5G Technology shift arrives in automotive
Published in Transportation
Wednesday, 16 June 2021 21:20

5G Technology shift arrives in automotive


Qualcomm remains committed to helping Europe

A week ago, Alex Rogers, executive vice president and president of Qualcomm Technology Licensing (QTL), was one of the keynote speakers at the Beyond the Mobile Phone virtual conference.

Xilinx Introduces Kria Portfolio of Adaptive System-on-Modules
Published in AI


For Accelerating Innovation and AI Applications at the Edge

Xilinx has been massively expanding its portfolio, and it wants to address a new market with Kria branded adaptive system on modules (SOMs). These modules can save a lot of time to market and enable partners to bring their products to the end customers.

Mavenir and Xilinx have started a 5G focused collaboration
Published in Mobiles



To bring Open RAN Massive MIMO portfolio

Mavenir and Xilinx have formed a collaboration to accelerate the Open RAN ecosystem with a leading Open RAN massive MIMO 5G portfolio. The partnership will hopefully result in a successfully integrated Massive MIMO end-to-end using Open RAN principles, and it will introduce the first Massive MIMO 64TRX product expected in late 2021.

FTC did not appeal against Qualcomm to the Supreme Court
Published in Mobiles


Decided not to pursuit 
 

The four year legal battle is over. The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) has decided not to appeal the 9th Circuit's decision, against the claim that Qualcomm's business model and practice were anti-competitive. To refresh your memory, the verdict that included a vote from three judges was unanimous in Qualcomm's favor.

LG is shutting down mobile phone business worldwide
Published in Mobiles


Stepping away from manufacturing and sales

LG has sent a press release and informed its belloved fans and customers that it plans to close its mobile business unit. The company wants to focus on growth sectors, including EVs, IoT, and B2B Solutions.

Xilinx launches new Artix and Zynq targeting smart and high-performance edge endpoints
Published in AI


New Artix and Zynq UltraScale+ families

We are living in times of massive explosion of the necessity for smart edge computing endpoints. Miniaturization of the endpoint and the need for higher performance at lower power drive next-generation computing devices that require a dramatically smaller form factor. Xilinx has just announced the new Artix, and Zynq UltraScale+ families address the need for smaller form factor enabling lower power hardware programmability and high performance.

Xilinx video analytics has 71 percent lower latency than Nvidia T4
Published in AI


29 percent lower TCO than four Nvidia T4 system  

SmartNIC SN1000 is the MWC shows' keynote thing, but Xilinx also announced a new smart world "AI video analytics", that claims to be a new algorithmic trading framework, and the new Xilinx App store.

Nvidia RTX card shortage expected throughout the year
Published in Graphics


Nvidia's spokesperson just confirmed

Nvidia has addressed a few questions regarding its record Q4/FY2021 financial conference call mentioned in detail here, and gave some updates on the GPU shortage, and mentioned the mining card strategy.

Xilinx introduces its Alveo SN1000 SmartNIC
Published in Network
Thursday, 25 February 2021 17:19

Xilinx introduces its Alveo SN1000 SmartNIC


The Industry’s First SmartNIC with Composable Hardware

Xilinx made quite a few announcements with a general idea of how to help revolutionize a modern Data Center with software defined, hardware accelerated Alveo SmartNICs. The big news includes the new Alveo SN1000 SmartNIC card.

Pat Gelsinger is the new Intel CEO
Published in PC Hardware
Friday, 15 January 2021 18:44

Pat Gelsinger is the new Intel CEO


Analysis:
Rejoins as a CEO after 12 years of absence

Back in mid-September 2009, we were sad to report that Kicking Pat Gelsinger was leaving Intel to take the CEO chair at EMC, later VMware. Now one of the key minds behind Pentium is coming back to the place that he still calls home, Intel.