EE Times News
Scaling Down Is the New Scaling Up
Published: May 19, 2026, 7:00 pm
Agentic AI on edge devices will require hardware-aware design from the start, according to Meta's Vikas Chandra, a keynote speaker at the Embedded Vision Summit.
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ADI to Acquire IVR Tech to Join Data Center’s Power Gold Rush
Published: May 19, 2026, 1:26 pm
Empower Semiconductor’s integrated voltage regulators (IVRs) can be placed directly inside an AI processor package.
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Imec’s Patrick Vandenameele: Full-stack Innovation Is the Name of the Game
Published: May 19, 2026, 8:00 am
As AI pushes semiconductors toward new limits in energy, memory, and interconnects, imec’s CEO says future progress will depend on deep co-optimization across the entire computing stack.
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Canada Spins Off Photonics Lab
Published: May 18, 2026, 2:35 pm
The Canadian Photonics Fabrication Center will be commercialized to scale up its compound semiconductor and photonics capabilities.
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New Power, Memory, Interconnect, and Thermal Architectures for AI Infrastructure at Scale
Published: May 18, 2026, 1:00 pm
Over the last few years, AI data centers have developed novel architectures to achieve the compute performance required to train Large Language Models (LLMs).
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Hackaday News
Building A Device To Map Magnetic Fields
Published: May 20, 2026, 2:00 am
Magnetic fields are all around us. We can’t really feel or see them ourselves, per se, but we can map them with the right hardware, like this device built by …read more
The 8-bit Web Server
Published: May 19, 2026, 11:00 pm
Even [maurycyz] doesn’t think it is a good idea, but it is possible to use an AVR 8-bit CPU to serve web pages. Of course, it is a vastly simplified …read more
Building a Pip Boy Themed Smartwatch
Published: May 19, 2026, 8:00 pm
One of the problems with good science fiction is that it introduces us to all kinds of cool devices that we can’t actually have in real life. [Huy Vector] has …read more
Recreating a Broken Laminated Wooden Furniture Part
Published: May 19, 2026, 6:30 pm
Everyone loves those rather bouncy wooden lounge chairs that got popularized by a certain Swedish seller of furniture, but as tough as they are, the laminated wood can still break …read more
How Pulse Oximetry Figures Out Your Blood Oxygen Levels
Published: May 19, 2026, 5:00 pm
If you’ve ever had a medical team investigating cardiac issues, you’ve probably had a bunch of electrodes stuck all over your chest and been hooked up to an electrocardiogram. This …read more
Adafruit Blog News
The making of a kinetic sculpture #ArtTuesday
Published: May 19, 2026, 7:18 pm
Patten Studio features Flagscape, the 15’ kinetic sculpture installed last spring on the corner of 42nd Street and 6th Avenue in New York. … We wanted to take a deeper dive into the technical work that brought Flagscape together. We sat down and had a chat with the design team to talk about the plot […]
JP’s Product Pick of the Week — 4pm Eastern TODAY! 5/19/26 @adafruit #adafruit #newproductpick
Published: May 19, 2026, 7:12 pm
Come on by for JP’s Product Pick of The Week ! A new product pick will be revealed. The show airs at 4pm ET / 1pm PT, TODAY! Check out the livestream right here inside this product page you won’t want to miss it because there will be a HUGE DISCOUNT during the show! Tune […]
Designing an FPGA calculator from scratch
Published: May 19, 2026, 6:45 pm
This is a scientific BCD calculator that uses binary-coded decimals, the same internal number format HP used in its scientific calculators going back to the 1970s. It represents every decimal digit as a 4-bit nibble, which means perfect decimal accuracy, no floating-point conversion errors, and an architecture that is genuinely shaped by the problem it […]
Pi-Hole Without the Pi
Published: May 19, 2026, 6:29 pm
While it is in the name, you don’t actually need a Raspberry Pi to protect yourself from ads. Pi-hole will run on any hardware that meets the minimal requirements and is running one of the many supported operating systems. Switch and Click uses Docker to turn an old computer into an ad-blocker for the […]
A Raspberry Pi AMA with a focus on industrial and embedded use
Published: May 19, 2026, 6:15 pm
Be on Reddit next Thursday 21st May, 3–5pm BST to see Eben Upton (CEO), James Adams (CTO of Hardware Engineering), and Gordon Hollingworth (CTO of Software Engineering) at Raspberry Pi. They will answer your questions, with a focus on industrial and embedded use of Raspberry Pi. Between the three, they will cover the full stack, […]
Electronics Weekly News
Top Ten Foundries In Q4
Published: May 20, 2026, 12:00 am
Thanks to TrendForce for this one – the top ten foundries in Q425:
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VETH100A1DD1 ESD protection diode passes OPEN Alliance EMC test specs
Published: May 19, 2026, 4:47 pm
Vishay is announcing its VETH100A1DD1 ESD protection diode meets all three OPEN Alliance EMC test specifications for ESD protection devices. The part has passed IEEE 10BASE-T1S compliance testing, highlights Vishay, ...
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Diodes PCIe 7.0 clock generator features sub-30fs jitter
Published: May 19, 2026, 3:25 pm
A PCIe 7.0 clock generator with six-outputs from Diodes features a sub-30fs jitter for next-gen AI infrastructure, the company highlights. The PI6CG33A06 provides a stable reference clock for 128.0 GT/s ...
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UK leads in employing over-50s
Published: May 19, 2026, 1:11 pm
In the hiring of the over-50s, the UK ranked highest in Europe in 2023, with people aged 50 and over accounting for roughly 12% of new hires, according to the ...
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The role of communications IP and innovation in the Artemis II mission
Published: May 19, 2026, 10:20 am
The recent launch of the Artemis II spacecraft tested the latest communication equipment, write Ethan Hutchings and Nick Reeve. The Artemis II mission represented a major step forward in human ...
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