Betting that her pet photography business would rebound post-pandemic, Denver-based photographer Karen Hoglund began to upgrade her tools in spring 2021, including cameras, a desktop computer and software. Her budget, though, didn’t leave much room for the MacBook Pro laptop that she wanted for in-home visits with clients. So she turned to OWC, a website she had used before, where she found a refurbished one at half the price of a new model.
Refurbishers selling used electronics through Back Market will have additional tools to enhance device diagnostics and certification, according to the company.
Back Market, an online marketplace for refurbished electronics, named mobile device certification provider Phonecheck as a preferred partner, according to a press release. Phonecheck provides information such as device history, including device authenticity, ownership status, carrier information, repair history, functionality and more.
Michael Hurlston is CEO of Synaptics, a publicly-traded developer of hardware and software used in many products, including touchpads in computers, autos and smart home devices.
In March, Synaptics showcased innovations at tinyML Summit, including edge AI tech with low-power SoCs relying on neural network engines for vision, sound-detection and speech processing. In an industrial setting, the technology can be used to remotely read multiple digital meters at once, eliminating the need to create separate connections for each meter.
Synaptics Inc. has launched an Edge AI evaluation kit (EVK) to help designers develop and prototype artificial-intelligence applications at the edge. Based on Synaptics’ low-power Katana system-on-chip (SoC) platform, the kit combines vision-, motion-, and sound-detection hardware and software with wired and wireless connectivity.
Prophesee has launched an evaluation kit for developers of computer vision systems looking to evaluate Sony’s new IMX636ES HD stacked event-based vision sensor. The sensor itself was developed in collaboration between Sony and Prophesee, providing stacked event-based vision sensing that detects only subject changes.
The evaluation kit provides computer vision engineers with a tested solution for efficient technology onboarding and rapid application prototyping and development. The kit is natively compatible with free software from Prophesee and includes premium-level technical support.
Designing for secure computation and communication has become a crucial requirement across all electronic products. It is necessary to identify potential attack surfaces and integrate design features to thwart attempts to obtain critical data and/or to access key intellectual property. Critical data spans a wide variety of assets, including financial, governmental, and personal privacy information.
The security of intellectual property within a design is needed to prevent product reverse engineering. For example, an attacker may seek to capture firmware running on a microcontroller in an IoT application to provide competitive manufacturers with detailed product information.
If you’re sitting on a pile of old phones, tablets, or computers, now is the best time to sell them for cash.
Technically, this is always true, because used electronics depreciate in value over time. But refurbishes say the ongoing chip shortage has increased the value of certain hard-to-find electronics, particularly iPads and Apple Watches, raising the price they’ll pay even for older models.
A development kit based on Synaptics’ Katana edge AI SoC combines vision, motion, and sound detection hardware and software. It also provides both wired and wireless connectivity. The kit aims to simplify the design and development of edge AI for IoT, including smart home, building, industrial, and monitoring applications.
Domain specific processors are a mega-trend in the semiconductor industry, so we see new three letter acronyms like DPU, for Data Processing Unit. System level performance can actually be improved by moving some of the tasks away from the CPU. Companies like Xilinx (Alveo), Amazon (Nitro) and NVIDIA (BlueField) have been talking about DPU architecture for awhile now, and the SmartNIC is now being called a DPU in the hyper-scale data centers.
Startups tout whizzy technologies, but they lack the ability that automotive OEMs demand to industrialize, verify and validate their products.
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