Pharma 4.0 projects may have gotten off to a slow start, but they have ramped up recently. Big Pharma has led the charge in deploying Pharma 4.0 projects, which involve the use of digital technology to draw operational efficiency. “It makes sense because a lot of these digital technologies have a big dollar sign with…

Earlier this year, Xilinx (San Jose, Calif.) launched its Kria line of adaptive system-on-modules (SOMs) for a host of AI applications, including in factory and healthcare environments. In terms of the former, the SOMs target digital twin, predictive maintenance and defect detection applications. SOMs, which are small embedded boards about the size of a credit…