Syntiant’s Speech Recognition Chip Certified for Alexa
Syntiant, an AI chip start-up based in Irvine, California, received the news on August 7 that its Neural Decision Processors (NDP), NDP100 and NDP…
Habana Labs – A Serious Alternative to NVIDIA for Training Neural Networks?
In June, Israeli start-up Habana Labs announced Gaudi, a 16nm training chip for neural networks. Gaudi represents Habana’s second attempt to break…
Vodafone Launches 5G in UK with Unlimited data plans
The Launch Having lost out to BT-owned EE, the first network to offer 5G services in the UK, Vodafone launched its 5G services offering on 3rd July…
TuSimple – Amazon’s Next Acquisition Target?
Following a Series D funding round in January 2019, autonomous driving technology start-up TuSimple is embarking on another round of fundraising in…
China Satcom Targets IoT Market in South-East Asia
The introduction of 5G is likely to accelerate the trend of people streaming video rather than watching traditional broadcast TV. To prepare for the…
Bezos’ Broadband Satellite Dream – Will It Ever Get off the Ground?
Amazon is joining a long list of companies planning constellations consisting of hundreds and thousands of satellites with the stated aim of…
Energy Harvesting – A Key Enabling Technology for IoT?
Seoul, Hong Kong, New Delhi, Beijing, London, Buenos Aires, San Diego April 17th, 2019 Energy harvesting could make many large-scale IoT sensor…
Three out of Four Smartphones Forecast to Have Dedicated AI Processors by End of 2022
Seoul, Hong Kong, New Delhi, Beijing, London, Buenos Aires, San Diego April 12th, 2019 Dedicated processors will dramatically expand the use of AI in…
50 Million Global Street Lights Expected to Be Connected by 2023
Street lighting forms the largest network of powered devices in the world. As they get digitized and fitted with sensors and control technologies,…
Can Small Robots Revolutionize Food Production?
Seoul, Hong Kong, New Delhi, Beijing, London, Buenos Aires, San Diego February 19th, 2019 Smaller, not bigger, farms and farm machinery hold the key…
Humanoid Robots – Are They Ready to Walk with Us?
Seoul, Hong Kong, New Delhi, Beijing, London, Buenos Aires, San Diego February 13th, 2019 Walking is not easy for robots, if it was, there would be…