Taming the beast: Memory efficiency in an AI/crypto world - The careful selection of energy-efficient components like voltage regulators plays a vital role in reducing energy use of a data center. The post Taming the beast: Memory efficiency in an AI/crypto world appeared first on EDN .
HUAWEI introduit la loi d'échelle Tau pour les futures puces - lors du Symposium international 2026 de l'IEEE sur les circuits et les systèmes qui s'est tenu à Shanghai, He Tingbo, Président du département Semiconductor Business de HUAWEI, a présenté la loi d'échelle Tau (τ), qui succède à la loi de Moore pour orienter le développement des semi-conducteurs.Le...
Photonics-Based Metrology Solution Wins Lam Capital Venture Competition - The 2026 Lam Capital Venture Competition highlighted breakthrough semiconductor innovations with Lightfinder winning for its chip-scale optical sensing technology designed to enable real-time, in-tool metrology. This event showcased Lam Research's leadership in supporting startups that build the AI backbone...
[News] US AI Firm Fabric. AI to Demonstrate Micro LED Optical Interconnect Platform by Late 2026 - U.S.-based AI infrastructure company Fabric. AI recently announced plans to demonstrate its flagship Micro LED optical interconnect platform by the end of 2026. Fabric.AI is developing a fabless semiconductor technology stack aimed at next-generation AI data centers. Its core product, Neural I/o�......
Micron Technology to Report Fiscal Third Quarter Results on June 24, 2026 - BOISE, Idaho, May 27, 2026 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Micron Technology, Inc. (Nasdaq: MU) announced today that it will hold its fiscal third quarter earnings conference call on Wednesday, June 24, 2026, at 2:30 p.m. Mountain time. The call will be webcast live at http://investors.micron.com/.
SECO brings Modular Vision 10.1 MX95 HMI platform to market - SECO it taking pre-orders for its Modular Vision 10.1 MX95, an industrial HMI platform it unveiled at embedded world 2026. Featuring real-time control, and on-device AI acceleration, the interface is powered by the NXP i.MX 95 applications processor. The company describes it as a scalable, AI-ready, and...
The impact of nanoplastics on neurons may depend on their size - Smaller plastic particles have more effects on neurons, the key information processing cells of the brain, new research from the University of Eastern Finland shows. In the study, neuronal cells were exposed to polystyrene ...
Taiwan's Wah Lee expands into specialty gases as materials costs are passed on quarterly - Wah Lee Industrial said it has formally moved into investments in standard gases and other supplies needed by wafer fabs, with its Tainan logistics center set to open in the second half of 2026 to support future growth. Chairman Gary Chang also confirmed that the company will pass on higher costs for...
TSMC bonus dispute escalates as chairman Wei cancels trip to address employees - Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company (TSMC) is scheduled to hold a company-wide communication meeting on the morning of May 27, during which chairman C.C. Wei is expected to explain in person the latest employee bonus policy, following online backlash over reports that the company will cut employee...
The 50G PON gateway SoC supports edge AI, Wi-Fi 8 - The home CPE silicon integrates NPU for edge AI while supporting native Wi-Fi 8. The post The 50G PON gateway SoC supports edge AI, Wi-Fi 8 appeared first on EDN .
Sensing Up Close with Wearables and Quantum - Wearable devices can bridge the gap between the internal and external, by acting as an interface between the body's inner workings and real-time data displayed on a screen. This article covers wearable devices and quantum sensors used in wearables.
FuriosaAI and Broadcom partner on AI inference platform for agentic computing era - South Korean AI chip startup FuriosaAI has announced a partnership with Broadcom to develop a next-generation AI inference platform aimed at large-scale agentic AI deployments, as demand grows for infrastructure optimized for AI reasoning and high-volume inference workloads.
VelocityNET™ Industrial Ethernet Solutions - Designing for harsh industrial environments demands more than standard Ethernet. This blog post explores industrial Ethernet fundamentals, including TSN and network redundancy, and highlights our VelocityNET™ solutions that help engineers build low-latency, reliable and scalable automation networks....
[Blog] A New Approach to Platform Management with Compute and FPGA - ASPEED’s management compute and Lattice’s low power programmability come together in a single device — the configuration modern platforms have been asking for. Server architectures aren’t getting any simpler. AI workloads keep pushing platforms toward disaggregation, modular I/O, and faster iteration...
ByteDance's chip ambition grows with US$70 billion capex plan - ByteDance is considering a sharp increase in capital spending this year as the TikTok owner pushes deeper into artificial intelligence infrastructure — a move that could make it one of China's most aggressive investors in data centers, servers, and custom chips.
FuriosaAi developing inference ICs with Broadcom - FuriosaAi, the inference chip developer, has joined Broadcom to develop its third-generation AI accelerator. Sampling is scheduled for the first half of 2028. This collaboration evolves Furiosa’s Tensor Contraction Processor (TCP) architecture into a multi-die chiplet system, creating an inference engine...
Scientists Create Tiny Chip That Uses Light Instead of Electricity To Process Information - Researchers have created a compact chip that manipulates light-based quantum information with remarkable precision, advancing the development of next-generation photonic and quantum technologies. What if computers could process information using light instead of electricity? Researchers at Monash University...
Synopsys Posts Financial Results for Second Quarter Fiscal Year 2026 - a strong second quarter with solid execution and strength across the business," said Sassine Ghazi, Synopsys president and CEO. "AI is scaling semiconductor demand, architectural diversity and complexity of chips and the systems they power - driving demand across our portfolio. Our momentum, leadership...
Entry-level MCUs ease system control - Toshiba is sampling its TXZ+ Entry-Class M4H microcontroller group for small-scale system control of consumer and industrial equipment. The post Entry-level MCUs ease system control appeared first on EDN .
AI boosts the cable market - Cables of all kinds are seeing significant growth for a number of key reasons. From the expansion of AI datacentres requiring high-performance copper and optical cables to renewable energy and…
~0.1% resolution capacitive position sensor - Simple circuit ratios sensor capacitance to reference capacitor to measure micrometers. The post ~0.1% resolution capacitive position sensor appeared first on EDN .
The Impact of Rising Silver Prices on the Conductive Ink Market - The conductive ink market relies heavily on silver as the conductive element of the ink. With sharply increasing silver prices, alternative inks are coming to the market including low-silver, copper and carbon inks.
Honor responds to nasty screenshot bug, fix coming soon - Honor smartphone users are dealing with a strange screenshot bug that used to pop up an “insufficient storage error” message while capturing the screen content, though...
Toshiba adds to Smart MCD series for BLDC - Toshiba is sampling the TB9M040FTG, an addition to its SmartMCD series. The device integrates an MCU with power MOSFETs for three-phase brushless DC (BLDC) motor drive, enabling direct control of small automotive motor systems operating below 40W. As vehicle electrification continues to expand, demand...
Low-power, flexible radio-frequency transistors break 100 GHz barrier - Over the past decades, electronics engineers worldwide have been trying to develop devices that could enable even faster communications between devices, all while consuming less energy. To meet the demands of the sixth generation ...
You Say “Ultra-Low-Power Connected Edge AI,” I Say “Nordic Semiconductor” - There are many ways to slice and dice embedded engineering space (where, as everyone should know by now, no one can hear you scream). Take microcontrollers, for example. If I were to raise the topic of MCUs in a room full of embedded engineers, it wouldn’t take long before names like STMicroelectronics,...
ST CEO conference webcast set for June 2 - STMicroelectronics president and CEO Jean-Marc Chery will speak at the BNP Paribas Exane CEO conference in Paris on June 2,…
Royal Mint partners for UK e-waste recovery via prisoner workshops - The Royal Mint’s Reformation Metals department is partnering with Recycling Lives Services, which enables supervised prison-industry workshops, to support e-waste recovery. The initiative aims to create employment and skills development opportunities for prisoners in supervised work programmes. e-waste...
Researchers upcycle pomegranate peel into high-performance water purifier - Pomegranate peel discarded by food vendors could soon help clean up contaminated water, thanks to research from the Department of Chemistry at the Faculty of Science. Led by Professor Sam Li, the research team developed a ...
Join Our Webinar on Emerging Carbon Dioxide Utilization - Join IDTechEx Senior Technology Analyst Eve Pope on Thursday 4 June for the expert-led webinar, "Emerging Carbon Dioxide Utilization: Chemicals, Fuels, Concrete, and the CCUS Business Case". Choose your preferred time zone - the webinar runs three times in one day.
4th CISCE Showcases Innovation Driving Global Supply Chains - The Digital Technology, will feature a dedicated AI zone for the first time. Developed in collaboration with leading global semiconductor companies, the section is structured around the AI industry chain — spanning data and sensing, computing power and algorithms, and real-world applications
Navigating the AI Wave in Education with Help from Google and MediaTek - With the rapid rise of AI, both students and teachers are experiencing a major technological shift. Educators like Ms. Fang, from Sheng-Li Junior High School, emphasize that the goal of modern education is to build digital resilience and the ability to adapt to rapid changes in information...
MediaTek to Empower the Agentic AI Era with Edge-to-Cloud Tech at Computex 2026 - TAIPEI, Taiwan - May 28, 2026 – MediaTek will showcase its next-generation edge-to-cloud technologies and solutions for the Agentic AI era at Computex 2026. Themed "AI Without Limits," booth highlights include the award-winning Wi-Fi 8 product series; edge computing platforms empowering Agentic AI across...
Synopsys Appoints Jesse Cohn to Board of Directors - Synopsys, Inc.(NASDAQ: SNPS) today announced it has entered into a cooperation agreement with Elliott Investment Management L.P. (together with certain affiliates, "Elliott"), including the...
NY Creates and its Albany NanoTech Complex Featured in Advanced Manufacturing Article - NY Creates, and its Albany NanoTech Complex, was featured in an article by Advanced Manufacturing. NY Creates Communications Director, Steve Ference, spoke with Advanced Manufacturing: “Ference describes the site’s mission as threefold: ‘We engage in and support world-class semiconductor-based r&d...
Engineering the Next Era of Semiconductor Innovation - The semiconductor industry is entering a transformative new phase, driven by the convergence of artificial intelligence, cloud computing, and increasingly complex chip architectures. That message took center stage during the keynote talks at the Siemens EDA User2User 2026 North America conference. Executives...
Monolithic three-dimensional integration of silicon transistors - Uniformly doped, ultrathin single-crystalline silicon nanomembranes can be vertically stacked at low temperature using a roll-transfer-printing process that is scalable to wafer scale and tolerant to substrate topology and surface roughness for constructing high-performance monolithic three-dimensional...
Nexans pilots DC microgrid for electrified buildings - Nexans has commissioned the first phase of a direct current (DC) microgrid pilot at its AmpaCity research and development centre in Lyon, France. The demonstrator…
Keysight adds PCIe 7.0 receiver validation at 128 GT/s - Keysight Technologies is extending extends its PCIe 7.0 portfolio with a PCIe 7.0 Receiver (RX) Test application, N5991PB7A, for end-to-end transmitter and receiver validation. The goal is to enable faster, automated, end-to-end validation. Specifically, N5991PB7A addresses the challenge of validating...
Huawei's Tau Scaling Is Really a Hybrid Bonding Bet - Tau Scaling is just extreme co-design and a hybrid bonding bet. The same \u201Cworkaround\u201D on a leading-edge node only widens the lead for those with EUV.
Value of South Korean chip giant SK hynix tops $1 tn - The market value of South Korean memory chip maker SK hynix soared past $1 trillion on Wednesday thanks to frenzied global demand for the computing hardware that powers artificial intelligence tools.
Curvilinear Masks Push The Limits Of Inspection And Metrology - Key Takeaways: Curvilinear masks require native data flows across design, mask data prep, writing, inspection, and metrology. Inspection is shifting from finding all defects to identifying which mask variations actually print on wafer. High-NA EUV will intensify inspection challenges, particularly for...
Implementing feature rich applications on entry-level MCUs - Here is an MCU benchmark, or point of reference, that can be used to figure out if an application is feasible and cost-effective. The post Implementing feature rich applications on entry-level MCUs appeared first on EDN .
Andy Ault, Hemlock Semiconductor’s SVP of Manufacturing, to Retire - Ault served for nearly two decades at the company, focusing on safe and efficient production HEMLOCK, Mich. — Hemlock Semiconductor, the nation’s leading producer of hyper-pure polysilicon for the semiconductor and solar industries, today announced that Senior Vice President of Manufacturing Andy...
France and US funnel billions in quantum race - France and the US have unveiled major new investments in quantum technology, underlining how quantum computing is becoming the next geopolitical technology battleground after AI and semiconductors.
IBM and Abertis are Driving the Future of Mobility with a Global Technology Modernization Agreement - IBM has announced a new five-year global agreement with Abertis, a leading infrastructure and mobility management group, to modernize Abertis's technological infrastructure. The collaboration includes migrating to SAP S/4HANA, and aims to improve system scalability, reliability and user experience across...
