Diodes Incorporated announced the PI4ULS3V4857, an SD 3.0-compliant bidirectional level translator for use in communication, consumer, and computing system applications including smartphone handsets, notebooks, SD/MicroSD card readers, wireless access points, and 5G femtocells. The PI4ULS3V4857 has the capacity to translate a 1.2V to 1.8V host side voltage into a memory card voltage signal of either […]
Storage
176-layer NAND expands storage capability across data-intensive applications
Representing Micron’s fifth generation of 3D NAND and second-generation replacement-gate architecture, the world’s first 176-layer NAND flash memor features approximately 30 percent smaller die size than best-in-class competitive offerings. Micron’s 176-layer NAND’s compact design is well-suited for small-form-factor applications in spanning data center, intelligent edge, and mobile devices and serves as an essential building block […]
PCIe 4.0 NVMe 1.4 Controllers optimized for Gen4 performance at low power consumption
Silicon Motion Technology Corporation announced a new portfolio of PCIe 4.0 NVMe 1.4 controller solutions to address performance, mainstream, and value SSD applications. The portfolio consists of SM2264 for performance, SM2267 for mainstream, and SM2267XT for value DRAM-less client SSDs. Silicon Motion’s latest controller family has been designed from the ground up with PCIe Gen4 […]
NAND-based SSDs optimized for low-volume uses
ATP Electronics launches the A700Pi/E700Pi Series, a new generation of Premium Line pSLC NAND-based embedded SSDs. A game-changing highlight for this generation is a new ATP-developed firmware and supporting mass production infrastructure, which is fully customizable to endurance configurations that are tailor-fitted to customer’s requirements, to address any variety of embedded/industrial usage cases. This once […]
AI applications and emerging computing architectures – Virtual Conversation (part 1 of 2)
Hosted by Jeff Shepard, EE World has organized this “virtual conversation” with Gary Bronner (GB), Senior Vice President with Rambus Labs. Mr. Bronner has generously agreed to share his experience and insights into AI applications and emerging computing architectures. JS: What is usually the biggest challenge designers face when first using artificial intelligence? GB: One […]
Software suite verifies assembly/object level code on ARM CPUs for DO-178C Level A compliance
LDRA announced its extension of object-code verification to deliver advanced software testing for Arm-based chips used in safety-critical aerospace & defense and automotive applications. With Arm chipsets becoming increasingly prevalent in the core CPUs of both aircraft and automobiles, safety-critical verification becomes essential. LDRA’s support enables software developers to leverage the LDRA tool suite to verify code coverage […]
World’s First 16-Gb DDR5 DRAM supports transfer rates up to 5,600 Mbps
SK hynix Inc. announced to launch the world’s first DDR5 DRAM. It is a high-speed and high-density product optimized for Big Data, Artificial Intelligence (AI), and machine learning (ML) as a next generation standard of DRAM. Since SK hynix announced the development of the World’s First 16 Gigabit (Gb) DDR5 DRAM in November 2018, the […]
Software manages DRAM, persistent memory as software-defined memory service
MemVerge, the pioneers of Big Memory software, announced general availability of Memory Machine software. Used with Intel Optane persistent memory, Memory Machine fundamentally changes in-memory computing infrastructure. IT organizations depend on high-performance DRAM while coveting lower-cost and persistent memory. The Memory Machine engineering team answered with the industry’s first software-defined pools of DRAM and persistent […]
Exploiting the full potential of GPUDirect Storage with PCIe fabrics
By Vincent Haché, Technical Staff, FW Engineering, Microchip Technology Big data analytics and AI model training present huge challenges for processing with GPUs. Their datasets can be hundreds of terabytes requiring millions of file access on an equal number of files. As the pace of this data onslaught continues, it has become obvious that conventional […]
Floating-point library supports embedded variant of RISC-V core
SEGGER announces a new version of the RISC-V Floating-Point Library with full support for RV32E – the embedded variant of the RISC-V core. The new library leads to a massive reduction in code size for RISC-V applications using floating point. With all arithmetic functions hand-coded in assembly language, the memory footprint of RISC-V applications using […]
