The AWS Deep Learning AMIs  for Ubuntu  and Amazon Linux  now come with Chainer 5.0 , which includes support for Python 3.6 and iDeep 2.0. As with other frameworks, Deep Learning AMIs offer optimized builds of Chainer 5.0 that are fine-tuned and fully-configured for high performance deep learning on Amazon EC2 CPU and GPU instances.

ON Semiconductor has extended its RSL10 family of Bluetooth 5 certified radio SoCs with support for the Bluetooth SIG mesh networking standard. Standardised Bluetooth mesh networking is supported with the ON Semiconductor Mesh release, enabling many-to-many device communications. Device manufacturers can now deploy large-scale, low-power Bluetooth mesh networks for applications such as smart home, building automation …

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Everyone knows that GDP, stock markets and economies will resume growth when the US and China resolve their trade spat and the UK and EU resolve Brexit. So it’s extraordinary that stubborn men – it’s usually men – don’t get all this stuff settled and let the world get on with life.  First however, we …

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Flex Logix’ NMAX Neural Inferencing Engine, which  delivers 1 to >100 TOPS of neural inferencing capacity, is available for licensing. NMAX is described as a modular, scalable architecture that requires a fraction of the DRAM bandwidth of existing neural inferencing solutions. Put is a general purpose Neural Inferencing Engine which can run any type of …

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Mouser has entered into a distribution agreement with Sudo Systems and becomes an authorized distributor of the  SudoProc system-on-module (SoM). The module is a custom-designed, solderable module small enough to fit in designs with limited space. The module is based on a Rockchip RK3288 processor – a 1.8GHz, quad-core Arm Cortex–A17 system-on-chip (SoC) with a 600 MHz …

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The first half of 2018 started out with strong quarterly year-over-year growth for the IC market, however, 3Q year-over-year IC market growth dropped to 14%. Moreover, with the softening of the memory market, IC Insights projects that year-over-year IC market growth in 4Q will be only 6%.   Figure 1 Third quarter sequential growth confirms …

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Apple had calendar Q3 revenues of $62.9 billion – up 20% on Q317. Services revenue reached an all-time high of $10 billion. “We’re thrilled to report another record-breaking quarter that caps a tremendous fiscal 2018, the year in which we shipped our 2 billionth iOS device, celebrated the 10th anniversary of the App Store and …

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17 years ago we asked some of the industry’s glitterati what were their most prized possessions. This was the list of Sir Robin Saxby: “My most prized item is an AMI Jukebox,” said Sir Robin, “its innards are totally mechanical, with mechanical memory, record selection and programming, yet it replicates what we now call digital …

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Samsung has agreed to compensate workers with payouts of up to £100,000 for diseases and death caused by the chemicals used in fabs. The death of Hwang Yumi, a 23-year-old Samsung fab employee, has provoked the settlement after a ten year campaign by her father Hwang Sang-ki. Back in 2007, Hwang set up a group …

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