Hardware acceleration

Creek Road Miners Announces Initial Scale Purchase of Bitmain S19j Pro 100T Antminers

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Tuesday, July 13, 2021
Internet, Teens, Online, General Entertainment, Technology, Consumer, Other Technology, Entertainment, Cryptocurrencies, Cryptography, Payment systems, Economy, Digital currencies, Bitmain, Hardware acceleration, Bitcoin, Bitcoin network, Miner

Wizard Brands, Inc. (OTCQB: WIZD) an activist conglomerate that optimizes performance and profit in the companies it creates, acquires, and operates announced today the initial scale purchase of Bitmain S19j Pro 100T Antminers by Creek Road Miners, LLC, a wholly owned subsidiary of Wizard Brands.

Key Points: 
  • Wizard Brands, Inc. (OTCQB: WIZD) an activist conglomerate that optimizes performance and profit in the companies it creates, acquires, and operates announced today the initial scale purchase of Bitmain S19j Pro 100T Antminers by Creek Road Miners, LLC, a wholly owned subsidiary of Wizard Brands.
  • Creek Road Miners will purchase the S19j Antminers directly from Bitmain, the worlds leading producer of cryptocurrency mining hardware.
  • The Creek Road Miners management team is currently evaluating several sites to determine the proper location of the mining facility which will be powered by natural gas.
  • Mr. Scott Kaufman, the Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of Wizard Brands commented, We are proud to work with Bitmain to grow scale ESG-focused bitcoin cryptocurrency mining facilities here in the United States.

Achronix And ACE Convergence Acquisition Corp Mutually Agree To Terminate Merger Agreement

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Monday, July 12, 2021
Fabless semiconductor companies, Reconfigurable computing, Achronix, Computing, Technology, Electronics industry, Hardware acceleration, Integrated circuits, Field-programmable gate array

SANTA CLARA, Calif., July 12, 2021 /PRNewswire/ -- Achronix Semiconductor Corporation, a leader in high-performance field-programmable gate arrays (FPGAs) and embedded FPGA (eFPGA) IP, and ACE Convergence Acquisition Corp. (ACE) (Nasdaq: ACEV), a special-purpose acquisition company focused on the Industrial and Information Technology sectors, today announced that both companies have mutually agreed to terminate their merger agreement ("Agreement"), effective immediately.

Key Points: 
  • SANTA CLARA, Calif., July 12, 2021 /PRNewswire/ -- Achronix Semiconductor Corporation, a leader in high-performance field-programmable gate arrays (FPGAs) and embedded FPGA (eFPGA) IP, and ACE Convergence Acquisition Corp. (ACE) (Nasdaq: ACEV), a special-purpose acquisition company focused on the Industrial and Information Technology sectors, today announced that both companies have mutually agreed to terminate their merger agreement ("Agreement"), effective immediately.
  • Throughout 2021, Achronix has continued to build strong momentum, and it remains committed to pursuing additional options to become a public company."
  • Neither party will be required to pay the other a termination fee as a result of the mutual decision to terminate the agreement.
  • Achronix and Speedster are registered trademarks, and Speedcore and Speedchip are trademarks of Achronix Semiconductor Corporation.

Gryphon Digital Mining Announces Major Purchase of 7,200 S19J Pro Antminers

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Thursday, July 8, 2021
Cryptography, Payment systems, Cryptocurrencies, Bitcoin, Digital currencies, Bitmain, Hardware acceleration, Computer engineering, Cryptographic hash function

NEW YORK, July 8, 2021 /PRNewswire/ -- Gryphon Digital Mining ("Gryphon", "Gryphon Mining" or the "Company"), which recently announced that it has entered into a merger agreement with Sphere 3D (Nasdaq: ANY), today announced it has entered into an agreement to purchase 7,200 Antminer S19J Pro mining machines from Bitmain Technologies Limited ("Bitmain") for an aggregate purchase price of $48 million.

Key Points: 
  • NEW YORK, July 8, 2021 /PRNewswire/ -- Gryphon Digital Mining ("Gryphon", "Gryphon Mining" or the "Company"), which recently announced that it has entered into a merger agreement with Sphere 3D (Nasdaq: ANY), today announced it has entered into an agreement to purchase 7,200 Antminer S19J Pro mining machines from Bitmain Technologies Limited ("Bitmain") for an aggregate purchase price of $48 million.
  • The agreement relating to the purchase of the S19J Pro miners represents a significant step forward in Gryphon Digital Mining's strategic initiative to increase its Bitcoin hash rate, while simultaneously maintaining a zero carbon footprint.
  • "We are happy to provide Gryphon with Bitmain's latest next-gen miners, the Antminer S19j Pro.
  • We are confident that Gryphon will continue to expand their business and provide reliable and low-cost mining.

New TySOM-M Series Targets Low Power, High Security Applications

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Wednesday, July 7, 2021
Technology, Hardware, Electronic design automation, Security, Computer architecture, Computing, Microprocessors, Instruction set architectures, Fabless semiconductor companies, SiFive, Microcontrollers, System on a chip, Hardware acceleration, RISC-V, Field-programmable gate array, Arc, TySOM, Aldec, TYSOM, ALDEC

Microchips PolarFire SoC FPGA boasts low power consumption, impressive thermal efficiency and defense-grade security for smart, connected systems.

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  • Microchips PolarFire SoC FPGA boasts low power consumption, impressive thermal efficiency and defense-grade security for smart, connected systems.
  • The RISC-V CPU micro-architecture implementation in the PolarFire SoC MPFS250T-FCG1152 is a five-stage single issue in-order pipeline.
  • The five cores are 1x SiFive E51 Monitor core (RV64IMAC) and 4x SiFive U54 Application cores (RV64GC).
  • Aldecs decision to use PolarFire SoC FPGA in its new TySOM-M family will enable users to design for a wealth of applications requiring low power and high security.

Corigine Delivers a Next-Generation Prototyping System for ASIC and Pre-Silicon Software Development

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Tuesday, July 6, 2021
Digital electronics, Electronic engineering, Integrated circuits, Computer engineering, Hardware acceleration, Field-programmable gate array, Post-silicon validation, FPGA prototyping, Aldec

The Corigine prototyping solution delivers an unprecedented level of automation and performance for FPGA based prototyping, accelerating silicon verification and pre-silicon software development at semiconductor companies.

Key Points: 
  • The Corigine prototyping solution delivers an unprecedented level of automation and performance for FPGA based prototyping, accelerating silicon verification and pre-silicon software development at semiconductor companies.
  • "We are delighted to ship MimicPro production systems to customers," said Corigine CEO Sheng Lu, "The Corigine MimicPro system has opened the flood gates to a marvelous new level of functionality for standalone prototyping, making it available for every validation and software engineering desktop.
  • The Corigine MimicPro system functionality includes automated partitioning with system-level view for optimal performance.
  • Corigine is a fabless semiconductor company that designs and delivers leading edge I/O and networking products, IPs and EDA solutions.

Investview (“INVU”) Reports $2.2 Million Month in Bitcoin Mining Gross Revenue & Announces Operations Updates for June 2021

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Tuesday, July 6, 2021
Cryptocurrencies, Payment systems, Bitcoin, Digital currencies, Currency, Computer engineering, Bitmain, Hardware acceleration

In July 2021, SAFETek purchased and will ship over 1,200 Bitmain T17+ Antminers.

Key Points: 
  • In July 2021, SAFETek purchased and will ship over 1,200 Bitmain T17+ Antminers.
  • Installation of these 1,200 Bitcoin miners is expected to be completed by mid-August 2021 (early fiscal Q2 2022).
  • This demonstrates Investviews commitment to being a market leader in the industry while maintaining a highly efficient and environmentally responsible Bitcoin mining operation.
  • For more information on Investview and its family of wholly owned subsidiaries, please visit: www.investvie w .com .

Arteris® IP FlexNoC® Interconnect Again Licensed by AutoChips for Automotive SoC Product Line

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Tuesday, June 29, 2021
Technology, Computing, Computer engineering, Hardware acceleration, Arteris, Electronic design automation, Integrated circuits, Electronic design

CAMPBELL, Calif., June 29, 2021 /PRNewswire-PRWeb/ --Arteris IP, a leading provider of network-on-chip (NoC) interconnect and other intellectual property (IP) technology that manages the on-chip communications in system-on-chip (SoC) semiconductor devices, today announced that Chinese automotive semiconductor vendor AutoChips has again licensed FlexNoC interconnect IP for use in automotive systems-on-chip (SoCs).

Key Points: 
  • CAMPBELL, Calif., June 29, 2021 /PRNewswire-PRWeb/ --Arteris IP, a leading provider of network-on-chip (NoC) interconnect and other intellectual property (IP) technology that manages the on-chip communications in system-on-chip (SoC) semiconductor devices, today announced that Chinese automotive semiconductor vendor AutoChips has again licensed FlexNoC interconnect IP for use in automotive systems-on-chip (SoCs).
  • AutoChips first licensed Arteris IP semiconductor IP in 2018 and has implemented the technology in a production automotive chip design.
  • (See, "Arteris IP FlexNoC Interconnect Licensed by AutoChips for Automotive SoC Development.")
  • "We are excited that AutoChips has renewed their use of Arteris IP interconnect technology as the on-chip communications backbone of its automotive systems-on-chip," said K. Charles Janac, president and CEO of Arteris IP.

Supermicro Boosts Performance for HPC and AI Applications with Optimized Servers Featuring New NVIDIA A100 80GB PCIe GPUs

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Monday, June 28, 2021
Computing, Technology, Computer engineering, GPGPU, Graphics hardware, Parallel computing, Graphics processing unit, Hardware acceleration, Nvidia, Supermicro, Ampère

Supermicro servers, designed with a Building Block Solutions approach, give Supermicro a first to market advantage when incorporating new technologies.

Key Points: 
  • Supermicro servers, designed with a Building Block Solutions approach, give Supermicro a first to market advantage when incorporating new technologies.
  • The new NVIDIA A100 PCIe 80GB GPU will enable faster execution of AI and HPC applications, as bigger models can be stored in the GPU memory.
  • These new 80GB GPUs from NVIDIA will enable more extensive data sets to be held in memory, accelerating computationally-intensive HPC and AI applications.
  • Multiple NVIDIA A100 80GB PCIe devices can be installed in a range of Supermicro systems, allowing for flexible AI computing.

Supermicro Boosts Performance for HPC and AI Applications with Optimized Servers Featuring New NVIDIA A100 80GB PCIe GPUs

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Monday, June 28, 2021
Computing, Technology, Computer engineering, GPGPU, Graphics hardware, Parallel computing, Graphics processing unit, Hardware acceleration, Nvidia, Supermicro, Ampère

Supermicro servers, designed with a Building Block Solutions approach, give Supermicro a first to market advantage when incorporating new technologies.

Key Points: 
  • Supermicro servers, designed with a Building Block Solutions approach, give Supermicro a first to market advantage when incorporating new technologies.
  • The new NVIDIA A100 PCIe 80GB GPU will enable faster execution of AI and HPC applications, as bigger models can be stored in the GPU memory.
  • These new 80GB GPUs from NVIDIA will enable more extensive data sets to be held in memory, accelerating computationally-intensive HPC and AI applications.
  • Multiple NVIDIA A100 80GB PCIe devices can be installed in a range of Supermicro systems, allowing for flexible AI computing.

Velodyne Lidar Launches India Design Center in Bangalore

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Thursday, June 24, 2021
Hardware, Other Automotive, Technology, Automotive, Software, Articles, Technology, Engineering, Hardware acceleration, Integrated circuits, Lidar, Velodyne LiDAR, Velodyne, Field-programmable gate array, Application-specific integrated circuit, Systems engineering, UST

Velodyne Lidar, Inc. (Nasdaq: VLDR, VLDRW) today announced the launch of its new India Design Center in Bangalore.

Key Points: 
  • Velodyne Lidar, Inc. (Nasdaq: VLDR, VLDRW) today announced the launch of its new India Design Center in Bangalore.
  • View the full release here: https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20210624005240/en/
    The India Design Center will closely collaborate with Velodynes San Jose, Calif.-based engineering team in leading-edge research and development to build customer-focused solutions.
  • The India Design Center is actively focused on growing its engineering talent team in hardware, FPGA, embedded software, board design, systems engineering, ASIC, perception software, functional safety, cyber security and other adjacent areas.
  • The center will be led by Parthasarathy Narasimhan, who has joined Velodyne as Vice President of Engineering and Managing Director of the India Design Center.