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.
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.
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 .
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.
Analysis: How Nvidia is reshuffling partners for the inference era - On August 15, 2023, a routine press release landed in the inboxes of semiconductor analysts and tech journalists worldwide. Titled "Groq Selects Samsung Foundry to Bring Next-gen LPU to the AI Acceleration Market," it presented a classic David-versus-Goliath narrative.
Is your PLC/DCS reading the field contacts reliably? - An economical and reliable solution for distinguishing between a cable open and a field contact open in industrial processing. The post Is your PLC/DCS reading the field contacts reliably? appeared first on EDN .
Taiwan’s WBG Momentum Extends from Devices to Power Systems - Taiwan’s competitive focus on WBG semiconductors is shifting toward integration, reliability, and speed of execution. The post Taiwan’s WBG Momentum Extends from Devices to Power Systems appeared first on EE Times .
You Can't Engineer What You Can't See - TechInsights teardown analysis gives engineering and product teams direct visibility into the design choices, components, and architectures behind market-leading smartphones.
Build This Open-Source Graphics Calculator - Graphics calculators are one of those strange technological cul-de-sacs. They rely on outdated technology and should not be nearly as expensive as they are, but market effects somehow keep prices …read more
Embedded: Security-infrastructure updates for Open VSX Registry - The Eclipse Foundation announced updates to the Open VSX Registry, its vendor-neutral extension registry for tools built on the VS Code extension API. The registry is used in AI-enabled and cloud-based developer platforms, including Amazon’s Kiro, Google’s Antigravity, Cursor, IBM’s Bob, VSCodium,...
Fancy Fab - Elon Musk says his Terafab in Austin will produce 1TW of compute power a year compared to the current worldwide total production of 20GW a year. The fab will accomplish this by harnessing, he says, “some very interesting new physics”. “We are going to push the limits of physics in compute and do...
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...
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,...
The Role of Hydrogen in Decarbonizing Major Sectors - The increased uptake of hydrogen as a fuel will begin to increase the sustainability across a number of sectors. This article explores how the steel and transportation industries in particular are amongst those expected to benefit most significantly from the use of low-carbon hydrogen.
Meet the South Korean firm wafer wobbling for Samsung and TSMC - As semiconductor advanced processes continue to evolve, the factors affecting yield and equipment stability have grown increasingly complex. One long-standing challenge troubling chipmakers such as Samsung Electronics, SK Hynix, and TSMC is wafer wobbling. Korean smart equipment solution provider GSF...
Scientists Break Light’s Limits With “Narwhal” Wavefunctions - A long-standing limitation in photonics may be giving way to a new regime of light control. Photonic technologies have struggled to shrink at the same pace as electronics. The limitation comes from basic physics. The uncertainty principle links how tightly light can be confined to its wavelength, which...
How GlobalFoundries Takes AI from Pilot to Global Scale - As AI moves from pilot projects to factory-wide deployment, GlobalFoundries’ VP of digital manufacturing explains in an exclusive interview how to decide what truly scales across global fabs. The post How GlobalFoundries Takes AI from Pilot to Global Scale appeared first on EE Times .
[News] STMicroelectronics Launches Locally Made STM32 MCUs in China via Huahong Partnership - Please note that this article cites information from Reuters, ijiwei, EE News Analog, and STMicroelectronics. STMicroelectronics has taken a major step to meet China’s growing chip demand. Reuters, citing a company press release, reports that the European chipmaker began shipping STM32 wafers to ......
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...
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...
1MHz 555 VFC - A single resistor corrects LMC555 internal delays, enabling a linear 1 MHz voltage-to-frequency converter with minimal components. The post 1MHz 555 VFC 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.
- Exclusive agreement expands Medtronic's comprehensive pain interventions portfolio, increases treatment options for patients living with chronic pain GALWAY, Ireland, March 24, 2026 /PRNewswire/...
Clarity Is the New Source of Power in AI. Who Is Creating It? - On March 20, the White House released its National Policy Framework for Artificial Intelligence, a legislative blueprint covering seven areas, from innovation and child safety to workforce development and energy infrastructure. It puts American AI leadership squarely at the center of national policy....
Foundry capacity underutilised but revenues and market share growing - Semiconductor wafer demand (12” equivalent) reached 8.7 million wpm last year, says Yole Group, with the foundry industry earning 47% of all wafer manufacturing revenue, worth $181bn, last year Foundry manufacturing capacity continues to grow and is projected to reach 15.25 million wpm by 2031. The...
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...
Nanoplastics become more harmful after being outdoors, study finds - When cutlery, insulation, packaging and other items made of polystyrene plastic break down, they can form nanoplastics up to 100 times thinner than the average human hair—small enough to be inhaled into the lungs. For the ...
Teradyne’s Omnyx tests PCBA for AI servers - Teradyne is introducing Omnyx, a manufacturing test platform for detecting operational defects in printed circuit board assemblies (PCBA). It’s aimed at AI servers and data center systems and the company says it combines structural, parametric, high-speed interconnect and functional testing. The ideal...
A scale that tells inconsistent-weight tales - When a bathroom scale gives you multiple different weight-measurement results, is it cheating if you pick the lowest outcome? The post A scale that tells inconsistent-weight tales appeared first on EDN .
