"Everything has become an admin nightmare" due to Brexit say UK designers
Designers and architects in the UK are suffering in the wake of Brexit, with companies abandoning exports and setting up offices in the EU to avoid losing clients. Read more Designers and architects in the UK are suffering in the wake of Bre.....»»
Report: Discord admin who leaked military docs ID’d as National Guard airman [Updated]
FBI agents arrested Jack Teixeira "without incident" Thursday afternoon, report says. Enlarge (credit: SOPA Images / Contributor | LightRocket) [Update: On Thursday afternoon, Federal Bureau of Investigation agents arre.....»»
Arm, Intel Foundry team up for leading-edge SoC designs
Arm and Intel Foundry Services (IFS) have announced a multigeneration collaboration in which chip designers will be able to build low-power system-on-chips (SoC) using Intel 18A technology. The collaboration will first focus on mobile SoC designs, bu.....»»
Here’s the tech used to create a nearly 20-foot-tall Donkey Kong cabinet
The JAMMA adapters, superguns, and low-lag upscalers needed for Kong-scale Kong. Enlarge / We thank the curators and designers at the Strong Museum of Play for including a human-scale joystick set at ground level. While more accu.....»»
IC designers can hardly expect foundry partners to cut quotes soon
It remains one of the major market concerns as to when IC designers can see their manufacturing costs move downward, but one thing for sure is that their foundry partners in Taiwan will have little willingness to reduce quotes in the short term excep.....»»
HPC applications most promising future outlet for IC designers in Taiwan
Taiwan's IC design industry has reached a critical crossroads, with an unclear development direction, worsening talent shortage, confusing government policies, and shrinking academic research momentum all requiring cooperation from all sectors to ove.....»»
Ahead of IPO, Arm reportedly to raise royalty prices in 2024
As SoftBank prepares to list its subsidiary Arm in New York, it is reported that SoftBank plans to raise chip design prices for fabless designers and smartphone manufacturers......»»
If you can’t stand ads on Instagram, you’re going to hate this update
Instagram is already something of a nightmare when it comes to wading through advertisements, so, Meta decided to make it worse......»»
2024 Dodge Hornet injects attitude into luxury crossover base
Dodge designers used the Alfa Romeo Tonale as a foundation and gave it an aggressive spin with inspiration from the sporty Challenger, Charger and Durango......»»
Inventory correction at major Taiwan IC designers coming to an end
Taiwan's major fabless chipmakers including MediaTek, Novatek Microelectronics, and Realtek Semiconductor have seen their revenues show signs of recovery, indicating their inventory depletion is coming to an end, as described by supply chain sources......»»
Taiwan IC designers urged to sharpen specs formulation, solutions design capabilities
Taiwan IC design houses should work harder to catch up with leading international players in terms of specifications formulation and solutions design capabilities, and they must also change their thinking based on core hardware and performance orient.....»»
Wiim Pro review: This little black box could be Sonos’ worst nightmare
The LinkPlay Wiim Pro has some of Sonos' best features, plus true high-resolution audio at a killer price......»»
Generative AI is about to upend the way designers work
Generative AI tools probably won’t replace designers, but they will become key collaborators in the design process. Since the introduction of DALL-E 2 and ChatGPT, there has been a fair amount of hand-wringing about AI technology—some.....»»
Taiwan Wi-Fi chip designers eye orders from telecom carriers in US and Europe
Demand for Wi-Fi main chips is expected to resume growth starting the second quarter and benefit related Taiwan-based chip designers including MediaTek, Realtek, and Richwave, according to sources from the upstream supply chain, who added that procur.....»»
DALL-E 2 and Midjourney can be a boon for industrial designers
AI lets designers input abstract concepts and turn them into a flood of images. Enlarge / A volcano-themed tissue box designed with the help of AI-assisted image generation (credit: Juan Nougera (CC-BY-SA)) Since the int.....»»
UK-based Agile Analog brings automation and optimization into analog IP design
Agile Analog, an analog IP provider based in Cambridge, UK, is revolutionizing analog IP design by giving designers of ASICs (application-specific ICs) and SoC (system-on-chip) the option to fully optimize their analog IPs. Through its Composa method.....»»
Scandinavian designers wanted to take environmental action 50 years ago, but little has happened so far
According to Professor Kjetil Fallan, design is an inevitable part of the environmental problem, but also part of the solution. He believes that design history provides important insight on how to fight the environmental crisis......»»
IC designers see clients advance replenishment orders, benefitting foundries
Many major fabless chipmakers including Novatek Microelectronics, Realtek Semiconductor, Aspeed Technology and Nvidia have seen earlier than expected orders from clients, which, in turn, will drive them to place more wafer starts with TSMC and its lo.....»»
Ubestream eyeing cooperation with IC designers to develop AI-on-chip solutions
Taiwan-based Ubestream, dedicated to developing AI voice and semantic algorithms, will move to intensify cooperation with IC design houses to develop chip solutions with AI voice capability and plans to venture into the smart cockpit sector, accordin.....»»
IC designers upbeat about possible foundry price cuts
Wafer foundries, except TSMC, reportedly are actively moving to offer price discounts for fabless clients willing to place more wafer starts for some specific processes, aiming to boost their capacity utilization. But as sluggish end-market demand pe.....»»
ChatGPT Bing is becoming an unhinged AI nightmare
Microsoft just starting rolling out ChatGPT Bing to the public, and it's already turning into an AI-generated nightmare......»»