EE Times News
Next-Gen Integrated Voltage Regulators with Multilayer Power Inductors and Ceramic Capacitors
Published: May 12, 2026, 5:00 pm
Explore TAIYO YUDEN’s advanced metal power inductors and MLCCs for efficient power solutions in next-generation AI and GPU applications.
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Apple-Intel Foundry Deal Could Reshape U.S. Chip Manufacturing
Published: May 12, 2026, 1:09 pm
The reported agreement may just represents a symbolic hedge against TSMC concentration.
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AI Delivers Faster, Actionable DRC Closure for Complex SoC Designs
Published: May 12, 2026, 1:00 pm
Calibre Vision AI helps SoC teams quickly group and analyze DRC violations, speeding debug, convergence, and tapeout predictability.
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Rising EV and AI Loads Bring Connectors Into Early Design Decisions
Published: May 12, 2026, 8:05 am
Explore how advanced interconnect solutions drive EV and AI infrastructure growth in this interview with Amphenol.
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The Memory Wall Is Real, Here Is the Door
Published: May 11, 2026, 5:16 pm
The DRAM crunch is real—secure your AI product roadmap now with memory compression or risk falling behind.
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Hackaday News
Build The CPU, Then Build The Calculator
Published: May 13, 2026, 8:00 am
It’s possible that among Hackaday readers are the largest community of people who have designed their own CPU in the world. We have featured many here, but it’s possible that …read more
The Truth about the Hindenberg
Published: May 13, 2026, 5:00 am
The Hindenburg disaster recently marked its 89th anniversary, and [The History Guy] marked the event with a video that dispels many of the myths surrounding the airship. Example: the disaster …read more
The Dark Side of Unitree Robot Dogs
Published: May 13, 2026, 2:00 am
Continuing on his quest to expose the dark underbelly of modern technology, [Benn Jordan] recently did a deep-dive into the rise of so-called robot dogs. Although their most striking resemblance …read more
Trying to Fix a GoPro Hero 10 With No Camera Input Issue
Published: May 12, 2026, 11:00 pm
In the search for more exciting broken electronics to repair, [Hugh Jeffreys] bought a GoPro Hero 10 for US$100 with an apparently rather common issue of no camera input, along …read more
CRTs Are Too Mainstream, So Game on a Mechanical TV Instead
Published: May 12, 2026, 8:00 pm
Aside from nostalgia, people claim to like CRTs because they’re apprehendable– the technology just makes more sense than the arcane wibbly-wobbly solid-state madness going on inside the driver chip of …read more
Adafruit Blog News
CircuitPython 10.2.1 Released!
Published: May 13, 2026, 1:20 am
From the GitHub release page: This is CircuitPython 10.2.1, a bugfix revision of CircuitPython, and is a new stable release. Highlights of this release Fix crashes on certain boards with integral displays. Adafruit MagTag 2025: improve display quality and support new display variant. Download from circuitpython.org Firmware downloads are available from the downloads page on […]
The hottest anti-AI gadget is a Cyberdeck
Published: May 12, 2026, 9:14 pm
On TikTok, young women are going viral for crafting whimsical homemade computers inside purses. (A) TikTok creator, whose real name is Annike Tan, unveiled her very first build in March with a video partially captioned “fuck it. cunty cyberdeck.” In that TikTok, she puts the hardware together and shows off the frilly details, like a custom […]
How to reverse-engineer almost any keyboard matrix with Raspberry Pi Pico
Published: May 12, 2026, 8:45 pm
thanishurs31 on Instructables has developed a Pi Pico and CircuitPython solution to scan an entire keyboard ribbon cable matrix. The old way to tackle this is the continuity-meter dance — you probe every possible pin pair, draw a grid, cross things out, wonder if that reading was real or just a ghost, and eventually end […]
The summary of the MIT working group on generative AI and the work of the future
Published: May 12, 2026, 8:16 pm
To conclude MIT’s working group on generative AI and the work of the future, the group has released a paper summarizing the findings from three years of research on companies’ experiments with generative AI. Across the applications of generative AI addressing these challenges, there has been a shift in the core tasks that professional and […]
DIY 1920-1930 Carbon Microphone
Published: May 12, 2026, 8:00 pm
Prop and scenic painting technician Carousse shared this really cool carbon microphone on instructables. I worked on a play that required a functioning early 20th century carbon microphone. They are rare, expensive, actors can accidently drop them and would need to be re-wired with a modern wireless microphone. I like this kind of challenge because […]
Electronics Weekly News
TI looks for 95% in-house fab by 2030
Published: May 13, 2026, 5:30 am
TI plans to fab 95% of its ICs in house and package 90% of them by 2030, Luke Lee, president of TI Japan, Taiwan, Korea and South Asia, tells the ...
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EU Skills Shortage
Published: May 13, 2026, 5:23 am
Across all European Member States and irrespective of industries, skills shortages are among the most persistent constraints on growth, productivity, and competitiveness. Employers across sectors increasingly report difficulties in finding ...
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amsOsram sells sensor business to indie Semiconductor
Published: May 13, 2026, 5:18 am
amsOsram has sold its CMOS Image Sensor business to indie Semiconductor for €40 million in cash, further concentrating its growth investments into AI Photonics and AR smart glasses. “With the ...
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Pi PC fits in Altoids tin
Published: May 13, 2026, 5:15 am
YouTuber Exercising Ingenuity has just created a complete Raspberry Pi-powered portable computer that fits inside an Altoids tin. Opening the lid reveals a 2-inch display and a mechanical keyboard that ...
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Open Cosmos designs eight satellites
Published: May 13, 2026, 5:12 am
Open Cosmos, the Barcelona satellite builder, has come up with eight new Earth observation satellite designs to monitor climate-related disasters and environmental threats from space. The satellites are to be ...
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