Smartwatch sales return to growth as AI and health features lift demand - Smartwatch sales slowed in 2024, but global demand has returned to growth in 2025, and first-quarter 2026 sales are still rising year on year. For consumers worldwide, the shift suggests that AI, health monitoring, and premium upgrades are helping the category resist broader weakness in consumer electronics...
LG pushes robot strategy from home to factory; data shortage remains a challenge - LG Electronics has in recent years expanded its push into physical AI, building an end-to-end robotics value chain under its "One LG" strategy comprising other units across the group, with products ranging from the CLOiD home robot to the LG AXIUM robotic actuator. However, the lack of robot motion data...
Micron's Blowout and the Case for a Memory Supercycle - Micron's GM hit 84.9%, it booked $10B of take-or-pay through 2030, and supply shortage stretched further out. Peak? When does supply increase? SK Hynix and Samsung too.
MediaTek frames orbit compute and NTN as next strategic R&D priorities - MediaTek hosted MARC Workshop 2026 on June 24 through the MediaTek Advanced Research Center (MARC), recognizing the year's university-industry collaboration outcomes while outlining forward-looking R&D priorities in AI, satellite communications and next-generation connectivity.
Podcast EP352: The Path to High Impact Parallel AI Agents with ChipAgents CEO and Founder William Wang - Daniel is joined by William Wang the CEO and Founder of ChipAgents.ai , the category-leading agentic AI platform for advancing agent-based AI approaches for semiconductor workflows. He is also the Mellichamp Endowed Chair Professor of AI and Designs at UC Santa Barbara, and a global leader in fundamental...
Stress analysis - Sometimes, getting true stress levels can be tricky because things happen that are sneaky. The post Stress analysis appeared first on EDN .
The PQC Silicon Is Here Today for Tomorrow’s Quantum Threats - Two new security chips aim to future-proof devices for the quantum era by integrating hardware accelerators that support PQC algorithms. The post The PQC Silicon Is Here Today for Tomorrow’s Quantum Threats appeared first on EE Times .
'Impossible' low-loss, tunable dielectric achieved in microwave electronics - The result on his computer screen looked impossible. Late one night in 2009, Nate Orloff was alone in a laboratory, analyzing measurements from a set of experimental thin films sent to him by Darrell Schlom, the Tisch University ...
Prepare for More Memory Pricing Pain - No Line of Sight to Memory Market Equilibrium\ Micron's results ended the illusion that memory pricing was near its maximum. Micron declared it had no line of sight to a memory market equilibrium.
Qualcomm HBC takes aim at HBM costs in AI data centers - Qualcomm has unveiled its latest AI data center platform, Dragonfly, at its annual investor day, highlighting a new technology it calls High Bandwidth Compute, or HBC, as a key weapon in its challenge to Nvidia, AMD and AI chip startups.
[News] Lenovo Reportedly Sees Higher Memory Prices Becoming the New Normal Into 2030 - As Micron noted in its earnings call that tight market conditions are likely to persist beyond 2027, Lenovo is taking a more cautious stance. Wccftech, citing company management, reports that Lenovo sees higher memory pricing as potentially settling into a “new normal” well into 2030 and beyond.......
Clock Glitching as an Attack Vector—And How PolarFire® FPGAs Stop It - Security logic assumes clocks behave predictably—but attackers exploit that assumption. Learn how clock glitching enables fault‑injection attacks and how our PolarFire® FPGA and SoC FPGA devices detect abnormal clock behavior in hardware, generating tamper events that help contain attacks before...
Ubotica raises $11m for space AI and Live Maritime Intelligence - Ubotica Technologies, the space AI specialist, has announced an $11 million funding round to boost deployment of its maritime security service, Live Maritime Intelligence. This uses by real-time decision-making satellites in Low Earth orbit. Live Maritime Intelligence “Ubotica has spent years pioneering...
Synaptics Acquisition by Onsemi Affirms Edge AI Is for Real - Here is why a power and sensing specialist has snapped AI-native compute assets to foray into the physical AI world. The post Synaptics Acquisition by Onsemi Affirms Edge AI Is for Real appeared first on EE Times .
DigiKey releases sequel in Sustainable Futures video series - DigiKey is launching Series 2 of its video sequence on Sustainable Futures. It examines how advanced electronics are enabling cleaner energy, smarter systems and more sustainable design. For example, topics covered range from high-performance signal processing and energy management to rugged interconnects...
Chip Industry Week In Review - Onsemi to buy Synaptics; IBM's 7Å chip w/40% more SRAM area; 1nm MoS2 nanotubes; AI pressure points; memory updates; $250M CHIPS Act award; trade secret theft; new advanced packaging site; MEMS capacity; humanoids; earnings. The post Chip Industry Week In Review appeared first on Semiconductor Engineering...
