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Infineon has had its forthcoming TC4x automotive microcontrollers cleared for safe AI processing by the Fraunhofer Institute for Cognitive Systems (IKS). “Embedded AI is becoming increasingly important for safety-critical real-time applications,” said Infineon. “However, this also creates new requirements and standards that must be considered during the complete product lifecycle.” The TC4x family includes ‘PPU’ (parallel processing unit), an AI-accelerator ...

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 ...

Renesas Electronics has introduced a 64bit MCU for 5G IoT edge devices and Gigabit Wi-Fi 7 gateways, part of its RZ/G Series. RZ/G3S can stand-by for 10µW, run Linux, and provides a PCI Express interface “that enables high-speed connectivity with 5G wireless modules”, said the company. “Additionally, the device boasts enhanced security features such as tamper detection to ensure data ...

AMD is aiming at industrial automation with its latest embedded processor series, as well as machine vision, robotics and edge servers. The series has on-board graphics and “because embedded applications require additional operating system software options, Ryzen Embedded 7000 Series processors include support for both Windows Server and Linux Ubuntu, on top of Windows 10 and Windows 11”, according to ...

Qualcomm has revealed a 4nm Arm-based 12core laptop processor: Snapdragon X Elite. Its 12 64bit cores run at up to 3.8GHz, then two of these can be boosted to 4.3GHz. The on-board GPU is rated at 4.6Tflop/s and supports DX12, and a separate neural processor (NPU) is rated at 45Top/s – the data type has not been specified in either ...

NXP has added low-end to its i.MX 9 series, with Linux-capable single core Arm Cortex-A55 application processor variants, running at up to 1.4GHz, without supporting microcontrollers. The existing i.MX 93 family has two A55s and a Cortex-M33, and the high-end i.MX 95 family has up to six A55s, an M33, a Cortex-M7 and an audio DSP. The new parts have ...

AMD announced its 4th generation EPYC embedded processors at Embedded World today, using its ‘Zen 4’ architecture and aimed at embedded networking, security, firewalls and storage in cloud and enterprise computing, as well in factory floor industrial edge servers. There are 10 processors in the Embedded 9004 Series, made using a 5nm chip process, with 16 to 96 cores see ...

Arm’s Neoverse V2 processor is to be the core at the heart of Nvidia’s Grace data centre CPU. With up to 144 of the Arm v9 cores, Grace CPUs (right) are aimed at supercomputers and cloud computing and will run the company’s software stacks and platforms including RTX, HPC, AI and Omniverse. Error-corrected LPDDR5x memory is implemented, and total bandwidth ...

AMD has formerly announced the single-chip x86 CPU + GPU that was codenamed Carrizo. With up to four ‘Excavator’ CPUs and eight ‘GCN’ GPUs, it is aimed at notebook computers. AMD brands its chips that combine graphics and control processors ‘Accelerated Processing Units’ (APUs). Through close coupling through shared memory, the cores can share processing tasks – the CPU offloading ...

Intel will have to ship 20 million plus Atom-based ICs in H2 if it is to make its overall company revenue forecast of low single digit growth this year, says Bernstein Research.