Following closely behind Apple, Nvidia has announced a dual processor ‘superchip’ to boost CPU performance in data centre AI applications. The Grace ‘superchip’ combines two die with the NVLink-C2C interconnect to provide 144 high performance ARM v9 Neoverse cores and 1 Terabyte/s bandwidth to low power DDR5 memory in a…

A venture capital group in the US has launched its own ASIC design business to develop AI chips in a move that highlights the increasing move to vertical integration in the industry. McLaren Strategic Ventures (MSV) is hiring over 100 design engineers in India for the business, called Atlas Silicon,…

Facebook-owner Meta has completed its first subsea data cable using an aluminium conductor rather than copper. The Havingsten subsea cable system runs from Ireland to Denmark and uses a combination of non-repeated and multi-segment links for the optical fibres, with the repeaters powered by the aluminium conductor. Meta worked with…

Arduino has launched a nine core system-on-module (SoM) with industrial support for edge AI, its first to use ARM’s Cortex-A applications processor. The Portenta X8 SoM measures 66.04 x 25.40 mm and combines NXP’s popular i.MX 8M Mini processor with the STM32H747XI with 2 GBytes of Low Power LPDDR4 DRAM…