TI has NPUs in parts up and down its portfolio, but different architectures and approaches are required at each end of the spectrum.

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GigaDevice announces expanded density range of its GD25UF series 1.2V ultra-low power SPI NOR Flash, now from 8Mb to 256Mb. Covering applications from high-performance AI computing to low-power battery-operated devices, it enables longer battery life and miniaturization for wearables, hearables, AI ASICs, medical devices and edge AI applications.

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GD32 officially releases the new GD32M531 series 32-bit MCUs tailored for motor control applications and powered by Arm® Cortex®-M33 core.

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If you think about it, you can’t be sure that what you see for the color red, for example, is what anyone else in the world actually sees. All you …read more

Recently [TheRetroChannel] came across an interesting failure mode on a Commodore 1541 5.25″ floppy disk drive, in the form of the activity LED blinking just once after power-up with the …read more

Admit it. If you haven’t created your own little programming language, you’ve probably at least thought about it. [Muffed] decided to create a unique — and sweet — programming language …read more

From the GitHub release page: This is CircuitPython 10.1.4, the latest bugfix revision of CircuitPython, and is a new stable release. Highlights of this release Fix pin-reset regression which caused display problems on some boards. Fix object creation and deinitialization problems, most notably when SPI was used for displays on SAMD. Download from circuitpython.org Firmware […]

On boxart.lt, they show the Poor Man’s Polaroid project: This is an instant camera that uses thermal printer to print photos, the same one that prints your receipts at the store. Photos aren’t the same quality as the self developing film that polaroid uses, but they do have some, uhh, charm to them, I suppose. […]

Checking out the Such Bad Tech Ads blog, they discuss how Maxell built a bunch of life-size robots for its bad floppy ad in 1985. The idea of robots literally eating your precious and portable files must have been far more terrifying than it was exciting that Maxell’s 5.25” disks were on some Michelin-rated menu […]

Google and Synaptics have collaborated on a new, limited-edition Coral Dev Board, which is powered by Synaptics’ Astra SL2610 and features Google’s Coral NPU. It is targeted at AI and ML ...

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TSMC’s February revenue of  $10 billion was down 20.8% m-o-m but up 22.2% y-o-y . Revenue for January through February was $22,645 billion, an increase of 29.9 percent compared to ...

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The Council for Japan’s Growth Strategy, chaired by Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi (pictured), has produced a plan be implemented  in the sumner which includes  a target of  having $250 billion ...

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