Day: March 26, 2024

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Ambiq Apollo510 Delivers 30x Power Efficiency Improvement to Unleash Endpoint AI

The next-generation Apollo pairs vector acceleration with unmatched power efficiency to enable most AI inferencing on-device without a dedicated NPU

Ambiq Apollo510 PR KV

Ambiq Apollo510 PR KV

Feature Highlights

  • Apollo510, based on Arm Cortex-M55, delivers 30x better power efficiency and 10x faster performance compared to previous generations
  • The ability to do AI/ML workloads concurrent with complex graphics, telco-quality voice applications, and always-on voice/sensor processing
  • 4 MB on-chip NVM, 3.75 MB on-chip SRAM, and high bandwidth interfaces to off-chip memories
  • 2.5D GPU with vector graphics acceleration for vibrant, crystal-clear, and smooth graphics, a 3.5x overall performance enhancement over the Apollo4 Plus family
  • Support for Memory in Pixel (MiP) displays, typically found in the lowest-power products
  • Robust security on Ambiq’s secureSPOT® platform with Arm TrustZone technology

AUSTIN, Texas, March 26, 2024 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — Ambiq, a technology leader in exceptionally energy-efficient semiconductors for IoT devices, is introducing the new Apollo510, the first member of the Apollo5 SoC family, which is uniquely positioned to kickstart the age of truly ubiquitous, practical, and meaningful AI.

The Apollo510 MCU is a complete overhaul of hardware and software that fully leverages the Arm® Cortex®-M55 CPU with Arm Helium™ to reach processing speeds up to 250MHz. The Apollo510 achieves up to 10x better latency while reducing energy consumption by around 2x, compared to Ambiq’s previous power efficiency leader, the Apollo4. This desirable combination of performance and efficiency allows our customers to deploy sophisticated speech, vision, health, and industrial AI models on battery-powered devices everywhere, making it the most efficient semiconductor on the market to operate with the Arm Cortex-M55.

“We at Ambiq have pushed our proprietary SPOT platform to optimize power consumption in support of our customers, who are aggressively increasing the intelligence and sophistication of their battery-powered devices year after year,” said Scott Hanson, Ambiq’s CTO and Founder. The new Apollo510 MCU is simultaneously the most energy-efficient and highest-performance product we’ve ever created.”

Apollo510 Preliminary AI Results Graph

Apollo510 Preliminary AI Results Graph

“As applications across health, industrial, and smart home continue to advance, the need for secure edge AI is crucial for next generation devices,” said Paul Williamson, SVP and GM, IoT Line of Business at Arm. “Ambiq’s new family of SoCs, built on Arm, will deliver significant performance gains for on-device AI, helping developers and device manufacturers deliver the capabilities required for the AI era.”

With more than 30x energy improvement, the Apollo510 is capable of running a vast majority of today’s endpoint AI calculations, including low-power sensor monitoring, always-on voice commands, telco-quality audio enhancement, and more. Manufacturers of IoT devices that perform AI/ML inferencing, such as next-gen wearables, digital health devices, AR/VR glasses, factory automation, and remote monitoring devices, can greatly expand their power budget while adding more capabilities to their devices through the Apollo510’s SPOT-optimized design.

Apollo510 contains everything needed for driving intelligent systems: ultra-efficient compute, expansive on-chip memories, high-bandwidth interfaces to off-chip memories, and security. Arm Helium technology on Apollo510 supports up to 8 MACs per cycle as well as half, full, and double precision floating point operations, making it ideal for AI calculations in addition to general signal processing operations. Apollo510 also improves its memory capacity over the previous generation with 4 MB of on-chip NVM and 3.75 MB of on-chip SRAM and TCM, so developers have smooth development and more application flexibility. For extra-large neural network models or graphics assets, Apollo510 has a host of high bandwidth off-chip interfaces, individually capable of peak throughputs up to 500MB/s and sustained throughput over 300MB/s.

Building upon Ambiq’s secureSPOT platform, Apollo510 integrates Arm TrustZone technology with a physical unclonable function (PUF), tamper-resistant OTP, and secure peripherals. These enhancements help designers establish a trusted execution environment (TEE) to develop secure, robust applications and scale their products faster.

IoT endpoint device manufacturers can expect unrivaled power efficiency to develop more capable devices that process AI/ML functions better than before. Targeted applications and industries include wearables, digital health, agriculture, smart homes and buildings, predictive maintenance, factory automation, and more.

The Apollo510 MCU is currently sampling with customers, with general availability in Q4 this year. It has been nominated by the 2024 embedded world community under the Hardware category for the embedded awards.

Meet us at the Embedded World Exhibition and Conference on April 9- 11, 2024, for a live product demonstration.

About Ambiq
Ambiq’s mission is to develop the lowest-power semiconductor solutions to enable intelligent devices everywhere and drive a more energy-efficient, sustainable, and data-driven world. Ambiq has helped leading manufacturers worldwide develop products that last weeks on a single charge (rather than days) while delivering a maximum feature set in compact industrial designs. Ambiq’s goal is to take Artificial Intelligence (AI) where it has never gone before in mobile and portable devices, using Ambiq’s advanced ultra-low power system on chip (SoC) solutions. Ambiq has shipped more than 230 million units. For more information, visit www.ambiq.com.

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Florida-Based Cybersecurity Company Launches Australian Data Centre

ThreatLocker Expands Endpoint Security Services and Data Infrastructure to Australia

Sydney, March 25, 2024 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — Leading cybersecurity solution provider, ThreatLocker, proudly announces the launch of its advanced data centre in Sydney, Australia, just over a year after the grand opening of its second headquarters in Dublin, Ireland. This strategic move aims to enhance cybersecurity capabilities across various sectors in Australia, including the private sector, commonwealth, state, territory, and local governments.

The expansion of ThreatLocker will assist Australian entities in complying with the urgently recommended Australian Cyber Security Strategy implemented by the Australian Government. Additionally, ThreatLocker offers Zero Trust Application Controls and Ringfencing capabilities that align almost any organization with requirements presented by the Australian Cyber Security Centre’s Essential Eight Maturity Model.

Commenting on the extension of their security footprint, ThreatLocker Chief Executive Officer and Co-Founder Danny Jenkins said, “Zero Trust is a mindset, and I admire the Australian government’s holistic approach, involving the wider community to tackle a modern-day threat.”

Jenkins continued, “As one of the top vendors assisting businesses with Essential Eight guidelines, we are thrilled to strengthen our collaboration with Australia through this centre, bolstering their data protection and compliance initiatives.”

ThreatLocker, founded in 2017 by CEO Danny Jenkins, COO Sami Jenkins, and VP of Quality Assurance John Carolan, protects over 2 million endpoints across more than 40,000 organizations globally. The company provides 24/7/365 support with an average response time of 60 seconds or less. ThreatLocker offers a powerful Zero Trust endpoint protection platform that enables organizations to stop ransomware and other cyberattacks by controlling what software can run in their environments. The combined solutions of ThreatLocker, including Application Allowlisting, Ringfencing™, Storage Control, Elevation Control, and Endpoint Network Control, lead the cybersecurity market toward a more secure approach by blocking the exploits of unknown application vulnerabilities.

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Two children die in fire at Onamishu

Two boys aged one and four years old died in a fire at Onamishu village in the Oshikoto Region on Monday. The Head of the Namibian Police Force's Crime Prevention Division in Oshikoto, Deputy Commissioner Wynand Neels, told Nampa the incident occurred around 14h00 after the children were left home alone by their parents. 'It is alleged that three children between the ages of one to five were left home alone by their parents, who went to the local cucashop,' Neels said. Upon their return from the cucashop, the parents saw smoke coming from their huts and found that four of the huts were completely destroyed by the fire and two of the children were burned beyond recognition. 'The five-year-old boy escaped with minor wounds on his feet and was referred to Onamishu clinic for treatment. When questioned he could not say what caused the fire,' Neels said. Source: The Namibia Press Agency

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Finance and insurance workers among highest paid in Tunisia (INS)

Tunis: Financial and insurance workers are among the best paid in Tunisia, with an average basic salary of TND 3,258 for managers, which is 708% of the guaranteed minimum monthly wage - SMIG 2022 (around TND 460). The situation is similar for intermediate occupations, employees and workers in this sector, who earn TND 2,304 (501% of the SMIG), TND 1,857 (404% of the SMIG) and TND 1,112 (242% of the SMIG) respectively, according to the "Survey of employment and salaries in companies in 2022" published on Monday by the National Institute of Statistics. Workers in the real estate, mining and quarrying, and information and communication sectors are also fairly well paid. In fact, average basic salaries in the real estate sector range from TND 2,550 (554% of the minimum wage) for a manager to TND 770 (167% of the minimum wage) for a worker. Those in the extractive industries range from TND 2,351 (511% of the SMIG) for a manager to TND 781 (170% of the SMIG) for a worker. Similarly, workers in the information a nd communication sector earn salaries ranging from TND 2,329 (506% of the minimum wage) for a manager to TND 618 (134% of the minimum wage) for a worker. However, workers in the education sector are among the lowest paid, with salaries of no more than TND 1,165 for a manager, TND 765 for intermediate occupations, TND 682 for a clerk and TND 502 for a manual worker. Workers in electricity, gas and water distribution are underpaid, with salaries ranging from TND 1,467 for a manager to TND 679 for a worker. The same applies to workers in the accommodation and food services sector (wages vary between TND 1,479 for a manager and TND 660 for a worker) and in construction (TND 1,499 for a manager and TND 691 for a worker). The "Survey on Employment and Wages in Enterprises in 2022" is a structural survey conducted by direct interview of a sample of enterprises randomly selected from the National Business Register (RNE). It aims to collect information on employment trends and changes by occupational category, as well as a breakdown of gross wages and salaries paid for each year into basic wages and salaries. It also looks at the duration of business activity and working hours. Source: Agence Tunis Afrique Presse

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Centre advocates comprehensive scientific research to address African problems

Dr Christopher Ampadu, Executive Director of the Africa Centre for the Study of Worldviews and Wholistic Development of Societies, has advocated comprehensive scientific research to address African problems from root to fruit. As a result, he has urged development students to conduct proper research that considers belief systems, culture, values, attitudes, and behaviours that resulted in the fruits that had deviled Africa, resulting in poverty, hunger, diseases, and 'hopelessness in most parts of the continent.' Dr Ampadu made the call during the inauguration of the Africa Centre for the Study of Worldviews and Wholistic Development of Societies in Accra. He said: 'This organisation and so established as it Think Tank to think through the fallacy ironies and contradictions in the transformational development of Africa in terms of her massive natural human resources endowment and yet the endemic poverty, hunger, diseases, deprivations and hopelessness. 'The Centre will be research-oriented because these i ronies and contradictions should not just be assumed and accepted as our label or accepted is religious as 'Amen' as God's intentions and purposes for Africa,' Dr Ampadu said. According to him, the Center would intentionally conduct holistic training on worldviews and the development of societies. He added: 'We cannot just be people who are knowledgeable in almost everything with PhD's and yet amid plenty, living hopelessness as beggars, thinking selfishly only of what we can get in everything we do with the hope that we can only make it when we travel to foreign lands.' Dr Ampadu noted that the Center would also be an advocate for the Kingdom of God in the application and enhancement of Godly values and principles. He urged the church to speak truth to power and not prophecies that did not inspire people to live rights Italy but rather created fear and panic. 'With the Christian population of over 70 per cent with churches expanding everywhere, the church should bring ethical principles and godly moral ity to our political systems, profession and businesses including the marketplaces and into public and private domains of lives,' he advised. Source: Ghana News Agency