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Open source artificial intelligence tool 'Braid' by a start-up
Artificial Intelligence (AI) start-up Arya.ai has announced the release of 'Braid', an OpenSource tool to build intelligence quickly into systems. The meta-framework helps researchers to rush the process of building compound Deep Neural Networks. AI is explored as a radical method for building inte
3 min readUse of Microcontroller chips in embedded computer market to grow faster
Allied Market Research has reported the world embedded computing market is likely to generate revenue of $236.5 billion by 2022, with an estimated CAGR of 6.2% from 2016 to 2022. Though both microprocessor, microcontroller and also some types of SoCs power the hardware of embedded computer market, A
3 min readFull HD over USB: Demo by DisplayLink connecting four 4K HD monitors
HDMI is more or less ubiquitous display interface in notebook computers, monitors, modern televisions and also in some of the smart phones. The well accepted HDMI interface lacks from ability to connect multiple monitors to single connector. DisplayPort is another equally good video display interfa
3 min readWhen every needy-one has smartphone,PC, and HDTV; VR gets in with spiky growth
If you look at the yester years of electronics growth, it was the consumer electronics which was a big pie of opportunity in the form of radio and TV receivers, and then came the personal computer, notebook, followed by Internet which could enable further growth of personal computers. After the Inte
5 min readVLSI design companies press the throttle lever of cache coherent interconnect tech
These days from supercomputers to smart phones, computing accelerators such as graphic accelerators are helping to improve the computing speed. There is significant amount of digital data such as high-definition video, big data, search engine, 5G data, where DSP or FPGA can analyse and process faste
2 min readLenovo to make enterprise products for its Europe customers in Hungary
Lenovo finds advantages in manufacturing its enterprise application computer system products in Europe for its customers in Europe. Lenovo said it will begin manufacturing enterprise products for EMEA customers in Europe, the products including x86 servers, and the full range of storage and n
2 min readPersonal computer still remains a top computing platform
Although there is significant increase in the use of mobile phones and tablet computers, personal computers are still a mainstream computing platform. The large screen and high performance computing performance by PCs cannot be matched by tablet computers. There are a lot of applications where ta
4 min readTop three vendors of tablet computers in India: iBall, Samsung and Datawind
IDC reported Indian tablet market grew at a healthy 23% in Q2 2015, recovering from a slow start in Q1. In Q2 2015, India tablet market clocked 1.04 million unit shipments with 22% growth over same period last year and year-to-date growth of 15%. This was mainly due to BIS certifications deadline o
4 min readGartner: Worldwide server shipment grew 8% and revenue by 7.2% in 2Q 2015
Gartner finds worldwide server shipments in the second quarter of 2015 grew by 8% year over year, while revenue increased 7.2 percent from the second quarter of 2014. Other market research findings and analyst' comments shared by Gartner includes: "The second quarter year-over-year growth for
3 min readIn the slowing PC market, Apple loses to Lenovo
In the slowing PC market, which is estimated by Market researcher Canalys, a drop of 12 percent annually, Lenovo looks to be lesser loser compared Apple. Canalys reported Lenovo shipping 16 million PCs, 240,000 more PCs compared to what Apple has shipped in second quarter of 2015.
1 min readTrendForce: Monitor shipment to decline by 4.8% and notebooks by 6.4% in 2015
WitsView, a division of TrendForce has revised its monitor forecast from growth to shrink of 1~2% quarterly in the second quarter of 2015 reaching 30.1M units shipped. WitsView’s Research Manager Anita Wang finds the base period for the second quarter shipments is relatively short, which accor
2 min readSBC for Hi-Rel command and control applications
Cobham announces the GEN 6 LEON 3FT Single Board Computer (SBC) designed for LEO, GEO and Planetary command and control applications. This flight ready TRL-6 based, off-the-shelf SBC is designed with a flexible core architecture to balance power and performance needs. “Cobham has been a proven Hi
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