, while maintaining the same power consumption,” according  to Congatec. Called conga‑SA8, the modules are credit card size and operate over -40 to +85°C. Read all the latest news from Embedded World 2024 » AI ...

Embedded World: Vehicle processor has 16 Cortex real-time cores to consolidate ECU functions

NXP S32N55 16x Cortex-R core automotive processor block

NXP has announced a real-time processor for vehicle central control computers with 16 1.2GHz Arm Cortex-R52 processors. Hardware isolation and virtualisation are provided to allow sharing of on-die hardware between different code blocks without interaction “to support the consolidation of cross-vehicle electronic control units in vehicle central compute applications”, said NXP. “Vehicle functions can be independently managed, including fault handling ...

What to expect at Embedded World

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Automation and AI will be in evidence at this year’s show, writes Caroline Haye. It is not as common as it once was for companies to launch products at exhibitions, but Renesas is launching a new, low-power microcontroller series at the show. It will also be showcasing its RZ/V2H microprocessor with new AI technology. Renesas: Hall 1-234 Silicon Labs will ...

Nvidia Blackwell GPU shares Hopper architecture but ramps up performance

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As accelerated computing reaches its tipping point, Nvidia’s CEO explained the company’s plan is not to drive down costs but to scale up performance. He was speaking at Nvidia GTC in San Jose, introducing the Blackwell AI superchip. It will democratise trillion parameter AI, promises Huang, to meet the 1.8 trillion parameters computing performance of accelerated computing. In the home ...

Nvidia builds on Ada Lovelace architecture for laptop GPUs

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Nvidia has added to the Ada Lovelace architecture-based family of laptop GPUs, with the RTX 500 and 1000 Ada Generation laptop GPUs for portable mobile workstations. As with the recently released RTX 2000 (Electronics Weekly RTX 2000 Ada GPU meets AI visualisation demands (electronicsweekly.com),the GPUs have both an NPU (neural processing unit) and the company’s RTX GPU, with Tensor cores ...

RTX 2000 Ada GPU meets AI visualisation demands

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To meet the increased demand for generative AI in embedded and edge applications, Nvidia has released the RTX 2000 Ada Generation GPU. According to the company, it offers up to 1.5 times the performance of the earlier RTX A2000 12GByte processor. It enhances AI-powered design tools and high resolution visuals in industrial 3D design, such as structural analysis in civic ...