Advances in silicon photonics, compound III–V semiconductor technology and hybrid integration now mean that powerful, programmable optical integrated circuits could be within sight. The recent ...

Configurable analog ICs have been available in various forms for years, seemingly making less of an impression on the market than their digital cousins, FPGAs (field-programmable gate arrays). The ...

Intel Corp. today announced plans to spin out its programmable chip unit as a standalone business, and will treat it as a separate entity going forward. Ultimately, the chip giant aims to hold an ...

The advent of big data era raising significant challenges in information processing, especially in the aspect of capacity and power consumption. Situations become even worse when we consider the fact ...

SAN FRANCISCO, Feb 29 (Reuters) - Artificial intelligence offers a growing and potentially lucrative opportunity for Intel's (INTC.O), opens new tab freshly standalone programmable chip unit, its CEO ...

Xilinx, whose programmable chips are often used as prototypes for next-generation networking products, is teaming with IBM's Microelectronics unit in a move that could lead to more powerful chips for ...

Penn Engineers have developed the first programmable chip that can train nonlinear neural networks using light — a breakthrough that could dramatically speed up AI training, reduce energy use and even ...

Efinix is trying to make these chips small and efficient enough for factory sensors and smartphones, which usually defer machine learning tasks to the cloud. The goal is to make these chips small and ...

A couple of weeks ago SDxCentral learned that Marvell was discontinuing the Xpliant programmable chip line it got through its acquisition of Cavium. And the news provoked readers to ask: “What does ...