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  • Digitalisation in mining
    08 Feb

    Connectors for digital mining operating in arduous environmental conditions and for extreme applications

    • By Joydip Sanyal and Chiara Pieri
    • February 08, 2024

    The mine of the future is being built on connectivity of data and automation. The benefits of Industry 4.0 through digitalization of data from connected assets in the mining industry is profound. To enable near-real time decision, a digital mine needs to bring together data from across its assets distributed within its value chain. If done correctly, it rewards the industry with increasing uptime of critical assets, reducing costs and operational risks.

  • Optical interconnect for high-speed, high- bandwidth 10GigE and 40GigE cameras used in machine vision.
    27 Jun

    Taking the Fast Bridge between Neural Networks

    • By Lynnette Reese,
    • June 27, 2019

    Neural networks have been around since the 1950s. The advent of fast, massively parallel processors like the Graphics Processing Unit (GPU) have made neural network applications like object recognition feasible. Neural networks are one means used to create Artificial Intelligence (AI). The latest iPhones now have an AI chip, primarily to offload face recognition tasks.1 Voice translation tasks would also benefit from an AI chip. Google provides voice translation as long as there is access to a cloud. The ability to translate directly from a phone without requiring Internet access to Google engines would be advantageous, and it’s possible that the iPhone is headed in that direction.