The Irresistible Trend of Large Core Design in Mobile Chips

The Irresistible Trend of Large Core Design in Mobile Chips

Source: Lei Technology AI Hardware Group | Editor: Winter Jam | Typesetting: Autumn As a flagship mobile chip, MediaTek’s Dimensity 9300, released at the end of last year, has made a remarkable comeback. Not only the vivo X100 series, OPPO Find X7, and the upcoming Redmi K70 Supreme Edition are using the Dimensity 9300, but … Read more

Smart Home Scene Setup Guide: The Secret to One-Click Control of All Home Appliances

Smart Home Scene Setup Guide: The Secret to One-Click Control of All Home Appliances

Encyclopedia of Home Appliances: A Comprehensive Guide from Purchase to Maintenance As an electrical engineer with 20 years of experience, I will unveil the mysteries of home appliances, helping you to purchase, use, and maintain various appliances more intelligently. 0 1. Basic Classification and Working Principles of Home Appliances Home appliances can be roughly divided … Read more

China’s First Fully Self-Developed High-Performance RISC-V Server Chip Launched in Qianhai

March 31 The leading RISC-V manufacturer RISC-V Technology held the 2025 Spring New Product Launch Conference at the Qianhai International Conference Center in Shenzhen and made a significant announcement introducing the next generation of high-performanceLingyu Processor This processor is China’s first fully self-developed high-performance RISC-V server chip, achieving international mainstream levels in computing power, energy … Read more

Why ARM Architecture Remains Resilient: How to Replace It?

Why ARM Architecture Remains Resilient: How to Replace It?

Despite the encroachment of processor architectures like x86 and RISC-V, ARM has experienced counter-cyclical growth—over 30 billion ARM chips shipped globally in 2023, dominating 95% of the mobile market. It can be said that ARM remains resilient, but what is the reason behind this? 1. Absolute Notification of Energy Efficiency Ratio ① Performance per watt … Read more

Common Misunderstandings of 8-bit MCUs by Embedded Engineers

Common Misunderstandings of 8-bit MCUs by Embedded Engineers

In recent years, with the gradual maturity of processes and IPs, the growth of 32-bit MCUs has been rapid, to the extent that 16-bit MCUs have been largely overlooked. Nowadays, when discussing embedded MCUs, it is either 8-bit or 32-bit, with very few 16-bit MCU product models available. So what about the situation with 8-bit … Read more

Can Chips Imitate the Brain?

Can Chips Imitate the Brain?

Published in 1968, “Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?” boldly imagined that robots would possess human traits, capable of thinking, sleeping, and dreaming, prompting reflections on the relationship between cold creations and life.[1]Now, that cyberpunk world seems less distant. Chip structures have highly mimicked biological brains, beginning to possess the five senses and increasingly human-like … Read more

World’s Smallest MCU Released

On March 13, Texas Instruments (TI) announced at Embedded World 2025 the release of what it claims to be the “world’s smallest microcontroller (MCU)”, with an area of only 1.38 square millimeters and a price of approximately $0.16. This MCU, named MSPM0C1104, features an Arm Cortex-M0+ core, 16KB of memory, a 12-bit SAR ADC with … Read more

Data Processing and Performance Optimization in Wireless Sensor Networks

Data Processing and Performance Optimization in Wireless Sensor Networks

With the rapid development of science, information technology plays a crucial role in human life, providing a lot of convenience for daily life. Sensors, as important tools for obtaining information, have made significant contributions to the miniaturization, wirelessness, digitization, networking, and intelligence of information systems. As the development momentum of Wireless Sensor Networks (WSN) accelerates … Read more

How Brain Research Inspires Ultra-Low Power AI Models and Algorithms

Introduction How brain research inspires better AI design is a key topic for our AI by Complexity reading group. The tenth session will be shared by Professor Yu Guo from Fudan University, who will provide a theoretical analysis of phenomena such as high sparsity, variability, and energy efficiency, deepening our understanding of the efficient functioning … Read more

Heating Pipeline Design and Low Power Design Insights

Heating Pipeline Design and Low Power Design Insights

The northwest wind is howling, and the annual heating season has arrived. Heating pipelines are so important during the winter in the north. The design of the pipelines is aimed at maximizing effective thermal energy under determined energy conditions. Low power design aims to meet functional requirements with minimal power consumption. The low power design … Read more