What you probably know about McLaren is that it makes Formula 1 cars.What you might not know,is that it designs and makes embedded processor systems. Every car in Formula 1,every US Indy car,and every US NASCAR,has an engine control ...
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Australian milk processors have announced that they would not be adding the by-product permeate to their branded products,in response to public concern over the use of the additive. Permeate is the liquid left behind after milk is ...
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AMD's latest embedded G-Series processor is an x86 based device with a graphics accelerator and with power consumption of 2.3W on average or 4.5 watts thermal design power (TDP). AMD also said it is extending the planned availability for ...
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Cree Inc of Durham,NC,USA has released a new suite of Verilog-A proprietary nonlinear device models for its gallium nitride(GaN)RF devices(available free to Cree's RF customers),developed for use with leading RF design platforms from ...
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IBM has climbed back to the top of the global supercomputer list with Sequoia,a 1,572,864 core BlueGene/Q system installed at the US Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory-which has achieved 16.32Pflop/s on the Linpack benchmark. ...
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While the CPU market is growing in single digit percentages,the applications processor market is growing at 40%a year and,by 2015,the value of the markets will match at around$33-34bn,according to Nomura. With ARM-based processors ...
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South Africa-dBTechnologies has announced the appointment of Viva Afrika Sound&Light(Pty)Ltd as the exclusive distributor for all product lines in the territory of sub-Sahara Africa. Director Bernhard Pienaar comments,"dBTechnologies ...
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UK-Sennheiser UK has announced that,from 1 June 2012,it will be the official distributor for Avalon Design products in the UK and Ireland. Used in many of the world's top recording studios,Avalon products include rackmount ...
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The next generation of supercomputers will require a radical re-think in technology, as computer design begins to run up against the limits of Moore's law. Research is underway around the world to develop supercomputers containing ...
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By synchronizing 98 tiny cameras in a single device,electrical engineers from Duke University and the University of Arizona have developed a prototype camera that can create images with unprecedented detail.The camera's resolution is five ...
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Freescale has designed core-agnostic packet-handling hardware for its QorIQ network processors,allowing it to introduce ARM-based network chips alongside its traditional PowerPC-types. Layerscape,as the packet architecture will be ...
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UK-Adlib ampedit up for DJ David Guetta at his recent high-energy London Alexandra Palace show,over the Queen's Jubilee Weekend. Adlib supplied Guetta's successful 2011 UK tour for production manager Alan Green and his FOH sound ...
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High-reliability must be combined with low power design for space systems which is why choice of an IP processor core can be critical,writes Chris RobertsChips used in space,cars and medical devices face some of the harshest operating ...
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Do not get hung up on the need for high functionality ARM processor-based system-on-chip devices,there is still a lot of action in the low and mid-range of the market,writes Douglas Hunter corporate v-p marketing at Lattice Semiconductor ...
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Japan's K computer,ranked last year as the world's most powerful supercomputer,is expected to drive breakthroughs in engineering,medicine and science when it enters live operation in October. The machine,developed by Fujitsu and Japan's ...
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