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Renesas Tackles Memory Bottleneck with MRDIMM Update
Published: August 3, 2026, 7:00 pm
Renesas’ Gen 3 DDR5 MRDIMM attacks AI’s memory choke point with 16,000 MT/s bandwidth and no platform overhaul.
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Video Interview: ChipAgents CEO on Latest Funding for Agentic AI in EDA
Published: August 3, 2026, 2:07 pm
ChipAgents raises $60M as EDA’s AI gold rush heats up, pitching autonomous chip-design agents over tired copilots.
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NXP Eying Ambarella: Is It About Automotive or Edge AI?
Published: August 3, 2026, 8:24 am
Ambarella has quietly transformed its automotive computer-vision technology to serve edge AI applications.
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Humanoid Manipulation at the Edge of Physical Interaction
Published: August 1, 2026, 2:00 pm
This white paper examines emerging humanoid robot architectures, focusing on how joints and dexterous hands are becoming intelligent, sensor-rich subsystems that require tightly integrated control, communication, and edge processing. It outlines key design challenges and opportunities for building scalable, high-performance humanoid manipulation systems.
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ERP Statistics: Insights From 70 Manufacturing Case Studies
Published: August 1, 2026, 1:00 pm
We analyzed 70 customer case studies to better understand the ERP experiences of small manufacturers. Here’s what electronics manufacturers had to say.
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Hackaday News
Child-Friendly Music Player Uses RFID
Published: August 3, 2026, 6:30 pm
[David] has a young child who is clever enough to use a computer to play music, but he doesn’t quite want to hand over the mouse just yet. Thus, he …read more
Congratulations to the Frikkin Laser Winners!
Published: August 3, 2026, 5:00 pm
Apparently you all love lasers just as much as we do. We put out a challenge to use, build, or otherwise abuse our favorite coherent light sources, and you responded. …read more
New File Manager is C64’s Answer to Norton Commander
Published: August 3, 2026, 3:30 pm
Norton was always a PC company — Norton Commander, the file manager that launched a thousand clones, was only ever available for DOS, like the rest of the company’s offerings …read more
The 16K Display that Ate Las Vegas
Published: August 3, 2026, 2:00 pm
You may have a 4K television. Perhaps you have even bought an 8K screen, despite the shortage of things worth watching in 8K. A 16K display is, today, a rarity. …read more
Get a Remote Terminal With One Binary, One URL, and Zero Config
Published: August 3, 2026, 11:00 am
Launch a single static binary executable, send someone a QR code or URL (or failing that, text a numerical code or shout it across a room), and they’ll get an …read more
Adafruit Blog News
Zephyr on Raspberry Pi Zero 2W bare metal
Published: August 3, 2026, 7:24 pm
Jonathan Elliot Peace has posted a Zephyr fork with board support for the Raspberry Pi Zero 2 W, a 26-file commit adding about 1,300 lines. The Zero 2 W runs a Broadcom BCM2710A1, the same silicon as the original Pi 3, packaged in an RP3A0-AU SiP with 512MB of LPDDR2. Zephyr boots it single-core with […]
BITNET – an autoregressive language model on the 6502 processor
Published: August 3, 2026, 7:06 pm
Matt Beton trained a tiny Mamba-based autoregressive language model and wrote an inference engine to run it on the 8-bit 6502 processor (from 1975, with 32KB RAM). The MOS 6502 is an 8-bit microprocessor released in 1975, powering the BBC Micro and the Apple II. I am lucky enough to have access to my dad’s […]
ICYMI – Adafruit IoT Monthly: Battery-Powered Sun Tracking, Mapping Data Centers, and more!
Published: August 3, 2026, 7:00 pm
ICYMI (In case you missed it) – the IoT Monthly Newsletter from AdafruitDaily.com went out this morning! If you missed it, subscribe now! – You’ll get one newsletter each month. The next newsletter will be out in a month, and being subscribed is the best way to keep up with all things Internet of Things. There is no spam, no selling lists, and […]
MeshDiff: see exactly what changed between two 3D models
Published: August 3, 2026, 6:39 pm
Version control for 3D models has always been awkward, since a diff of two binary STLs tells you nothing useful. Meshdiff is a free browser-based tool that does the job properly, comparing two versions of a model and showing added material, removed material, and dimensional drift using voxel and surface-heatmap diffing. It handles STL, 3MF, […]
TinyNES – A Niche NES Console
Published: August 3, 2026, 6:30 pm
Lon Seidman reviews the TinyNES, an open-source Nintendo Entertainment System. What sets this apart from other NES clones is how it combines original hardware and open source design. If you are looking for an authentic NES experience, the TinyNES might be for you. What it uses from the original NES are the CPU and PPU […]
Electronics Weekly News
Picture of the Day: Welcome to the Wind Tunnel
Published: August 3, 2026, 3:27 pm
Welcome to Nasa's latest Wind Tunnel, the Flight Dynamics Research Facility (FDFR). The location is the agency's Langley Research Center in Hampton, Virginia.
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Tesla Q2 Revenues and Deliveries Rise, Margin Falls
Published: August 3, 2026, 1:17 pm
Tesla saw its revenue and deliveries rise again this quarter, but the Q2 profit margin of 16.7%, was down from 17.2% in Q2 2025 and 21.1% in Q1 2026. Tesla’s […]
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Wafer fab equipment market set to eexplode
Published: August 3, 2026, 11:03 am
Semiconductor equipment spending is entering a new growth cycle shaped by geopolitics, sovereignty strategies, and technology roadmaps, despite uneven end-market demand Wafer Fab Equipment (WFE) sales revenue is expected to […]
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Mian Quddus to receive Jedec FMS lifetime achievement award
Published: August 3, 2026, 10:04 am
The longtime chairman of the Jedec standards body, Mian Quddus, is to receive the 2026 FMS Lifetime Achievement Award tomorrow. The award will be presented to Mr. Quddus, pictured, at […]
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London AI chip startup OLIX raises $312m
Published: August 3, 2026, 9:46 am
Earlier today, OLIX the two year-old London AI chip startup founded by James Dacombe (pictured) announced a $312m Series B financing round at a $3.3 billion valuation. The round included […]
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