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A guy with impeccable AI credentials has dampened down some of the more over-heated expectations about the technology. Yann LeCun, the French holder of a Turing Prize, said that claims that AI will threaten humans are “preposterously ridiculous“. The idea that we “turn on a super-intelligent system that is going to take over the world …
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What’s the collective noun for satellites, packed ready for launch? How about a Nest? It looks like it in this image from the recent SpaceX Transporter-8 smallsat rideshare…
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2023 datacentre capex will fall 8% y-o-y with softness in the enterprise IT and hyperscaler markets, says Dell’Oro. “While data centre capex for the hyperscalers will decline significantly this year, we project some of the cloud service providers such as Microsoft and Google will continue to increase spending by double digits,” said Dell’Oro’scBaron Fung, “meanwhile, …
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Durham University is working with Viasat to better understand atmospheric turbulence in free-space optical (FSO) communications. The resulting forecasting tool will be used, the organisations say, to optimise Viasat’s ground station design and support operational decision-making such as network switching between ground stations based on atmospheric conditions. Specifically – for the first phases of the …
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In Q1 the enterprise segment of the WLAN market increased 43.3% y-o-y to reach $2.8 billion, says IDC. Wi-Fi 6 and Wi-Fi 6E, the newest standards in the WLAN industry, continue to drive growth in the enterprise segment of the market. Wi-Fi 6 Dependent Access Points (APs) made up 78.6% of dependent AP revenues. Meanwhile, …
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Hard on the heels of Intel’s announcements last week of a revived €20 billion two-fab deal in Germany and a €4.6 billion assembly and test plant in Poland, comes a $25 billion fab investment in Israel. The latest announcement came on TV from the Prime Minster of Israel Benjamin Netanyahu. He said it is the …
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Motor inverter maker Vitesco Technologies has signed a silicon carbide component supply deal with Rohm “worth over one billion US dollars until 2030”, according to the companies. This fruit was born of a development partnership started in 2020, leading to two unnamed automotive customers adopting Vitesco inverters built around Rohm SiC components, with “Vitesco supplying …
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Samsung is set to extended its ‘Self-Repair’ programme for phones to Europe, having launched it in the US last year and recently taken it to Korea. “Galaxy customers who wish to make their own device repairs can access the tools they need, including repair kits and genuine Samsung parts,” said the company. “The program supports …
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Intel is to team up with French lab CEA-Leti to put two-dimensional transition-metal dichalcogenides on 300mm wafers. The aim of the multi-year project is to develop a way to transfer layers of 2d material, grown on substrates up to 300mm, to a second substrate for transistor building. Intel will supply manufacturing expertise and CEA-Leti has …
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Persuading lithium-sulphur batteries to heal themselves is the aim of a European project which includes two UK institutions. This is another battery chemistry with great potential, but also a tendency to self-destruct and wear out. “Specific issues with Li-S include mechanical degradation – including electrode cracking or loss of electrical connectivity – and [both] chemical …
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