Today, AWS announces the general availability of FLAC audio and animated GIF video input sources for AWS Elemental MediaConvert. These new input formats are compatible with all MediaConvert outputs. For example, you can convert lossless FLAC files into compressed audio formats like AAC, MP3, and Ogg Vorbis, or use FLAC files as sidecar audio sources to be joined with video files. Animated GIF inputs can be converted into higher-efficiency video streaming codecs like AVC and HEVC and distributed as standalone MP4 files or adaptive-bitrate streaming packages such as HLS or DASH.

OpenAi, the company which developed ChatGPT, is investing in startups which build on to of its models to address specific areas. OpenAI has a $100 million fund to invest and has invested in rwelve early stage startups. The chart shows CBI Insights’ view of areas in which the OpenAI’s investment fund may be spent.

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RC oscillators can be small or accurate, and now that can be both after Delft University of Technology*, Silicon Integrated and Tsinghua University revealed a 10MHz RC oscillator with ±0.28% accuracy over -45 to 125°V after a one-point trim, fabricated with a 0.01mm2 footprint in standard 0.18μm CMOS. The scheme avoids needing the need for …

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Fujitsu is conducting trials with Microsoft to verify the connectivity between Fujitsu’s 5G network technology and Microsoft Azure private MEC (Multi-Access Edge Compute). The trials, part of  Fujitsu’s broader efforts to co-create new business based on private 5G, started  at Fujitsu’s Collaboration Lab in Kawasaki and will continue  in Birmingham, UK, from March 2023. By …

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Prophesee, the French image sensor specialist,  is collaborating with Qualcomm to optimise Prophesee’s event-based Metavision sensors for use with Snapdragon  processors. Prophesee’s sensors claim to improve camera performance, particularly in fast-moving dynamic scenes (e.g. sport scenes) and in low light through its event-based continuous and asynchronous pixel sensing approach. Prophesee claims that it sensors allow machines to see …

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Keysight has bought Cliosoft and will add Cliosoft’s hardware design data and IP management software tools to Keysight’s EDA offering. Cliosoft’s primary focus has been managing design data, including functional IP blocks used in ICs. Cliosoft’s products expand Keysight’s EDA software offering to include process and data management (PDM) capabilities that have been adopted by …

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Earlier today Rapidus, the Japanese government-backed chip company, said it will build a $36.7 billion  2nm logic fab at Chitose City in Hokkaido Prefecture. The decision was announced by Rapidus President Koike Atsuyoshi (pictured) and the Governor  of Hokkaido, Suzuki Naomichi. The fab will  mass-produce 2nm ICs starting in 2027. Rapidus will develop the chips …

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Agile Analog, the customisable analogue IP specialist, has extended its range of data conversion IP with the introduction of the first customisable, process agnostic, 12-bit ADC. “We are pleased to introduce the latest product in our data conversion range, building on the success of our 8-bit and 10-bit ADCs,” says CEO Barry Paterson (pictured), “there …

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Lemo has put a dozen 26.5GHz coax contacts inside a high-reliability circular connector housing, sealed to IP68 when mated. Called LM.232, its signal paths are 50Ω, with a VSWR of ~1.2 from 5 to 15GHz, peaking to 1.4 at 18GHz. The contacts are designed to be terminated on LMR-100A, Multiflex 86, RG-174/U, RG-188 A/U or …

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Toshiba has introduced a brushless dc motor driver that supports ASIL-D for functional safety in vehicles. Designed in accordance with ISO 26262 (2nd edition) and AEC-Q100-qualified, TB9083FTG is aimed at electric power steering, electric braking and shift-by-wire transmissions. “A built-in fail-safe safety relay pre-driver complements the three-phase pre-driver,” according to the company, and the “SPI …

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