AI chip designer Moffett AI raises ‘tens of millions of dollars’ in Series A round

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
(プレスリリース、
Phoronix の記事、
The Verge の記事、
動画)。

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…

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 […]

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 […]