STMicroelectronics, Leopard Imaging combine for robotics vision module - STMicroelectronics and Leopard Imaging are introducing a multi-sensor module for humanoid and advanced robotics vision applications. The module – which integrates natively with NVIDIA Jetson and Isaac robot development platforms – combines 2D imaging, 3D depth sensing, and human-like motion perception....
Nvidia adopts Groq to tackle AI inference and expand global reach - At its annual GTC conference in San Jose, Nvidia unveiled a major shift in its AI hardware strategy: integrating technology from AI chip startup Groq to address growing demand in AI inference, while simultaneously preparing new products for global markets, including China.
Answering the Call: The Critical Role of Veterans in Powering America’s Semiconductor Workforce - The U.S. semiconductor industry is experiencing a period of historic growth. New investments in manufacturing, R&D, and design are helping to strengthen America’s leadership in semiconductor technology. But to fully realize this opportunity, the industry must also address the critical challenge of building...
Replay‑based Validation as a Scalable Methodology for Chiplet‑based Systems (Intel, Synopsys) - A new technical paper, “ODIN-Based CPU-GPU Architecture with Replay-Driven Simulation and Emulation,” was published by researchers at Intel, Nvidia and Synopsys. Abstract “Integration of CPU and GPU technologies is a key enabler for modern AI and graphics workloads, combining control-oriented processing...
Improve 555 frequency linearity - A single resistor linearizes the LMC555 timer's current-controlled oscillator, correcting internal delays across a five-decade range. The post Improve 555 frequency linearity appeared first on EDN .
[News] Memory Giant Shifts Strategy: Samsung Reportedly Eyes 3–5 Year Contracts to Stabilize Supply - South Korea’s memory giants, once reluctant to lock in long-term deals amid tight supply, may be shifting stance. Bloomberg, citing Co-CEO Jun Young-hyun’s remarks at the shareholder meeting on March 18, reports that Samsung is now exploring multi-year memory contracts to secure supply stability......
India's Agnit Semiconductors raises US$2.6 million to commercialise GaN chips for telecom and power - Agnit Semiconductors has raised US$2.6 million in a seed extension round led by Shastra VC, with existing investors 3one4 Capital and Zephyr Peacock participating. The Economic Times , Analytics India , The Hindu Business Line , and BIS Infotech report. The company said the funds will be used to scale...
[Blog] Designing Low Power, Real-Time AI at the Far Edge - Supporting today’s growing landscape of distributed, autonomous devices is no simple feat. Whether it is industrial robots, autonomous drones, or in-vehicle safety systems, each of these increasingly intelligent solutions requires real-time processing capabilities to function. Supporting these capabilities...
Nordic updates Fuel Gauge battery health-monitoring for IoT devices - Nordic Semiconductor has updated its Fuel Gauge software to v2.0. This is the battery health system for its nPM1300 and nPM1304 power management ICS. The release adds State-of-Health estimation, adaptive battery modelling, and long-term fleet analytics capabilities, says Nordic. Basically, extending battery...
Structera S: Scaling the AI Memory Wall with CXL Switching - The AI memory wall—the widening gap between the memory capacity and bandwidth AI infrastructure wants and the amount that conventional memory architectures can deliver—is accelerating at an alarming pace. And the consequences are getting increasingly ominous for data center operators and their customers:...
AI inspection tool certifies safety for robotic fleets - Axivion for CUDA has been announced by Qt Group as part of Nvidia’s Halos AI Systems Inspection Lab for automated safety checking of robots and autonomous vehicles. It provides continuous GPU/CPU code analysis measured against Nvidia guidelines and industry standards and generates the documentation...
Beyond Blue & Green: Methane Pyrolysis Is Powering Turquoise Hydrogen - While blue and green hydrogen dominate the low-carbon hydrogen conversation, turquoise hydrogen is quietly gaining momentum. Produced via methane pyrolysis, it delivers near-zero CO2 emissions without the need for carbon capture. Recently, major industrial players such as ExxonMobil, BASF, and KBR have...
Newer, shinier DMM RTDs—part 2 - A precision op-amp replaces thermal drift issues in RTD circuits, enabling accurate temperature readings across wide ranges. The post Newer, shinier DMM RTDs—part 2 appeared first on EDN .
Verification Engineers Are Poised to Become Verification Scientists - There are many ways to categorize engineers—to “slice and dice” them, if you will. I’m speaking figuratively, of course (we don’t want anyone to get any unfortunate ideas…especially since… the incident). Just sticking to the electronics realm, we have analog and digital, hardware and software,...
Cellular hotspots: Multi-option evaluation thoughts - A cellular data service upgrade prompts new hardware acquisitions: four total devices. Smart or superfluous? Read on! The post Cellular hotspots: Multi-option evaluation thoughts appeared first on EDN .
Nvidia positions Groq 3 LPUs alongside Vera Rubin for an inference-first era - The 2026 Nvidia GTC keynote signaled a clear industry shift toward inference. CEO Jensen Huang declared that "training is just the beginning — inference is the core battleground for AI commercialization." Attendees expected AI agents to dominate the event's agenda.
[News] Micron Ramps FY26 Capex to $25B, Signs First 5-Year Customer Deal - Micron is riding the AI memory upcycle, delivering strong 2QFY26 results and guiding third-quarter revenue above market expectations. Even more striking, the company flagged a major step-up in capital intensity, with capex set to exceed $25 billion this fiscal year and climb further in 2027 as manuf......
Scientists Just Built Atom-Sized Gates That Act Like Living Cells - Scientists have built atom-sized pores that act like living ion channels, opening the door to next-generation nanotech. Ion channels are extremely narrow pathways that are essential for many processes in living systems. To understand how ions move through these confined spaces, scientists need to build...
Marvell Earns World’s Most Ethical Companies Designation - Marvell was named as one of the World’s Most Ethical Companies® for 2026 by Ethisphere , a global leader in defining and advancing the standards of ethical business practices. This prestigious recognition honors the commitment of Marvell to business integrity through robust ethics, compliance, sustainability...
You Can't Engineer What You Can't See - TechInsights teardown analysis gives engineering and product teams direct visibility into the design choices, components, and architectures behind market-leading smartphones.
The Strategic Shift in Data Center Power and Energy Security - Short-duration battery technologies such as Li-ion and valve-regulated lead acid (VRLA) batteries are typically used in data centers as part of uninterruptible power supply systems (UPS). Data center operators also sign power purchase agreements (PPAs) to secure long-term, stable renewable energy at fixed...
IBM Announces Expanded Collaboration with NVIDIA to Advance AI for the Enterprise - IBM (NYSE: IBM) today announced at GTC 2026 an expanded collaboration with NVIDIA to help enterprises operationalize AI at scale. Advancing efforts across GPU-native data analytics, intelligent document processing, on-premises and regulated infrastructure deployments, cloud, and consulting, the collaboration...
Nvidia partners with chipmakers to advance industrial robotics - At Nvidia's GTC 2026 conference, major chipmakers — including Texas Instruments (TI), Infineon Technologies AG, NXP Semiconductors, Analog Devices (ADI), and Synopsys — announced new collaborations centered on robotics built around Nvidia's platform. Robotics is now the defining focus for...
Memory For AI At The Edge - Why LPDDR5 is becoming the memory of choice for many applications The post Memory For AI At The Edge appeared first on Semiconductor Engineering .
[News] NVIDIA’s China-Ready LPUs Could Launch as Early as May; H200 Production Restarts - Fresh off unveiling its Groq 3 LPU—built on Samsung’s 4nm for high-speed inference—at GTC, NVIDIA is already eyeing its next move. Reuters reports the chip giant is preparing a China-compliant version of its Groq AI chips, aiming to navigate export curbs and re-enter the Chinese market. Acc...
Composites for Cleaner Energies with IDTechEx - JEC World 2026 - The green energy market is increasingly drawing attention as sustainability motivations soar in line with regulation and environmental awareness. This article covers some of the companies exhibiting at JEC World 2026 in Paris, where IDTechEx spoke with multiple players within the composite market.
Synopsys Shows Off First Synopsys-Ansys Products - Acquisition closed in October, and the EDA giant showed off the first combined products at Synopsys Converge The post Synopsys Shows Off First Synopsys-Ansys Products appeared first on EE Times .
Research Bits: Mar. 17 - Photonics: Ski jump structure; on-chip nanolasers; neural networks. The post Research Bits: Mar. 17 appeared first on Semiconductor Engineering .
When AI Comes Home to Roost: Meet the SYN765x Wi-Fi-7 AI-Native Connected MCU - I think most of us have come to appreciate how incredibly useful AI can be, and it’s getting more efficacious every day. The funny thing is that it’s becoming harder to remember a time before AI (much like younger people being unable to visualize a world without high-definition flat-screen TVs, smartphones,...
Why Post-Quantum Cryptography Doesn’t Replace Classical Cryptography - As quantum computing advances, discussions around the future of cryptography are becoming increasingly common. In many conversations, one message is often heard: in the future, only quantum-safe cryptography will be needed. While quantum computing does introduce real risks to certain cryptographic systems,...
Q.ANT Hits Full Production Capacity for Photonic AI Processors - German startup Q.ANT reaches full production capacity as demand surges for energy-efficient photonic AI processors. The post Q.ANT Hits Full Production Capacity for Photonic AI Processors appeared first on EE Times .
[News] Kioxia Reportedly to End Slim NAND Packages, Final Shipments due March 2027 - Please note that this article cites information from TechNews, The Elec, and Kioxia. As memory giants restructure capacity amid tight supply, Japan’s Kioxia joins the wave, with a client notice indicating it will discontinue Thin Small Outline Package (TSOP) products, final shipments set for Marc......
Peer review at the service of society - The peer review system, as we know it now, is a relatively recent achievement. It will still evolve to better fit the needs of science and society in the future.
The Future of Semiconductors: A Deep Dive with Tomi-Pekka Takalo - This interview features: Tomi-Pekka Takalo, CEO and co-founder at CoreHW. Can you describe your company’s founding vision and how it has evolved to address the changing landscape of the semiconductor industry? CoreHW was founded in 2013 by RF engineers with a vision to deliver high-quality custom radio-frequency...
QLSI2 - Scaling semiconductor QPUs up to 200 qubits with FDSOI and SiGe heterostructure technologies
[Blog] Designing Low Power, Real-Time AI at the Far Edge - Supporting today’s growing landscape of distributed, autonomous devices is no simple feat. Whether it is industrial robots, autonomous drones, or in-vehicle safety systems, each of these increasingly intelligent solutions requires real-time processing capabilities to function. Supporting these capabilities...
Sponsored Content: Invisible Architects of Miniaturization – SMD Resistors in Modern Electronics - Resistors undoubtedly belong to the most basic and essential electronic components. Every modern device contains dozens, sometimes even hundreds of such elements inside. Their task is quite simple – to limit the value of the electric current flowing in the circuit, so that other components can be precisely...
Nano 3D metallic parts turn out to be surprisingly strong despite defects - Scientists at Caltech have figured out how to precisely engineer tiny three-dimensional (3D) metallic pieces with nanoscale dimensions. The process can work with any metal or metal alloy and yields components of surprising ...
Identifying Read Disturbance Threshold of DRAM Chips (ETH Zurich, Rutgers) - A new technical paper, “DiscoRD: An Experimental Methodology for Quickly Discovering the Reliable Read Disturbance Threshold of Real DRAM Chips,” was published by ETH Zurich and Rutgers University. Abstract “State-of-the-art DRAM read disturbance mitigations rely on the read disturbance threshold...
Industrial Robotics Drive Shift Toward Physical AI - Industrial robotics leap into physical AI, empowering factories with real-time smarts. The post Industrial Robotics Drive Shift Toward Physical AI appeared first on EE Times .
[News] MLCC Giant Murata Reportedly Confirms April 1 Price Hike on Key Components - With memory and logic chip prices climbing, major players in the Multilayer Ceramic Capacitor (MLCC) market are following suit with price hikes. According to Liberty Times, citing a company client notice, Japan’s Murata Manufacturing—the world’s largest maker of passive components—has offici......
Government to spend £2bn on quantum computing - The government announced today that it is to spend £2 billion on quantum computing research over the next four years. The Department of Science, Innovation and Technology says it is encouraging companies to initially build prototype quantum computers with a view to having commercial versions available...
