2016-08-23 - Kevin Krewell

AMD’s Zen edges out 8-core, 3GHz Intel Broadwell E

AMD has shown desktop and server versions of chips using its new Zen CPU core, and to say the results…

2016-08-22 - Analog Devices

Analog Devices buys cybersecurity unit of Sypris Electronics

With this transaction, ADI enhances its aerospace and defence capabilities in the area of secure radio communications.

2016-08-19 - Vivek Nanda

Cypress USB-C controllers support Power Delivery 3.0

Programmable, EZ-PD chips now support the latest USB-IF spec for a new class of charge-through dongles and docks.

2016-08-19 - Vivek Nanda

44% of smartphone owners plan buying new devices in 6 months

Strategy Analytics says 44% of smartphone owners plan on replacing their devices in 6 months. For a company, like Apple,…

2016-08-18 - Vivek Nanda

Fujitsu uses GPU parallelisation to speed deep learning

Using "AlexNet," 64 GPUs in parallel have achieved 27x the speed of a single GPU for what Fujitsu is claiming…

2016-08-12 - Graham Prophet

Surface traps can pave way for quantum computers

According to MIT researchers, built-in optics could enable chips that use trapped ions as quantum bits.

2016-08-12 - Graham Prophet

Designing on-chip optical components for quantum computers

With the prototype chip, the researchers were evaluating the performance of the diffraction gratings and the ion traps.

2016-08-11 - None

Bridging the digital divide with IT in classrooms

Programmes are now being launched to bring technology in underprivileged classrooms and rural areas to promote alternative learning systems.

2016-08-01 - University of Utah, University of Minnesota

Oxide combo boosts power semi performance

Gallium nitride is often used for transistors in power supplies, but that has been explored for many years and likely…

2016-08-01 - Gary Hilson

Production-ready DDR4 PHY delivers 3.2Gbps data rate

Rambus is looking to meet the needs of the Facebooks and Instagrams of the world as their data centre requirements…