China’s call to foster semiconductor independence has sent investors chasing after chip startups of all sorts. Moffett AI, a Shenzhen-based chip design company, has received a fresh Series A injection. The company did not disclose the exact amount, only saying that the proceeds were in the “several tens of millions of dollars.” The round was […]
PCIe 6.0、データレートは 64 GT / s に
PCI-SIG は 11 日、PCI Express (PCIe) 6.0 Specification を発表した
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PCIe 6.0 では PAM4 (Pulse Amplitude Modulation with 4 levels) シグナリングや Flit (flow control unit) ベースのエンコーディングにより、PCIe 5.0 の 2 倍となる 64GT/s のデータレートを実現。その一方…
Row, row, row your phone, gently, ’till it’s charged
Against a backdrop of a pandemic that has shredded supply chains and gym memberships alike, it was mildly surreal to see professional-grade gym machine company SportsArt launch a rowing machine that can pump energy back into the grid. Like a wind turbine or a solar panel, except powered by pecs, deltoids and trapeziuses. The rower […]
The M11 is Leica’s new flagship rangefinder
Leica’s a strange one. It only puts out a handful of cameras every year, and most of them are remixes or minor iterations on previous models. Since 2017 its flagship has been the solid but still somewhat archaic M10, but now the company has revealed its successor: the even more solid and also still somewhat […]
Samsung No-showed On Its Major Exynos 2200 Launch
ArsTechnica: So here’s a crazy story. Samsung was supposed to have a big SoC launch on Tuesday, but that launch did not happen. Samsung didn’t cancel or delay the event. The January 11 date was announced, but when the time for the event came, nothing h…
How sweet is your blood? Scanbo gives an answer without poking holes in you
If you have diabetes, or ever suspected that you might, you will have done the poke-your-finger-and-drop-blood-on-a-stick thing until your finger goes numb. Finger-prick blood glucose monitoring is the de facto standard, but AI company Scanbo wants to put an end to all that, replacing the droplet with some off-the-shelf diagnostic tools and a big helping […]
Lululemon names Twitch exec Mike Aragon CEO of Mirror
Months after the surprise departure of Mirror founder Brynn Putnam, Lululemon today announced that it has named former Twitch Chief Content Officer Mike Aragon to run the connected fitness brand. Effective January 17, Aragon will be stepping into the CEO role for both Mirror and Lululemon’s Digital Fitness line. “Mike Aragon has an impressive track […]
Reflections on another strange pandemic-era CES
In the weeks leading up to CES, we made a difficult decision. With omicron cases skyrocketing around the country in the lead up to the holiday travel season, we canceled our flights and re-strategized. It made for a chaotic last few weeks of the year, but as long as the show continues to be held […]
Amazon expands its Sidewalk IoT network with an enterprise-grade bridge
Back in 2019, Amazon first announced its Sidewalk network, a new low-bandwidth, long-distance wireless protocol and network for connecting smart devices — and keeping them online when your own WiFi network, for example, goes down, by piggybacking on your neighbor’s network. Since last year, Amazon has been turning its Echo devices into Sidewalk bridges and […]
Look upon my CES 2022 work from home setup and despair
Working from home has been my normal for more than a decade, but it’s getting a bit stale. Time to spice it up — with some of CES 2022’s hottest items, all of which definitely kind of exist. First off let’s upgrade these dinky twin 27-inch Dells I’ve been attempting to work on for the […]