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A Crucial Optical Technology Has Finally Arrived

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At Nvidias GTC event last week in San Jose, the company announced that it will produce an optical network switch designed to drastically cut the power consumption of AI data centers. Connections within a rack are electrical, but several startups hope to change this.)

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2025 IEEE Medal of Honor Awarded to Broadcom’s Henry Samueli

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After publishing their research, they decided to commercialize their product and in 1991 founded Broadcom in San Jose, Calif. He served in that position until 2018, two years after the company merged with semiconductor manufacturer Avago Technologies, also of San Jose. Today Samueli is chairman of the companys board.

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Henry Samueli and the Rise of Digital Broadband

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Since in those days each chip contained very few functions (like a four-bit adder or a quad flip-flop), you had to connect up hundreds or thousands of such digital logic chips to actually build a reasonable system, Samueli said. It was one of the first applications of DSP technology to a satellite communications system. Atlanta, Ga.;

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World Engineering Day Focuses on Shaping a Sustainable Future

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A humans well-being and socioeconomic progress are deeply connected to the environment. Connected systems powered by IoT sensors, AI-driven traffic management, and smart grids are optimizing urban sustainability. This years event is scheduled for 19 and 20 August in San Jose, Calif.

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Bosch and Daimler: San Jose to become pilot city for automated on-demand ride-hailing service; SAE Level 4/5

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Bosch and Daimler announced that San Jose, the third biggest city in California, is planned to be the pilot city for trials, targeted to begin during the second half of 2019, of the highly and fully automated driving (SAE Level 4/5) on-demand ride-hailing service recently announced by the two companies. Earlier post.)

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Connected Vehicle Reference Implementation Architecture workshop

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These efforts to identify standards and develop guidelines are most effectively performed by developing a set of System Architecture Viewpoints that describe the: functional, physical and logical interfaces; enterprise relationships; and communications dependencies for each technology and application within the connected vehicle environment.

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BAE Systems’ HybriDrive HDS300 technology to power new articulated buses in San Jose

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New Flyer Industries has selected BAE Systems’ HybriDrive HDS300 propulsion system to power a fleet of new 60-foot, low-floor rapid transit buses for the Santa Clara Valley Transportation Authority (VTA) in San Jose, California.

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