System-on-Chip (SoC) technology integrates multiple electronic functions onto a single silicon substrate, streamlining performance and efficiency in modern devices. SoCs are central to smartphones, automotive electronics, IoT, and industrial systems, combining CPUs, GPUs, memory, and interfaces. Leading semiconductor firms continue pushing process nodes and chip architectures for enhanced computing, lower power consumption, and AI acceleration. Recent breakthroughs include chiplets, heterogeneous computing, and domain-specific SoCs. Electronics Weekly delivers comprehensive SoC news, covering product launches, market trends, and global developments. Stay informed about how SoC innovation is transforming design capabilities and fueling intelligent electronics solutions across sectors. Discover the latest SoC insights.
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 ...
Silicon Labs has announced that the first SoC in its Series 3 family will be PSA-certified to Level 4. The company believed the SiXG301 will be the first PSA Level 4 iSE/SE -certified device. The certification is for hardware and software protection, using crytpographic algorithms and protects against higher level attacks, such as differential power analysis, in IoT and edge ...
Mouser is stocking a 2.2 x 3mm Bluetooth MCU from Renesas, which can run from a 1.55V silver oxide cell. Called DA14535, it is built around an Arm Cortex-M0+ and implements Bluetooth LE 5.3. “By adding six external passives, a crystal oscillator, a power source, plus a 2.4GHz antenna, designers can build a complete Bluetooth Low Energy system for applications ...
Calterah believes that the Dubhe UWB SoC series is the first to comply to IEEE 802.15.4ab (PHY/MAC). The 2T4R and 1T3R SoCs are CAL1106 and CAL1104 respectively. Junming Xiao, head of Calterah‘s UWB product line, explained that they support RF channels 5, 6, 8 and 9 and support time of flight (ToF), PDoA and TDoA (phase difference of arrival and ...
Embedded World 2025: Synopsys says its Virtualizer Native Execution prototyping tool will accelerate software development for edge devices. It extends the Virtualizer tool suite and model libraries to Arm hardware, allowing virtual prototypes to be built, executed and tested directly on Arm-based machines. The Native Element factor in the new tool means that users can execute virtual prototypes directly on ...
To be announced at Mobile World Congress in Barcelona, MediaTek has filled out its latest generation of phone processors. Positioned under its flagship Dimensity 9400 and premium 8400, the new 7400 and 7400X are optimised for gaming and AI camera processing. Built on TSMC’s 4nm process, both 7400 chips have an octa-core CPU: 4x 2.6GHz Arm Cortex-A78 cores and 4x ...
Fabless semiconductor company, MediaTek has signed a global distribution agreement with DigiKey. Products available for immediate shipment include MediaTek’s development boards, development kits and programmers, ICs and RF and wireless products. Taiwan’s MediaTek is the fifth largest fabless semiconductor company in the world, said DigiKey. Its portfolio includes SoCs for embedded systems, mobile devices, home entertainment, network and connectivity, automated ...
The third generation of general-purpose neural processing units (GPNPUs) by Quadric introduces pre-integrated clusters of two, four or eight cores to deliver up to 108 TOPS. This latest iteration has increased performance and optimisations for generative AI. the company has also introduced a safety enhanced version for automotive applications. The company described the Chimera QC series as NPUs with a ...
DAC 2024: The need to organise HDL hardware description language) tools in an era of chiplet design and higher abstraction and higher synthesis levels, Sigasi has introduced its Visual HDL portfolio, designed to correct inefficient HDL-based design workflows and reduce the number of iterations needed. The Belgium company explained that SVH (Sigasi Visual HDL) is an IDE (integrated development environment) ...
A two-chip cascading imaging radar system has been unveiled by Calterah, based on 6T-6R mmWave radar SoCs from Andes Technology. The 22nm CMOS SoCs, which will be available from June 2024, integrate an RF module and include a quad-core CPU with a DSP and proprietary radar signal processor. Flex-Cascading allows the two SoCs to be cascaded through chip-to-chip interfaces. This ...
