The SANDISK® IX QD352 microSD™ card and SANDISK® IX LD352 SD card from Sandisk are industrial-grade removable flash storage devices built on BiCS8 TLC NAND technology for data-intensive edge systems. The cards provide capacities from 128GB to 256GB with endurance ratings up to 768TBW, A2 application performance with read/write IOPS exceeding 4,000/2,000 and V30 support […]
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120 MHz flash supports AI inference from data center to edge
GigaDevice has expanded its GD25UF series SPI NOR Flash to cover densities from 8Mb to 256Mb, operating at 1.14V–1.26V with a maximum clock frequency of 120MHz (STR mode) and data throughput up to 80MB/s. The series supports Single, Dual, Quad, and DTR Quad SPI modes, offers 100,000 program/erase cycles and 20-year data retention, and is […]
How to approach AI hardware design to address the memory wall?
The transition from general-purpose computing to AI-specific hardware is driven by the specific computational and energy requirements of deep learning models. As these models scale to trillions of parameters, traditional architectures face the memory wall, where the energy required for data movement between memory and processing units significantly exceeds the energy consumed by the computation […]
Automotive TCAM integrates enhanced functional safety features
The configurable 3nm FinFET TCAM from Renesas Electronics Corporation integrates hard and soft macro architectures to support flexible key widths from 8 to 64 bits and scalable configurations up to 256-bit × 4,096 entries. Designed for automotive and high-speed networking applications, the memory achieves 5.27 Mb/mm² density, 0.167 fJ/bit search energy in a 256-bit × […]
Add-in memory card supports pooling across multiple hosts
The CXL Add-in Card (AIC) from Innodisk is a CXL 2.0 Type 3 memory expansion solution that connects via PCIe Gen 5 x8 to deliver up to 32GB/s bandwidth without occupying system DIMM slots. Supporting up to 256GB through two DDR5 RDIMM sockets in an HHHL form factor, the card enables flexible memory scaling and […]
QLC UFS 4.1 embedded flash enables higher-capacity mobile storage
The QLC UFS 4.1 embedded memory devices from KIOXIA America, Inc. are based on 8th generation BiCS FLASH™ 3D technology, using 4-bit-per-cell QLC to deliver higher storage density in JEDEC®-standard packages. Available in 512 GB and 1 TB capacities, the devices support the UFS 4.1 specification and provide higher sequential and random performance compared to […]
Edge controller embeds into semiconductor manufacturing equipment
The OpreX™ Intelligent Edge Controllers – A8 from Yokogawa Corporation of America are Linux-based embedded controllers built on Ubuntu 24.04 with real-time patches, designed for deterministic control in advanced automation systems. The A8 introduces a data-centric “Data Stream” software architecture that decouples control logic from hardware, supporting reusable development with libraries for motion control, PID […]
Embedded controller firmware adds authenticated boot and advanced power control
The MEC1723 embedded controller from Microchip Technology is paired with custom firmware to support system management in NVIDIA DGX Spark personal AI supercomputers, combining power sequencing and energy regulation with secure firmware authentication and ECC-P384-based cryptographic verification to establish a root of trust at boot. The firmware adds a DGX-specific packet-command host interface, plus EMI […]
Dual-core MPU targets cost-aware edge control
The STM32MP21 microprocessors from STMicroelectronics combine a 1.5GHz Arm Cortex-A35 with a 300MHz Cortex-M33 to support Linux-based processing alongside real-time control in edge applications. Integrated features such as MIPI CSI-2 with ISP, dual Gigabit Ethernet with TSN and DDR3L, DDR4 and LPDDR4 memory support target machine vision, industrial automation and smart infrastructure designs, while a […]
Ultra-low-power SoC brings AI to IoT
The nRF54LM20B wireless SoC from Nordic Semiconductor integrates an Axon neural processing unit with a 128 MHz Arm Cortex-M33 and a RISC-V coprocessor to support on-device edge AI in battery-powered IoT designs. The device includes 2 MB nonvolatile memory, 512 KB RAM and a low-power 2.4 GHz radio supporting Bluetooth LE, Thread and Matter, targeting […]
