All-Embracing Multiphysics Analysis for Chiplet-Based Systems - What systems can accomplish by combining semiconductors, AI, and software seems at times boundless. Chiplet-based semiconductors deliver this promise, allowing a myriad of complex digital, memory, analog and photonic functions to be condensed into a single semiconductor package for higher performance,...
EW BrightSparks 2025 profile: Jeremy Zolnai-Lucas, Imagination Technologies - Now in its eighth year, the EW BrightSparks awards see Electronics Weekly celebrate some of the brightest and most talented young engineers in the UK today. In the next in our series on the latest EW BrightSparks of 2025, we profile Jeremy Zolnai-Lucas, a Hardware Engineer at Imagination Technologies....
Robin Radar and TNO develop airborne radar - The Hague-based Robin Radar Systems is collaborating with the Netherlands Organization for Applied Scientific Research to develop a new multi-mode radar capable of advanced image processing aboard large unmanned aircraft systems.
Gogoro CEO says 2026 is the company's most critical year as Luna model targets a market turnaround - As Taiwan's first pure electric scooter brand, Gogoro has continued to attract market attention for both its technological innovation and its influence on industrial development and supply chain changes. After the launch event for its new scooter model "Luna," Gogoro CEO Henry Chiang said in an interview...
A Plastic Motor Just Defied a Century of Engineering Assumptions - Electrostatic forces enable low-voltage actuation without relying on rare earth materials. Nearly every electric motor in modern life, from the fan on your desk to the motor in an electric vehicle, relies on magnetism. For more than a century, magnetic fields have dominated motor design because electrostatic...
Who Are The Qualcomm Enterprise Customers? - Tomorrow Qualcomm is going to have their annual Investor Day and teased several enterprise announcements. Read more ▶ The post Who Are The Qualcomm Enterprise Customers? appeared first on Semiaccurate .
How Samtec Blazes a Trail to 224/448 Gbps at DesignCon 26 - I recently covered what Samtec was doing at DesignCon 26 . Samtec has a tendency to dominate any show it attends in multiple dimensions. The prior post focused on the company’s contributions to the technical agenda and the high-profile experts in attendance. While all that is interesting and valuable,...
LineShine Debuts at No. 1 as the TOP500 Enters a New Global Exascale Era - The 67th edition of the TOP500 list of the world’s most powerful supercomputers was announced today at the ISC 2026 conference in Hamburg, Germany. LineShine, a previously unlisted system installed in China, debuts at No. 1, displacing El Capitan as the world’s most powerful supercomputer as measured...
YMTC Holdings exits XMC as state-backed Optics Valley investor takes control - China's memory industry is undergoing another round of ownership restructuring. According to a recent merger review case disclosed by China's State Administration for Market Regulation (SAMR), YMTC Holdings, the parent company of Yangtze Memory Technologies (YMTC), will sell its 39% stake in Wuhan Xinxin...
Iridium 9604 module targets hybrid satellite, cellular IoT apps - Iridium is releasing its Iridium 9604 module and development kit for developers and OEMs building hybrid satellite, cellular, and GNSS-based IoT applications in remote or challenging environments. Built on the u-blox SARA-R5 platform, the Iridium 9604 targets at industrial, infrastructure, transportation,...
Capacitive position sensor with linearized output - An only slightly less simple followup circuit also ratios sensor capacitance to a reference capacitor to measure micrometers...this time linearly. The post Capacitive position sensor with linearized output appeared first on EDN .
Please Join Us in Welcoming Mia Przelomski to the FSI Team! - We’re excited to welcome Mia Przelomski to the team as our new Communications Assistant! Mia is a senior at the University of Florida, pursuing a bachelor’s degree in Statistics with a minor in Communication Studies. She brings experience in content creation, graphic design, and sports communications,...
1nm wide nanotubes built by Tokyo University researchers - By growing molybdenum disulfide inside protective tubes of boron nitride, researchers from the University of Tokyo, produced highly uniform tubes one nanometer wide, a scale at which it’s difficult to make stable nanotube structures. The work confirms decades-old theoretical predictions about how these...
From Battery Management to Motors - IDTechEx Covers EV Tech - The electric vehicle market has been steadily growing in recent years as part of global efforts to reduce harmful emissions and increase the overall sustainability of road transport. Demand for individual vehicle parts including battery cells and motors has therefore ramped up as a result.
Research Bits: June 23 - Redesigning high-NA EUV; embedded liquid cooling; light wavelength analysis. The post Research Bits: June 23 appeared first on Semiconductor Engineering .
[News] Source Photonics to Expand Optical Chip and Module Production - As AI data center deployments continue to accelerate, demand for high-speed optical interconnects has seen burgeoning growth, triggering a new wave of capacity expansion across the optical communications industry. On June 16, Dongshan Precision (DSBJ) announced that its wholly owned subsidiary, S...
Available Is Not In Control: Balancing Output, Quality, and Risk in High-Volume Fabs - A deposition chamber drops out of production at 2 a.m. Forty minutes later it is back, the dashboard flips from red to green, and two people want opposite things. The operations-center operator has a step starving downstream and wants the tool dispatched now. The module’s shift group leader wants test...
Phison Phudges The Numbers… In A Good Way - At Computex, Phison was showing off two interesting drive families. Read more ▶ The post Phison Phudges The Numbers… In A Good Way appeared first on Semiaccurate .
Time and Frequency Domains - The Basics of Digital Communication - The unit of communication speed is bit/s, which relates to the time axis (time domain), but in the actual communications field, the frequency domain perspective is also necessary. This article will introduce why discussion of frequency is essential for communication devices such as smartphones.
Solid-State Circuit Breakers for DC Grids Architecture, Protection Performance - Join this webinar where our expert will present an SSCB for DC grids, developed with building blocks such as Si/SiC JFET/MOSFET switches. The post Solid-State Circuit Breakers for DC Grids Architecture, Protection Performance appeared first on EE Times .
[News] UMC May Net Profit Surges 203% YoY as Utilization Strength Drives Earnings Upside - Ahead of its planned second-half price increases, UMC is already riding a profit upswing fueled by robust utilization rates. The foundry posted May revenue of NT$22.94 billion, up 17.8% year-over-year, while net profit soared 203% to NT$8.45 billion, translating into EPS of NT$0.68, according to its......
A BIOS For Your ESP32-C6 - An old-style PC BIOS served the function of a bootloader in loading the operating system kernel, and of an API in providing a set of standard system calls through which …read more
Fish Fry Special Edition: 2026 International Women in Engineering Day - Welcome to our third annual International Women in Engineering Day Fish Fry podcast! My special guests are Laura Mirkarimi from Adeia, Angelica Davila from Penguin Solutions, and Madison Ecklund from Texas Instruments. In this special episode of Fish Fry, we discuss their journeys into the world of high...
Women in engineering: Helen Duncan’s journey from design engineer to CEO - Her message to young female engineers: believe in yourself and your abilities, and don’t let others undermine you or mansplain. The post Women in engineering: Helen Duncan’s journey from design engineer to CEO appeared first on EDN .
Thales NL expands radar system production and test capacity - Thales and the Netherlands Ministry of Defense (MoD) have announced a new strategic collaboration to add production, development and test capacity for advanced radar systems in Hengelo.
Fulltech sees low DK2 shipments rising, starts M9 quartz cloth certification - Fulltech, a glass fiber yarn and cloth maker, said at its 2026 annual general meeting that demand for next-generation AI servers and high-speed switches is lifting specifications and demand for upstream PCB materials. Chairman Yuan-Pin Chang said the share of low DK2 shipments will keep rising in the...
[News] MediaTek Seen Raising Prices 10–20%, Reportedly Wins TPU v9 Orders on SerDes Shift - Amid tightening supply conditions that have already prompted price hikes from memory makers and major CPU vendors, leading smartphone chip designer MediaTek is also moving in the same direction. According to TechNews, citing a customer notice, the company has acknowledged that it can no longer fully......
N-Tron switch platform focuses on industrial network uptime - HMS Networks has launched the N-Tron NT7000 Series, an industrial Ethernet switch platform designed for applications that require high network availability, precise timing and rugged…
