AMD introduces Ryzen 2nd Gen up for pre-order
Ahead of its April 19th release, AMD is now offering pre-orders for their 2nd Generation, Ryzen 2000 family, desktop processors.
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Qualcomm introduces a new Vision Intelligence Platform
Going after the growing intelligent IoT market, Qualcomm is introducing a new Vision Intelligence Platform for accelerating camera vision processing in smart IoT applications.
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Intel unleashes 8th Gen Core Coffee Lake lineup
Intel unveils the full 8th Generation Core desktop and mobile microprocessors lineup based on their latest Coffee Lake microarchitecture.
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ISSCC 2018: Intel’s Self-Powered Intelligent IoT Edge Mote
A look at Intel’s tiny intelligent IoT edge mote operating at near-threshold voltage and harvesting solar energy for charging. Equipped with sensors and an SoC with hardware to accelerate convolutional neural networks (CNNs), the chip collects environmental sensory data and captures images which are classified on-chip and sent to a data center in order to improve and optimize agricultural fields.
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ISSCC 2018: MIT’s low-power hardware crypto RISC-V IoT processor
In recent years, IoT devices have been plagued with security issues. Memory and energy constraints of those low-power devices mean there is very little headroom for complex security implementations. At ISSCC 2018, a team of MIT researchers has attempted to address this problem with their low-power fully in-hardware crypto engine IoT RISC-V processor.
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The RISC-V momentum continues with the GAP8, a new IoT/AI Application Processor
The RISC-V momentum continues with the the launch of the GAP8, an IoT/AI ultra-low power application processor by GreenWaves, a France-based startup. The chip is designed for lengthy autonomous battery-powered edge/IoT inference operations.
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AMD launches EPYC Embedded 3000 and Ryzen Embedded V1000 SoCs
After covering the server and PC markets, AMD has ventured into the edge-computing and embedded market with their latest Zen microarchitecture with the launch of two low-power embedded microprocessor families.
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Intel launches the Xeon D-2100 series of low-power edge processors
Intel has launched the Xeon D-2100 series of microprocessors based on the Skylake server microarchitecture for networking, storage, IoT, and cloud edge servers.
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X-Gene 3 gets a second chance at Ampere with a new 32-core 16nm ARM processor
After being sold to Macom in 2016, the X-Gene 3 is getting a second chance at Ampere with their announcement of their new 32-core 16nm ARM microprocessor.
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Zhaoxin launches their highest-performance Chinese x86 chips
Zhaoxin has launched the highest-performance domestic Chinese x86 chips based on the WuDaoKou microarchitecture. Zhaoxin new chips are a brand new SoC design featuring higher performance cores, a new DDR4 memory controller and integrated graphics.
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