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UCIe Consortium Unveils 3.0 Specification with 64 GT/s Speeds and Enhanced Chiplet Interconnect Features
The Universal Chiplet Interconnect Express (UCIe) Consortium has released the UCIe 3.0 specification, an open standard for chiplet interconnects within a package, supporting data rates of 48 GT/s and 64 GT/s for UCIe-S and UCIe-A. The specification doubles the bandwidth of UCIe 2.0 (32 GT/s) to m
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Phison and Supermicro Partner to Enhance AI and Hyperscale Storage with High-Density SSD Solutions
Phison Electronics has partnered with Supermicro, an IT solution provider for AI/ML, HPC, cloud, storage, and 5G/edge, to deliver a server solution for high-density workloads. The collaboration integrates Phison’s 122.88 TB Pascari D205V SSD, featuring an E3.L form factor and Gen5 NVMe perf
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Sandisk and SK hynix Join Forces to Standardize High Bandwidth Flash Memory for AI Workloads
Sandisk Corporation and SK hynix have signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) to collaborate on establishing the specification for High Bandwidth Flash (HBF) memory technology, aimed at supporting next-generation AI inference workloads. The partnership focuses on standardizing the HBF specific
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Codasip Integrates Silicon Creations’ PLL into RISC-V Automotive Safety-Critical Core
Silicon Creations has integrated its low-area integer PLL into Codasip’s L31AS dual-core lock-step CPU and crypto accelerator test chip, supporting the evaluation of Codasip’s automotive-grade RISC-V core. The collaboration focuses on providing clocking solutions for safety-critical a
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Edgewater Wireless Begins Prototyping AI-Driven Wi-Fi Chip with Arm Technology for High-Density Networks
Edgewater Wireless Systems Inc., a provider of Wi-Fi Spectrum Slicing technology, has started prototyping its next-generation Wi-Fi baseband chip using Arm compute platforms. The chip integrates Arm Cortex CPUs and Arm Ethos NPUs to support Edgewater’s AI-driven Spectrum Slicing platform, a
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SPARK Microsystems and Softgent Partner to Advance UWB Wireless Solutions for Healthcare and Industrial IoT
SPARK Microsystems, a Canadian fabless semiconductor company focused on next-generation short-range wireless communications, has entered into a collaboration with Softgent to support customers in developing wireless communication and positioning solutions for healthcare and industrial markets. Th
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Point2 Technology and Foxconn Interconnect Technology Collaborate on AI Cluster Scalability with Terabit-Speed e-Tube Solutions
Point2 Technology, a provider of low-power, low-latency mixed-signal SoC solutions for multi-terabit interconnects, and Foxconn Interconnect Technology (FIT), a precision interconnect solutions provider, have signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) to develop and commercialize Active RF Cable
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Cerebras Enables OpenAI’s gpt-oss-120B Model with Record-Breaking AI Inference Speeds
Cerebras Systems has announced support for OpenAI’s first open-weight reasoning model, gpt-oss-120B, on its AI Inference Cloud, achieving an output speed of 3,000 tokens per second. The 120B-parameter model, designed for complex tasks in math, science, and code, matches the intelligence of
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MIPI Alliance Unveils I3C Basic v1.2: Streamlined Interface for Mobile, IoT, and Data Center Connectivity
The MIPI Alliance has released MIPI I3C Basic v1.2, a utility and control bus interface designed to connect peripherals to microcontrollers or application processors. This version reorganizes the specification into mandatory and optional feature sections, allowing implementation based on specific
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Ubitium and ADTechnology Partner to Develop UB410 Universal Microprocessor Using Samsung Foundry
ADTechnology, Korea’s largest semiconductor design house, has teamed up with German fabless semiconductor company Ubitium to develop the UB410, a general-purpose microprocessor designed to replace traditional CPUs, GPUs, DSPs, and FPGAs. The UB410 integrates these functions into a single co
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Wolfspeed Names Bret Zahn as Automotive Business Lead Amid Electric Vehicle Market Growth
Wolfspeed has appointed Bret Zahn as Vice President and General Manager of its Automotive business, a move that aligns with the company’s strategic expansion in the electric vehicle (EV) market. Zahn, reporting to Chief Business Officer Cengiz Balkas, will be based at Wolfspeed’s head
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Nokia’s Data Center Fabric Solution to Enhance Connectivity for Empyrion Digital’s Gangnam Data Center
Nokia has been selected by Empyrion Digital, a digital infrastructure provider in Asia, to deploy its data center gateway and aggregation switches at Empyrion’s Gangnam Data Center (GDC) in Seoul, Korea. The partnership aims to support Empyrion’s network scalability and operational ne
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