KiloCore is a thousand core processor whose 621 million transistors execute 1.78 trillion instructions per second. Designed with an emphasis on low power operation by engineers at the University of California, the chip was fabricated by IBM on 32nm CMOS, and was revealed at the Symposium on VLSI Technology and Circuits in Honolulu. “To the best of …
Comment: Risks of buying off the internet
As purchases are increasingly made via the internet, never before has the packaging of electronic products and components, and their successful delivery through the supply chain, played such an important role in brand loyalty, writes Jean-Louis Evans of TÜV SÜD Product Service. As the delivery environment can be quite harsh, if a product or its packaging …
FTDI Chip adds to support for USB implementation
FTDI Chip has introduced two new board level products and a new IC to support engineers with comprehensive support when implementing USB into their embedded systems. The UMFTPD3A programmer module is designed specifically for use with the company’s development hardware and ICs containing either internal one-time programmable (OTP) memory or eFUSE logic (which are both …
The Big Play
As Peter Thiel’s book Zero to One points out there’s no point starting a business where there’s loads of competition. You can’t make money. Taxi-hailing apps are a business which has attracted a large number of competitors, yet Uber has raised $15 billion in backing. Don’t Uber’s backers realise that any cab company can run …
RoHS updates
Be aware there was (and may still be) a missing sentence in the consolidated version of EU ROHS in the EU website.
Testing the RF circuit for IoT success
Buzzwords like Industry 4.0, the internet of things (IoT), mobile computing, and cloud computing can currently be found in many headlines in magazines. The common theme throughout is the development of RF communications systems, writes Wolfgang Bartels of Rigol Technologies. Behind all these applications you will find the technologies like LTE, 3GPP, Wi-Fi, Bluetooth, ZigBee, …
Call for more support for London’s IoT start-ups
With London Technology Week taking place this week, Jim Bowes, CEO and co-founder of digital consultancy Manifesto, suggests ways London can encourage future growth in its internet of things (IoT) technology sector. The capital has been successful at attracting digital technology and software start-ups, but Bowes says more can be done to support research in …
Irish town networks LED street lights with Silver Spring mesh technology
The LED street light system in County Mayo also ties into smart utility meters as part of a broader IoT energy play.
Docker Datacenter on the AWS Cloud: Quick Start Reference Deployment
This Quick Start automates the deployment of Docker Datacenter (DDC) on the Amazon Web Services (AWS) cloud. Docker Datacenter is an end-to-end platform for agile application development and container management. It offers organizations a CaaS (containers as a service) solution for deploying their apps, both on premises and in the cloud.
Amazon EBS now supports cross-account copying of encrypted snapshots
Starting today, you can copy encrypted Amazon EBS snapshots between accounts, a capability previously supported only for unencrypted snapshots. Now you can easily copy encrypted snapshots between your development, test and production environments or between different department and project accounts. It also makes it easier for you to follow AWS security best practices which include copying encrypted snapshots to separately managed accounts, in the same or other regions, to provide an extra level of account isolation.