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ROS developers meet-up organised by acceleration robotics

Source: Acceleration Robotics, January 20, 2023 [1]
Acceleration Robotics organized the ROS Developers Meet in India with the goal of creating a cohesive community of Indian ROS Developers.

China unveils new plan for wider robot use from manufacturing to agriculture, as population shrinks

Source: South China Morning Post, January 20, 2023 [2]
China has published a new action plan laying out 10 industries where it wants to use more robots. Beijing will accelerate the application of robotics in manufacturing, agriculture, logistics, energy, healthcare, education and elderly services. Policymakers aim to achieve more than 100 innovative robotics applications by 2025.

AMD powers DENSO's next-gen automotive lidar systems

Source: Fierce electronics, January 19, 2023 [3]
AMD continues to find success with Japanese automotive manufacturers for deployment of its Xilinx Automotive (XA) Zynq UltraScale+ adaptive system-on-a-chip. Japan's DENSO will use the multi-processor SoC in its next-generation lidar platform.

Asia-Pacific continues to dominate the global semiconductor market

Source: Investment Monitor, January 25, 2023 [4]
The semiconductor industry has suffered significant shortages during the pandemic, meaning it is still highly dependent on Asia-Pacific.

AMD launches program enabling turnkey designs based on its Kria SOMs

Source: allaboutcircuits, January 18, 2023 [5]
Leveraging the company’s FPGA-based Kria system-on-modules (SOMs) and its app store methodology, AMD is unveiling a new ODM partner effort.

AMD’s Lisa Su goes extra time with announcements during CES 2023 keynote

Source: Forbes, January 24, 2023 [6]
Dr. Lisa Su made seven key product announcements spanning energy efficient PCs to extreme processors designed for supercomputers. AMD added a dedicated AI core to its new Ryzen 7040 series notebook processors. Most of AMD's announcements focused on PCs - both desktop and notebooks.

SiFive, Intel announce HiFive pro P550 MicroATX RISC-V development board

Source: Tom's Hardware, January 23, 2023 [7]
HiFive Pro P550 development board is on track for release during the summer of 2023. Powered by a "Horse Creek" SoC, which is a quad-core, 64-bit RISC-V design. Built by Intel Foundry Services on the Intel 4 process (aka 7nm).

NVIDIA grace CPU Superchip architecture in depth

Source: NVIDIA Technical Blog, January 18, 2023 [8]
The NVIDIA Grace CPU is the first data center CPU developed by NVIDIA. The superchip builds on the existing Arm ecosystem to create the first no-compromise Arm CPU for HPC, demanding cloud workloads, and high-performance and power efficient dense infrastructure. More information is available in the NVIDIA Grace Hopper Superchip Whitepaper.

Papers

HULK-V: A heterogeneous ultra-low-power Linux capable RISC-V soc

Source: arXiv, November 27, 2022 [9]
IoT applications span a wide range in performance and memory footprint, under tight cost and power constraints. HULK-V is an open-source Heterogeneous Linux-capable RISC-V-based SoC with an 8-core Programmable Multi-Core Accelerator. It is a fully digital ultra-low-cost SoC running a 64-bit Linux software stack with extreme energy efficiency and processing capabilities.

Efficient Parallelization of 5G-PUSCH on a scalable RISC-V many-core processor

Source: arXiv, October 17, 2022 [10]
In this paper, we explore the software design, parallelization and optimization of the key kernels of the lower physical layer (PHY) for physical uplink shared channel (PUSCH) reception on MemPool and TeraPool. Our analysis generalizes to the entire lower PHY of the uplink receiver at gNB.

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  1. Vikhe, G. (2023, January 20). ROS developers meet-up organised by acceleration robotics. Hardware Acceleration in Robotics. https://news.accelerationrobotics.com/ros-developers-meet-up-organized-by-acceleration-robotics/ ↩︎

  2. Zhang, L. (2023, January 20). China unveils new plan to use more robots as population shrinks. South China Morning Post. https://amp-scmp-com.cdn.ampproject.org/c/s/amp.scmp.com/tech/policy/article/3207622/china-unveils-new-plan-wider-robot-use-manufacturing-agriculture-population-shrinks ↩︎

  3. O'shea, D. (2023, January 19). AMD powers DENSO's next-gen automotive lidar systems. Fierce electronics. https://www.fierceelectronics.com/sensors/amd-powers-densos-next-gen-automotive-lidar-systems ↩︎

  4. Caon, V. (2023, January 25). Asia-Pacific continues to dominate the global semiconductor market. Investment Monitor. https://www.investmentmonitor.ai/features/asia-pacific-continues-to-dominate-the-global-semiconductor-market/ ↩︎

  5. Child, J. (2023, January 18). AMD launches program enabling turnkey designs based on its Kria SOMs. allaboutcircuits. https://www.allaboutcircuits.com/news/amd-launches-program-enabling-turnkey-designs-based-on-its-kria-soms/ ↩︎

  6. Krewell, K. (2023, January 24). AMD’s Lisa Su goes extra time with announcements during CES 2023 keynote. Forbes. https://www.forbes.com/sites/tiriasresearch/2023/01/23/amds-lisa-su-goes-extra-time-with-announcements-during-ces-2023-keynote/?ss=consumertech&sh=4d2db151755a ↩︎

  7. Hill, B. (2023, January 23). SiFive, Intel announce HiFive pro P550 MicroATX RISC-V development board. Tom's Hardware. https://www.tomshardware.com/news/sifive-intel-hifive-risc-v-development-board ↩︎

  8. Evans, J., Finder, I., Goldwasser, I., Linford, J., Mehta, V., Ruiz, D., & Wagner, M. (2023, January 18). NVIDIA grace CPU Superchip architecture in depth. NVIDIA Technical Blog. https://developer.nvidia.com/blog/nvidia-grace-cpu-superchip-architecture-in-depth/ ↩︎

  9. Valente, L., Tortorella, Y., Sinigaglia, M., Tagliavini, G., Capotondi, A., Benini, L., & Rossi, D. (2022, November 27). HULK-V: A heterogeneous ultra-low-power Linux capable RISC-V soc. arXiv. https://arxiv.org/abs/2211.14944 ↩︎

  10. Bertuletti, M., Zhang, Y., Vanelli-Coralli, A., & Benini, L. (2022, October 17). Efficient Parallelization of 5G-PUSCH on a scalable RISC-V many-core processor. arXiv.org. https://arxiv.org/abs/2210.09196 ↩︎