EE Times News
Geopolitics Is Rewriting Memory Sourcing
Published: May 8, 2026, 8:00 pm
Geopolitical tensions are rewriting memory sourcing—ditch old habits and future-proof your supply chain to avoid costly disruption.
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How BSC Contributes to Europe’s Hybrid Quantum Strategy
Published: May 8, 2026, 7:29 am
BSC has become a testbed for Europe's quantum strategy, linking exascale supercomputing, AI, and specialized quantum hardware.
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Automotive and AI Lift Infineon Q2, Point to FY2026 Revenue Above $18B
Published: May 7, 2026, 2:33 pm
Infineon Q2 earnings rise 4% as the chipmaker reorganizes to target SDVs and power systems.
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Industrial AI: How Factories Learn to Live With Uncertainty
Published: May 7, 2026, 8:35 am
Industrial AI is moving beyond controlled environments, with factories deploying systems designed to manage operational uncertainty.
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FPGA Maker’s Strategic Pivot into Firmware World
Published: May 6, 2026, 1:32 pm
Lattice acquires AMI to combine its low-power FPGAs with open-source firmware platforms.
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Hackaday News
Getting a Proprietary-Bus GPU onto PCIe Enables Cheaper Local LLMs, For Now
Published: May 9, 2026, 8:00 am
If you’ve been thinking of getting into self-hosting generative AI, but don’t have a big budget for hardware, you might want to check out [Hardware Haven]’s latest video on an …read more
Reverse-engineering the 1998 Ultima Online demo server
Published: May 9, 2026, 5:00 am
In any MMORPG, the average user will generally only encounter the client side of the system. This makes building a compatible open source version of the proprietary server into a …read more
Could Your Next House be Built from Giant Lego By an Inchworm Robot?
Published: May 9, 2026, 2:00 am
Well, it depends when you’re going to be househunting– if it’s anytime soon, Betteridge’s law applies, but if your time horizon is a ways further out, [Miana Smith] at MIT …read more
Win95-Tracker-CYD is a Cheap Yellow Mod Tracker with I2S
Published: May 8, 2026, 11:00 pm
The Cheap Yellow Display is a great little module to start a project with, but it wouldn’t necessarily be our first choice for an audio device. That’s because the PWM …read more
Easy-ish Glitch Camera? There’s a Pi 4 That
Published: May 8, 2026, 8:00 pm
Usually, when you want to make glitchy images with lots of colors and things, you have to poke around inside a camera and successfully circuit-bend the thing without bricking it. …read more
Adafruit Blog News
The Python on Microcontrollers Newsletter: subscribe for free
Published: May 8, 2026, 8:19 pm
The Python for Microcontrollers Newsletter is the place for the latest news involving Python on hardware (microcontrollers AND single board computers like Raspberry Pi). This ad-free, spam-free weekly email is filled with CircuitPython, MicroPython, and Python information that you may have missed, all in one place! You get a summary of all the software, events, projects, and the latest hardware worldwide once a week, no […]
Build Your Own Pico Mechanical Keyboard
Published: May 8, 2026, 8:00 pm
Build your own custom mechanical keyboard that runs CircuitPython on the RaspberryPi Pico RP2040! With lots of pins, the RaspberryPi RP2040 Pico makes for a great brain of a mechanical keyboard/macro pad — no scan matrix required. Up to 26 keys can be used with direct GPIO pins. You’ll learn how to make your own […]
The Teleguide, an Obscure and Forgotten Machine Transformed into a Retro Gaming Computer #piday #raspberrypi
Published: May 8, 2026, 6:30 pm
Simon Pettersson on Reddit got his hands on a new-in-box piece of failed computer history. He then set out on a mission to make a retro gaming setup. Via Reddit: This is a Teleguide, or rather it was a Teleguide; a complete flop of a project from the Swedish state telecom operator, released in […]
John Park’s CircuitPython Parsec: RGB LCD Character Display Shield Basics
Published: May 8, 2026, 4:02 pm
#circuitpythonparsec How to read the buttons, write to the display, and change the display colors on the RGB LCD Shield w I2C in CircuitPython. code example To learn about CircuitPython:
Large Pi-based Thermometer and Clock
Published: May 8, 2026, 4:00 pm
This project combines a whole heap of modules to enable a Raspberry Pi to power a large 1.2 inch 4 digit 7 segment display. A small switch switches the display between showing the temperature and the current time. The project uses a real-time clock (RTC) to ensure that the Pi always has the correct time, […]
Electronics Weekly News
Gadget Watch: Google Fitbit Air goes screenless
Published: May 8, 2026, 5:54 pm
Google has just announced the Fitbit Air, its screenless wearable health devices. Or should that be Fitbit AIr?
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Metrology tools for wire bonded chips
Published: May 8, 2026, 3:07 pm
Shrinking packaging, particularly with wire bond devices, and increasing automation, means that metrology has to adapt to meet the micro-level inspection required for reliable production lines. View Micro Metrology is ...
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AMF60 60W plugtop AC-DC power supplies in sealed IP42 case
Published: May 8, 2026, 1:33 pm
XP power is introducing its AMF60 series of 60W wall-mount AC-DC power supplies for medical, home healthcare, and industrial applications. For example, they are for use in respiratory care, patient ...
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A Tough Question
Published: May 8, 2026, 1:25 pm
18 years ago, Infineon was struggling with a dilemma – how to get shot of Qimonda, its DRAM subsidiary. With Qimonda causing Infineon so much grief, why hasn’t Infineon got ...
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As infrastructure becomes smarter, so does cybersecurity
Published: May 8, 2026, 11:00 am
The need for efficient cybersecurity in smart cities and smart grids is growing as infrastructure becomes smarter, writes Liam Critchley. Smart technology infrastructure, such as smart cities and smart grids, ...
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