EE Times News
Voice Is Key to Physical AI; Development Methods Need to Catch Up
Published: July 6, 2026, 12:41 pm
To solve far-field ASR challenges, physical AI needs acoustic reality, prompting engineers to use physics-based simulation.
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Kioxia All Set to Raise the NAND Game in AI SSDs
Published: July 6, 2026, 7:29 am
Here is how the Japanese chipmaker is cashing in on NAND flash demand in data center SSDs.
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Breakthrough CNT Pellicles Deliver 66x Durability and Sufficient Transmittance
Published: July 6, 2026, 4:00 am
Explore the latest breakthrough in CNT pellicles for EUV lithography: durability is up to 66 times higher, with less transmittance loss.
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Inside Infineon’s €5B Dresden Fab: Virtual Fab Cloning Fast-Tracked the Launch
Published: July 4, 2026, 10:40 am
At the opening of its Dresden smart power fab, Infineon’s COO said virtual fab cloning enabled delivery three months ahead of schedule.
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SK Hynix Plans $713B Domestic Investment
Published: July 3, 2026, 1:57 pm
SK Hynix is set to invest $713 billion to expand its semiconductor manufacturing capacity in South Korea and plans a Nasdaq listing.
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Hackaday News
A New Challenger Approaches the Open Source Vehicle
Published: July 6, 2026, 3:30 pm
Cheap vehicles are thin on the ground in 2026, but [Andy Didorosi] thinks he has the answer for low-speed applications with an open source kei truck. Still in the early …read more
Hackaday Europe 2026: Is Your Blood Pressure Monitor Lying To You?
Published: July 6, 2026, 2:02 pm
Blood pressure is one of the so-called “vital signs” that medical practitioners use to determine the basic state of a patient in any given moment. It’s exactly what it sounds …read more
Gluing 8192 MCUs Together to Make a GPU
Published: July 6, 2026, 11:00 am
What do you get when you take 8,192 CH570 MCUs, put them on custom PCBs, and write firmware for this interconnected gaggle of cores? In the case of [bitluni]’s project, …read more
He Comes to Bury Segmented Memory, Not to Praise It
Published: July 6, 2026, 8:00 am
[BillPg] has been designing a fantasy 1980s-era home computer. As part of the exercise, he’s reevaluating all the assumptions that have grown organically over time in the small computer landscape. …read more
Extract Fumes in Midcentury Style With Nixie Tubes and Military Surplus
Published: July 6, 2026, 5:00 am
Nobody wants to breathe solder fumes; that’s a given. For most of us, an industrial-looking fan-and-filter made in China and picked up cheap feels like more than enough to keep …read more
Adafruit Blog News
NEW LEARN GUIDE: I2S Microphones with CircuitPython #LEDs #AdafruitLearningSystem @Adafruit
Published: July 6, 2026, 4:23 pm
Starting with version 10.3.0-alpha.3 CircuitPython has added a new audioi2sin module on Raspberry Pi and Espressif based devices. The new module unlocks the ability for I2S microphones like the ICS43434 or SPH0645LM4H to be used in CircuitPython projects. This guide will demonstrate the new capabilities with 3 examples: A basic script to record audio to a […]
Drone physics, a primer
Published: July 6, 2026, 3:02 pm
Ibrahim Ahmed posts an updated article describing drone physics. Audience should have familiarity with introductory linear algebra, introductory calculus, and introductory classical mechanics. This work was adapted from Ibrahim’s research in adaptive control and publication at AIAA DASC 2023 about multirotor, a Python simulation framework for drones. The topics covered: The coordinate systems used to describe the vehicle. The […]
A real-time, glitch-free virtual analog synthesizer, written from scratch in Rust
Published: July 6, 2026, 2:31 pm
Rusted Moog is a real-time, glitch-free virtual analog synthesizer — written from scratch in Rust. It’s a Minimoog-inspired 3-oscillator polysynth with a Moog ladder filter, “born from a Python synth that couldn’t stop clicking”. It started as VOOG, a synth written in Python + NumPy. It sounded great — until you played a chord. Then it clicked, popped, […]
The Python on Microcontrollers Newsletter: subscribe for free
Published: July 6, 2026, 2:16 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 […]
Building Linguo From the Simpsons
Published: July 6, 2026, 1:48 pm
This project from Carlos 3D World is bound to make any Simpsons fan smile. It’s a super involved build with great documentation available here on Instructables: Lisa: Hang on, Linguo. You’ll be up and conjugating in no time. Linguo: Lie still. I built Linguo from The Simpsons as a real 3D printed robot with AI. […]
Electronics Weekly News
Orbital Compute gears up for 10 gigawatts of AI compute in space
Published: July 6, 2026, 3:40 pm
Orbital Compute is unveiling plans for a 100,000-satellite constellation of orbital datacentres to provide AI computing power in space. A filing with the US Federal Communications Commission (FCC) outlines “artificial-intelligence ...
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Firefly, Astrobotic, Intuitive win NASA lunar lander contracts
Published: July 6, 2026, 1:55 pm
Nasa has awarded lunar lander contracts contracts totalling almost $600 million to three companies: Firefly, Astrobotic and Intuitive Machines. Specifically, Astrobotic is awarded $297.9 million total for two deliveries. And ...
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Oil Production Falls
Published: July 6, 2026, 1:25 pm
The USA lifted its blockade of the Strait of Hormuz late Thursday last week as a 60-day window to turn an interim peace agreement with Iran into a full-fledged one ...
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Pickering PXI/PXIe analogue output modules target HIL simulation
Published: July 6, 2026, 9:52 am
Pickering Interfaces is expanding its signal sourcing and sensor simulation portfolio with new PXI/PXIe analogue output modules: the 41-770 PXI, 43-770 PXIe, 41-625 PXI, 43-625 PXIe and PXI 41-761A. The ...
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Micron breaks ground on $9bn Hiroshima fab expansion
Published: July 6, 2026, 1:29 am
At the weekend, Micron broke ground on a $9.3 billion expansion of its fab in Hiroshima supported by a $4.8 billion allocation by the Japanese government. “Micron’s very first HBM ...
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