This week's roundup has a number of new and interesting twists. The Micro Module from TDK/TI is quite literally a new thing, Edge AI built-in, to a sensor module that is wireless. No hands, no wires, great for predictive maintenance inside machinery. But the unit has many features and one of them is an MCU that comes with an Arm Cortex-M4F core. The leading companies behind this innovation are banking on IoT becoming so common, that the sensors themselves can compute, before the gateway. The other area of merit today is the Smart Device, with STMicroelectronics launching MCUs with their Secure Manager, the way is paved for more compute power in tighter spaces, thanks to reduced circuit board sizes. |