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The Chancellor of the Exchequer, Jeremy Hunt, has finished presenting his Spring Budget 2024 to the House of Commons. Technology-related subjects included the use of AI in the NHS, connectivity from space, a quantum computing error correction programme, and funding for the SaxaVord Spaceport, along with mentions of drones and facial recognition systems. For example, one of the budget announcements ...

AI servers will take 12.1% of a 2024 server market which will grow 2.05% y-o-y to 13.65 units primarily driven by Cloud Service Providers (CSPs), says TrendForce.. Foxconn is expected to see the highest growth rate, with an estimated annual increase of about 5–7%. This growth includes significant orders such as Dell’s 16G platform, AWS Graviton 3 and 4, Google ...

The EU PREVAIL project to accelerate the development of edge-AI technologies is installing cleanroom tools and gearing up to design, evaluate, test and fabricate new circuits from across Europe.  CEA-Leti,  Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft,  imec and  VTT are running the initiative to set up a  Testing and Experimentation Facility for Edge-AI Hardware (TEF Edge AI HW to validate edge-AI components and fabricate  prototype ...

Artificial intelligence is reshaping the jobs market and altering the way we work, discovers Caroline Hayes. The impact of artificial intelligence (AI) on the future of the job market is a cause for debate. Some experts believe AI will result in the displacement of human employees, while others are strongly convinced that AI will bring new possibilities and enhance the ...

Automatic and reliable defect detection using AI-enabled vision systems increases productivity. By Michael Uyttersprot and Giovanni Gualdi. Vision systems are a key part of industrial automation, critical to maintaining quality control throughout the system. Simple automated processes expect objects to be in specific places, for example, on a pallet or a conveyor belt. These systems use basic sensors, but are ...

SoftBank is to put $100 billion into a project called Izanagi to make AI chips designed by Arm. The plan is for SoftBank to put $30 billion of its own money into Izanagi and raise $70 billion externally. The move, along with an  investment of $147 million by Nvidia in Arm’s shares and a bullish Q1 forecast, has boosted Arm’s ...

Unit shipments of AI PCs and GenAI smartphones are projected to total 295 million units by the end of 2024, up from 29 million units in 2023, says Gartner. Gartner defines AI PCs as PCs that are equipped with dedicated AI accelerators or cores, neural processing units (NPUs), accelerated processing units (APUs) or tensor processing units (TPUs). This provides improved ...

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 ...

AI PCs – personal computers with specific SoC capabilities designed to run generative AI tasks locally – will grow from nearly 50 million units in 2024 to more than 167 million in 2027 by which time they will represent 60% of the PC market, says IDC. “Promises around enhanced user productivity via faster performance, plus lower inferencing costs, and the ...

Erqos has announced a phone and cloud connected programmable logic controller backed by an AI-based semi-automatic control code generator, and a similar tool for making matching phone apps. The DIN-rain controller, dubbed EQSP32, is built around an ESP32S3 microcontroller with Wi-Fi and Bluetooth, and the unit offers digital and analogue inputs and ouputs as well as serial busses. “EQSP32 lets ...