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China’s NAND Specialist YMTC Moves Closer to IPO
Published: August 21, 2026, 6:00 pm
YMTC must raise capital to explore demand for AI-driven memory while balancing domestic and overseas markets.
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The Human Brain Versus AI: Similar Results, Very Different Machines
Published: August 21, 2026, 7:43 am
Contrast 20 watts with a megawatt: The brain and the LLM aren’t in the same race.
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Synopsys Updates CXL IP Portfolio for AI-Era Infrastructure
Published: August 20, 2026, 2:07 pm
Synopsys’s CXL 4.0 IP aims to help designers build faster, more flexible and secure disaggregated computing architectures as AI systems demand more memory capacity and bandwidth.
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Andes Condor Closure Came Amid Broader Cost-Cutting Effort
Published: August 19, 2026, 10:00 pm
Andes Technology’s decision to close Condor was part of a broader 10-20% operational cost-cutting exercise, with Condor probably considered too expensive a bet.
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IBM Makes Quantum Cryogenics Modular, but Scaling Problems Remain
Published: August 19, 2026, 1:55 pm
IBM’s new cryogenic architecture tackles one obstacle to fault-tolerant quantum computing, while exposing wiring, control, interconnect, and reliability challenges.
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Hackaday News
Using the Basic SNES Hardware to Play Minecraft
Published: August 23, 2026, 8:00 pm
After previously putting a very basic version of Minecraft on the Game Boy Color, [Tobi] decided to have some fun and port that version also to the Super Nintendo (SNES), …read more
Making LEDs in the Home Fab
Published: August 23, 2026, 5:00 pm
Impressive as it most certainly is when an amateur fabricates a semiconductor, most of the projects we’ve seen are more demonstrations than workable chips. [Dr. Semiconductor], however, is going much …read more
Amiga-Inspired AROS Goes Bare Metal on Raspberry Pi
Published: August 23, 2026, 2:00 pm
There’s no actual data, but if we had to guess the least-favourite Disney movie of former Amiga owners would have to be Frozen, because none of them will ever be …read more
Bluetooth Shock Collar Keeps Wearer On Task
Published: August 23, 2026, 11:00 am
Like a lot of us [Liam Kloppers] had a problem with doomscrolling. Unwilling to go cold-turkey because he does find some utility in social media. He tried a number of …read more
So, You Found a Foden Steam Lorry in a Field. What Next?
Published: August 23, 2026, 8:00 am
It’s quite likely that many readers will have harbored dreams of owning, or at least driving, a steam engine of some kind. [James Hervey-Bathurst] was lucky enough to do so …read more
Adafruit Blog News
Pixel Quest
Published: August 23, 2026, 8:00 pm
martina. shares how they created this handheld game console that doubles as a photo-editing control surface. Check out the project details on hackster.io **PIXEL QUEST** is a handheld game console you can hold in both hands — three original mini-games, a 2-inch screen, eight knobs and a joystick. But hold the blue button while powering […]
The Perfect Cold Water #piday #raspberrypi
Published: August 22, 2026, 8:00 pm
ethan1110lin got tired of lukewarm water and designed a device that notifies them when their water reaches the perfect temperature. Check out the project details on instructables. So what can you do? Or, as a matter of fact, what can a Raspberry Pi do? As it turns out, quite a lot. This single-board computer — […]
The Brooklyn Museum Presents Art of Manga #ArtOfManga
Published: August 22, 2026, 6:01 pm
Coming in October, Art of Manga will bring over 600 drawings from influential manga artists to the East Coast. And Yes! cosplay is encouraged, safely. Art of Manga is the first major exhibition in the Americas to explore manga—Japanese comics and graphic novels—as an art form. Marking its East Coast debut, the Brooklyn Museum’s presentation is […]
The Digi-Comp I, a plastic mechanical computer from 1963
Published: August 22, 2026, 1:30 pm
Chris Staecker on YouTube presents the Digi-Comp I, a plastic mechanical computer from 1963. This educational toy used logic rods and tubes to simulate binary computation, offering a tangible introduction to programming for kids during the space race era. More resources: Scans of Digi-Comp I documents Digi-Comp I manual scan See the video below:
Deep Sleep with CircuitPython #CircuitPythonDay
Published: August 21, 2026, 8:00 pm
If you’d like to maximize the battery life on a CircuitPython project, you need to be able to put your program to sleep when it’s not doing something. For instance, you may want to read a temperature or fetch some data only every few minutes or hours. In between, your board can go to sleep […]
Electronics Weekly News
Android XR advances as Jetpack XR SDK core libraries reach beta
Published: August 21, 2026, 2:39 pm
Google is announcing that its Jetpack SceneCore, ARCore for Jetpack XR, and XR Runtime libraries are officially in beta status. And Jetpack Compose is to follow soon, it says. Basically, […]
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Exotic Materials Adding Cost To Semis
Published: August 21, 2026, 1:30 pm
19 years ago the chip industry was facing a similar problem to today – the need for, and rising cost of, exotic materials. ‘Semiconductor firms are facing critical pricing choices […]
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Saildrone, Lockheed Martin demonstrate live-fire from USV platform
Published: August 21, 2026, 10:30 am
Lockheed Martin is highlighting a successful collaboration with Saildrone, a specialist in maritime autonomous systems. USV Basically, an unmanned surface vehicle (USV) was equipped with lethal defence technology, the live-fire […]
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JEDEC to host Automotive Electronics Forum
Published: August 21, 2026, 9:17 am
The JEDEC Solid State Technology Association has announced that it is hosting an Automotive Electronics Forum. The event will take place on 17 September 2026 in Santa Clara, California. The […]
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Most Read – Feynman GPU, Vishay sensor, Optoelectronic devices
Published: August 21, 2026, 9:05 am
There's the next frontier of advanced optoelectronics, Samsung Foundry putting back its 1.4nm process to 2029, and Vishay sampling a short distance VCSEL-based proximity sensor...
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