The country's political leaders are well aware of the high dependence of Chinese industry on the import of semiconductor components, and therefore the PRC has been making attempts to develop import substitution in this area for many years in a row. At the end of last year, imports of integrated circuits into China decreased by 10,8% in volume terms and by 15,4% in value terms. Image source: InfineonSource: 3dnews.ru
The Rust Embedded working group, created to develop technologies for improving the quality and security of applications, firmware and drivers for embedded systems, presented the first release of the embedded-hal framework, which provides a set of software interfaces for interacting with peripherals usually used with microcontrollers (for example, types are provided for working with GPIO, UART, SPI and I2C). The project's developments are written in Rust and distributed […]
The code base on which the Linux 6.8 kernel is based has adopted a set of changes that significantly improve the performance of the TCP stack. In cases where multiple parallel TCP connections are processed, the speedup can reach 40%. The improvement was possible because variables in the network stack structures (socks, netdev, netns, mibs) were positioned as they were added, which was determined by historical reasons. Revision of variable placement in […]
Google announced the construction of the world's first undersea Internet cable, designed to connect South America with Australia and cross the Asia-Pacific region. As The Register reports, the project will be carried out jointly with the Chilean state infrastructure fund Desarrollo Pais and the Office of Posts and Telecommunications of French Polynesia (OPT), the IT giant has joined an already formed consortium. There are already submarine cables crossing [...]
In the United States, according to The Register, a trial has begun in Singular Computing's lawsuit against Google: the IT corporation is accused of illegally using patented developments in its TPU (Tensor Processing Unit) AI accelerators. If Singular wins, it could receive compensation ranging from $1,67 billion to $5,19 billion. Singular was founded in 2005 by Dr. Joseph Bates. According to […]
Google continues to adjust its data collection and processing policies to comply with the Digital Markets Act, which comes into force in the European Union on March 6. This week, the search giant announced that users living in the region will be able to decide for themselves which company services will have access to their data. You can completely refuse data transfer, choose [...]
Previously, there were rumors that the exclusive agreement between Microsoft and Qualcomm to supply processors for Arm computers with Windows would expire in 2024. Now this information has been confirmed by Rene Haas, CEO of Arm. The end of the exclusivity agreement means that in the coming years, manufacturers of Arm computers with Windows will be able to start using […]
The first US lunar lander in five decades was launched into space on January 8th. Soon after the launch, the device encountered a problem with fuel leakage, which is why the fulfillment of the tasks assigned to it was in great doubt. Despite this, it continues to function and was even able to reach the Moon, which is no small achievement given the current circumstances. However, about [...]
Games in the SteamWorld series do not want to be similar to each other: either a tactical shooter will be released, or a card role-playing game. So the authors of SteamWorld Build are working in the genre of a city-planning simulator, which is unusual for the franchise. Why is the new product unique and is it good? We’ll tell you in the review. Source: 3dnews.ru
Despite changing standards, computer assembly has not undergone significant changes over the past 30 years, but Corsair decided to make one of the stages easier by offering self-tapping screws that are screwed into the plastic fan frame with just one turn of a screwdriver. Image source: tomshardware.comSource: 3dnews.ru
SpaceX CEO Elon Musk has revealed the reason why the Starship spacecraft exploded during its second test flight and was unable to enter orbit. The point, it turns out, is that it took off without a payload. Image source: spacex.comSource: 3dnews.ru
A wood-burning charging station for electric vehicles and power tools only at first glance seems somewhat absurd. But imagine yourself in the middle of the taiga with dead batteries. There is plenty of firewood, but there is nowhere to get electricity. For such situations, a charging station for wood and wood waste will be a real salvation. Moreover, wood is usually simply burned over an open fire. Source […]
