Allison Maddox from Dell Technologies walks through a preview of the upcoming IR7000 integrated rack: a rack-scale platform that bundles compute sleds, a direct-liquid-cooled networking switch, an integrated rack controller, a power shelf, and a 4U rack cooling distribution unit (RCDU). The emphasis is on OV3/ORv3-style disaggregated power plus shared plumbing, so the rack becomes the repeatable building block for AI and HPC pods, rather than a one-off integration project. https://www.dell.com/en-us/shop/storage-servers-and-networking-for-business/sf/integrated-rack-scalable-systems

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A key engineering point is risk management for direct liquid cooling (DLC). Dell’s integrated rack controller is shown doing rack-level leak detection using a sensing rope routed through strategic zones, aiming to detect coolant escapes outside a node before they reach expensive GPUs, switches, or the power shelf. In practice this turns DLC from “pipes and hope” into instrumented infrastructure, with rack-scale telemetry, alarms, and clearer fault isolation for risk.

The OV3 mechanics are designed for serviceability at density: pulling a compute system out disconnects it from both the busbar and the coolant manifold, and pushing it back in blind-mate reconnects power and liquid without manual fittings. That matters when racks are delivered as tall, high-density assemblies (the full IR7000 racks on the booth floor are in the 44U–50U class), because maintenance time, connector wear, and human error quickly dominate uptime math at dock.

The cooling argument is straightforward thermodynamics: high-TDP CPUs and accelerator GPUs create heat flux that air cooling struggles to move efficiently, so cold plates and circulating fluid carry heat to a CDU/RCDU that pumps, conditions, and stabilizes the loop. The intended buyers—AI/HPC customers, cloud service providers, finance, and large enterprises—are looking for standardized rack patterns, predictable cooling envelopes, and operational controls that scale, which is why liquid cooling is so visible in this Supercomputing SC25 St. Louis walkthrough there.

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Diamond Technologies walks through a compact portfolio of OEM data-collection building blocks: embedded 1D/2D barcode scan engines and RFID modules aimed at instrument makers who need reliable decode, simple mechanical integration, and predictable interfaces. The demo highlights a small embedded barcode reader built around a VGA imager, with options that move up to 1.3-megapixel wide-angle imaging when you need a larger field of view without growing the optical path. https://www.diamondt.com/

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On the RFID side, the module shown uses a dual-stack antenna approach so a single footprint can cover both LF and HF bands, paired with an Ethernet interface for straightforward network attachment. In practice that combination maps well to asset tracking, consumables authentication, and patient/sample ID workflows where you may need both proximity cards and tag formats, plus deterministic connectivity at the edge.

The conversation then widens to Beacon EmbeddedWorks (the parent brand after the acquisition) and its system-on-module strategy: Open Standard Module (OSM) form factors that let teams swap compute while keeping a consistent carrier design. Examples called out include NXP i.MX8M Plus and i.MX9 options, plus an STM32MP2 alternative, all positioned to reduce bring-up time, accelerate BSP work, and keep peripheral routing sane for production hardware shown on the booth floor.

A notable highlight is a tiny wearable-class Qualcomm platform module (the W5 family) that packages CPU plus GPU/NPU/VPU capabilities, multimedia encode/decode, eMMC, and LPDDR into a power-bounded footprint. The live demo pairs this with rail-level power telemetry (Beacon’s Watson monitoring) to show how toggling radios like Bluetooth/BLE impacts total draw, which is exactly the kind of feedback loop you want when designing always-on, battery-limited devices.

Finally, the tour touches real edge AI integration: a PCIe vision-inspection add-in running color classification and defect detection (the “Skittles” example) under SOM control, illustrating how inference workloads can be split between accelerator hardware and an embedded controller. The broader theme is long lifecycle support for regulated markets—defense, aerospace, medical, and FDA-locked designs—where stable SOM availability, software maintenance, and reproducible manufacturing matter as much as raw compute for the product team.

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Dell Technologies walks through its IR7000 Integrated Rack approach: a factory-tested, preconfigured 50U rack-scale platform (21-inch, OCP ORv3-oriented) built to host up to 36 compute nodes plus eight power supplies, with separate switching for the high-speed data fabric and the management network. The goal is “rack as a system” modularity, so the same chassis can be populated with NVIDIA Grace Blackwell hardware such as GB200 NVL4, future GB300-class payloads, or CPU-only nodes for more conventional simulation workload. https://www.dell.com/en-us/shop/dell-integrated-rack-scalable-systems/sf/integrated-rack-scalable-systems

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Cooling is treated as a first-class constraint. IR7000 supports direct liquid cooling with cold plates on CPUs and GPUs fed by either an in-rack CDU (coolant distribution unit) or an in-row CDU, while a rear-door heat exchanger interfaces to facility water for the room loop. That two-step scheme targets near-total heat capture at the rack, reducing dependence on cold data-hall air and shifting planning toward coolant supply temperature, flow rate, pressure drop, monitoring, and serviceability in water.

Power density is the other theme that dominates buyer questions. The demo references racks running around 264 kW, with a design path toward roughly 480 kW as accelerator sleds, NVLink-class domains, and higher-TDP CPUs raise per-node draw. In practice that means sizing busway and PDU capacity, choosing a redundancy model, validating breaker and cable derating, and ensuring cooling distribution scales across rows so new racks can be commissioned with predictable electrical and thermal capacity.

Recorded at Supercomputing SC25 in St. Louis, the message is less about one GPU SKU and more about making rack-scale AI infrastructure repeatable. When compute, networking, and liquid cooling are integrated as one deployable unit, operators can focus on topology, scheduling, and uptime targets rather than rebuilding the data center for each new generation of accelerated compute in HPC.

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This talk follows a summer SULI internship at Oak Ridge National Laboratory evaluating whether Mojo can reduce the “two-language tax” in GPU computing: keep Python-level ergonomics while staying close to CUDA/HIP performance, and stay portable when moving between NVIDIA and AMD hardware. The focus is practical performance portability using real kernels on NVIDIA H100 and AMD MI300A. https://www.modular.com/mojo

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Mojo is built on MLIR (LLVM’s multi-level IR) and keeps a Python-like surface syntax while targeting systems-level codegen, memory safety, and tight control over types, layouts, and parallel execution. In the current stack, GPU work is still fairly low level: you write explicit kernels, reason about thread/block structure, and manage host↔device memory and synchronization through Mojo’s GPU APIs (often used inside MAX custom operations), so “portable” does not mean automatic.

The poster ports four scientific workloads, split into memory-bound and compute-bound behavior: BabelStream-style vector ops and a 7-point stencil over a 3D buffer, plus miniBUDE and a Hartree-Fock kernel with multiple atomic operations. For the bandwidth-driven kernels, Mojo reaches competitive memory throughput: on H100 it can beat a CUDA baseline on several vector routines, while dot is harder to match because the CUDA version relies on device-specific tuning. On MI300A, Mojo largely tracks C++/HIP for these memory-bound kernels, with similar bandwidth per routine.

Compute-bound kernels are where compiler maturity shows up. In miniBUDE, performance sits between unoptimized and heavily optimized CUDA as per-thread work (PPWI) rises, suggesting Mojo still needs more aggressive fast-math and scheduling for arithmetic intensity. For Hartree-Fock, atomics can look strong on small H100 cases but degrade sharply at the largest size; on MI300A, atomics may be far slower and the biggest test can fail, highlighting gaps in atomic codegen and runtime behavior at scale.

Filmed at Supercomputing SC25 in St. Louis, the takeaway is that Mojo already looks credible for memory-bound HPC and AI-adjacent kernels where bandwidth dominates, while compute-heavy and atomic-heavy code still needs iteration. The follow-on plan mentioned here—building a BLAS-style library in Mojo while benchmarking best-case paths on NVIDIA and AMD—maps well to how performance-portable stacks usually mature, GPU.

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ENERZAi shows how far you can push on-device AI when memory bandwidth and DRAM size are the real bottleneck. The core idea is extreme low-bit quantization plus hardware-aware graph and kernel optimization, so models stay usable on CPUs/NPUs instead of needing a GPU server or cloud round-trip. In this demo, the focus is practical edge inference: smaller activation footprints, faster decode loops, and tight runtimes that still keep accuracy within a tolerable delta. https://enerzai.com/

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On Synaptics Astra (Astra Machina), they compare a “normal” Whisper deployment against their optimized Whisper variant: the optimized build cuts memory use by about 4x and reduces latency by roughly 2x, with only a small reported accuracy drop. The workflow isn’t just post-training compression; it’s quantization-aware training that explicitly models low-bit error, then compiles for the target using their Optimium inference backend so the operator graph, scheduling, and kernels match the SoC profile there.

They also show a speech-to-vision pipeline where Whisper transcribes a spoken command and triggers a YOLO detector on a Renesas RZ/V2 board. The interesting bit is heterogeneous compute: Whisper runs on the Arm Cortex-A CPU, while YOLO is offloaded to the DRP-AI accelerator, hitting a real-time 30 fps inference loop even if the demo UI takes longer to draw overlays. It’s a clean example of “voice as a control plane” for low-latency perception at the edge.

A second setup uses a Raspberry Pi to control Philips smart lighting by voice, chaining Whisper with a lightweight language/intent model that turns text into device actions. They note this isn’t just a lab trick: similar voice pipelines have been commercialized in IPTV set-top boxes (commands like channel control) and deployed at scale in Korea, which is a strong signal about footprint, cost, and reliability constraints being met today.

The final demo extends the same pattern to live captions and translation: Whisper generates subtitles from a CNBC stream, then a translation model renders Spanish in near real time, again on edge-class hardware. The conversation is filmed at Embedded World North America 2025, and it fits a broader theme you see across recent conference coverage: compress the model, optimize the runtime, and keep data local so latency, privacy, and bandwidth stay predictable.

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RIKEN discusses a 2023–2028 effort to make quantum processors usable alongside national supercomputers by connecting QPUs and HPC through a shared software layer, not a bespoke hardware interconnect. The aim is a hybrid execution model: classical nodes do orchestration, data prep, and iterative optimization, while quantum backends are invoked only for specific kernels where they may help even in the error-prone NISQ era of compute. https://www.r-ccs.riken.jp/en/

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A key detail is heterogeneity by design. RIKEN is linking a superconducting IBM system (IBM Quantum System Two powered by the 156-qubit Heron processor) with a trapped-ion machine from Quantinuum (Reimei / H-Series), and treating both as callable resources. The HPC side centers on Fugaku in Kobe, with connectivity intended to extend to other Japanese university clusters, so one application can target multiple quantum and classical backends through one software stack.

The practical question becomes where hybrid actually pays off. Many steps stay classical—linear algebra, tensor contractions, gradient updates, Monte-Carlo control, pre/post-processing—while quantum calls are explored for sampling, quantum simulation, and certain optimization motifs (VQE, QAOA, Hamiltonian dynamics, probabilistic inference). That shifts attention to compilation/transpilation, circuit batching to manage latency, error mitigation, and careful benchmarking so performance claims stay grounded.

To future-proof the work, the project emphasizes an interface/protocol layer (often described as an SQC interface) that standardizes job submission, QPU selection, scheduling, authentication, and telemetry across both HPC schedulers and quantum control planes. RIKEN also mentions a test-user program to surface integration issues early—API semantics, queueing behavior, data movement, reproducibility, and measurement statistics—so future supercomputers and future quantum machines can plug in with minimal rework at scale.

Filmed at Supercomputing SC25 in St. Louis, the chat also hints at the talent pipeline: students stopping by, and the growing need for people who understand compiler stacks, numerical methods, cryogenic constraints, and cluster operations in one mental model. The hybrid platform sits alongside Japan’s longer roadmap toward a post-Fugaku system around 2030, where tighter quantum-HPC coupling could widen the range of experiments that feel computationally in scope.

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Jonathan Wright outlines AlmaLinux as a RHEL-compatible community distro that fills the “classic CentOS” role: a downstream rebuild aimed at stable enterprise and HPC fleets, but with its own community decisions. He mentions the recent 9.7 release and the push toward 10.1, framed as Linux for everything from a basement web server to large research labs. https://almalinux.org/

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A key theme is the post-2023 Red Hat/CentOS landscape: Fedora remains the upstream incubator, CentOS Stream now tracks the next RHEL minor release, and AlmaLinux follows as a downstream rebuild for teams that want reproducible baselines, long lifecycle updates, and predictable ABI/API behavior across nodes. For cluster admins, that translates into fewer surprises in toolchains, drivers, and userland dependencies when scaling workloads or rebuilding images today.

The most technical detour is Btrfs (often said as “butterfs”) arriving in AlmaLinux 10.1 even though it is not shipped in current RHEL builds. Wright frames it as ZFS-adjacent: checksumming, inline compression, copy-on-write, reflinks, subvolumes, and snapshot workflows that pair well with rollback, golden images, and fast cloning; scrub plus send/receive also become practical primitives. Filmed on the Supercomputing SC25 floor in St. Louis, the demo runs AlmaLinux on an Ampere ARM server while a live graph ramps CPU load up and down, illustrating performance-per-watt under load.

On governance, he emphasizes why AlmaLinux exists: it started with CloudLinux and former CentOS users, then transitioned into an independent nonprofit foundation with community elections, a board, a Technical Steering Committee, and SIG-style working groups. Sponsors range from hyperscalers (AWS, Azure) to silicon vendors (AMD) and research institutions like CERN, and that mix is presented less as marketing and more as a resilience route.

The takeaway is that AlmaLinux is positioning itself as a practical landing zone for organizations navigating CentOS Stream changes while still adopting modern storage and emerging CPU architectures. If you care about fleet management, secure update pipelines, and consistent OS images across x86_64 and ARM64, this conversation connects the ecosystem diagram to the day-to-day reality of keeping clusters and edge racks reliable while the Linux supply chain keeps moving ahead.

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Reconfigurable compute is a double-edged sword: FPGAs let you deploy custom datapaths for low-latency inference, networking, and acceleration, but the bitstream itself can become an attack surface in multi-tenant cloud and shared embedded platforms. This talk explains a practical “bitstream vetting” idea where users could upload a compiled .bit file, then an offline/on-device classifier screens it for hardware-Trojan style payloads before configuration happens. https://sc.edu/

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The core method is intentionally lightweight and static: treat the FPGA bitstream as raw binary, extract byte-frequency features, then compress the feature space with Truncated SVD (TSVD) so inference stays cheap. Training data is built from Trust-Hub benchmark designs (AES-128 and RS232 variants) synthesized into labeled benign/malicious/empty bitstreams, with class imbalance handled via SMOTE and model selection done with k-fold cross validation. The best-performing model is a Random Forest, which is a good fit here because it handles noisy, high-dimensional distributions without needing deep learning on the target node or a big GPU.

A key point is deployment realism: the pipeline is demonstrated on the Digilent PYNQ-Z1 (AMD/Xilinx Zynq-7000), using the PYNQ Python stack and a Jupyter workflow rather than custom HDL changes. On-device results show about 3.35 seconds average latency per classification (feature extraction dominates, prediction is ~15–17 ms), while a hold-out test reports ~97.14% true-positive rate with ~0.8% false-positive rate, which matters when “false alarm” means re-running a long build or blocking a tenant. The interview is filmed at Supercomputing SC25 in St. Louis, which is a fitting venue for the cloud-to-edge security angle that shows up here.

What’s interesting going forward is interpretability and developer ergonomics: the next step described is pairing the detector with an NLP-style explanation layer so a misclassification can be translated into human-readable “why” signals, instead of a bare label. Combined with newer academic boards like AMD University Program AUP-ZU3 (Zynq UltraScale+ XCZU3EG class platforms), this kind of binary-level screening hints at a deployable security control that doesn’t require netlists, source RTL, or reverse engineering, and can sit right at the boundary between CI/CD and the FPGA fabric roadmap.

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Digital Logic is a Serbia-based electronics maker focused on NFC/RFID reader-writer hardware aimed at developers and system integrators building time attendance, access control, and vending stack. Their flagship µFR Zero Online is an OEM-sized reader that pairs a 13.56 MHz multi-ISO NFC front end (ISO14443 A/B and ISO15693) with an ESP32-S3 module for Wi-Fi and BLE, plus wired options like Ethernet and Power over Ethernet for clean single-cable setup. https://www.d-logic.com/ufr-zero-online-series-multi-protocol-network-nfc-rfid-readers-writers/

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A key idea in this demo is “tap, then authenticate”: NFC is used for near-field intent detection, and then Bluetooth can wake only when a phone is close, enabling a proximity-based exchange that feels like a single interaction to the user. With a custom app, the phone and reader can establish a secure channel, pass signed data, and treat the handset like a credential without exposing raw identifiers in view.

The broader µFR Zero lineup is intentionally modular: round housings, quarter-card (QS), half-card (HS), and larger antenna variants share the same integration philosophy while trading size for RF field strength. In the booth walkthrough recorded at Embedded World North America 2025, they show how antenna geometry maps to practical read ranges, roughly from about 10 cm on the compact unit to around 17 cm, up to about 30 cm on the XL format.

For system builders, the appeal is deployment flexibility: Wi-Fi/BLE for retrofits, Ethernet/PoE for fixed installs, and developer-friendly interfaces like USB CDC/HID, UART/SPI, and event streaming over network protocols. Add-ons such as touch displays, SD storage, GPIO/relays, and secure-element or SAM-style modules let integrators tune security posture, offline logging, and UX without redesigning the core.

A concrete example is self-serve beverage walls, where a prepaid NFC card or phone credential meters dispensing while a back end decrements credit in real time. That “reader as a networked edge node” pattern generalizes to ticketing, lockers, kiosks, and industrial access points, where the same device can handle identity, policy checks, and telemetry in a compact embedded stack.

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Silicon Power Industrial focuses on industrial-grade SSDs and DRAM modules built for embedded and automation gear, where long lifecycle, qualification, and customization matter as much as throughput. The interview frames storage as a hardware+firmware stack: NAND selection (pSLC/3D TLC), ECC, wear leveling, bad-block management, and predictable latency for edge AI or vision load.
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A recurring theme is harsh-environment design: wide-temperature DRAM and SSD options, vibration and shock tolerance, and tighter validation for boxes that live in cabinets, vehicles, or fanless enclosures. In the conversation they reference operating ranges down to about -40°C, and SP markets wider industrial ranges (often up to around +85°C) depending on grade and form factor.

On the software side, they highlight controlled firmware updates, secure delivery, and a rollback mindset so field upgrades do not brick devices. That maps to common industrial features such as power-failure protection, S.M.A.R.T health data, and at-rest security via self-encrypting drives (TCG Opal 2.0 / AES-256), plus vendor tools for monitoring and configuration across a fleet, reducing operational risk.

Filmed on the show floor at Embedded World North America 2025, the VP also gives the business backdrop: headquarters in Taipei with manufacturing in Taiwan, a U.S. presence in Fremont, and regional coverage across Europe and Asia-Pacific. They position the brand in the industrial memory market as roughly top-10 to top-15, serving IPC builders, automation OEMs, and embedded integrators at scale.

The practical takeaway is that modern industrial memory design is converging on three constraints: deterministic performance (avoiding latency spikes), thermal behavior (heatsinks on SATA SSDs and even DDR5 modules), and auditable device management. For system designers, that pushes storage from a part-number choice into firmware governance, security posture, and telemetry-driven maintenance strategy today.

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This Microchip Technology demo frames a rain-triggered greenhouse roof as a clean embedded control problem: a wet event becomes a motor move, with a touch UI as a human override. A SAM E54 (ARM Cortex-M4) acts as the central controller, taking inputs from a dedicated liquid-detection device and a separate touch interface MCU, then commanding a stepper stage that opens the roof for natural watering. https://www.microchip.com/

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On the sensing side, the MTCH910 is presented as Microchip’s first liquid-detection ASSP: it encapsulates the detection firmware so the application can treat “rain detected” as a simple signal instead of tuning analog thresholds, filters, and edge cases from scratch. That event is forwarded to the SAM E54, which turns it into an actuator command, keeping timing and safety logic in one place while the roof motion remains predictable.

For manual control, a PIC32CM “MGC” device is used as the touch controller together with a QT7 Xplained Pro board, so a user can set a partial roof opening by tapping and sliding on the panel. Architecturally it’s a familiar IoT pattern: a sensor front end, a UI processor, a main MCU, and a motor driver, each doing one job and communicating through a narrow interface.

The stated purpose is toolchain flexibility rather than the prop itself: the main controller firmware is shown as developed in Zephyr, while the touch firmware uses MPLAB tooling via VS Code extensions and a touch library. In real products, subsystems are often written years apart and by different teams, so being able to mix RTOS builds, vendor SDKs, and minimal-firmware peripherals is a practical advantage for long-lived device software.

Microchip also teases an MPLAB AI Coding Assistant that runs inside VS Code: a datasheet-parsing agent that can answer targeted questions (like how an ADC works) and help you jump to the right register diagrams or tables faster. A newer “agent mode” is described as reading MCC-generated source and APIs, then drafting the application glue code so you can move from GUI-based peripheral configuration to a working main loop with fewer manual edits. The same VS Code extension bundle also exposes MPLAB Code Configurator, a peripheral GUI that writes the low-level register setup for you and generates drivers, plus a data visualizer for inspecting runtime signals; the AI assistant is currently VS Code only and is shown with an early free-token model. Filmed at Embedded World North America 2025, it’s a quick snapshot of how modern MCU development is drifting toward generated HAL code, searchable documentation, and agent-assisted bring-up in one workflow.

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NEC explains why its long-running vector-computing lineage is now converging with a more open scalar ecosystem: building a successor to the company’s Vector Engine PCIe card that pairs NEC vector IP with a RISC-V control and system layer co-developed with Openchip. The point is pragmatic engineering rather than hype: vector math is a NEC strength, while RISC-V software stacks, tooling, and platform glue are easier to share across partners and regions. https://www.nec.com/en/global/solutions/hpc/sx/vector_engine.html

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To ground that story, the interview shows a working Vector Engine card and describes the underlying vector architecture that NEC has iterated for roughly four decades. The design is built around wide vector registers, high sustained throughput, and extreme memory bandwidth via on-card high-bandwidth memory, targeting workloads where data movement dominates. In the SX-Aurora TSUBASA line, Vector Engine specs reach up to 16 vector cores, up to 2.45 TB/s of memory bandwidth, and up to about 4.91 TFLOPS double-precision peak, depending on model and config, which sets the tone for the stack.

The Openchip board on the table is a mock-up, but the architectural direction is clear: a RISC-V scalar environment wrapped around a next-generation NEC vector processing unit so the card can look more like a standard Linux accelerator while keeping the vector datapath specialized. That enables cleaner compiler paths via LLVM/GCC, familiar MPI + OpenMP style programming, and room for tighter host integration through PCIe Gen5/Gen6 and CXL-era memory and coherency ideas. This segment was filmed at Supercomputing SC25 in St Louis, with the broader backdrop of Openchip–NEC work that has also been discussed publicly with HPC groups such as Barcelona Supercomputing Center, around RISC-V-based vector compute on a single card.

The same booth also hints at NEC’s dual role as both chip developer and system integrator, pointing to a Japanese “plasma” cluster concept that mixes mainstream CPUs and GPUs—think Intel Xeon-class parts alongside AMD Instinct MI300A-class accelerators—to chase strong performance per watt in the Green500 mindset. Put together, the thread is about heterogeneous compute as a design rule: CPUs for control, GPUs for throughput, and vectors for bandwidth-bound kernels, with RISC-V acting as the connective tissue for a longer-term, more portable software path.

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Fujitsu walks through the roadmap from K computer (2011) to Fugaku (2020) and into FugakuNEXT, positioning it as a converged AI-HPC platform where classic simulation and modern AI pipelines share the same node architecture. The discussion centers on FUJITSU-MONAKA as the next CPU line, and MONAKA-X as the variant designed for tight GPU coupling, with a stated goal of large real-world application uplift rather than only peak FLOPS. https://www.fujitsu.com/global/about/research/technology/fujitsu-monaka/

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MONAKA is presented as an Arm-based many-core CPU family (Armv9-A), scaling beyond the A64FX era and targeting dense, energy-aware compute per rack. Public specs point to a 3D chiplet approach (compute + stacked SRAM/cache + I/O), a 2 nm compute die, and dual-socket configurations reaching 144 cores per socket, paired with modern memory and I/O like DDR5, PCIe 6.0 and CXL for balanced bandwidth per node.

MONAKA-X is about accelerating the AI-HPC “meeting point”: scalar control and irregular memory access on CPU, while pushing massively parallel matrix math to accelerators. Fujitsu highlights Arm SME (Scalable Matrix Extension) as an NPU-like matrix engine in its CPU story, then extends it with coherent, high-bandwidth CPU↔GPU integration via NVIDIA NVLink Fusion/NVLink, aimed at lowering latency and reducing data-copy overhead on the hot path.

At the system level, the slides split networking into scale-up communication inside a rack and scale-out communication between racks, acknowledging that the fabric is as critical as the compute silicon once you chase thousands of nodes. The conversation also touches on a more global posture for the next machine, and it was recorded on the Supercomputing 2025 show floor in St. Louis, where interoperability and ecosystem alignment are clearly part of the narrative here.

The “100× faster application performance over Fugaku” claim is framed as a software problem as much as a hardware one: compilers, profilers, math libraries, mixed-precision workflows, and performance-portable frameworks that can target CPU, GPU, and matrix extensions without rewriting everything. The timeline discussed is detailed design work through 2026–2027 and full operation around 2030, with an even more integrated “XX” CPU–NPU fusion hinted at but not yet disclosed in detail here.

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Team Source Display (TSD) is a China-based LCD/TFT manufacturer with production in Dongguan and a Shenzhen office, focused on color TFT LCD panels, touch integration, and smart display modules that bundle the panel with controller electronics for quicker product bring-up. The core idea is reducing UI integration risk (timing, EMI, firmware, and mechanical stack-up) by offering panel + touch + driver/MCU as a tested subsystem across roughly 1–32 inch formats. https://www.tslcd.com/

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A standout demo here is the compact round smart knob module: a small circular TFT paired with a rotary input so you get tactile control plus live on-screen feedback for thermostats, appliance controls, and embedded dashboards. It’s shown running on an STM32 platform, and this class of module typically exposes low-pin-count host links (SPI, I2C, UART) while storing UI assets (fonts, bitmaps) in on-board NOR flash to keep the host firmware and RAM footprint under control for an embedded device.

They also show larger color TFT demos (including a 5-inch class panel and a 10.1-inch panel) driven by an STM32-based controller board, leaning toward “ready-to-use” subassemblies rather than a bare glass-only part. The 10.1-inch unit is described as ~1024×600-class (quoted as 1724×600 in the transcript) and calls out rugged connectivity like CAN-bus/Ethernet-style interfaces and an RJ45 port, which fits industrial wall controllers, gateways, and service tools where wiring, noise tolerance, and field diagnostics drive the design. This was filmed on the Embedded World North America 2025 show floor.

Another interesting pattern is the hybrid display approach: a small color TFT combined with a VA monochrome/segment region to get high-brightness, high-contrast readout alongside richer graphics, which is a common trick for automotive and outdoor UI where readability is the hard constraint. They also cite regulated-market quality systems (ISO 13485 for medical manufacturing and IATF 16949 for automotive supply chains), signaling process control, traceability, and consistency as part of the deliverable in a deployed field.

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Marc Pous (Developer Relations at Edge Impulse and founder of IoT Stars) reflects on how embedded teams are finally getting practical edge AI wins: not just connecting devices, but running useful inference locally with a toolchain that takes you from sensor data to deployable firmware. https://edgeimpulse.com/

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Recorded around Embedded World North America 2025 in Anaheim, he recaps the IoT Stars meetup (about 200 attendees at the House of Blues) and the kind of conversations developers actually need: a fireside chat with AWS IoT leadership and Avnet, plus panels on modernizing the embedded stack with newer connectivity, CI/CD, and device-ops patterns that shorten the path from prototype to shipped device.

A big thread is maturity: early IoT hype often lacked clear business models and reliable lifecycle management, so deployments stalled at pilots. Marc’s own arc maps that evolution, from building connected devices since 2007 and launching an IoT platform startup in 2012, to fleet management work at balena in 2020 where OTA updates, rollback, security patching, and observability become non-negotiable for anything deployed at scale.

What changes the equation now is on-device ML and model cascading: multiple optimized models running on the same embedded target, with outputs feeding the next stage (for example, object detection triggering a smaller classifier, or a visual pipeline combined with time-series anomaly detection). He also points at the rise of compact LLM and vision-language model runtimes at the edge, pushing workloads from cloud APIs into MCU/SoC firmware for lower latency, lower bandwidth, and tighter data control today.

Underneath, this is a developer-experience story: reduce friction with integrated data acquisition, labeling, DSP blocks, AutoML, quantization-aware training, and compilation paths that fit tight RAM/flash budgets on real hardware, often alongside RTOS workflows like Zephyr. The broader takeaway is that communities like IoT Stars help translate “GenAI everywhere” into deployable embedded patterns you can test, update, and maintain in the field, with fewer surprises and more.

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Micro Crystal focuses on miniature quartz timing parts that sit next to the MCU: external real-time clock (RTC) modules, 32.768kHz tuning-fork crystals, and kHz oscillators. The core idea is simple: accurate timekeeping with a nanoamp-scale standby current, so battery devices can sleep most of the time, wake on a schedule, timestamp events, and still keep correct time across long intervals. https://www.microcrystal.com/en/products/real-time-clock-rtc-modules/rv-3028-c7

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A key theme is why an external RTC can matter even when the microcontroller already includes one. Internal RTC blocks can be “good enough” for basic time, but they often trade away accuracy and quiescent current, especially across temperature. Micro Crystal highlights temperature-compensated RTC options around 160nA in timekeeping mode, targeting about 2.5ppm accuracy from -40 to +85°C, which translates to predictable drift when the device is exposed to real ambient swings.

The demo also points to the RV-3028-C7 family on an evaluation board, with an emphasis on the power budget (about 45nA at 3V in timekeeping mode) and calibration (factory trim around ±1ppm at room temperature). In practical design terms, that pairs well with an I2C RTC interface (fast-mode class), backup power switchover, trickle-charge options, alarm/interrupt outputs, and features like a UNIX time counter or event timestamping for logs and audits.

Use cases called out include wearables, healthcare patches, metering, and other embedded nodes where sleep scheduling and timestamp integrity are part of the product spec rather than a “nice to have.” The conversation is framed around real design tradeoffs: battery life vs drift, BOM vs calibration effort, and when it’s worth disabling the MCU’s internal clock and letting a dedicated timing module run the system clock domain, as shown on the Embedded World North America 2025 floor today.

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Quantropi CTO Mike Reading breaks down what it takes to bring post-quantum cryptography (PQC) into real IoT firmware, where flash, RAM, and power limits make “swap in new crypto” a non-trivial engineering task. The emphasis is on making quantum-resistant key exchange and digital signatures deployable without rewriting an entire product stack. https://www.quantropi.com/

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On the bench, Quantropi shows its core crypto running on bare-metal microcontrollers, including a Renesas RA6 board and an ST board, to make the resource trade-offs visible: code size, heap/stack pressure, handshake time, and verification latency. The pitch is developer-centric portability: the same primitives can be used across ARM Cortex-M targets and common environments like FreeRTOS, Zephyr, Eclipse ThreadX, or “no RTOS at all” on the device.

A key theme is integration rather than theory: Quantropi extends mbedTLS so the TLS handshake can negotiate PQC (including the NIST-standard track like ML-KEM/ML-DSA patterns) while staying usable in embedded networking. They also demonstrate the same building blocks inside MCUboot to enable post-quantum code signing for OTA firmware updates and verified boot, keeping the chain-of-trust relevant as cryptographic assumptions evolve.

They spend time on entropy as a first-order primitive: strong keys require strong randomness, and they generate it in software using system-jitter sources to feed key generation and session setup. Filmed at Embedded World North America 2025, the takeaway is that PQC adoption in embedded is mostly about shipping constant-time, side-channel-aware libraries with clean APIs, so teams can migrate before compliance pressure lands here.

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PQShield’s Brian Kang breaks down what “post-quantum cryptography” really means in practice: swapping today’s RSA/ECC-era primitives for quantum-resilient key establishment and signatures that can survive future cryptanalysis, mostly because regulators and government procurement will require it. https://pqshield.com/

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The discussion frames PQC as a compliance-driven migration problem as much as a math problem: crypto-agility, inventorying where keys live, and updating protocols like TLS, secure boot, and firmware signing before “harvest now, decrypt later” becomes a real business risk for long-lived data.

He references the first NIST standards now in play: ML-KEM (FIPS 203, derived from CRYSTALS-Kyber) for key encapsulation and ML-DSA (FIPS 204, derived from CRYSTALS-Dilithium) for digital signatures, plus SLH-DSA (FIPS 205, based on SPHINCS+) for hash-based signatures, with HQC selected by NIST in 2025 as an additional KEM on a different math track.

For embedded and IoT constraints, PQShield highlights PQMicroLib-Core, a bare-metal/RTOS library targeting small RAM footprints (as low as ~13 kB) and designed to run across ARM cores and RISC-V, with optional protections aimed at side-channel and DPA attack surfaces where physical access is realistic.

On the hardware side, the product stack spans Root-of-Trust and co-processor IP (e.g., PQPlatform-TrustSys and PQPlatform-CoPro) through higher-throughput acceleration blocks for ML-KEM/ML-DSA in FPGA or ASIC contexts, including use cases like firewall/TLS termination; the interview is filmed on the Embedded World North America 2025 floor, and the business model is classic IP licensing with global engineering support.

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In this interview, Awanish Mishra from TE Connectivity unpacks what “connectivity hardware” really means in modern IoT and edge compute: the RF antenna, the interconnect, and the cable assembly all have to behave like one engineered system, from the radio front end to the enclosure. https://www.te.com/en/products/antennas.html

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A good antenna is a three-way trade: small physical volume, clean impedance match to the transceiver (S11/VSWR), and enough realized gain to hit link-budget targets. He points to practical optimization levers like matching networks, aperture and ground-plane tuning, and placement effects (detuning, shadowing), plus coexistence concerns when many radios share the same product footprint, here.

You get a tour of TE’s antenna range across Wi-Fi, Bluetooth, GNSS, cellular 4G/5G and UWB, including internal, external, and board-mount options, and how TE uses pre-qualified antenna designs (including the Linx Technologies antenna portfolio) with radio chipsets/modules to make OEM RF integration more predictable. Examples mentioned include work around Nordic ecosystems and cellular module partners like Sequans, plus programs aimed at satellite and LEO connectivity, and the conversation was filmed at Embedded World North America 2025, today.

The booth demo then shifts to high-speed PCB connectivity for industrial computers and AI-centric SoCs: board-to-board mezzanine, flexible stacking, I/O card connectors, and rugged cable assemblies that carry both data and power. TE highlights STRADA Mesa mezzanine stacking connectors and STRADA Whisper backplane connectors designed around 112G PAM4 signal-integrity needs, plus industrial RJ45 MagJack connectors with integrated magnetics, reflow-compatible assembly, and PoE/PoE+/PoE++ support (IEEE 802.3at and 802.3bt) for single-cable power plus Ethernet in industrial gear at the edge.

A smart-meter reference board ties the story together as a “BOM snapshot”: SoM/carrier connectors, SIM interfaces, USB, and both internal and external antenna paths, showing how many interconnect choices sit behind one deployed radio node. TE is based in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, ships multi-billion components into devices worldwide, and runs engineering and manufacturing globally (including teams in Switzerland), with the key message being co-design: keep RF performance stable, manage EMI/EMC and interference, and shorten time-to-market through validation, reference designs, and field-application support close to customer now.

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BCM Advanced Research walks through how industrial x86 platforms are becoming “edge AI appliances”: a voice-driven customer-service agent that answers questions about the company website using retrieval-augmented generation (RAG), running locally on a booth PC rather than a cloud-only endpoint. The discussion also touches the shift toward Intel SoC designs where CPU + integrated GPU + NPU can host meaningful on-device models without a discrete GPU, cutting latency and simplifying the overall system cost.
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The demo is a good reality check on what matters in the field: far-field microphones, ambient noise, and the need for reliable speech-to-text, dialog management, and guardrails before the LLM response ever reaches a user. BCM mentions adding “talker” awareness and presence recognition so the kiosk can focus on the person in front of the screen, a pattern that fits with camera-based user detection, wake-word gating, and on-prem governance policy.

On the vision side, BCM shows a low-power embedded system paired with Intel RealSense depth cameras for depth-aware perception and identification, quoted at around 12 W for always-on sensing. For many deployments, this kind of constrained, deterministic edge compute is the point: stable thermals, predictable latency, and continuous operation for retail analytics, industrial automation, and medical edge work.

The rest of the booth tour connects form factors to deployment options: mini-ITX through micro-ATX/ATX and up to E-ATX, plus integrated systems and rackmount builds that can be configured with high I/O and even double-wide GPU support. BCM also references medically certified box PCs (IEC/EN 60601 and related safety/EMC scope) to shorten regulatory paths, and a server roadmap spanning Emerald Rapids today and Intel Xeon 6 “Granite Rapids” motherboards (including Made-in-USA variants) for datacenter, government, and long-life embedded duty at Embedded World North America 2025.

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