Blackstone and Google launch neo-cloud company - Blackstone, the private equity company, and Google are forming a neo-cloud company to acquire, build and rent out datacentre capacity. The initial investment is $5 billion in equity from Blackstone and $20 billion in debt. Blackstone will have the majority interest. The company will use Google TPUs (pictured)...
Analysis: CXMT's profit surge highlights tighter memory-logic ties in China - ChangXin Memory Technologies' latest IPO financial disclosures have sent a strong signal across China's semiconductor industry, revealing how quickly the country's top DRAM maker has moved from years of losses to sharply higher profitability.
Cadence Announces PCIe Gen8 Verification IP Availability at PCI‑SIG USA - Explore Cadence IP here At the recent PCI‑SIG Developers Conference US held on May 6-7,2026, Cadence announced the availability of its PCIe Gen8 Verification IP (VIP)—taking another significant step in enabling early, confident adoption of the PCI Express roadmap. As PCIe continues …
Delving Deeper into the ACM Semiconductor Planetary Family Product Portfolio - Following the launch of our ACM Planetary Family™, which brings together a process-aligned portfolio for semiconductor manufacturing, we delve deeper here into each of the planet series and how they reflect our product lines. Our offerings are grouped into eight different series that represent the essential...
Chemical pathway unlocks next-generation infrared III–V nanocrystals - A research team led by Professor Sohee Jeong at Sungkyunkwan University has uncovered a key chemical pathway for the controlled synthesis of III–V semiconductor quantum dots, a class of next-generation infrared materials ...
Canada Spins Off Photonics Lab - The Canadian Photonics Fabrication Center will be commercialized to scale up its compound semiconductor and photonics capabilities. The post Canada Spins Off Photonics Lab appeared first on EE Times .
Run DeepSeek V4 on Intel® CPUs and GPUs - The recently released DeepSeek V4 is generating a huge buzz in the community, introducing several frontier architectural optimizations.
How many attenuations can you get from 10 resistor networks? - Ten ratio variants, 34 configurations each, and 340 reasons to leave the discrete resistor drawer closed. The post How many attenuations can you get from 10 resistor networks? appeared first on EDN .
DIGITIMES Insight: Intel and AMD diverge as TSMC prepares price hikes - Global server markets may shift as DIGITIMES analyst Luke Lin says Intel's revenue gains stem largely from price rises while AMD posts stronger shipment-led growth. TSMC plans another price increase as customers prioritize capacity over cost, developments that could affect cloud providers, vendors, and...
Qualcomm’s New QCC74x Appears to Target the ESP32 MCUs - These days wireless microcontrollers featuring built-in WiFi and Bluetooth are all the rage, with Espressif’s range of ESP32 MCUs being the default option for commercial and hobbyist projects alike. This …read more
Why Trump took US tech leaders to Beijing - Trump is acknowledging reality: if a full US-China decoupling is unrealistic, the alternative is to shape the terms of interdependence
Signal65 investigates the architectural advantages of the MediaTek Kompanio Ultra 910 - A new white paper produced by Signal65 examines how the MediaTek Kompanio Ultra 910 compares to competing silicon in other Chromebook Plus and Windows laptops, exploring what “MediaTek’s latest PC chip has to offer in the modern laptop market, and what it provides in this segment that similar...
Emerson is making more plans for Nigel - At NI Connect, in Fort Worth, Emerson announced prompt-based code generation for NI Nigel AI, its test-optimised AI technology. According to Emerson, the addition of code generation and cross-platform intelligence open up the AI technology for specialist, mission-critical users, e.g aerospace, transportation,...
Crossing the Yield Cliff: IDP V6 and the Future of Manufacturing Forecasting - The paper, Industrial Defectivity Prediction (IDP) V6: A Two-Layer Yield Cliff Framework for Cross-Industry Mass-Production Forecasting , presents a generalized industrial yield-modeling architecture that extends the classical Negative Binomial framework through a two-layer phenomenological structure...
Smart hygrometers: Still largely useful even without integrated visual monitors - What makes a market success? Is there a Swiss-made sensor inside? Or maybe a wrist strap? What happened to the basics: cost-effective reliable functionality? The post Smart hygrometers: Still largely useful even without integrated visual monitors appeared first on EDN .
Microchip miniature crystal oscillator for power‑constrained designs - Microchip Technology is introducing its EX‑423 Evacuated Miniature Crystal Oscillator (EMXO). For space‑ and power‑constrained designs, it features ultra‑low phase noise. The compact, low‑power timing system is for applications demanding high stability, accuracy and long‑term reliability,...
Confusion Grows With More Interconnect Options And Tradeoffs - Each standard serves a specific use case, so chip architects are choosing more than one for a single design. The post Confusion Grows With More Interconnect Options And Tradeoffs appeared first on Semiconductor Engineering .
[News] China’s Rare Earth Compound Exports Fell 17% in Value; Alternative Supply Chains Gain Momentum - Since China tightened rare earth export controls, how has the industry adapted? According to Nikkei, analysis of Chinese customs data shows that between April 2025 and March 2026, exports of rare earth permanent magnets fell 4% year over year by volume to 58.1 million kilograms, while export value e......
Imagine Innovators Amsterdam | May 2026 - Imagine Innovators Amsterdam | May 2026 At Imagine Innovators 2026, BrainChip's Gilles Bézard (Senior ML Solution Architect) will present AkidaTag, an ultra-low-power reference platform built to shatter the "battery wall" for continuous-sensing edge devices. Leveraging neuromorphic architecture, Gilles...
Ideal Power Announces Closing of $30.0 Million Registered Direct Offering of Common Stock - "Company," "we," or "our"), pioneering the development and commercialization of the highly efficient and broadly patented B-TRAN® bidirectional semiconductor power switch, today announced the closing of its previously announced registered direct offering pursuant to a definitive agreement with certain...
Unlearning Europe’s learned helplessness - First, we convinced ourselves we didn’t have to be able to do everything. Now that we do, we seem to think we can’t. Europe could use a little more self-confidence.
Small Engine Gets DIY EFI Upgrade - Small internal combustion engines usually keep things simple, relying on carburetors to handle metering the correct amount of fuel and air. Recently, [Carlos Takeshita] decided his small engine could use …read more
TI says safety will decide 800V AI data center adoption and supplier wins - Pradeep S. Shenoy, a computing technology expert at Texas Instruments's (TI) US headquarters, recently shared his views on 800V architectures for AI data centers in a media appearance. He said 800V solutions will not see broad adoption in AI data centers in 2026, but rollout will accelerate year by year...
