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Microchip’s SAM9X75D5M hybrid MCU SiP targets automotive HMIs

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Microchip’s AEC-Q100 Grade 2-qualified, SAM9X75D5M System-in-Package (SiP) addresses growing demand for Human-Machine Interfaces (HMIs) in automotive and e-mobility applications. Supporting sophisticated graphics and large display sizes (up to 10 inches with XGA resolution, 1024 × 768), the hybrid MCU SiP combines the MPU and memory into a single package. It features an Arm926EJ-S processor and 512 Mbit DDR2 SDRAM. Display ...

Direct Insight’s QSMP-20 SoM for smart devices sidesteps AI memory demand

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Direct Insight, the system-on-module (SoM) specialist, has released its STM32MP235C-based QSMP-20 module. It features higher availability DDR3L RAM to sidestep AI-driven lead time and supply issues. This is a solder-down QFN-style SoM, providing a drop-in, pin-compatible upgrade for the QSMP-15, the company highlights. And there is lower-cost DDR3 RAM with shorter lead times to avoid the ongoing AI-lead pressure on ...

Arm takes on Intel with proprietary server CPU

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Arm has designed its first production silicon proprietary CPU which sits, in the integration hierarchy, between Arm’s IP portfolio and its Compute Subsystems products. The processor, designated Arm AGI CPU, is targeted at agentic AI infrastructure. Arm says it delivers more than two-times performance per rack compared with x86 platforms. “Today marks the next phase of the Arm compute platform ...

Alibaba launches 5nm Risc-V CPU for inference

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Alibaba’s research arm, Damo Academy, has launched a Risc-V based CPU for AI inference, which can be customised to a user’s workload and is claimed to be the highest-performing Risc-V processor in the world. Called the XuanTie C950, it is a 5nm, 3.2GHz processor aimed at competing in the worldwide AI chip market. Alibaba CEO Eddie Wu says he is ...

Embedded: Ambient Scientific integrates 10 AI cores in GPX10 Pro

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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 ...

Nvidia announces seven Vera Rubin chips in volume production

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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 ...

Embedded: TI adds to edge-AI MCUs

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At Embedded World, TI  introduced two MCU families with edge AI capabilities. The MSPM0G5187 and AM13Ex MCUs integrate TI’s TinyEngine NPU accelerator for MCUs that optimises inference operations. Production quantities of the MSPM0G5187 MCU are available for purchase on TI.com, with the AM13E23019 MCU available in preproduction quantities. Additional package and memory variants will be released by the end of ...

A universal processor

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Ubitium of Dusseldorf, the developer of a universal embedded processor, has taped-out its first silicon. “Our Universal Processor does it all – CPU, GPU, DSP, FPGA – in one chip, one architecture,” says CEO Hyun Shin Cho. Ubitium believes that the wide variety of embedded processors can be replaced by a universal processor. Built on Samsung Foundry’s 8nm process using ...

Singapore shines as photonics centre as Asia Photonics Expo 2026 begins

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The importance of Singapore as a technology hub was reinforced today at the opening of the Asia Photonics Expo (APE) 2026. This year’s APE (4-6 February) is at Sands Expo and Convention Centre, Singapore. The three-day conference and exhibition will host more than 350 exhibitors, from 17 countries and regions and expects to welcome 6,000 guests from 50 countries. “The ...

Polyn taking orders for neuromorphic analogue processor

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Israeli startup Polyn Technology has got tested silicon of its Neuromorphic Analogue Signal Processing (NASP) technology and is ready to ship. The NASP platform employs trained neural networks in the analogue domain to perform AI inference with much lower power consumption than conventional digital neural processors. NASP chips with AI cores process sensor signals in their native analogue form in ...