Tag: compute
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e-con Systems unveils ‘advanced multi-camera solutions’ for Qualcomm Robotics Kit
e-con Systems, a designer and manufacturer of OEM cameras, has launched an “advanced and extensive” multi-camera solution which it says will “fully unlock” the power of the Qualcomm RB5 Robotics Development Kit’s potential. This solution allows connecting up to six cameras (MIPI or GMSL2 or a combination of both) simultaneously. econ Systems’ cutting-edge camera solution,…
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Nvidia unveils Isaac Nova Orin to accelerate development of autonomous mobile robots
Next time socks, cereal or sandpaper shows up in hours delivered to your doorstep, consider the behind-the-scenes logistics acrobatics that help get them there so fast. Order fulfillment is a massive industry of moving parts. Heavily supported by autonomous mobile robots, warehouses can span 1 million square feet, expanding and reconfiguring to meet demands. It’s…
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Startup awarded $5 million to build autonomous car that ‘runs on light’
Intelligence Advanced Research Projects Activity (IARPA), an agency of the US military akin to Darpa, is funding a $4.8 million project spearheaded by Boston University College of Engineering, the Harvard John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences, and Lightmatter, a startup developing “photonic supercomputing” chips. Electro-photonic computing, or optical computing, is thought to…
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DXC Luxoft and AWS partner to accelerate autonomous driving industry with Robotic Drive Cloud
DXC Luxoft has entered into a collaboration with Amazon Web Services to accelerate the autonomous driving industry with DXC Luxoft’s Robotic Drive Cloud offering on AWS. The Robotic Drive tooling and services provide reduced development and test times with unmatched total cost of ownership (TCO) to customers building autonomous driving systems. The new relationship offers…
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AVCC releases two key technical reports for the autonomous vehicle compute industry
The Autonomous Vehicle Computing Consortium (AVCC), a global collaboration of automotive and technology industry leaders in automated and assisted driving compute solutions, has released two key technical reports, developed to provide the basis for a common autonomous vehicle language, conceptual system architecture, as well as use cases for automated and assisted driving compute systems. Paul…
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Key industry organisations partner to develop global standards for autonomous vehicles
The Autonomous Vehicle Computing Consortium, a global group of automotive and technology industry organisations, has agreed what is described as a “key liaison” with SAE International, the association of more than 200,000 engineers and related technical experts in the aerospace, automotive and commercial-vehicle industries. The two organisations’ shared goal is to help expedite the development…
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Startup company building autonomous trucks on Nvidia platform already has ‘more than 10,000 pre-orders’
The autonomous trucking industry is about to get what is described by Nvidia as “a major new addition”. Self-driving truck company Plus announced that its upcoming autonomous vehicle platform will be built on Nvidia Drive Orin. This software-defined system will “continuously improve upon the safety and efficiency of the delivery and logistics industry with high-performance…
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2020 saw ‘significant organizational growth and progress in autonomous vehicle market’, says industry group
2020 saw “significant organizational growth and progress” in the autonomous vehicle market, according to the Autonomous Vehicle Computing Consortium, a global group of automotive and technology industry leaders cooperating to help accelerate the delivery of automated and assisted driving compute solutions. AVCC members have finalized two key foundation documents, new working groups have kicked off…
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Xilinx launches ‘industry’s first’ 20 nanometer space-grade FPGA chip
Chipmaker Xilinx claims it has achieved “lift-off” with the launch of what it says is the industry’s first 20 nanometer space-grade FPGA for satellite and space applications. Xilinx, which invented field-programmable gate array chips, says the new FPGA provides full radiation tolerance and ultra-high throughput and bandwidth performance for satellite and space applications. The new…
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NXP becomes lead partner for Arm Ethos U-55 machine learning accelerators
NXP Semiconductors has agreed a lead partnership role with Arm for Ethos-U55 microNPU (Neural Processing Unit), a machine learning accelerator targeted at resource-constrained industrial and IoT edge devices. As an industry-leading innovator of microcontrollers (MCUs), NXP intends to implement Ethos U-55 in its Cortex-M based microcontrollers, crossover MCUs and real-time sub-systems in applications processors. The…