AI chip maker Hailo has introduced a 208Top/s PCIe processor card for implementing neural networks, and an entry-level version of its Halio-8 IC. The PCIe cards, called ‘Hailo-8 Century’, execute at 400frame/s/W on the ResNet50 benchmark model, said the company, and the highest-performance version can run the same benchmark at 10,000frame/s. Versions start at 52Top/s, and video processing applications are ...
Microprocessors
RISC-V Summit: Customisable vector unit
Semidynamics has announced a customisable vector unit for RISC-V processor cores, compliant with RISC-V vector specification 1.0. Vector unit are composed of several vector cores that perform multiple calculations in parallel. In this case, Semidynamics’ vector core can be tailored to support FP64, FP32, FP16, BF16, INT64, INT32, INT16 or INT8 data types depending on requirements – the longest word-length ...
Arm announces next GPU architecture for phones
Arm has announced its 5th generation of GPU architecture and the first GPUs to be designed on it – Immortalis-G720 for high-end phones, Mali-G720 and Mali-G620. The 5th generation is “designed as the most efficient GPU architecture that Arm has ever created [and] redefines parts of the graphics pipeline to reduce memory bandwidth enabling high geometry games and real-time 3D ...
A little more on: Cortex-X4, Arm’s most powerful core so far
Arm has announced its latest architecture, the 64bit-only Armv9.2, and three grades of processor built on it. At the top-end of single-thread performance will be Cortex-X4, then Cortex-A720 in the middle, and Cortex-A520 at the power-saving bottom. These can be mixed and matched in clusters of cores (example right). “We are not only delivering the highest performing Arm Cortex CPU ...
NXP adds single core Cortex-A55 options to under-pin i.MX 9 series
NXP has added low-end to its i.MX 9 series, with Linux-capable single core Arm Cortex-A55 application processor variants, running at up to 1.4GHz, without supporting microcontrollers. The existing i.MX 93 family has two A55s and a Cortex-M33, and the high-end i.MX 95 family has up to six A55s, an M33, a Cortex-M7 and an audio DSP. The new parts have ...
GPUs for wearables and TVs
Imagination Technologies has announced a series of smaller GPUs, but has not publicly released any technical details. Called CXM, at least some of them support 4K resolution, and at least some support 10bit RGBA and YUV ‘HDR (high dynamic range) operation. “CXM GPUs boast nearly 50% more performance in the same silicon area than IMG BXM cores,” according to the ...
64bit STM32 for secured industry 4.0
ST is offering SESIP Level 3 security certification in 64bit microprocessors aimed at industry-4.0, with industrial interfaces and edge AI acceleration. Called the STM32MP2 series, these are the first 64bit STM32 ICs (all before are 32bit), and the first of this series will be the STM32MP25, available with single or dual 1.5GHz 64bit Arm Cortex-A35 cores (up to 6,000 DMIPS), ...
Bluetooth LE SoC promises ‘multiple Arm Cortex-M33’ and RISC-V
Nordic Semiconductor has announced an SoCs for Bluetooth Low Energy, LE Audio, Bluetooth mesh, Thread and Matter with “multiple Arm Cortex-M33 processors, clocked up to 320MHz” and “multiple RISC-V coprocessors”, it said. Part of a forthcoming nRF54 series, the new IC, nRF54H20, will be fabricated on GlobalFoundries’ 22FDX process and “capable of supporting Bluetooth 5.4 and future Bluetooth specifications, plus ...
Embedded World: NFC reader, SESIP-Level 2 security and Cortex-M33 on one IC
Aiming at secure authentication, NXP has put an NFC reader on the same IC as SESIP-Level 2 security and an Arm Cortex-M33 with 180kbyte flash and 20kbyte ram. Dubbed PN7642, it was announced in Nuremberg at Embedded World this week. “NFC technology has become foundational to secure authentication, whether it’s verifying that the person standing at the front door has ...
Embedded World: AI vision processing for 12 cameras
In a second announcement in one day at Embedded World In Nuremberg, TI revealed Arm Cortex-A72-based microcontrollers for AI and vision processing with up to 12 cameras, for building, industrial and retail automation. AM62A3 and AM62A7 (and their ..-Q1 automotive cousins) support one to two cameras (up to 5Mpixel, streaming up to 4K30frame/s) at less than 2W for doorbell cameras ...
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