Electronics Weekly Electronics Design & Components Tech News
The Electronics Weekly team share some fingerposts – their picks of the week, in terms of announcements, developments, product releases, quotes or anything else in the wide world of electronics that caught their eye…
Caroline Hayes, editor
What caught my eye was the Nvidia Blackwell GPU sharing the Hopper architecture but ramping up performance. Named after mathematician and gaming theorist, David Blackwell, it delivers 20 PFLOPS (FP4) or 10PFLOPS FP8 of AI performance on a single GPU.
David Manners, components editor
What caught my eye this week was the US government making an $19.5bn financial subsidy to Intel after delays in awarding Chips Act money.
Steve Bush, technology editor
A high-powered academic team in China has created a deceptively simple 10μW environmental energy harvester – basing it on a ‘drinking bird’ toy powered by the evaporation of water. To do this, they found a way to build a triboelectric generator with miniscule additional friction.
Alun Williams, web editor
Astrolight is bringing space laser communications to ship-to-ship communications, for the Lithuanian navy.
