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…

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…

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…

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,…