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If there were a word to sum up NVIDIA CEO Jensen Huang’s response to growing competition in the AI chip segment, it would be “paranoid”, as he told CNBC in the first half of 2024. Despite a major stake in the market—high enough for the company to be referred to as a “moat”—the company still faces an impending boom in artificial intelligence (AI) chip creation.  However, NVIDIA’s response is simply to accelerate its efforts, bringing new chip...

Are you looking to enhance your design skills and boost your productivity? Join our exclusive webinar to learn essential tips and tricks that will streamline your PCB design workflow and tackle common challenges with ease. Discover practical insights and efficient methods that can enhance your PCB design capabilities. In this exclusive webinar, we will showcase features that streamline your design process and save valuable time. Even experienced...

Applications that were once cutting edge, like artificial intelligence, quantum and high-performance computing, wireless and 5G communications and virtual and augmented reality, are quickly going mainstream, driving an increase in demand for the high-performance, low-power chips they require.  The need for new approaches to simultaneously achieve energy savings and performance gains to support these fast-growing, demanding applications has...

Altium 365 GovCloud is a dedicated region in Altium, situated within the US and operated exclusively by US Persons in the AWS GovCloud region. This specialized environment incorporates cloud data security features designed to help you meet the confines of US government regulations, providing a secure workspace for your team’s electronics designs. Altium 365 GovCloud is the ideal secure cloud collaboration environment for highly regulated...

The cloud has become an integral part of businesses, offering scalability, flexibility, and cost-efficiency. However, as organizations increasingly migrate their data and business operations there, addressing potential cloud security risks is top of mind. Cloud security assessment is necessary to ensure the effectiveness of safeguarding controls of your organization's data, reputation, and future. It helps users of secure cloud collaboration...

Rigid-flex Printed Circuit Boards (PCBs) are an elegant solution to many electronic packaging challenges. This technology brings together the durability of rigid PCBs with the versatility of flexible circuits. Rigid-flex PCBs are key to many modern devices such as smartphones, medical equipment, and automotive electronics. In these high-density routing applications, microvias are often used to interconnect different layers of the circuit board. A...

The Biden administration's recent announcement of significant tariff increases on Chinese imports, particularly semiconductor chips, has sent shockwaves through the electronics industry. This move, aimed at protecting American industries and workers, is a mixed blessing for professionals across the sector. As executives, managers and engineers in the electronics field, understanding the implications of these tariffs is extremely important. This...

Strategies used to route PCBs with higher layer counts are diverse and will depend on the functionality in the PCB. Boards with high layer counts can involve many different types of signals, ranging from groups of slow-speed digital interfaces to multiple high-speed digital interfaces with different signal integrity requirements. This presents a challenge from the perspective of planning routing and assigning signal layers to various interfaces....

In Understanding Neural Networks we looked at an overview of Artificial Neural Networks and tried to give examples in the real world to understand them at a higher level. In this article we’re going to look at how to train neural networks and then deploy them onto a Field Programmable Gate Array (FPGA) using an open source library called hls4ml. The Model In contrast to Understanding Neural Networks, we’re going to be looking at a much...