The support or use of AI (artificial intelligence) in electronics, including ML (machine learning), whether in software (supervised, unsupervised or reinforcement learning tools) or hardware (accelerators, GPUs, etc).
Mistral AI, the French AI developer, says it has taken on debt of $830 million to run a datacentre. The datacentre, at Bruyeres-le-Chatel near Paris, is used to train of AI models using 13,800 Nvidia GB300 AI ICs, with operations expected to start in Q2. The $830 million has been borrowed from a consortium of banks including: HSBC, Mitsubishi UFJ, ...
Two-year-old startup Starcloud has raised $170m at a $1.1bn valuation to put datacentres in space. “By moving AI compute to space, we unlock access to unlimited solar power and completely remove the energy bottleneck,” says Philip Johnston, co-founder and CEO of Starcloud, who is an alumnus of Imperial College. Investors were: Benchmark, EQT Ventures, Macquarie Capital, NFX, Nebular, Y Combinator, ...
Imec has given Jensen Huang, founder and CEO of Nvidia, its 2026 Lifetime of Innovation Award. The honour recognises Huang’s instrumental role in enabling accelerated computing technologies and empowering critical AI applications across industries – fuelled by the invention of the GPU. The award ceremony, including a video interview with Huang, will be held on 19 May, during imec’s ITF ...
Q4 spending on cloud infrastructure services reached $110.9bn, led by AWS, MS and Google, for y-o-y growth of 29%, says Omdia. Q4 was the sixth consecutive quarter in which the market expanded by more than 20%. Omdia forecasts that 2026 cloud infrastructure services spending will grow by 27%. During Q4, AWS’s growth accelerated to 24%, while Microsoft Azure and Google ...
AI is creeping into orbit and being used to predict where emergency services will be needed, accelerating responses compared to traditional satellite monitoring, said Dr Rajan Bedi, CEO and founder of Spacechips. In the latest episode of Electronics Weekly’s CHIIPs podcast, Bedi explains orbit AI machine learning is a focus for the company which designs and develops hardware for satellites ...
Synaptics is introducing its SYN765x single-chip device for using AI at the edge with smart IoT devices. It combines support for real-time intelligence with integrated Wi-Fi 7, aiming at battery-powered smart IoT devices, home automation systems, and Industrial IoT (IIoT). As well as the Wi-Fi 7, it integrates Bluetooth LE 6.0, and Thread/Zigbee across 2.4, 5 and 6GHz bands. And ...
The GPX10 Pro SoC has 10 programmable AI cores for a custom instruction set and is based on Ambient Scientific’s proprietarty DigAn architecture and MAC circuit design. The chip’s AI engine supports a variety of neural networking model types, including CNNs, RNNs, LSTMs and GRUs, locally at the edge. According to Ambient Scientific, the SoC offers up to 100x improvements ...
Siemens Digital has brought out the Fuse EDA AI Agent system, an autonomous AI agent that plans and orchestrates multi-tool and multi-agent complex semiconductor, 3D IC and PCB system workflows that span across design, verification and manufacturing sign-off. Supporting Nvidia Agent Toolkit, advanced Nemotron models and Nvidia AI infrastructure, the Fuse EDA AI Agent manages workflows across Siemens’ EDA portfolio, ...
NVIDIA today announced the NVIDIA Vera Rubin platform is opening the next frontier of agentic AI, with seven new chips now in full production. They are: the NVIDIA Vera CPU, NVIDIA Rubin GPU, NVIDIA NVLink;6 Switch, NVIDIA ConnectX-9 SuperNIC, NVIDIA BlueField-4 DPU and NVIDIA Spectrum-6 Ethernet switch, as well as the newly NVIDIA Groq 3 LPU. Designed to operate together ...
Axelera AI is adding Kudelski Labs’ security IP to its Europa AI chip for secure, high-performance Edge AI processing. It will support, for example, secure activation and real-time threat detection capabilities. Specifically, it has integrated the Kudelski Secure Enclave (KSE3) into its Europa processor unit (AIPU). The system is designed to protect advanced inference workloads within demanding edge environments. Possible ...
