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Interlink Electronics Reports Fourth Quarter and Fiscal Year 2023 Results

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Thursday, March 21, 2024
Electronics, Marketing, Interlink Electronics, SPEC, Growth, Engineering

IRVINE, Calif., March 21, 2024 /PRNewswire/ -- Interlink Electronics, Inc. (Nasdaq: LINK), a world-leading provider of sensors and printed electronic solutions that support a wide range of applications including Human-Machine Interface devices and Internet-of-Things solutions, today announced its financial results for the three months and year ended December 31, 2023.

Key Points: 
  • Revenue increased 120% to $3.5 million in the fourth quarter of 2023 compared to the prior-year period and increased 86% to $13.9 million for the year.
  • Gross profit for the quarter increased 82% to $1.5 million compared to the year-ago quarter due to increased revenues, while gross margin percentage was down from 49% to 41%.
  • EBITDA for the fourth quarter improved from negative $290,000 for the prior-year period to positive $15,000 in the current year.
  • "We believe our 2023 activities and results demonstrate our commitment to growth through acquisitions and organic opportunities," said Steven N. Bronson, Chairman, President, and CEO of Interlink Electronics.

SPEC Updates PTDaemon Interface to Meet Evolving Industry Requirements

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Thursday, February 22, 2024
Algorithm, Intel, TPC, Reicholzheim, Standard Performance Evaluation Corporation, Temperature, Dell, IBM, SPEC, Transaction, Carbon, HPE, ZES, University, AMD, IEIT, Machine learning, Benchmarking, Microsoft, Software, Partnership, Medical device

PTDaemon greatly simplifies power and temperature benchmarking with SPEC benchmarks, eliminating the need to understand and adapt to different power analyzer interface protocols and behaviors.

Key Points: 
  • PTDaemon greatly simplifies power and temperature benchmarking with SPEC benchmarks, eliminating the need to understand and adapt to different power analyzer interface protocols and behaviors.
  • PTDaemon provides a common TCP/IP-based interface that can be integrated into different benchmark harnesses.
  • “Given the increasing importance of energy efficiency, achieving a low carbon footprint, and the rapid evolution of cooling technologies, SPEC is focused on continually updating the PTDaemon interface to meet the latest industry requirements for accurate power measurements,” said Klaus-Dieter Lange, SPECpower Committee Chair.
  • The latest version of the PTDaemon Interface includes new support for the ZES LMG600 series of power analyzers.

Supermicro Offers Rack Scale Solutions with New 5th Gen Intel® Xeon® Processors Optimized for AI, Cloud Service Providers, Storage, and Edge Computing

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Thursday, December 14, 2023
Cloud, Emerald, Metaverse, Fifth, Synthetic media, SPEC, OpenFOAM, SXM, NVIDIA, DLB, EDSFF, TCO, Memory, Electricity, VDI, System, Death, BMC, Generative, InfiniBand, Graphics processing unit, CPU, Triad, Total, Communication, AI, Green computing, Enterprise, OCP, Xeon, Stock, TDP, Petascale computing, 2U, Rot, HPC, Data analysis, NIST, OAM, Data processing unit, GPU, Research, JumpStart, Compute Express Link, PCI Express, Monitoring, G1, CXL, Intel, DPU, Central processing unit, Movement, X13, LINPACK, Cloud storage, Video game, Computer data storage, Online shopping, Mobile phone, Semiconductor, Supermicro, Titanium

SAN JOSE, Calif., Dec. 14, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Supermicro, Inc. (NASDAQ: SMCI), a Total IT Solution Manufacturer for AI, Cloud, Storage, and 5G/Edge, announces rack scale air and liquid cooled solutions based on the X13 family of workload-optimized servers now support the new 5th Gen Intel Xeon processors (formerly codenamed Emerald Rapids). The new product lineup includes GPU servers for Generative AI, throughput and latency-optimized E3.S Petascale servers, cost-effective high-density Enterprise and Simply Double storage servers for large-scale object storage, and a new 4-node SuperEdge systems with enhanced storage capacity.

Key Points: 
  • The 5th Gen Intel Xeon processors provide a 36%3 higher average performance/watt across workloads vs. 4th Gen Intel Xeon Scalable processors.
  • Both CPU and GPU direct-to-chip liquid cooling are available on the system via Supermicro's complete rack integration and liquid cooling solutions.
  • Supermicro is also launching several new servers supporting the new Intel Xeon E-2400 processors (formerly codenamed Catlow Platform, Raptor Lake-E).
  • A comprehensive software suite that enables rack management at scale for IT infrastructure solutions deployed across the core to the edge.

Supermicro Offers Rack Scale Solutions with New 5th Gen Intel® Xeon® Processors Optimized for AI, Cloud Service Providers, Storage, and Edge Computing

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Thursday, December 14, 2023
Cloud, Emerald, Metaverse, Fifth, Synthetic media, SPEC, OpenFOAM, SXM, NVIDIA, DLB, EDSFF, TCO, Memory, Electricity, VDI, System, Death, BMC, Generative, InfiniBand, Graphics processing unit, CPU, Triad, Total, Communication, AI, Green computing, Enterprise, OCP, Xeon, Stock, TDP, Petascale computing, 2U, Rot, HPC, Data analysis, NIST, OAM, Data processing unit, GPU, Research, JumpStart, Compute Express Link, PCI Express, Monitoring, G1, CXL, Intel, DPU, Central processing unit, Movement, X13, LINPACK, Cloud storage, Video game, Computer data storage, Online shopping, Mobile phone, Semiconductor, Supermicro, Titanium

SAN JOSE, Calif., Dec. 14, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Supermicro, Inc. (NASDAQ: SMCI), a Total IT Solution Manufacturer for AI, Cloud, Storage, and 5G/Edge, announces rack scale air and liquid cooled solutions based on the X13 family of workload-optimized servers now support the new 5th Gen Intel Xeon processors (formerly codenamed Emerald Rapids). The new product lineup includes GPU servers for Generative AI, throughput and latency-optimized E3.S Petascale servers, cost-effective high-density Enterprise and Simply Double storage servers for large-scale object storage, and a new 4-node SuperEdge systems with enhanced storage capacity.

Key Points: 
  • The 5th Gen Intel Xeon processors provide a 36%3 higher average performance/watt across workloads vs. 4th Gen Intel Xeon Scalable processors.
  • Both CPU and GPU direct-to-chip liquid cooling are available on the system via Supermicro's complete rack integration and liquid cooling solutions.
  • Supermicro is also launching several new servers supporting the new Intel Xeon E-2400 processors (formerly codenamed Catlow Platform, Raptor Lake-E).
  • A comprehensive software suite that enables rack management at scale for IT infrastructure solutions deployed across the core to the edge.

Two New Marvell OCTEON 10 Processors Bring Server-Class Performance to Networking Devices

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Wednesday, December 6, 2023
MRVL, DDR5, Telecommunications, Marvell Technology, VPP, Acceleration, Best, Radio, SPEC, DPU, Computing, CPU, Semiconductor, Original equipment manufacturer, MIMO, Microprocessor Report, Video game

SANTA CLARA, Calif., Dec. 6, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Marvell Technology, Inc. (NASDAQ: MRVL), a leader in data infrastructure semiconductor solutions, is enabling networking equipment and firewall manufacturers achieve breakthrough levels of performance and efficiency with two new OCTEON 10 data processing units (DPUs), the OCTEON 10 CN102 and OCTEON 10 CN103. 

Key Points: 
  • Several of the world's largest networking equipment manufacturers have already incorporated the OCTEON 10 CN102 into a number of product designs.
  • Containing up to eight Arm® Neoverse™ N2 cores, OCTEON 10 CN102 and CN103 deliver 3x the performance of Marvell current DPU solutions for devices while reducing power consumption by 50% to 25 watts1.
  • "The idea behind the Marvell OCTEON 10 DPU platform is that every market and every customer segment deserve optimized processors.
  • Sampling already, the Marvell OCTEON 10 CN102 and CN103 DPUs are available in production quantities in Q4 of this year and Q1 of 2024, respectively.

SPEC Delivers Major Update to SPECaccel Benchmark Suite

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Thursday, November 9, 2023
Benchmark, Linux, Standard Performance Evaluation Corporation, CIS, ACCEL, ARM, OpenMP, OpenACC, Associate professor, Research, Software, API, Power, SPEC, Student, University, University of Delaware, Bias, Nursing, Beauty salon, Risk management, Video game

GAINESVILLE, Va., Nov. 09, 2023 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- The Standard Performance Evaluation Corporation (SPEC), the trusted global leader in computing benchmarks, today announced the availability of the SPECaccel 2023 benchmark suite , a major update to the SPEC ACCEL v1.4 benchmark.

Key Points: 
  • GAINESVILLE, Va., Nov. 09, 2023 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- The Standard Performance Evaluation Corporation (SPEC), the trusted global leader in computing benchmarks, today announced the availability of the SPECaccel 2023 benchmark suite , a major update to the SPEC ACCEL v1.4 benchmark.
  • The SPECaccel 2023 benchmark suite measures the performance of key system components using computationally intensive parallel applications running under the OpenACC and OpenMP target offloading APIs.
  • “SPECaccel 2023 is a much anticipated suite for not only research but also for teaching purposes.
  • “The SPECaccel 2023 benchmark includes realistic workloads derived from scientific applications that can be run on any system to provide a reliable comparison of accelerator performance.”
    Included with the SPECaccel 2023 Benchmark Suite:
    Pre-compiled tools for Linux on a variety of architectures (x86_64, Power, ARM)
    Source code for the SPECaccel 2023 tools, for systems not covered by the pre-compiled tools
    The SPECaccel 2023 benchmark suite is available for immediate download from SPEC for $2,000.

Interlink Electronics Reports Third Quarter 2023 Results

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Thursday, November 9, 2023
Electronics, Acquisition, SPEC, Interlink Electronics, Calman

IRVINE, Calif., Nov. 9, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Interlink Electronics, Inc. (NASDAQ: LINK), a world-leading provider of sensors and printed electronic solutions that support a wide range of applications, including Human-Machine Interface ("HMI") devices and IoT solutions, today announced its financial results for the three- and nine-month periods ended September 30, 2023.

Key Points: 
  • Revenue increased 66% to $3.1 million in the third quarter of 2023 compared to the prior-year period, and increased 77% to $10.4 million for the nine-month period.
  • The increase in revenue for the nine-month period was also due in part to an exceptional quarter ended June 30, 2023 in the Company's force-sensor resistor business due to increased shipments to certain of our medical market customers.
  • Gross profit for the quarter increased 67% to $1.5 million compared to the year-ago quarter due to increased revenues, while gross margin percentage was flat at 47%.
  • "We are pleased to be on pace to report record-level revenues for this year," said Steven N. Bronson, Chairman, President, and CEO of Interlink Electronics.

The Standard Performance Evaluation Corporation Welcomes EEMBC as the New Embedded Group

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Monday, October 30, 2023
Benchmark, Internet of things, Standard Performance Evaluation Corporation, Processor, Intelligence, Electronics, EEMBC, Multi, Temperature, Silicon, ADAS, Organization, EG, Research, Internet, Software, STMicroelectronics, Coremark, Intel, SPEC, Computer, Iron law of processor performance, Renesas Electronics, Silicon Labs, MCU, Investment, Mobile phone, Synopsys, Arm

GAINESVILLE, Va., Oct. 30, 2023 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- The Standard Performance Evaluation Corporation (SPEC), the trusted global leader in computing benchmarks, today announced that EEMBC, the 25-year-old Embedded Microprocessor Benchmark Consortium, has become SPEC’s new Embedded Group (SPEC EG) .

Key Points: 
  • GAINESVILLE, Va., Oct. 30, 2023 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- The Standard Performance Evaluation Corporation (SPEC), the trusted global leader in computing benchmarks, today announced that EEMBC, the 25-year-old Embedded Microprocessor Benchmark Consortium, has become SPEC’s new Embedded Group (SPEC EG) .
  • EEMBC gains access to workloads and harnesses developed across SPEC’s more than 20 committees, enabling faster and more efficient benchmark development.
  • Since 1997, EEMBC has developed clearly defined standards for measuring the performance and energy efficiency of embedded processor implementations, including today’s IoT edge nodes and next-generation advanced driver-assistance systems.
  • Multi-core Processor Performance , including CoreMark-Pro and AutoBench-2.0, which add parallelism and new workloads to the single-core versions.

SPEC Releases SPECapc for Maya 2024 Benchmark, Adds SPEC Workload Development Kit

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Thursday, September 7, 2023
Hair, Dell, SSAO, AMD, WDK, Rotation, 3D, Autodesk Maya, Sol, Computer, Apollo, Standard Performance Evaluation Corporation, GB, CPU, SPEC, Animation, Intel, HP, Software, Video game, Nvidia, Lenovo

The SPECapc for Maya 2024 benchmark consists of 43 tests using 11 different models and animations. It includes eight different graphics tests in various modes and five different CPU tests. The graphics-oriented tests use six different Maya view settings -- Shaded, Shaded SSAO, wireframe on shading, wireframe on shaded SSAO, textured, and textured SSAO. Various tests measure both animation and 3D model rotation performance. Five CPU tests within the benchmark perform CPU ray tracing and evaluation caching in various modes.

Key Points: 
  • The new benchmark enables users to test the performance of systems running Autodesk Maya 2024, the latest version of the software.
  • The benchmark also includes the SPECapc for Maya 2024 Workload Development Kit (WDK) to support testing custom workloads.
  • The SPECapc for Maya 2024 benchmark consists of 43 tests using 11 different models and animations.
  • In addition to updating the benchmark for Maya 2024, the SPEC Application Performance Characterization Committee added the SPECapc for Maya 2024 WDK, a framework allowing users to run their own GPU-specific workloads using the same measurement and output techniques.

Interlink Electronics Reports Second Quarter 2023 Results

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Thursday, August 10, 2023
Gas, Growth, Interlink Electronics, Electronics, Acquisition, Research, SPEC, Video game, Calman

IRVINE, Calif., Aug. 10, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Interlink Electronics, Inc. (NASDAQ: LINK), a world-leading provider of sensors and printed electronic solutions that support a wide range of applications, including Human-Machine Interface ("HMI") devices and IoT solutions, today announced its financial results for the three- and six-month periods ended June 30, 2023.

Key Points: 
  • Revenue nearly doubled to $4.05 million in the second quarter of 2023 compared to the prior year period, and increased 82% to $7.33 million for the six-month period.
  • Gross profit for the quarter more than doubled to $2.06 million compared to the year ago quarter due mostly to our increased revenues and also to an increase in gross margin percentage to 51% from 47%.
  • "This quarter is the first period in which we have included full results from both the Gas and Environmental Sensors division and Calman, and these results reinforce our belief in the significant growth potential for those operations," said Steven N. Bronson, Chairman, President, and CEO of Interlink Electronics.
  • "At the same time, we saw an exceptional quarter in our traditional force-sensor resistor and human-machine interface markets, and we continue to invest in exploring new markets and acquisition opportunities."