Finding the Best Batteries for Electric Off-Highway Machines - As the off-highway industries of construction, agriculture, and mining begin to see greater electrification of machines, battery technologies will be critical to their performance and overall market adoption. This article highlights how the performance demands of machines can be understood in order to...
Amazon Leo Aviation Antenna targets inflight connectivity - Amazon Leo has announced the antenna that its LEO satellite constellation will be using for internet connectivity for commercial aviation. Amazon Leo says its Aviation Antenna will support up to 1 Gbps downloads for passengers and crew. And it will support up to 400 Mbps upload speeds. Measuring 147 by...
The once-theoretical skyrmion could unlock supercomputing memory - When looking to the future of information technology, researchers have pinpointed a once-theoretical particle-like structure: the skyrmion. Magnetic skyrmions are very stable structures found on micromagnetic materials that ...
Heterogeneous NPU Data Movement: What The Execution Flow Shows - A concrete example of how architectural boundaries influence system behavior. The post Heterogeneous NPU Data Movement: What The Execution Flow Shows appeared first on Semiconductor Engineering .
A new fruit wash removes pesticides and extends shelf life - University of British Columbia researchers have developed a natural, biodegradable wash that removed up to 96% of pesticide residue from fruit and slowed browning and moisture loss. This could mean safer apples, grapes and ...
Littelfuse TDB SMT DIP switches target high-density PCB layouts - Littelfuse has released its TDB series of ultra-miniature surface mount half-pitch (1.27mm) DIP switches. The half-pitch (1.27 mm) design is for reducing PCB footprints while supporting automated SMT assembly. In terms of electrical performance, the gold-plated, washable DIP switches offer up to 50V DC,...
Who needs data when you can create it? - The most interesting organizations going forward will use real-world data to ground their models in reality, but rely on synthetic data and simulation to scale, explore edge cases and accelerate learning.
AOS Protection Switches Support Type-C Extended Power Delivery - Providing needed safety margins, AOZ13058DI Type-C sink and AOZ15953DI Type-C source protection switches pave the way for efficient, safe USB Type-C EPR. The post AOS Protection Switches Support Type-C Extended Power Delivery appeared first on EE Times .
BZPACK mSiC power modules take on HV‑H3TRB harsh environments - Microchip is releasing its BZPACK mSiC power modules, designed to meet High Humidity High Voltage High Temperature Reverse Bias (HV‑H3TRB) standards. Power conversion They are available in topologies including half-bridge, full-bridge, three-phase and PIM/CIB configurations. To meet HV-H3TRB they will...
Chip Industry Week In Review - Intel teams up everywhere; GPU rowhammer attack; faster verification; Samsung's new packaging site; Taiwan IC industry wants stockpiles; China poaches Taiwan talent; thinnest GaN chiplet; AFM-IR; Europe revenue drop; new edge design; BMW hydrogen power; Japanese automotive trouble. The post Chip Industry...
The Infinity Man - Demis Hassabis, colleagues and rivals with a little help from their machines
US expands tech curbs on China with MATCH Act and FCC testing ban proposal - US lawmakers from both parties have recently introduced a new bill aimed at further restricting China's access to advanced semiconductor manufacturing equipment. The move seeks to strengthen efforts to curb China's ambitions in semiconductor development and to achieve closer alignment with allies such...
SM8008 PCIe Gen5 controller targets AI, power-efficient boot storage - Silicon Motion is launching its SM8008, a PCIe Gen5 x4 NVMe (non-volatile memory express) enterprise SSD controller, designed for datacentre boot drives and power-sensitive enterprise storage applications. It features a power-efficient architecture that supports up to 14GB/s performance while operating...
Hardening the Silicon: Why Analog Anti-Tamper IP is the New Security Baseline - In today’s increasingly connected world, there are billions of SoCs, powering everything from automotive ECUs to industrial IoT sensors and processing sensitive data. While software-level security is taken seriously, hardware-level vulnerabilities have often been an afterthought. As hackers are now...
This Metal Melts in Your Hand – and Scientists Just Discovered Something Strange - Gallium has revealed unexpected behavior that challenges decades-old assumptions about its liquid structure. A metal that can melt in your hand has just surprised scientists again. Gallium, first identified in 1875, already stands out for its strange behavior. It melts at about 30°C (86°F), meaning...
Calibrating Quantum Computing Activity in Financial Services - I was invited to listen in on an event hosted by Fujitsu and Quantum Insider on the reality of Quantum Computing (QC) in financial services today. This market is a good test for QC since multiple possible high value applications have been suggested. The panel was chaired by Brian Lenehan, (Founder and...
Scientists Shrink a Lab Spectrometer to the Size of a Grain of Sand - A new chip-scale spectrometer challenges the long-standing reliance on bulky optical systems by replacing physical light separation with computational reconstruction. For decades, analyzing the chemical makeup of materials, whether for medical diagnosis, food inspection, or pollution monitoring, has relied...
[News] Apple Foldable Supply Chain Takes Shape: Samsung, Foxconn, Chinese Suppliers in Focus - With several months still to go before Apple’s fall launch event, discussions around its first foldable iPhone are already heating up rapidly. Though Nikkei notes that Apple’s first foldable iPhone has encountered technical bottlenecks during engineering testing, raising delay risks, Bloomberg r......
Case Study: MediaTek MT9630 Powers the Lumio Arc 5 & Arc 7 Projectors - Lumio is a next-generation consumer technology brand focused on re-imagining home entertainment for modern Indian households. From Smart TVs to projectors, Lumio builds products designed to deliver smooth, reliable, and joyful experiences, not just impressive spec sheets.
Electroninks to Showcase Advanced Metallization Solutions at Productronica India 2026 - Company to highlight MOD ink innovations enabling scalable EMI shielding and next-generation semiconductor packaging AUSTIN, TX, UNITED STATES, April 6, 2026 /EINPresswire.com/ — Electroninks, the leader in metal complex inks for additive manufacturing and advanced semiconductor packaging, today announced...
Power electronics evolve to maximize efficiency - Following the introduction of Industry 4.0, power electronics are becoming more significant in both digital and industrial infrastructures. Factories, energy Continue Reading The post Power electronics evolve to maximize efficiency appeared first on EDN .
Scientists Freeze a Spinning Nanoparticle to Its Quantum Limit - A team of physicists has pushed the limits of quantum control by cooling the rotational motion of a nanoscale object to its lowest possible energy state. Quantum mechanics tells us that no particle can ever be completely motionless. But how precisely can its orientation be controlled? Researchers at the...
In Memoriam: Tracy Kidder, author of Pulitzer Prize-Winning “The Soul of a New Machine” - Tracy Kidder, the author of the 1981 best-selling book “The Soul of a New Machine,” has passed away. Kidder wrote many non-fiction books including his first book, “The Road to Yuba City,” and “House,” “Strength in What Remains,” Mountains Beyond Mountains,” “Old Friends,” “Among...
One tiny diode could shrink image sensors by adding memory and processing - P-n diodes are two-terminal devices that consist of two types of semiconductor materials (i.e., a p-type and an n-type material) joined together. These components allow electric current to only move in one direction, which ...
SAS Group's green and AI pivot gains traction - SAS Group's strategic shift into renewable energy, AI-related semiconductor materials, and automotive components signals growing resilience for global energy and tech supply chains, offering long-term recurring revenue through integrated hardware and service platforms and enhanced worldwide positioning...
An Engineering Roadmap Toward Completely Neural Computers (Meta AI, KAUST) - A new technical paper, “Neural Computers,” was published by researchers at Meta AI and KAUST. Abstract “We propose a new frontier: Neural Computers (NCs) — an emerging machine form that unifies computation, memory, and I/O in a learned runtime state. Unlike conventional computers, which execute...
NEDO Approves Rapidus’ FY2026 Plan and Budget for 2nm Semiconductor Projects - Approval covers “Research and Development of 2nm-Generation Semiconductor Integration Technologies and Short TAT Manufacturing Technology Based on Japan–U.S. Collaboration” and “Development of Chiplet, Package Design and Manufacturing Technology for 2nm-Generation Semiconductors”
Why some ASIC design service firms are missing out on the AI boom? - Taiwan's ASIC design service providers delivered sharply divergent results in the first quarter of 2026, underscoring how exposure to artificial intelligence (AI) demand does not translate uniformly into financial performance.
Renesas Scalable Automotive SoC Design Using Arteris NoC - The increasing complexity of advanced driver assistance systems (ADAS) and automated driving architectures has driven a transition from traditional bus-based interconnects to scalable Network-on-Chip (NoC) fabrics. Renesas’ next-generation R-Car automotive SoC platforms adopt Arteris FlexNoC interconnect...
8 Wi-Fi security guidelines issued by Wireless Broadband Alliance - These guidelines provide a framework to lower operational risk and support seamless roaming across public, enterprise, and IoT environments. The post 8 Wi-Fi security guidelines issued by Wireless Broadband Alliance appeared first on EDN .
Brewer Science Earns 2026 USA TODAY Top Workplaces Award - Brewer Science Earns 2026 USA TODAY Top Workplaces Award Employee-Owner Feedback Recognizes Company’s People-First Culture Rolla, MO – April 14, 2026 – Brewer Science, Inc., a global leader in developing and manufacturing next-generation materials and processes for the microelectronics and optoelectronics...
Blog posts - Organic substrates are hitting a wall. Discover how Heidelberg Instruments’ maskless lithography enables the glass revolution to break the sub-2 µm barrier for AI.
Double-duty current loop transmitter - Tracking down cable cuts and differentiating them from normal open circuits is critical. Flexibly evolving the circuit design makes it even more valuable. The post Double-duty current loop transmitter appeared first on EDN .
Will IME Be the Path for Printed Electronics to Break into Automotives - With in-mold electronics (IME) company, Kronos Mechatronics, having won the LOPEC 2026 Startup Award for Best Business Potential, the hype for printed electronic technologies can continue to flourish. This article covers IDTechEx's visit to LOPEC 2026 in Munich, exploring the use of IME within automotives....
Asahi Kaisei achieves laser oscillation in PCSEL - Asahi Kasei Microdevices Corporation (AKM) and Kyoto University Institute for Advanced Study, have achieved laser oscillation in a 2 µm-band infrared photonic crystal surface-emitting laser (PCSEL). This milestone will enable the miniaturization of next-generation sensing systems while maintaining PCSEL’s...
EDA And IP Numbers Up Again, But Numbers Are More Nuanced - Q4 numbers reflect strengths and weaknesses in different segments. The post EDA And IP Numbers Up Again, But Numbers Are More Nuanced appeared first on Semiconductor Engineering .
Nvidia Is Negotiating To Buy A Large PC Oriented Company - Nvidia has been in negotiations for over a year to buy a large company and it will reshape the PC landscape. Read more ▶ The post Nvidia Is Negotiating To Buy A Large PC Oriented Company appeared first on Semiaccurate .
Analog Devices Opens Advanced Backend Facility in Thailand - Analog Devices (ADI) has opened a new advanced backend manufacturing facility in Thailand, upgrading its local operations from a test-focused site into a more integrated production base that includes wafer-level processing and chip-scale packaging (CSP).ADI said it inaugurated the new facility in Ch
Who’s Buying America’s Foundry Future? - Everyone has been treating Intel as a turnaround story. What if it’s not a scheduled airline — but a charter, and Musk is the one filing the flight plan? Not just Tesla. Companies like Microsoft, Google, Meta, and Oracle are all designing their own silicon now, and their AI infrastructure depends...
A nanoscale robotic cleaner can hunt, capture and remove bacteria - Tiny robots—around 50 times smaller than the diameter of a human hair—open up fascinating possibilities: they enable the controlled manipulation of objects far too small for human hands. This brings us closer to a long-standing ...
Qualcomm moves into custom DRAM with CXMT for smartphones - Qualcomm is reportedly exploring a partnership with China's Changxin Memory Technologies (CXMT) to develop custom DRAM tailored for smartphones, a move that reflects mounting pressure across the mobile supply chain as memory shortages and rising costs reshape industry dynamics.
GPU Rowhammer Attacks Beyond Data Corruption (U. of Toronto) - A new technical paper, “GPUBreach: Privilege Escalation Attacks via GPU Rowhammer,” was published by researchers at University of Toronto. Summary “GPUBreach shows that GPU Rowhammer attacks can move beyond data corruption to real privilege escalation. By corrupting GPU page tables, an unprivileged...
[News] China Achieved Breakthrough in High-Performance 2D Semiconductor Materials - Recently, a joint research team from the National University of Defense Technology and the Institute of Metal Research, Chinese Academy of Sciences, has made a major breakthrough in wafer-scale growth and controllable doping of a new class of high-performance two-dimensional (2D) semiconductor mater......
Silent Data Corruption: A Major Reliability Challenge in Large-Scale LLM Training (TU Berlin) - A new technical paper, “Exploring Silent Data Corruption as a Reliability Challenge in LLM Training,” was published by researchers at Technische Universitat Berlin. Abstract “As Large Language Models (LLMs) scale in size and complexity, the consequences of failures during training become increasingly...
Clean Energy Driving the Uptake of Ion Exchange Membranes - Ion exchange membrane materials are electrically conductive materials responsible for the selective transportation of ions, and are necessary for applications including green hydrogen production, hydrogen fuel cells, and carbon capture. This article covers IDTechEx's research into the growing market and...
[News] Samsung Reportedly Bets on Vietnam with $4B Chip Packaging Push; Amkor Expands Presence - Semiconductor giants are accelerating global advanced packaging expansion as demand for AI chips surges, with Southeast Asia emerging as one of the most sought-after hubs. While Intel is set to bring its advanced packaging facility in Malaysia online later this year, Bloomberg reports that Samsung i......
ASE leads US$3.4B advanced testing push in Renwu - Global OSAT leader ASE continued its expansion into advanced processes as its subsidiary ASE Test held a groundbreaking ceremony on April 10, 2026, at the Renwu Industrial Park. ASE collaborated with WinWay and Horng Terng Automation (HTA) to jointly invest in building a high-end semiconductor testing...
Negative resistance amplification - Negative input impedance in power supplies can amplify external line noise, causing deceptive conducted emissions failures. The post Negative resistance amplification appeared first on EDN .
The MediaTek Technologies Powering Next Generation Software-Defined Vehicles - The automotive industry is undergoing a radical transformation. Vehicles are no longer just something that gets us from point A to point B. They are becoming intelligent, connected, and deeply personalized environments. They are spaces that truly feel your own, sensing, interpreting, and reacting...
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