Measurements on Alif’s Ensemble MCU show a 76x increase in power efficiency per inference for image classification vs. Cortex-M55 alone, and 800x uplift in performance as compared to previous generation Cortex-M CPU cores.
MEMS
xMEMS Announces World’s First True MEMS Speaker, Montara, Is Now in Production
xMEMS Labs today announced the production of the world’s first monolithic MEMS µspeaker, Montara. Working closely with TSMC, the semiconductor foundry, Montara has passed all required performance and reliability qualifications.
Engineers 3D-Print Personalized, Wireless Wearables That Never Need a Charge
The new devices, custom made to fit individuals, could mean massive improvements in the monitoring and treatment of diseases, the testing of new drugs and the ability to track personal health.
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NeuroBlade Raises $83 Million in Series B Funding to Massively Accelerate Data Analytics
NeuroBlade, the next generation of data acceleration solutions, announced today that it has secured $83 million in Series B funding, bringing total invested capital to $110 million.
Global Semiconductor Sales Increase 29.7% Year-to-Year, 3.3% Month-to-Month in August
The Semiconductor Industry Association (SIA) today announced global semiconductor industry sales were $47.2 billion in the month of August 2021, an increase of 29.7% over the August 2020 total of $36.4 billion and 3.3% more than the July 2021 total of $45.7 billion.
Semtech and Sindcon Bring Smart Metering to the Singapore Zoo With LoRaWAN
Semtech Corporation (Nasdaq: SMTC), a global supplier of high performance analog and mixed-signal semiconductors and advanced algorithms, announced its collaboration with Sindcon (Singapore) IoT Technology Pte Ltd, one of the pioneering companies based in Singapore providing low power wide area network (LPWAN) Internet of Things (IoT) metering solutions.
Intel Advances Neuromorphic with Loihi 2, New Lava Software Framework and New Partners
Second-generation research chip uses pre-production Intel 4 process and grows to 1 million neurons. Intel adds open software framework to accelerate developer innovation and path to commercialization.
Wireless E-Tattoo for Pneumonia Aims to Transform Patient Monitoring
Pneumonia has emerged as a life-threatening complication of COVID-19, accounting for nearly half of all patients who have died from the novel coronavirus in the U.S. since the beginning of the pandemic. Even before the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic, pneumonia was responsible for more than 43,000 deaths in 2019.
Weebit Demonstrates Successful Scaling of its ReRAM Technology to 28nm
Weebit Nano Limited together with its development partner CEA-Leti, have demonstrated production-level parameters of Weebit’s Resistive Random-Access Memory (ReRAM) technology in a 28nm process.
