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What the DRAM Crunch Teaches Us About System Design
Published: April 28, 2026, 8:00 am
Redesign your AI systems for efficiency—escape the DRAM crunch by embracing smaller, smarter models.
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Cisco’s Universal Quantum Switch Ushers in Quantum Networking
Published: April 27, 2026, 9:44 pm
Cisco's switch claims to enable multi-vendor interoperability and room-temperature quantum networking.
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Power Modules for Drone Applications
Published: April 27, 2026, 3:58 pm
Date: June 4, 2026 Time: 15:00 CEST Power is one of the most defining design constraints in modern drone platforms—shaped by tight space envelopes, demanding thermal performance, and the unique power needs of high-performance processing such as FPGAs. Join this webinar where our expert will unpack what sits behind “power” in drone applications and why the […]
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SUSE Launches Industrial Edge Platform Following Losant Acquisition
Published: April 27, 2026, 1:59 pm
Keith Basil, edge strategy and product leader at SUSE, outlines how the Losant acquisition shapes SUSE Industrial Edge and its deployment model.
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Is Copper Sintering the Key to Advancing Wide Band Gap Semiconductors?
Published: April 27, 2026, 1:00 pm
Copper sintering emerges as a high-reliability, cost-effective alternative to silver sintering for wide bandgap semiconductors in high-power applications.
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Hackaday News
A Guide to CubeSat Mission and Bus Design
Published: April 28, 2026, 8:00 am
If you mention the word bus, you might think of public transportation or, more likely for us, a way to connect things together. But in the satellite world, the bus …read more
Sega Master System Controllers, Now With USB C
Published: April 28, 2026, 5:00 am
USB wasn’t even a gleam in an engineer’s eye when the Sega Master System hit the market in 1985. Today, we’re up to USB 4 or something, and the USB …read more
Why Solid State Batteries Short
Published: April 28, 2026, 2:00 am
Solid state batteries, we are told, are the new hot battery technology that will replace lithium-ion batteries. Soon. Not that we haven’t heard that before. One reason it isn’t dominating …read more
A Different Kind of Ultrasonic Levitation
Published: April 27, 2026, 11:00 pm
Ultrasonic levitation is by now a familiar trick: one or more ultrasonic transducers create a standing wave, and small objects can be held in the nodes of this standing wave. …read more
The Challenges of 3D Printing Reliable Springs
Published: April 27, 2026, 8:00 pm
Springs are great, but making them out of plastic tends to come with some downsides, for fairly obvious reasons. Creating a compliant mechanism that can be 3D printed and yet …read more
Adafruit Blog News
New Guide: One Key: Single Button Bluetooth Keyboard
Published: April 27, 2026, 10:57 pm
Build a wireless, single button Bluetooth keyboard that you can use as a mute button, macro launcher, presentation clicker, and more. Plus, you can easily customize it from a WebSerial web page. This project is inspired by the Monokey on Kickstarter (which was made in a limited run and is not currently available). Read more at […]
Fixing a signal infinite loop on VAX machines
Published: April 27, 2026, 9:35 pm
Miod Vallat dives into the thorny history of how the DEC VAX had an issue that was only shared with Intel’s 386: How an error signal inside a loop would hang the program. In late april 2002, Todd Miller, who was – among other things – taking care of Perl in the OpenBSD basesystem, tried the latest Perl snapshot which […]
How are subsea cables repaired?
Published: April 27, 2026, 9:16 pm
OneStep Power Solutions posts this interesting article discussing how subsea cables are repaired. Submarine data cables are located under the ocean, and connect people around the world with data and information, while submarine electrical cables transfer electricity, such as those used on wind farms. Undersea cables for data transmission have been around since the mid-1800s. […]
Reverse-engineering infrared-based electronic shelf labels
Published: April 27, 2026, 8:58 pm
furrtek.org posts an article about reverse-engineering infrared-based electronic shelf labels: Why they exist To consumers, Electronic Shelf Label (ESL) manufacturers list a few pretexts for their existence, often phrased as benefits: ESLs are ecological: they can be updated and they last for years, it saves paper and ink ! ESLs provide better price accuracy, what […]
A C language fixed-point math library for embedded systems
Published: April 27, 2026, 8:46 pm
FR_Math is a compact, integer-only fixed-point math library built for systems where floating point is too slow, too big, or unavailable. Designed for embedded targets ranging from legacy 16 MHz 68k processors to modern Cortex-M and RISC-V cores, it provides a full suite of math primitives — trigonometry, logarithms, roots, transforms, and signal generators — […]
Electronics Weekly News
200V FRED Pt rectifiers feature low profile DFN6546A package
Published: April 28, 2026, 9:48 am
Vishay has introduced 16 of its FRED Pt ultrafast rectifiers. These are in the low profile DFN6546A package with wettable flanks. They are aimed at commercial, industrial, and automotive applications. ...
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Published: April 28, 2026, 9:12 am
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UK government backs $5bn AI startup Ineffable Intelligence
Published: April 28, 2026, 5:29 am
The UK government has joined Sequoia, Nvidia, Google and Index Ventures in backing UK AI startup Ineffable Intelligence with $1.1 billion valuing the startup at $5.1 billion. The investment has ...
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£81m investment for IQE
Published: April 28, 2026, 5:28 am
IQE, the compound semiconductor wafer specialist, has had an £81 million investment from MACOM and other existing shareholders. “This proposed transaction is transformational for IQE. The investment from MACOM and ...
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Murata launches power AMR sensors for wearables/healthcare
Published: April 28, 2026, 5:14 am
Murata has started mass production of its MRMS166R and MRMS168R anisotropic magnetoresistance (AMR) sensors for healthcare, wearable, and IoT devices. The MRMS166R is the first AMR sensor to combine an ...
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