NVIDIA announced NVIDIA Quantum-2, the next generation of its InfiniBand networking platform, which offers the extreme performance, broad accessibility, and strong security needed by cloud computing providers and supercomputing centers. The most advanced end-to-end networking platform ever built, NVIDIA Quantum-2 is a 400Gbps InfiniBand networking platform that consists of the NVIDIA Quantum-2 switch, the ConnectX-7 […]
Software platform speeds deployment of large language models
NVIDIA opened the door for enterprises worldwide to develop and deploy large language models (LLM) by enabling them to build their own domain-specific chatbots, personal assistants, and other AI applications that understand language with unprecedented levels of subtlety and nuance. The company unveiled the NVIDIA NeMo Megatron framework for training language models with trillions of parameters, the Megatron […]
Software platform enables real-time conversational AI assistants
NVIDIA announced NVIDIA Omniverse Avatar, a technology platform for generating interactive AI avatars. Omniverse Avatar connects the company’s technologies in speech AI, computer vision, natural language understanding, recommendation engines, and simulation technologies. Avatars created in the platform are interactive characters with ray-traced 3D graphics that can see, speak, converse on a wide range of subjects, […]
Palm-sized AI computer delivers 600 TOPS, 6x performance gain
NVIDIA introduced NVIDIA Jetson AGX Orin, the world’s smallest, most powerful, and energy-efficient AI supercomputer for robotics, autonomous machines, medical devices, and other forms of embedded computing at the edge. Built on the NVIDIA Ampere architecture, Jetson AGX Orin provides 6x the processing power and maintains form factor and pin compatibility with its predecessor, Jetson […]
Synthetic-data-generation engine helps train AIs
NVIDIA announced NVIDIA Omniverse Replicator, a powerful synthetic-data-generation engine that produces physically simulated synthetic data for training deep neural networks. In its first implementations of the engine, the company introduced two applications for generating synthetic data: one for NVIDIA DRIVE Sim, a virtual world for hosting the digital twin of autonomous vehicles, and another for […]
BLDC motor drive inverter board features 2.2-mΩ RDS(on), 80-V eGaN FET
EPC announces the availability of the EPC9145, a 1 kW, 3-phase BLDC motor drive inverter using the EPC2206 eGaN FET. The EPC9145 demonstration board is a 3-phase BLDC motor drive inverter board featuring the 2.2 mΩ maximum RDS(on), 80 V maximum device voltage EPC2206 eGaN FET. This board is tailored to e-bikes, eMotion, drones, and […]
Development kit covers 130-W USB-C power adapter designs
Diodes Incorporated has launched a complete 130W USB Type-C power delivery (PD) 3.0 adapter evaluation and development kit. This new solution uses SuperGaN FETs from Transphorm, Inc. The kit pairs Diodes’ high-performing, innovative ACF controllers and Transphorm’s patented normally-off SuperGaN Gen IV devices with input power factor correction (PFC). The resulting solution delivers low standby […]
GaN power ICs incorporate temperature and current sensing
Navitas Semiconductor has announced the launch of GaNFast power ICs with GaNSense technology. GaNSense technology integrates critical, real-time, autonomous sensing and protection circuits which further improves Navitas’ industry-leading reliability and robustness while increasing the energy savings and fast-charging benefits of Navitas’ GaN IC technology. Gallium nitride (GaN) is a next-generation semiconductor technology that runs […]
Development platform supports Arm Cortex-M55 processors
IAR Systems announced that the latest version of IAR Embedded Workbench for Arm adds support for the Arm Cortex-M55 processor. In addition, version 9.20 of the toolchain includes support for the latest microcontroller (MCU) devices from several semiconductor vendors. The Arm Cortex-M55 processor from Arm is an AI-capable Cortex-M processor and the first to feature […]
Chip resistors are AEC qualified
Electronics that require high reliability are no longer confined to military, aerospace, medical, or automotive market sectors. Many types of electronic end products now demand the higher reliability provided by automotive-grade resistors. Automotive-grade resistors offer increased reliability without the high cost of established reliability Mil-Standard products which allows engineers to increase the reliability of their […]