AI

The  2024 PC and tablet market will grow 3.8% to 403.5 million units in 2024, says IDC. Tablets are expected to grow 9.8% this year and PCs are expected to grow 0.8%. Next year,  PCs are expected to grow 4.3% with the commercial segment of the market growing 5.1%. AI is not yet featuring as a purchase motivator. “There seems ...

Broadcom is shipping its 3.5D eXtreme Dimension System in Package (XDSiPTM) platform technology which enables consumer AI customers to develop  custom accelerators (XPUs). The 3.5D XDSiP integrates more than 6000 mm2 of silicon and up to 12 high bandwidth memory (HBM) stacks in one packaged device to enable high-efficiency, low-power computing for AI at scale. Broadcom says it has launched ...

Nvidia made a profit of $19.3 billion on sales up 94% y-o-y at $35.1 billion in the quarter to the end of October. For the current quarter Nvidia is forecasting  revenue growth of 69.5% y-o-y to reach $37.5 billion. Datacentre sales grew 112% y-o-y to $30.77 billion compared to 154% y-o-y growth in the previous quarter. “The age of AI ...

Dave Doherty, president of DigiKey, was philosophical about the future of the electronics market at electronica. We met in Munich a week after the US presidential election result was announced. The market is cyclical, he said. “We can’t foresee Q1 or Q2 but clearly we are at the start of the next upcycle,” he told Electronics Weekly. The election result ...

A telecoms network with servers integrated into the cell-towers to enable them to run AI networks is the aim of a collaboration between Nvidia and Softbank. In trials, SoftBank has demonstrated that its Nvidia-accelerated AI-RAN technology achieves carrier-grade 5G performance while running AI inference workloads. “Our cell towers used to just carry bits for telecommunication and internet surfing,” says Masayoshi ...

Driven by AI requirements, datacentres will need 160% more electricity in the next two years, says Gartner. Gartner estimates the power required to run incremental AI-optimised servers will reach 500 terawatt-hours (TWh) per year in 2027, which is 2.6 times the level in 2023. By 2027: reckons Gartner, 40% of data centres will be operationally constrained by power shortages and ...

Wise design decisions will make the smart home brilliant. Ankur Tomar sheds some light on the smart home. First there was clapping to activate light switches, then voice-activated speakers taking song requests and now, with the explosion of AI, smart homes are progressing to the next level. There are thousands of smart home examples, planned and yet to be imagined. ...

Japanese automotive component supplier Denso, has signed a development license agreement with Californian startup, Quadric for a neural processing unit (NPU). The agreement means Denso will acquire the IP core license for Quadric’s Chimera general purpose NPU (GPNPU). Both companies will co-develop IP for an in-vehicle semiconductor for use in intelligent vehicle systems (ADAS and AD/self-driving) and inter-vehicle and cloud ...

Tokyo University of Science has trained AI with years of electrochemical research results to predict better electrode materials for sodium-ion battery positive electrodes. Sodium-ion batteries are seen as a lower cost alternative to lithium-ion batteries, for grid storage, for example, but the large sodium ions are difficult to store. The university is looking into a class of compounds called transition-metal ...

As powerful new technologies have emerged, the transformation in chip design has accelerated in recent years. Jim Cantele explores five key trends shaping chip design today. The first trend is reproducible flows. They offer several significant advantages and enhance efficiency, reliability and success in the design and manufacturing processes. These flows ensure the same design process yields consistent outcomes every ...