Wall Streeter predicts return to 5% growth A veteran Wall Street analyst projects the semiconductor industry will snap back to typical growth levels next year after a slight contraction this year. Other market watchers also see a better year ahead, but project a flat or slight uptick this year based
Amazon Web Services is developing customer semiconductors to accelerate its cloud computing network, expanding its push into custom hardware, the company said Tuesday. AWS says its new Annapurna ASIC will enable it move data faster across its huge data center network. “We’re in the semiconductor business!” said James Hamilton, VP
A toy-like cardboard contraption that sells for less than $20 online has helped save the life of a baby who was so sick that doctors told her parents to take her home to die. Google Cardboard looks like a set of big square goggles. Stick your iPhone inside and with
A researcher from Georgia Tech is working on giving dogs the ability to talk to humans, and it could have huge potential for service dogs. Melody Moore Jackson, creator and director of Georgia Tech’s BrainLab, is creating computerized vests for dogs so they can “speak.” This could have huge potential for service dogs
Taking advantage of the 27 petaflop Titan Supercomputer at Oak Ridge National Laboratory, researchers from Imperial College London’s Department of Aeronautics are attempting to reduce aircraft noise by visualizing how air is forced through engines when planes are in flight. Noise pollution from aircraft is a global policy and health
For all of its promising ideas and potential, Google Glass can, at best, be summed up as a noble failure. In trying to appeal to as broad of an audience as possible, the resulting device offered little in the way of real world utility. But there were lessons to be
We’ve all seen examples over the past few years of complex IoT technology solutions to help solve real-world problems from a variety of small companies. In fact, last week while I was at the ARM Holdings annual industry analyst conference and TechCon, a gathering of the ARM ecosystem powers, you
Scientists at Case Western Reserve University in Ohio say they’ve used electronics to get around a paralyzed man’s spinal injury, permitting him to use an implant in his brain to move his arm and hand. The test represents the first time that signals collected in the brain have been conveyed
In a cable car high above Japan, the country’s distinctive architecture unfurls beneath me. I see clay kawara tiles covering rooftops, shimmering as the cable car gently swings. Suddenly everything stops, then goes dim. YouTube is buffering. The implications are real. By making its entire video library workable with Cardboard,
Invite 60 gifted high-schoolers to a week-long supercomputing camp. Train them on how to accelerate applications using GPUs. Organize them into small groups, each with their own stack of Jetson TK1 devkits, and set them loose. What do you get? Packs of teens developing a social networking service to communicate with