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Sense and Sensibility: How Capacitive Sensing Helps Robotics Get a Grip
3+ hour, 28+ min ago (156+ words) EE Times In this episode of the Silicon Grapevine podcast, we discuss the emerging yet critical discipline of multimodal sensing for robotics. Humanoids can see, hear, and reason. However, until they can "feel," they can't truly work alongside us. The…...
Turkey Needs to Make Its Own Chips, Not Just Design Them
6+ hour, 22+ min ago (665+ words) When Russia invaded Ukraine in 2022, one of the very first Western responses was not military. It was to cut the country off from advanced semiconductors. That should tell every government something simple and uncomfortable: In a serious crisis, the chips…...
Panel with Arteris, Global Foundries, Tenstorrent: RISC-V Ecosystem Growth for Physical AI
3+ day, 1+ hour ago (111+ words) EE Times Nitin Dahad moderates a panel, "RISC-V Ecosystem growth for Physical AI," with Gabriel Lin of Arteris, Sudipto Bose of Global Foundries, and Mamoru Nakano of Tenstorrent at the MIPS "Physical AI is Agentic AI at the Edge" event…...
Vidya Rajagopalan's Engineering Journey to Automotive Systems
5+ day, 17+ hour ago (374+ words) Vidya Rajagopalan: A Problem-Solving Engineering Journey from Processors to Systems and Automotive EE Times Vidya Rajagopalan: A Problem-Solving Engineering Journey from Processors to Systems and Automotive In this episode of the Silicon Grapevine video series, Vidya Rajagopalan, senior VP of…...
Open AI's Jalape'o Is Spicy, but Its AI Chip Design Sizzles
1+ week, 5+ hour ago (284+ words) In possibly the worst-kept secret in the industry, Open AI has been working on its own custom-designed AI inference chip. The chip, named Jalape'o, will be deployed "at Gigawatt scale with data center partners over multiple generations," according to a…...
UL Class Fuse Series for Modern AI Infrastructure
1+ week, 2+ day ago (631+ words) Vicfuse Introduces UL Class Fuse Series for Modern AI Infrastructure and Industrial Protection EE Times Vicfuse Introduces UL Class Fuse Series for Modern AI Infrastructure and Industrial Protection Industrial power systems rarely operate under uniform conditions. Protection requirements can vary…...
The Rise of Autonomous Drone Warfare
1+ week, 20+ hour ago (778+ words) Five years ago, the idea of launching 1, 000 drones in a single night would have sounded like science fiction. Today, it is reality over Ukraine. Russia has industrialized drone warfare at extraordinary scale, mass-producing cheap, autonomous attack drones and launching them…...
Si Ma Launches Agentic Development Environment for Physical AI
2+ week, 2+ day ago (717+ words) Edge AI chip company Si Ma. ai has launched an agentic development environment designed for developers of physical AI systems working with the company's Modalix MLSo C chip. Part of the company's Palette SDK, Palette Neat, combines an execution library…...
AMD Snaps MEXT to Break the Memory Wall
2+ week, 2+ day ago (585+ words) The memory wall is real, and AMD's acquisition of predictive memory technology specialist MEXT is a testament to the premise that AI scaling is increasingly a memory problem, not just a compute problem. AMD, which sells CPUs and GPUs for…...
Global Foundries First to Support AI Scale-Up OCI MSA
2+ week, 2+ day ago (661+ words) Global Foundries expects to be the first with silicon to support the Optical Compute Interconnect Multi-Source Agreement (OCI MSA), an open standard that will let AI data center operators connect GPUs from different suppliers, Global Foundries senior fellow Vikas Gupta…...