Beats’ Studio Buds Plus: Tangible improvements, not just marketing fluff  - “Plus” tacked onto a product name typically translates into a product extension with little enhancement. Beats has notably bucked that trend. The post Beats’ Studio Buds Plus: Tangible improvements, not just marketing fluff appeared first on EDN .

 K-Band Upconverter & CATV Amplifier  - The QORVO QPC4510 is a K-Band image reject upconverter mixer with integrated x2 LO buffer amplifier and output variable gain amplifier. The QPC4510 outputs an RF frequency from 17.7 to 26.5 GHz using IF inputs from DC to 4.0 GHz and a corresponding LO frequency. It is designed using QORVO’s pHEMT production...

+2 from  electronicsweekly

 Rivian Autonomy Processor moves in-house silicon into the driver’s seat  - Rivian has used its first Autonomy & AI Day to outline how the Rivian…

 Kyocera Develops Meta-Lens Enabling Wavelength-Controlled Focusing

 Financial Results for the 3rd Quarter of FY March 2026 Performance Briefing (Planned on Feb. 2, 2026)

 Chinese AI chipmaker Biren kicks off bookbuilding for US$624 million Hong Kong IPO  - The company, which is selling 247.7 million shares between HK$17 and HK$19.60 each, will become the first listing of 2026 on January 2

 Advancing Wideband RF Power: Next-Generation GaN-on-SiC SSPAs Optimize SWaP-C and Mission Reliability  - Modern radar, SATCOM and EW systems demand higher power, wider bandwidth and greater reliability under strict SWaP-C constraints. Learn what today’s architectures require—and how next-generation solid-state solutions address these challenges—in our full technical analysis.

 CEO Interview with Masha Petrova of Nullspace  - Dr. Masha Petrova is CEO and co-founder of Nullspace Inc., a venture-backed company developing next-generation electromagnetic simulation software for RF and quantum computing applications. She brings 25 years of engineering software experience from executive roles at MSC Software, Altium, and Ansys,...

+2 from  semiwiki

 Scientists Learn To Steer Light at the Nanoscale, Setting New Records  - Researchers have introduced an innovative two-step excitation approach that makes it possible to efficiently generate and clearly separate different modes of hyperbolic polaritons. An international collaboration of scientists has introduced a new approach for generating and manipulating extremely confined...

+1 from  scitechdaily

 Interview: Indium Phosphide Lasers and Photonic Integration with Prof. Martijn Heck, TU Eindhoven  - InP lasers, heterogeneous integration, wafer sizes and yield, supply chain and ecosystem, quantum dot lasers, and balancing utility of technology with fundamental research.

 Turning plastic waste into valuable chemicals with single-atom catalysts  - The rapid accumulation of plastic waste is currently posing significant risks for both human health and the environment on Earth. A possible solution to this problem would be to recycle plastic waste, breaking it into smaller ...

 You can force FSR 4 Redstone to work on RDNA 3 GPUs with new workaround for Linux systems — solution requires Proton compatibility to work properly  - AMD's answer to Nvidia's DLSS 4 seemingly works on older hardware but is currently not officially supported.

+4 from  tomshardware

 [News] Xiaomi 17 Ultra Price Hike Reportedly Confirmed: Memory Crunch Forces Notable Increase  - With the Christmas holidays around the corner, Xiaomi has confirmed the Xiaomi 17 Ultra will launch on December 25, Cailian Press reports. But according to Jiemian News, soaring memory prices mean the flagship will come with a notable price increase, with company president Lu Weibing emphasizing it ......

 AI has pumped hyperscale capex, capacity – but how long can it last?  - Total operational capacity just keeps rising

 Two-Phase D2C Cooling in Data Center Thermal Management Cost Analysis  - As AI workloads continue to scale, thermal management has become one of the most critical and costly elements of data center infrastructure. The cost analysis of server cooling components highlights an important reality: while cold plates often receive the most attention, they represent only a fraction...

+1 from  idtechex

 Complete: The Deconstruction of a Semiconductor Cycle  - What can be learned from the Q3-25 results of the Semiconductor Industry?

 This New 3D Chip Could Shatter the “Memory Wall” Holding Back AI  - Stanford, CMU, Penn, MIT, and SkyWater Technology reached a major milestone by producing the first monolithic 3D chip manufactured at a U.S. foundry, achieving the highest density of 3D chip wiring to date and delivering speed improvements of an order of magnitude. Engineers from Stanford University,...

 Renesas advances SDV roadmap with 3nm R-Car Gen 5 platform  - Renesas Electronics has taken another step in its software-defined vehicle (SDV) strategy with the expansion of its fifth-generation…

+1 from  eenewseurope

 Modifying chirality with electricity: Voltage-driven method enables reversible, tunable states  - A way to electrically modify the chirality of organic–inorganic hybrid materials, in which chiral molecules adsorb onto inorganic surfaces, has been demonstrated by researchers at Science Tokyo. By using an electric double-layer ...

 Japan announces US$6 billion support for home-grown AI development  - A new company will be established by around 10 firms including SoftBank Group Corp, aiming to develop the country’s largest base AI model

 Moore Threads unveils new AI chips to challenge Nvidia  - The Shanghai-listed chipmaker launched the Huashan chip for AI and the Lushan chip for gaming, promising superior performance for both

 Less hostility towards China in new US security strategy is welcome  - The plan’s watering down of America’s antagonism towards China bodes well for both nations and the world

 Deep learning-enabled fault diagnosis with vision transformers and domain-informed data augmentation for advanced quality control in semiconductor manufacturing

 Brushed DC motor driver ICs target ultra-low standby in appliances  - ROHM has rolled out two-brushed DC motor driver ICs aimed at brushed DC motors in home and office equipment,…

 CES 2026

+4 from  ams-osram

 Capital Insight Partners LLC Buys Shares of 5,894 Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company Ltd. $TSM  - MarketBeat

+34 from  news.google

 Central bank raises Taiwan's 2025 growth forecast to 7.31%  - Taiwan's Central Bank has sharply revised its economic growth forecast for 2025 to 7.31% from the 4.55% projected in September, citing the absence of US semiconductor tariffs under Section 232 and a stronger-than-expected surge in AI demand driving export momentum.

+5 from  digitimes

 This week’s outside five sigma (#78)  - Amazon FACE CO2 enrichment experiment

 Chip Industry Technical Paper Roundup: Dec 22  - Dataflow execution on GPUs; templatized chip design; scanning acoustic microscopy for packaging; data-centric ML compiler for PIM; QPUs with slow interconnects; smartphone EM side channel attacks; memristors for ReRAMs and neuromorphic; thermo-mechanical analysis IC packaging. The post Chip Industry Technical...

+1 from  semiengineering

 [News] China’s Moore Threads Unveils Huashan AI Chip, Reportedly Takes Aim at NVIDIA’s Hopper  - Hot on the heels of the U.S. greenlighting H200 exports to China, the country’s so-called “little NVIDIA,” Moore Threads, has unveiled a new product lineup, headlined by the AI training and inference chip Huashan, aiming to challenge Team Green’s Hopper series, according to the South China M......

+5 from  trendforce

 TSMC pushes back on Japan fab delay rumors, keeps options open  - According to Nikkei , Yuichi Hotta, president of TSMC's Japan Advanced Semiconductor Manufacturing (JASM), confirmed on December 19 that construction of the second wafer fabrication plant in Kikuyo Town, Kumamoto Prefecture, is continuing. This statement counters recent reports by Japanese media suggesting...

+7 from  digitimes

 2026 Irrational Ideas  - Obscure and Dangerous Only!

 Surprising biomedical application found for ASML’s chipmaking EUV lithography machines — they can mass produce nanopores for molecular sensing  - IMEC has successfully demonstrated the full wafer-scale fabrication of nanopores using ASML’s state-of-the-art extreme ultraviolet (EUV) machines.

+4 from  tomshardware

 Intel Foundry Advances Future Logic Scaling with Manufacturable 2D Transistors and High NA EUV Integration  - Intel Foundry has demonstrated concrete momentum in de-risking 2D field-effect transistors as a future scaling path beyond silicon, through long-term collaboration with Imec . Results presented at IEDM show a world-first, 300 mm fab-compatible integration of key 2DFET modules, including source/drain contacts...

 Taiwan academics seek to break through SiPh yield bottlenecks  - Cloud computing, GenAI, and high-performance computing continue to drive bandwidth and energy efficiency demands. Line rates have now been pushed beyond 100–200Gbps. The intense heat generated by machines poses serious rack management challenges at data centers.

+3 from  digitimes