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The ceremony involved representatives from the African Union Commission, various African governments, national space agencies, AfSA Council members, and international space organisations. The inauguration of AfSA came just before the start of the NewSpace Africa conferenceMoUAt the ceremony there were the signing of cooperation agreements with the European Space Agency, the UAE Space Agency, and Roscosmos. Each memorandum of understanding outlines specific areas of cooperation, said the AfSA.

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It aims to improve the performance, efficiency, and scalability of the memory required to power the next generation of AI, HPC (high-performance computing), and graphics workloads. For example, the next generation AI training and inference systems. HBM4With transfer speeds up to 8 Gb/s across a 2048-bit interface, HBM4 boosts total bandwidth up to 2TB/s, highlights JEDEC. The standard also doubles the number of independent channels per stack.

1 week ago | electronicsweekly.com | Alun Williams

The Electronics Weekly team share some fingerposts – their picks of the week, in terms of announcements, developments, product releases, quotes, or anything else in the wide world of electronics, that caught their eye…Caroline Hayes, editorThe mind boggles as to how James Watt School of Engineering first came up with the idea for this – Tree gum leads to longer lasting supercapacitors – but finding and using new natural materials is a fascinating mix of nature and science.

1 week ago | electronicsweekly.com | Alun Williams

You must be a registered user to view our feature articles. Registering takes seconds - click below, or login if you are already a registered user. What does a holographic microscope look like? Check out the picture, courtesy of the ISS (International Space Station) National Lab. The system is dubbed ELVIS standing for Extant Life Volumetric Imaging System. And it uses holographic technology to deliver detailed 3D views of cells and microbes, proving more accurate biological…

1 week ago | electronicsweekly.com | Alun Williams

RadioLunaProject “RadioLuna” aims to uncover whether a fleet of small satellites in a lunar orbit could detect faint radio signals from the universe’s earliest days. Such signals are nearly impossible to pick up on Earth due to man-made radio interference. The signals are in the FM radio range and come from a time when the universe was mostly hydrogen gas. This is described as the cosmic “dark ages”.