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
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
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
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
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
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
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
Introduction to Smart Home: Smart home technology integrates various facilities related to home life using structured cabling technology, network communication technology, security technology, and automatic control technology, building an efficient management system for residential facilities and family schedules, enhancing home safety, convenience, comfort, artistry, and achieving an environmentally friendly and energy-saving living environment. In simple … Read more
The rapid development of the Internet of Things (IoT) is transforming traditional environments into intelligent, data-driven ecosystems. Among numerous applications, one of the most promising is the intelligent retrofitting of traditional buildings—specifically, older buildings that were not originally designed as smart buildings. This intelligent transformation brings numerous advantages, including improved energy efficiency, enhanced living comfort, … Read more
Source: Semiconductor Industry Overview Original Author: Feng Ning Traditional chip architectures face severe challenges such as the “memory wall,” “power wall,” and “compute wall.” What are they? What is a unified memory-compute chip? How does it solve these problems? In recent years, with the explosive growth of AI application scenarios, the demand for computational power … Read more