Redefining What’s Possible in Photonics: Visible GaN Lasers and Compact Coherent Transceivers - By Marcus Duelk, Mathieu Faucher & Marco Rossetti The rapid evolution of photonics is reshaping what’s possible in precision sensing, quantum technologies, and advanced imaging. At the core of many of these breakthroughs lies a fundamental component: the single-frequency laser. …
The Tapo Hub: TP-Link joins the low-bandwidth, long-range RF club - Leveraging low-power wireless connectivity isn’t proprietary to a single smart-home technology and product supplier, no matter that each company’s implementation of the concept may be. The post The Tapo Hub: TP-Link joins the low-bandwidth, long-range RF club appeared first on EDN .
Innos set for late April listing on TPEx, riding advanced packaging boom - Probe card automation equipment maker Innostar Service (Innos) is expected to list on the Taipei Exchange (TPEx) main board in late April 2026. With artificial intelligence (AI) applications driving demand in the semiconductor industry, the probe card market is anticipated to grow rapidly, supporting...
Data Boom Puts Pressure On NoCs, Fabrics - Key Takeaways: NoC challenges, such as wiring congestion, timing closure, and performance, must be considered in tandem with topology and placement. Topologies can be customized to meet an application’s specific data flow needs, with a system containing multiple topologies to suit different data or...
IoT Gets a Powerful Edge AI Upgrade: MediaTek at Embedded World - At Embedded World, MediaTek demonstrated how we’re bringing a new level of edge AI capabilities to a wide range of IoT devices and applications, from robots and drones to smart homes and vehicles. We’re proving that edge AI isn’t limited to small, power-constrained devices anymore. Our Genio......
The Recovery Revolution Sparked by Platinum Group Metals - Higher rates of critical material recovery are crucial to insulating supply chains from the introduction of export controls on highly geographically localised primary mineral sources. In this article, IDTechEx presents the valuable lessons that can be learned from the success of the platinum group metals...
RANSemi wins Apeiroon baseband design-in - RANSemi Limited, the British semiconductor innovator pioneering Open RAN baseband SoCcplatforms for 4G and 5G networks, today announced that its RNS802 5G RAN baseband SoC is being used to power mission-critical and tactical wireless systems developed by Apeiroon, a portable communications innovator that...
ASML employees stage walkout against 1,700 job cuts - Over 1,000 employees at ASML's headquarters in Veldhoven, the Netherlands, staged a lunchtime walkout on March 24, 2026, to protest the company's plan to cut 1,700 jobs as part of an organizational restructuring. The layoffs represent about 3.8% of ASML's total workforce.
Scientists Reinvent a Classic Material To Help Power the Future of Quantum Tech - A reengineered version of a classic crystal reveals unexpected behavior, hinting at new possibilities for faster, more efficient information transfer. A new twist on a long-known material could help push quantum computing forward and cut energy use in modern data centers, according to a team led by Penn...
How ‘Why Not’ Led to a $20 Billion Deal For Groq - Nvidia’s big reveal shows Groq chips in racks beside racks of Vera Rubins. The post How ‘Why Not’ Led to a $20 Billion Deal For Groq appeared first on EE Times .
FR3 Frequency Band Pioneering a New Era of 6G Communications - Within the standardization efforts for 6G communications, the frequency band known as "FR3" is currently attracting significant attention as an important specification, and international discussions are underway. This article discusses international trends concerning FR3 and our supporting technologies...
Test Drive: Dell, Marvell and Cisco Ace the SAN Stress Test - Multivendor environments have been the norm for decades to accelerate innovation, lower costs, and enable customers to optimize infrastructure with best-of-breed technologies. But are there still hidden advantages going with a vertically integrated vendor? Marvell, Dell and Cisco set out to answer this...
FPGAs Beating GPUs at LLM Inference: Say What?!? - Once again, my world has been turned upside down. Until recently, I’ve been gasping in awe at the myriad “you won’t believe your eyes” numbers flaunted by proponents of the latest and greatest GPUs, like Nvidia’s H200, which boasts nearly four petaflops of AI compute… at least, on paper. So,...
EV Li-ion Cell Materials Market Set to Reach US$154 Billion by 2036 - Lithium-ion cells are the fundamental technology underlying electrification in the automotive sector. The materials market for lithium-ion cells is broad and rapidly growing. This article explores cell material trends in EV batteries, and the material demand expected from commercialization of next-generation...
Intel Celebrates vPro 20th Anniversary With New Hardware And Software - Intel is celebrating the 20th anniversary of the vPro launch with a few new goodies. Read more ▶ The post Intel Celebrates vPro 20th Anniversary With New Hardware And Software appeared first on Semiaccurate .
What Velocity Means—and Why It Matters Now - AI is compressing chip development timelines and raising the stakes for equipment suppliers Here is how Lam is responding Speed has always mattered in the semiconductor industry. What is different...
The Quiet Convergence of Power and RF - RF and power engineers once lived in separate worlds. Not anymore. Fast switching, tight layouts and unforgiving systems mean sloppy power can turn your PCB into a broadband noise generator. Discover why modern RF performance now depends on treating power management like RF design.
Rethink Retail discusses edge AI in retail tech with MediaTek - Top AI Leader Kimberly Morgan chats with Sameer Sharma and CK Wang from MediaTek in The AiR Podcast to discuss how edge AI IoT platforms are delivering measurable ROI across retail operations. Key themes include shrink reduction, checkout optimization, infrastructure strategy, and the...
Consulting’s AI moment: Why the old playbook no longer works - In consulting, our role has always been to help organizations redesign how they operate. So, when AI is fundamentally changing how work gets done across every sector, the impact on our profession is especially profound.
Nexperia turmoil accelerates localization; Panjit targets 5% global MOS market share - As mature process foundry prices rise, Panjit COO Edgar Chen said the company will not implement across-the-board price hikes despite increasing copper raw material costs. Instead, the focus is on improving gross margins and optimizing product mix. Price increases of 10-20% are planned for low-margin...
Demystifying 3D ICs: A practical framework for heterogeneous integration - The move toward 3D ICs and heterogeneous integration overcomes limitations of 2D scaling by integrating multiple specialized chiplets. The post Demystifying 3D ICs: A practical framework for heterogeneous integration appeared first on EDN .
When AI Meets Multi-Die (and Neither Lets Go) - I really wish I could have attended this year’s Chiplet Summit , which took place from February 17 to February 19, 2026. This auspicious event was held at the Santa Clara Convention Center in California. I know this facility well—it’s where I met my first telepresence robot—but that’s a story...
Vishay 40 LHE linear position sensor takes on harsh environments - The Vishay Sfernice 40 LHE is a linear position sensor with non contacting Hall effect technology, for high accuracy in harsh environments. Possible applciations include servo loop motion control systems requiring small displacement monitoring, such as infrastructure integrity monitoring. And also digital...
[News] Decoding Google’s TurboQuant: 6x KV Cache Cut—Headwind for Memory Players? - Please note that this article cites information from Tom’s Hardware, Investing.com, and Google. A new Google research breakthrough is sending ripples through the memory sector, with claims that it can sharply reduce memory consumption without any loss in model accuracy. According to Tom’s Hardw......
Lelon Electronics eyes 10% revenue growth in 2026 driven by automotive and AI servers - Lelon Electronics expects shipments to rise in 2026, driven by automotive electronics and AI servers, with wider supply-chain and pricing implications for global electronics manufacturers and suppliers as inventory buildups and pull-in deliveries reshape component flows and capacity planning worldwide....
War and Chips. And the KMT. - [Opinion] Once atop an authoritarian dictatorship, the KMT's role in maintaining peace, and keeping the chips flowing, is of increasing importance.
Chiplets: 8 best practices for engineering multi-die designs - Multi-die designs introduce new engineering complexities and design considerations spanning packaging, verification, and thermal dynamics. The post Chiplets: 8 best practices for engineering multi-die designs appeared first on EDN .
Grating Coupled COUPE for CPO, and Himax's Fragile FAU Moat - An engineering deep dive into TSMC's COUPE optical engine, explaining why the co-design position of Himax makes them critical near-term suppliers for NVIDIA\u2019s CPO, but without a long-term moat.
What Policymakers Must Fix in Europe’s Chips Act 2.0 - As Brussels prepares the next phase of its semiconductor push, the real challenge may lie less in technological choices than in fixing the policy machinery itself. The post What Policymakers Must Fix in Europe’s Chips Act 2.0 appeared first on EE Times .
Magnetic microbots steer quantum sensors inside living cells - Cells are squishy and soft. Tiny nanometer-sized particles such as quantum sensors cannot move freely inside them due to viscous drag, which makes sensing challenging. Researchers at the Indian Institute of Science (IISc) ...
- Exclusive agreement expands Medtronic's comprehensive pain interventions portfolio, increases treatment options for patients living with chronic pain GALWAY, Ireland, March 24, 2026 /PRNewswire/...
IBM Debuts New AI Enabled Digital Experiences for the 90th Masters Tournament - IBM and the Masters Tournament today announced new and enhanced digital fan features now available on the award-winning Masters digital platforms. The watsonx AI-powered capabilities – the latest in a 30-year collaboration between IBM and the Masters – are designed to bring the rich history and on-course...
AI aims high – how AI boosts satellite monitoring - AI is creeping into orbit and being used to predict where emergency services will be needed, accelerating responses compared to traditional satellite monitoring, said Dr Rajan Bedi, CEO and founder of Spacechips. In the latest episode of Electronics Weekly’s CHIIPs podcast, Bedi explains orbit AI machine...
Nanoparticles enable large-scale production of advanced cell therapies - Researchers from Xi'an Jiaotong-Liverpool University (XJTLU) in China have developed a streamlined process that makes it easier to produce tiny therapeutic particles released by cells, called exosomes, which are being explored ...
Chip Industry Technical Paper Roundup: Mar. 24 - Natural-language chip design; automotive semiconductor risk assessment; wafer-on-wafer hybrid bonding; rad-hard NAND; neuromorphic computing; monolithic 3D DRAM; ECC-aware chiplet interconnects; AI system validation with digital twins. The post Chip Industry Technical Paper Roundup: Mar. 24 appeared first...
