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From the editor's desk: Exciting times ahead?
Technews Publishing, News

There are many subjects that excite me in this world, but two of the larger technical subjects are, firstly, renewable energy, and secondly, the idea of artificial intelligence as it continues to evolve ...
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Electronic News Digest
Electronic News Digest

A brief synopsis of current global news relating to the electronic engineering fields, with regards to company finances, general company news, and engineering technologies.
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AI-native IoT platform launched
EBV Electrolink, AI & ML

These highly-integrated Linux and Android SoCs from Synaptics are optimised for consumer, enterprise, and industrial applications and deliver an ‘out-of-the-box’ edge AI experience.
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Bridging the gap between MCUs and MPUs
Future Electronics, Editor's Choice, AI & ML

The Renesas RA8 series microcontrollers feature Arm Helium technology, which boosts the performance of DSP functions and of AI and machine learning algorithms.
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Unlock power efficiency with the new generation of ultra-low-power MCUs
DSP, Micros & Memory

STMicroelectronics has announced a one-hour webinar on its STM32U0, the company’s latest generation of entry-level, ultra-low-power MCUs.
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World’s most powerful open LLM
AI & ML

With a staggering 180 billion parameters, and trained on 3,5 trillion tokens, Falcon 180B has soared to the top of the Hugging Face Leaderboard for pretrained LLMs.
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Schneider Electric partners with Drakenstein Municipality
Schneider Electric South Africa, Power Electronics / Power Management

Drakenstein Municipality, situated in Paarl in the Western Cape, is one of the first distribution utilities globally to implement Schneider Electric’s green, SF6-free RM AirSeT switchgear with pure air technology and native digital connectivity.
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Using AMD HLS to supercharge your design performance
DSP, Micros & Memory

This workshop explores the power and capabilities of High-Level Synthesis (AMD Vitis HLS) to dramatically accelerate embedded software to hardware speeds.
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E-Mobility: navigate safety, interoperability and conformance
Concilium Technologies, Power Electronics / Power Management

Although the concept of electric vehicles is not a new one, the market remains in its infancy, and is not well-regulated or fully operational. This presents a number of challenges for manufacturers throughout the EV and EVSE ecosystem.
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High-speed AWG generates up to 20 sine waves
Vepac Electronics, Test & Measurement

Spectrum Instrumentation has released a new firmware option for its range of versatile 16-bit Arbitrary Waveform Generators, with sampling rates up to 1,25 GS/s and bandwidths up to 400 MHz.
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Banana Pi with NPU
CST Electronics, AI & ML

The latest Banana Pi SBC, the BPI-M7, is powered by Rockchip’s latest flagship RK3588 octa-core 64-bit processor, with a maximum frequency of 2,4 GHz.
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ESP32-P4 high-performance MCU
iCorp Technologies, AI & ML

Powered by a dual-core RISC-V CPU running up to 400 MHz, ESP32-P4 also supports single-precision FPU and AI extensions, thus providing all the necessary computational resources.
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xG26 sets new standard in multiprotocol wireless device performance
Altron Arrow, AI & ML

Silicon Labs has announced its new xG26 family of Wireless SoCs and MCUs, which consists of the multiprotocol MG26 SoC, the Bluetooth LE BG26 SoC, and the PG26 MCU.
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Antennas to meet all connectivity requirements
Electrocomp, Telecoms, Datacoms, Wireless, IoT

Kyocera AVX RF antennas meet today’s connectivity demands in the LTE, Wi-Fi, Bluetooth, GNSS, and ISM wireless bands, available in surface mount, patch or external configurations.
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LoRaWAN-certified sub-GHz module
Altron Arrow, Telecoms, Datacoms, Wireless, IoT

The STM32WL5M from ST Microelectronics is the company’s first LoRaWAN-certified module which incorporates two cores, one of them being a wireless stack to optimise the creation of sub-GHz applications.
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Quectel announces module for RedCap comms
Quectel Wireless Solutions, Telecoms, Datacoms, Wireless, IoT

The Quectel RG255G offers downlink performance of 220 Mbps, and uplink performance of 121 Mbps on 256QAM or 91 Mbps on 64QAM.
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Duxbury launches a cellular coverage solution
Telecoms, Datacoms, Wireless, IoT

Duxbury Networking has announced the South African availability of the Nextivity CEL-FI GO G43 multi-operator cellular coverage solution, that ensures customers and employees have reliable mobile coverage.
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3D depth sensing sensor
Avnet Silica, Telecoms, Datacoms, Wireless, IoT

A recent announcement by STMicroelectronics has revealed an all-in-one, direct Time-of-Flight (dToF) 3D LiDAR (Light Detection And Ranging) module with 2,3k resolution.
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