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Post by Admin on Jan 19, 2022 15:52:54 GMT
BrainChip's AI for IoT Akida Spiking Neural Network Accelerators Go Mass Market Designed to mimic the human brain, the Akida accelerator comes with bold claims for efficiency and performance. www.hackster.io/news/brainchip-s-ai-for-iot-akida-spiking-neural-network-accelerators-go-mass-market-2a6572c67c50Neuromorphic computing specialist BrainChip has announced its biggest milestone yet: full commercialization of its Akida AKD1000 edge AI processors as mini-PCIe accelerators. "I am excited that people will finally be able to enjoy a world where AI meets the Internet of Things," says Sean Hehir, BrainChip's chief executive. "We have been working on developing our Akida technology for more than a decade and with the full commercial availability of our AKD1000, we are ready to fully execute on our vision. Other technologies are simply not capable of the autonomous, incremental learning at ultra-low power consumption that BrainChip's solutions can provide. Getting these chips into as many hands as possible is how the next generation of AI becomes reality."
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Post by Admin on Jan 20, 2022 11:52:30 GMT
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Post by Admin on Mar 3, 2022 20:16:48 GMT
IN THE LIMELIGHT The Nimatron The world’s first video game made its debut at the Westinghouse pavilion at the New York World’s Fair in 1939. Read all about it! daily.jstor.org/the-nimatron/Dreamed up as an emotional and financial antidote to the Depression, the 1939-1940 New York World’s Fair built a futuristic paradise on the site of a former ash dump in Queens, and labeled it “The World of Tomorrow.” A sprawling fairground, with more than a passing resemblance to Walt Disney’s eventual dream Experimental Prototype Community of Tomorrow (EPCOT), the Fair was wildly popular and offered a wide range of attractions and amusements for more than forty million visitors over two seasons. A good time was especially attractive when you consider a population saddled with Depression fatigue and the threat of war: the New York Daily News, ahead of opening day, noted excitedly that “The World’s Fair 1940 whirled with activity yesterday as hundreds of showgirls, swimmers, acrobats and freaks arrived to begin rehearsals for Saturday’s opening. Five new girlie shows went through their paces, with 150 swimmers rehearsing the new version of Billy Rose’s Aquacade.” A 61-foot statue of George Washington presided over a man-made lagoon, in celebration of the 150th anniversary of Washington’s inaugural. Franklin D. Roosevelt gave a televised address from the Fair, making him the first president to appear on television. Salvador Dali was engaged to produce a surrealist burlesque called “The Dream of Venus” that involved not a small number of bare breasted swimsuits. And lobsters. Unlike other technologies on display throughout the Fair, the eight-foot-tall Nimatron served “no other useful purpose than to entertain.” It was not all girlie shows and patriotism and concession booths, though: the World’s Fair purported to offer a tour of America’s technological future. With a giant modernist globe and spire looming in the distance, visitors could experience real-world innovations with practical applications: things like color photography, Formica, television sets and fluorescent lights. And at the Westinghouse pavilion, patrons could take a shot at beating the world’s first video game.
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Post by Admin on May 12, 2022 16:56:10 GMT
MAY 12, 2022 Algae-powered computing: Scientists create reliable and renewable biological photovoltaic cell by University of Cambridge techxplore.com/news/2022-05-algae-powered-scientists-reliable-renewable-biological.htmlResearchers have used a widespread species of blue-green algae to power a microprocessor continuously for a year—and counting—using nothing but ambient light and water. Their system has potential as a reliable and renewable way to power small devices. The system, comparable in size to an AA battery, contains a type of non-toxic algae called Synechocystis that naturally harvests energy from the sun through photosynthesis. The tiny electrical current this generates then interacts with an aluminum electrode and is used to power a microprocessor. The system is made of common, inexpensive and largely recyclable materials. This means it could easily be replicated hundreds of thousands of times to power large numbers of small devices as part of the Internet of Things. The researchers say it is likely to be most useful in off-grid situations or remote locations, where small amounts of power can be very beneficial. "The growing Internet of Things needs an increasing amount of power, and we think this will have to come from systems that can generate energy, rather than simply store it like batteries," said Professor Christopher Howe in the University of Cambridge's Department of Biochemistry, joint senior author of the paper. He added: "Our photosynthetic device doesn't run down the way a battery does because it's continually using light as the energy source." In the experiment, the device was used to power an Arm Cortex M0+, which is a microprocessor used widely in Internet of Things devices. It operated in a domestic environment and semi-outdoor conditions under natural light and associated temperature fluctuations, and after six months of continuous power production the results were submitted for publication. The study is published today in the journal Energy & Environmental Science. "We were impressed by how consistently the system worked over a long period of time—we thought it might stop after a few weeks but it just kept going," said Dr. Paolo Bombelli in the University of Cambridge's Department of Biochemistry, first author of the paper. The algae does not need feeding, because it creates its own food as it photosynthesises. And despite the fact that photosynthesis requires light, the device can even continue producing power during periods of darkness. The researchers think this is because the algae processes some of its food when there's no light, and this continues to generate an electrical current. The Internet of Things is a vast and growing network of electronic devices—each using only a small amount of power—that collect and share real-time data via the internet. Using low-cost computer chips and wireless networks, many billions of devices are part of this network—from smartwatches to temperature sensors in power stations. This figure is expected to grow to one trillion devices by 2035, requiring a vast number of portable energy sources. The researchers say that powering trillions of Internet of Things devices using lithium-ion batteries would be impractical: it would need three times more lithium than is produced across the world annually. And traditional photovoltaic devices are made using hazardous materials that have adverse environmental effects. The work was a collaboration between the University of Cambridge and Arm, a company leading the design of microprocessors. Arm Research developed the ultra-efficient Arm Cortex M0+ testchip, built the board, and set up the data-collection cloud interface presented in the experiments.
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Post by Admin on Jun 24, 2022 18:21:16 GMT
A fast and energy-efficient sparse Ising machine to solve computationally hard problems techxplore.com/news/2022-06-fast-energy-efficient-sparse-ising-machine.htmlThe team implemented a 5000 p-bit probabilistic computer on state-of-the-art Field Programmable Gate Arrays. Credit: Aadit et al In recent years, engineers have been trying to devise new computers and devices that could help to solve challenging real-world problems faster and more efficiently. Some of the most promising among these are Ising machines (IMs), physics-based systems designed to tackle complex optimization problems. Researchers at the University of California and the University of Messina have recently developed a sparse Ising machine architecture that can operate on classical and existing computer hardware. This architecture, presented in a paper published in Nature Electronics, was found to be significantly faster than standard optimization methods running on a central processing unit. "Building domain-specific, quantum-inspired architectures has become an important area of research with the slowing down of Moore's Law," Kerem Camsari, one of the researchers who carried out the study, told TechXplore. "The primary objective of this work was to extend our earlier work on probabilistic or p-bits, conceptually in-between bits and qubits." In 2019, Camsari and his colleagues showed that eight p-bit networks based on nanodevices could help solve some hard optimization problems in energy-efficient ways. In their new paper, they extended their networks to include 5,000 p-bits, using classical CMOS technology. This is a leading technology used to build integrated circuit (IC) chips and other electronic components. The team found that increasing their architecture's p-bits resulted in higher speeds and performances, allowing it to tackle more complex optimization problems more efficiently. In addition, their architecture was found to outperform state-of-the-art, classical approaches that have been widely used for decades. "What is particularly promising about our recent work is that the same architecture we developed here could be applied to spintronics technology," Giovanni Finocchio, another researcher involved in the study, told TechXplore. "As we showed earlier this year, p-computing can be highly spintronics compatible and orders of magnitude further improvements in speed and scalability can be achieved in integrated magnetic p-computers."
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Post by Admin on Aug 4, 2022 11:20:16 GMT
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Post by Admin on Aug 26, 2022 11:28:17 GMT
Meet the Geekom MiniAir 11 A super compact 17x11x3.4 cm Formfactor MiniPC for just 239 USD www.guru3d.com/articles-pages/geekom-miniair-11-(celeron-n5095)-mini-pc-review,1.html There is small, smaller, and even skinny. Geekom has released the new MiniAir 11. A low-power PC that is so compact that you can install it beneath your monitor or even fit it in the palm of your hands. A PC featuring Gigabit Ethernet connectors, AC 7265 WIFI, Bluetooth USB3, HDMI, DisplayPort, an NVMe SSD, and 8GB DRAM are all upgradeable, of course. While the features aren't something too thrilling, the biggest shocker is the price as you can purchase this ready-to-go PC with Windows 11 Pro preinstalled at a price of just 239 USD. The end-users are interested in a product like this need to be found in the SOHO, Net PC, or HTPC space. The MiniAir 11, with its petite size, will fit anywhere, and pre-installed with Windows 11 Pro, is it fast enough for normal web browsing and office applications like Word and Excell. Still, sure, even some simplistic work with Photoshop is not a slight problem. Weight? Get this (~500g). The MiniAir 11 does not have the fastest processor compared to desktop standards, but it does offer plenty of performance for everyday PC usage. It houses a quad-core Celeron N5095 that can bin towards a single core at 2.9 GHz. That also means this is a very energy-friendly platform, think 15 Watts. Next, to that, you can easily hide this unit behind your monitor or HDTV. With that in mind, this easily can be a product that accelerates and post processes high definition movies and music; preferably, the content is streamed over a network. And that's where we land at net-tops and mini-tops. Personally, when on the road, I do not really like to work on a laptop; taking this along and hooking it up over HDMO to a TV in the hotel room works well; just add a keyboard and mouse, and you're good to go. We can think of plenty of usage scenarios for sure. Anyway, let's have a peek at what we review today:
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