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Murata, TDK, and Knowles Raise Capacitor Expectations With New Lineups

2026-08-20

The new capacitors feature higher voltage ratings, improved thermal and vibration performance, and new safety qualifications for automotive and industrial applications.

Intel 14A Design Ecosystem Gains Support from Major EDA Partners

2026-08-14

Siemens, Cadence, Synopsys, and Keysight have certified new design tools, reference flows, IP, and simulation support for Intel 14A.

MEMS Sensors Measure Pressures as Low as 2 Bar in Gas and Liquid

2026-08-07

Melexis has added low-pressure variants with analog, LIN, and SENT output options to its Triphibian pressure sensor family.

Microchip’s Latest SDK Brings Sparse Neural Networks to PolarFire FPGAs

2026-07-30

Sparsity-based model compression from the Neuronix AI Labs acquisition promises up to 2x faster CNN inference on low-power, SEU-immune hardware.

MOSIS Partners With GlobalFoundries, Extending 40-Year Prototyping Legacy

2026-07-23

The USC-run service that pioneered multi-project wafers in 1981 now offers a path from shared shuttle runs to full production on GlobalFoundries' FinFET and FD-SOI processes.

IBM Unveils ‘Smallest, Most Powerful Chip in the World’

2026-07-17

IBM leveraged its nanostack architecture, a technique that "builds a chip like a city," to pack nearly 100 billion transistors on a fingernail-sized chip.

MIT Chip Builds Real-Time 3D Maps for Robots on the Power of One LED

2026-07-09

Called Gleanmer, the 16-nm system-on-chip swaps memory-hungry voxels for compact Gaussian “blobs” to map and navigate at roughly 6 mW.

Exclusive CEO Interview: Rebellions’ NPU Leverages Memory-Centric Chiplets

2026-07-02

The Korean unicorn packages four NPU dies with 144 GB of HBM3E and bets on an open software stack to serve large language models at lower cost per token.

Breaking AI Bottlenecks: 3 Startups Look Beyond the Chip

2026-06-25

Lotus Microsystems, Oriole Networks, and Atomera have each rolled out technologies tackling the physical limits slowing AI infrastructure.

Microchip Releases Data Center Retimers for High‑Bandwidth Architectures

2026-06-17

The new XpressConnect PCIe 6.0 and CXL 3.1 Retimers reign in signal integrity challenges in AI data centers and other high-bandwidth installations.