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August 18, 2026 Artificial intelligence
A review of quarterly results from more than 80 semiconductor companies shows that AI-related demand is no longer limited to a handful of large players. Strongest growth came from AI infrastructure, memory, advanced packaging, test, and leading-edge manufacturing.
August 24, 2026 Manufacturing & Processes
Emerson argues that chip validation is no longer a final checkpoint, but a core part of engineering as chiplets and heterogeneous integration push traditional end-of-line test methods to their limits. The proposed answer is a more connected test infrastructure, paired with AI-based analysis of the resulting data.
August 25, 2026 Artificial intelligence
AI workloads are moving closer to end devices, while the cloud remains the place for training large language models. The result is a split between localized edge intelligence and cloud-based model development, with implications for latency, privacy, and chip architecture.
August 25, 2026 Devices & Products
A case study on a geostationary satellite describes how fiber-optic links can be integrated to operate reliably despite vibration, radiation, and extreme temperature swings in space.
August 25, 2026 Research
Three research projects sketch very different routes for future semiconductor devices: bacterial transistor circuits for environmental sensing, an antiferroelectric two-terminal device that deliberately “forgets” old inputs, and a high-entropy oxide semiconductor with unusually low thermal conductivity.
August 26, 2026 Circuit Design & Applications
A reliable 24-V power path depends on combining switching and protection components to handle overvoltage, reverse polarity, and inrush current without compromising operation.
August 26, 2026 Industry & People
The EU Cyber Resilience Act requires manufacturers of connected products to provide security evidence across the full lifecycle. According to the source, automated workflows are becoming the practical way to manage those compliance demands.
August 26, 2026 Circuit Design & Applications
A simple interface idea makes a digital potentiometer advance or decrement as soon as a pushbutton is pressed, not when it is released. The circuit uses RC debounce filtering and a Schmitt-trigger inverter to turn each press into a clean clock edge for the DPOT.
August 27, 2026 Artificial intelligence
EDA vendors are using AI to speed up setup, debug, and collaboration around IC signoff, while the final verification engines themselves are kept deterministic to preserve reproducibility and trust.
August 27, 2026 Devices & Products
Advantech has introduced four industrial vision systems built around Qualcomm’s Dragonwing IQ-9075, combining up to 100 TOPS of AI performance with multi-camera interfaces for robotics, automation, and surveillance.
August 27, 2026 Circuit Design & Applications
A long-running Comcast/Xfinity outage problem was traced to aging coax hardware, missing grounding at the service entry, and a splitter setup that pushed upstream DOCSIS 3.1 levels into the high 50 dBmV range.
August 27, 2026 Devices & Products
Morse Micro has introduced two USB dongle reference designs, MM8108-RD09 and MM8108-RD17, to add Wi-Fi HaLow connectivity to existing devices without a board redesign. One design uses host-side drivers for Windows, Linux, and macOS, while the other presents itself as a standard USB Ethernet interface.
August 27, 2026 Devices & Products
Semtech has added the LR2022 and LR2012 to its LoRa Plus family, extending coverage from sub-GHz IoT sensors to multiband non-terrestrial network links. Both parts share the fourth-generation LoRa Plus IP core and are already in production.
August 27, 2026 Manufacturing & Processes
As HBM stacks grow taller, DRAM makers are facing a sharper mix of die thinning, TSV area loss, heat removal problems and tighter manufacturing capacity, with yield increasingly at risk.
August 27, 2026 Artificial intelligence
LLM-based tools are beginning to convert natural-language specifications into formal properties for RTL verification. The approach can accelerate assertion drafting, but completeness, change tracking, and false confidence remain major concerns.