Semiconductor industry currently employs 277,000 people in the U.S. across 49 states, supports 1.6 million additional U.S. jobs, according to Oxford Economics/SIA study.
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STMicroelectronics Acquires Edge AI Software Specialist Cartesiam
STMicroelectronics today announced a transaction with Cartesiam to acquire its assets (including its IP portfolio) and to transfer and integrate its employees. Closing is subject to regulatory approvals. Cartesiam, based in Toulon (France), is a software company founded in 2016, which specializes in artificial intelligence (AI) development tools enabling machine-learning and inferencing on Arm®-based microcontrollers, which today power billions of devices. Its team includes data scientists and embedded signal processing…
Accelerating AI-Defined Cars
Expect to see a convergence of edge computing, machine vision and 5G-connected vehicles.
Kneron to Acquire Image Signal Processor Developer Vatics
Vatics acquisition allows Kneron to expand its chip offerings, integrating image sensing processors, beginning later in 2021.
Dialog Semiconductor Leads Industrial Digital Transformation with Addition of AI and Data Analytics Partners to SmartServer Ecosystem
Dialog Semiconductor plc announced an expansion of its SmartServer IoT Partner Program to include businesses that offer data analytics platforms with artificial intelligence (AI)-led outcomes that transform industrial operations.
SiFive and Samsung Foundry Extend Partnership to Accelerate AI SoC Development
The extended partnership will enable and accelerate the development of Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning inference and training SoCs based on SiFive RISC-V processors and built using Samsung Foundry technology infrastructure.
BrainChip Simplifies Deep Learning with Launch of MetaTF
BrainChip Holdings Ltd. introduced MetaTF, a versatile ML framework that allows people working in the convolutional neural network space to quickly and easily move to neuromorphic computing without having to learn anything new, today at Linley Spring Conference 2021.
Tenstorrent Selects SiFive Intelligence X280 for Next-Generation AI Processors
SiFive, Inc. today announced that Tenstorrent, an AI semiconductor and software start-up developing next-generation computers, will license the new SiFive Intelligence X280 processor in its AI training and inference processor.
DeepCube Acquired by Nano Dimension
DeepCube has signed a definitive agreement to be acquired by Nano Dimension Ltd.
Sesh Announces Video AI Research Project with Professors at Leading US Business Schools
Sesh Corp (Sesh), the neuroscience-based people development company announces collaborative research study with Asst Prof. Jon M. Jachimowicz of Harvard Business School and Joyce He, an incoming Asst Prof at UCLA Anderson School of Management.
