Writing for AnandTech, Ian Cutress recently explained why DDR4 was first launched in the enthusiast space. “On the server side, any opportunity to use lower power and drive cooling costs down is a positive, so aiming at [Intel] Xeons and high-end consumer platforms was priority number one,” he said.
Cooper’s Metalux and SkyRidge pack sensing and control systems
Eaton’s Cooper Lighting is now offering an optional integrated sensing and control system in certain solid-state lighting (SSL) luminaires based on WaveStream™ light guide technology. According to Maury Wright of LEDs Magazine, Metalux Encounter and SkyRidge LED luminaires can be ordered with an adaptive control option for installation in areas where energy codes require occupancy sensing and daylight harvesting.
RIoT @ MWC: The hardware roundup
Imagination Technologies, a veteran GPU designer and the new owner of the low-power processor architecture MIPS, launched the G6020 at MWC – a GPU that is intended to serve the low-power requirements needed for devices in the wearables and IoT markets.
Rambus Lensless Smart Sensor: A Tiny Image Sensor Designed For IoT
Remember Rambus? The company that developed RDRAM (Rambus DRAM). No? That’s not surprising; we haven’t heard much from them in the past decade since RDRAM stopped being Intel’s standard for memory. Well, apparently the company has been quite busy over the years, with RDRAM and its successor XDR DRAM, currently being used in PlayStation 2 and 3.
Special purpose eyes and lensless smart sensors (LSS)
Human eyes – and perhaps more importantly our brains – offer such a high degree of general-purpose visual object recognition and spatial awareness that it’s difficult to imagine them doing anything but relaying a coherent picture of objects.
What makes a lensless sensor “smart?”
Rambus Fellow and Research Director Dr. David Stork recently spoke with Smithers Apex about lensless smart sensor (LSS) technology on the sidelines of the Image Sensors 2015 conference in the United Kingdom. According to Stork, Rambus lensless smart sensors consist of special optical phase gratings affixed to standard CMOS image sensor arrays.