The latest news, developments and announcements from around the electronics industry.
Marvell has begun sampling its 3nm 1.6T optical DSP platform portfolio – Ara X, Ara T, Petra and Aquila M. They increase performance per watt by optimizing separately for each high-volume use case and introducing new capabilities, including: Ara T, the first 8x200G transmit-retimed optics (TRO) DSP, delivers improved power efficiency and reduced total cost of ownership in network deployments. ...
Axivion for CUDA has been announced by Qt Group as part of Nvidia’s Halos AI Systems Inspection Lab for automated safety checking of robots and autonomous vehicles. It provides continuous GPU/CPU code analysis measured against Nvidia guidelines and industry standards and generates the documentation needed by Halos for sign-off. It also enables the early detection of problematic issues to reduce ...
Posifa Technologies is introducing its PVC4001-C MEMS Pirani vacuum transducer, part of its PVC4000 series. The PVC4001 configuration combines a MEMS thermal conduction sensor, measurement electronics, a microprocessor, and an onboard barometric pressure sensor. This is within an ultra-compact PCB assembly with a connector-terminated wire harness, said the San Jose company. The device is aimed at portable digital vacuum gauges ...
Lancaster University and the micro:bit Educational Foundation are collaborating on a research hub, MIRL. It will address innovations in physical computing and digital education. MIRL stands for the micro:bit Innovation and Research Lab. Its work will centre on the BBC micro:bit, 11 million of which have been distributed in the last decade. The pocket-sized programmable computer, it is estimated, has ...
Surrey Satellite Technology (SSTL) is joining Lazuli, an initiative of the Eric and Wendy Schmidt Observatory System, which aims to deliver a privately funded telescope into deep space. Working as an industrial collaborator on the programme, SSTL will develop the spacecraft platform for the mission, which will carry the Lazuli space observatory out into deep space. Spectograph The observatory will ...
Elon Musk has said he will start building a fab in the next seven days. In a very brief announcement on X, he wrote: “Terafab Project launches in 7 days.” He’s starting small and hoping to end big. “We make a little fab and see what happens – make our mistakes at a small scale – and then we make ...
Honda has cancelled three US EV model launches – the Honda 0 Saloon, Honda 0 SUV and Acura RSX – and said it expected expenses and losses totalling $15.7 billion, reports the Nikkei. $8.1 billion of the losses will be taken in the current FY ending this month resulting in a loss of $4.3 billion for the FY – the ...
IBM has published a quantum‑centric supercomputing reference architecture – a blueprint for integrating quantum computing into modern supercomputing environments. IBM’s progress in extending useful quantum computing to HPC is discussed here. Technical detail about the first reference architecture for quantum-centric supercomputing is available here. The architecture shows how quantum processors (QPUs) can work alongside GPUs and CPUs, across on‑premises systems, ...
United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) is requesting input from interested parties on the World Intellectual Property Organisation (WIPO) Riyadh Design Law Treaty (RDLT), adopted by WIPO member states on November 22, 2024, in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. The RDLT aims to streamline the global system for protecting designs and helping designers to more easily obtain protection from their designs, ...
Ethernet switch sales in AI back-end networks more than tripled and accounted for more than two-thirds of datacentre switch sales in AI clusters during 2025, says Dell’Oro. “The growing size of AI clusters, combined with ongoing supply chain constraints, is driving the need for vendor diversity and therefore for Ethernet,” says Dell’Oro vice-president Sameh Boujelbene. “Amazon, Microsoft, Meta, Oracle and ...
