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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).

Camera reference design delivers 4K AI inference

Altera camera reference design AI

The 4Kp30 multi-sensor camera reference design is by Altera and designed for its Agilex 5 FPGAs. It uses industry-standard MIPI connectivity: D-PHY and MIPI CSI-2 for the FPGA interface and Altera’s FPGA AI tool for smart camera development to develop glass-to-glass edge vision for smart cameras, with real-time 4K AI interference. The MIPI interface supports up to 2.5Gbps per lane ...

Why baby monitors must respect privacy in the age of AI

Max Simmonds

Products dealing with children’s data should safeguard their data, urges Max Simmonds When my daughter was born, I was struck by a dilemma: I could either buy a basic ‘dumb’ baby monitor that kept our data private but did little more than relay sound and video, or I could buy a ‘smart’ monitor full of AI features that demanded I ...

GlobalFoundries-onsemi partnership to develop 200mm GaN portfolio

onsemi Dinesh Ramanathan Global Foundries

Globalfoundries (GF) and onsemi have signed an agreement to develop and manufacture advanced GaN power products using GF’s 200mm eMode GaN-on-silicon process. The focus for initial development will be 650V power devices for AI datacentres, electric vehicles, renewable energy, industrial systems,  aerospace, defence and security. “This collaboration brings together onsemi’s system and product expertise with GlobalFoundries’ advanced GaN process to ...

Rapidus launches design tools

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Rapidus has announced  a suite of AI design tools to support its Rapidus AI-Assisted Design Solution (Raads), a key initiative to helping to realise its Rapid and Unified Manufacturing Service (RUMS) concept. The technology approach will also be rebranded to Rapidus AI-Agentic Design Solution with multiple tools being released starting in 2026 and will be provided to customers together with ...

Sponsored Content: Data centre boom gets underway in the UK

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AI is powering rapid growth in new data centre capacity placing supply chains under pressure to meet demand. Artificial intelligence (AI) is revolutionising all aspects of our lives and society including how we work and how we learn. Recognising their potential to power UK economic growth, the Government has designated data centres as critical national infrastructure (CNI) alongside energy, water ...

Avnet Silica signs EMEA franchise agreement with DEEPX

Edge AI distribution

Avnet Silica has announced a franchise agreement with South-Korean hardware and software manufacturer, DEEPX. DEEPX produces low power AI accelerators for edge devices. According to Avnet Silica, the new signing “significantly bolsters” its AI offering and addresses growing customer demand for low power, AI for edge devices. The portfolio includes the DX-M1 AI processor, which delivers 25 TOPS and the ...

US Congress introduces ‘No Robot Bosses’ Bill

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Congressman Chris Deluzio of Pennsylvania, congresswoman Suzanne Bonamici of Oregon and congressman James Moylan of Guam-American Samoa reintroduced legislation to protect workers from AI-based discrimination and strengthen transparency in management and hiring decisions. The No Robot Bosses Act would fight back against discrimination from AI-based hiring tools by adding protections for job applicants and employees related to automated decision systems. ...

CDS releases touchscreen displays powered for on-device AI functions

CDS Nebula AI touchscreen displays

The Nebula AI series of touchscreen displays by Glory Star is now available from Crystal Display Systesm (CDS). Three sizes are offered – 10.1, 15.6 and 21.5-inch. They are powered by quad-core Cortex-A72/Cortex-A53 CPUs for multi-tasking and inference applications and have an integrated 6TOPS neural processing unit (NPU) for AI operations such as facial recognition, object tracking, text-to-speech and posture ...

‘Designless’ company category set to join fabless

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Ricursive Intelligence, which aims to add ‘designless’ to fabless, has raised $35 million in a seed round led by Sequoia. The company’s designless mission aims to replicate the 1980s coining of the term fabless for companies which only did design not fabbing. The company’s founders Anna Goldie and Azalia Mirhoseini (pictured) previously designed chips for Google and reckon they have ...

AWS adopting NVLink for its custom silicon

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AWS will support Nvidia NVLink Fusion for deploying its custom silicon, including Trainium4 chips for inference and agentic AI model training, Graviton CPUs for a broad range of workloads and the Nitro System virtualization infrastructure. Using NVLink Fusion, AWS will combine  NVLink scale-up interconnect and the Nvidia MGX rack architecture with AWS custom silicon to increase performance and accelerate time to ...