Let’s take them in reverse order…
5. Radio Frequency Directed Energy Weapon targets swarms of drones
The UK’s Defence Science and Technology Laboratory (DSTL) has announced it has been developing a Radio Frequency Directed Energy Weapon (RFDEW), which it describes as a cutting-edge drone killer radio wave weapon. Beaming radio waves to disrupt or damage the critical electronic components of enemy vehicles, it can detect, track and engage threats across land, air and sea. It can effect targets up to 1km away, with further development extending the range of operation.
4. Nvidia boom almost entirely datacentre-driven [Mannerisms]
After the November-January quarter when it generated $12 billion net income on revenues of $22 billion, Nvidia outperformed expectations in the February-April quarter with revenues of $26 billion and a net income of roughly $15 billion. This immense success is largely built on one pillar of the company. This pillar is the data center segment which includes chips manufactured specifically with the AI industry in mind, which heavily relies on cloud computing and the required server farms.
3. Pi staff to share £68m IPO pie
Raspberry Pi staffers will share £68 million in the upcoming IPO of the company, reports the Telegraph. The Pi employee incentive scheme has around 13.6% of Raspberry Pi shares which would be worth up to £68 million if the company is valued at £500 million at the IPO. With 103 employees, that works out at £660,000 for each staff member.
2. Applied gets fifth subpoena
Applied Materials received a fifth subpoena last week for illegally exporting chip manufacturing equipment to SMIC. The latest subpoena was from the US Department of Commerce which was also responsible for the first subpoena last year. In between, there have been two subpoenas from the US Attorney’s Office for the District of Massachusetts and one from the SEC. All five relate to shipping chip manufacturing equipment to China in contravention of the US export restrictions.
1. Arm delivering tapeout-ready compute sub-systems for phones and PCs
Arm is delivering tapeout-ready sub-systems for compute with hardened CPU and GPU cores which are production proven on the 3nm processes at TSMC and Samsung in an initiative called Compute Subsystems for Client (CSS for Client). “We are co-designing and delivering CPU and GPU physical implementations, which includes tape-out ready Cortex-X925 CPU and Immortalis-G925 physical implementations for 3nm,” says Arm. “This helps our partners to access the full PPA benefits on the 3nm process…”
