EE Times News
From Vision-Language Models to Physical AI: Embedded Intelligence Enters a New Phase
Published: April 17, 2026, 8:25 am
Embedded AI advances toward practical, multimodal systems, bringing vision-language models into real-world, resource-constrained deployments.
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Canada’s Defense Sector Talks Up Quantum
Published: April 16, 2026, 8:00 pm
Investment, industry, and military must better align to quickly adopt quantum technologies, especially sensors and communications.
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Meta’s Broadcom Liaison Enters Next AI Phase
Published: April 16, 2026, 2:15 pm
Meta and Broadcom supercharge AI with custom MTIA chips.
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Revolutionary Battery Breakthroughs, or Maybe Not?
Published: April 16, 2026, 1:16 pm
There is so much news about “game-changing” battery advances, but what is the reality?
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India’s Electronics Push Shifts to Design, but Ownership Gap Remains
Published: April 16, 2026, 7:45 am
India eyes tech supremacy by shifting electronics focus from manufacturing to design ownership.
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Hackaday News
Game Cube Hot Tub Animation Brought Into Real World
Published: April 17, 2026, 8:00 am
Unlike the current era where most consumer electronics are black rectangles, or the early 90s where most consumer electronics were black rectangles, we got a brief glimmer of color, light, …read more
Building a Big RC Mini Truck
Published: April 17, 2026, 5:00 am
Kei trucks are some of the smallest commercial vehicles out on the roads today. You can also get lots of cute kei RC cars if you’re into the toy side …read more
Comparing 12 VDC Air Fryers with Regular 240 VAC Ones
Published: April 17, 2026, 2:00 am
That boiling water is a contentious topic of discussion is clear, but what about hot air? When you take a 12 VDC, 280 Watt-rated air fryer and pit it against …read more
Do We Really Need Another Development Board?
Published: April 16, 2026, 11:00 pm
It’s fair to say that there are a lot of development board form factors for MCUs, with [Tech Dregs] over on yonder YouTube on the verge of adding another one …read more
FPGA Powers DIY USB Scope and Signal Generator
Published: April 16, 2026, 8:00 pm
Oscilloscopes and to lesser extent signals generators are useful tools for analyzing, testing and diagnosing circuits but we often take for granted how they work. Luckily, [FromConceptToCircuit] is here to …read more
Adafruit Blog News
Plant Germination Pot #3DThursday #3DPrinting
Published: April 16, 2026, 11:00 pm
Shared by chox on MakerWorld: I am trying to create a chamber system to prevent the water in the two compartments from being at the same level (see communicating vessels principle) THEREFORE THE POT DOES NOT WORK AT THE MOMENT Fully printable 4×2 seed or sprout growing pot This is a remix of mandooooooo’s project, […]
The Orange Pi 6 Plus – a review and benchmarks
Published: April 16, 2026, 9:26 pm
The Tao of Mac site takes a deep look at the Orange Pi 6 Plus single board computer (SBC). I spent a fair bit of time with the Orange Pi 6 Plus over the past few months, and what I expected to be a quick look at another fast ARM board turned into one of those test […]
Macintosh Plus emulator port for Cheap-Yellow-Display board (ESP32) with some little 68k Mac applications
Published: April 16, 2026, 9:19 pm
Cydintosh is a Macintosh Plus emulator port for the Cheap-Yellow-Display board (ESP32) with some little 68k Mac applications. Macintosh Plus emulation using umac and Musashi 68k emulator 240×320 LCD with touchpad emulation for mouse control Homebrew Mac applications built with Retro68 (Weather, WiFi status, etc.) IPC between Mac and ESP32 (WiFi scan, MQTT weather data) Homebrew Mac […]
The 192 MHz WCH CH32V205 RISC-V MCU offers a 480 Mbps USB 2.0 interface
Published: April 16, 2026, 9:11 pm
WCH CH32V205 is a 32-bit RISC-V MCU clocked at up to 192 MHz with 32KB SRAM, 256KB flash, and a USB 2.0 high-speed Host/device interface with a 480 Mbps PHY. The new microcontroller also features another USB 2.0 full speed (12 Mbps) Host/Device interface, a USB PD port, eighty GPIOs, a 16-channel 12-bit ADC, a […]
John Park’s Workshop — LIVE TODAY 4/16/26
Published: April 16, 2026, 7:36 pm
It’s JOHN PARK’S WORKSHOP — LIVE! — Coming up at 4pm ET / 1pm PT Today! LIVE TEXT CHAT IS HERE in the Adafruit Discord chat! Project CircuitPython Parsec Tool Tips Learn Guides Retro Gear Unmeasurable levels of Lars and more! The live video will be on Youtube LIVE, Twitch, Periscope (Twitter) and Facebook. Join […]
Electronics Weekly News
Teradyne buys TestInsight
Published: April 17, 2026, 5:23 am
Teradyne has bought TestInsight, a provider of semiconductor test development, validation, and conversion software. TestInsight‘s tools and team will accelerate the development of test solutions on ‘s platforms, enabling faster ...
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Credo Technology buys Dust Photonics
Published: April 17, 2026, 5:22 am
Credo Technology, the network connectivity supplier, has bought DustPhotonics, the specialist in Silicon Photonics Photonic Integrated Circuit (SiPho PIC) technology for optical transceivers. The acquisition gives Credo a vertically integrated ...
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Molex buys Teramount
Published: April 17, 2026, 5:15 am
Molex is to buy Teramount, the Israel-based fibre-to-chip connectivity specialist for Co-Packaged Optics (CPO) and other silicon photonics applications. Teramount’s detachable, passive-alignment fibre-to-chip connectivity products for CPO enable faster data ...
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2025 Wafer Fab Equipment vendor revenue up 12%
Published: April 17, 2026, 5:14 am
Wafer Fab Equipment (WFE) vendors’ revenues collectively climbed 12% YoY in 2025, reaching $143 billion, says Counterpoint Research. The growth was propelled by the massive build-out of AI infrastructure, which ...
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Panmesia sampling fusion switch
Published: April 17, 2026, 5:13 am
Panmesia, the Korean CXL specialist, is sampling its PCIe 6.4-CXL 3.2 fusion switch, claimed to be the only silicon to fully implement the CXL 3.2 specification including Port-Based Routing (PBR). ...
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