Speaking of the #RaspberryPi CM5, there's a new carrier board coming out - an open-hardware design which adapts it into a mini-ITX form factor complete with x16 (mechanical, it's still one-lane) PCI Express slot.
NVIDIA, meanwhile, has announced CUDA Tiles, a new programming paradigm which it says will make writing portable yet performant (NVIDIA) GPU-accelerated programs easier - and the first language to benefit is Python, via cuTile Python.
My full review will be going up on #Hackster later in the day, and it's a big 'un - written, because as I've said before I will always commit to the bit, on the Commodore 64 Ultimate itself, in Mini Office II. Got to admit, I haven't used that in a few years. Or, err... decades.
Finally, the ridiculously talented @gloriouscow has decided making one of the, if not *the*, most accurate IBM PC emulators around isn't enough - and is now working on CC0-licensed reference book going into component-by-component detail of exactly how the IBM PC and later PC XT work.
#VintageComputing #RetroComputing #ComputerHistory #ComputerScience #Emulation #News #Technology #Hackster
Speaking of the #RaspberryPi CM5, there's a new carrier board coming out - an open-hardware design which adapts it into a mini-ITX form factor complete with x16 (mechanical, it's still one-lane) PCI Express slot.
Finally, the ridiculously talented @gloriouscow has decided making one of the, if not *the*, most accurate IBM PC emulators around isn't enough - and is now working on CC0-licensed reference book going into component-by-component detail of exactly how the IBM PC and later PC XT work.
#VintageComputing #RetroComputing #ComputerHistory #ComputerScience #Emulation #News #Technology #Hackster
NVIDIA, meanwhile, has announced CUDA Tiles, a new programming paradigm which it says will make writing portable yet performant (NVIDIA) GPU-accelerated programs easier - and the first language to benefit is Python, via cuTile Python.
Now, a little personal background for this next one so you can appreciate how boggled my mind is: my first personal computer had an eight-bit processor running at 3.5MHz. My first IBM compatible had an eight-bit chip running at a whopping 9.54MHz.
#STMicroelectronics has just announced an 800MHz *microcontroller*, the STM32V8 - its most powerful STM32 yet. And, yes, way faster than my old PCs' CPUs. Huh.
Lovely project from @violenceworks next: a GPU-accelerated autorouter plugin for @kicad, which did in a couple of days what it would have taken a CPU-driven autorouter literal months to complete. Available for experimentation now!
For the edge-AI crowd, Kneron's expanding its efforts with the KNEO Pi - a #RaspberryPi style (naturally) single-board computer powered by a quartet of Arm cores and its in-house neural coprocessor. Claims it can handle YOLOv5 at over 30 frames per second in a 2W power envelope, which is pretty good.
#AI #ArtificialIntelligence #SingleBoardComputers #Technology #News #Hackster
Now, a little personal background for this next one so you can appreciate how boggled my mind is: my first personal computer had an eight-bit processor running at 3.5MHz. My first IBM compatible had an eight-bit chip running at a whopping 9.54MHz.
#STMicroelectronics has just announced an 800MHz *microcontroller*, the STM32V8 - its most powerful STM32 yet. And, yes, way faster than my old PCs' CPUs. Huh.
Bit of #science up next, with a paper detailing a flexible, soft gesture sensor capable of distinguishing deliberate movement from running, driving, high-frequency vibrations, and even being at sea - could be used for hands-free control of underwater robots in the future. Maybe.
For the edge-AI crowd, Kneron's expanding its efforts with the KNEO Pi - a #RaspberryPi style (naturally) single-board computer powered by a quartet of Arm cores and its in-house neural coprocessor. Claims it can handle YOLOv5 at over 30 frames per second in a 2W power envelope, which is pretty good.
#AI #ArtificialIntelligence #SingleBoardComputers #Technology #News #Hackster
Bit of #science up next, with a paper detailing a flexible, soft gesture sensor capable of distinguishing deliberate movement from running, driving, high-frequency vibrations, and even being at sea - could be used for hands-free control of underwater robots in the future. Maybe.
