EE Times News
UMA: The Architecture Edge AI Needs to Scale
Published: July 20, 2026, 7:00 pm
Edge AI won’t be saved by more chips; it needs unified memory to stop models from choking mid-task.
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Nisshinbo Micro Devices Expands High-Voltage IC Lineup for Next-Gen Automotive 48 V Systems
Published: July 20, 2026, 4:00 pm
Addressing the new challenges posed by the shift to 48 V automotive power supplies with Nisshinbo Micro Devices
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Powering the Automotive Revolution: From Zonal Architecture to 48V
Published: July 20, 2026, 1:30 pm
Explore how Monolithic Power Systems 48V automotive solutions, including the MPQ5884-AEC1, support safer, smarter, and more efficient zonal architecture.
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Photonics Components – The Eyes and Ears of the Future Unmanned System and Connected Soldiers
Published: July 20, 2026, 1:25 pm
Discover how optoelectronics plays a central role in sensing and data generation, including light-based distance measurement for UAVs and robotic platforms.
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Post-Quantum Cryptography Incorporated into SoCs via eFPGA
Published: July 20, 2026, 12:00 pm
Unlike hard-wired security engines, PQC algorithm mapped into eFPGA fabric claims to avoid costly silicon re-spins.
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Hackaday News
Sail Virtually Aboard the “Itanic” with IA-64 Emulator
Published: July 20, 2026, 11:00 pm
Intel’s Itanium architecture was an interesting experiment, but it has gone down in history as one of the chip giant’s bigger flops, so much so that it earned the name …read more
Echolocation for Drones
Published: July 20, 2026, 8:00 pm
Bats are remarkable creatures, able to fly at night or inside the confines of caves without light to guide their way. A team of researchers at Worcester Polytechnic Institute (WPI) …read more
A Feature-Rich Drum Machine
Published: July 20, 2026, 6:30 pm
A little over a month ago, we featured a project from [Igor] who built 64 bits of DRAM from scratch using discrete components. Jokes about memory pricing aside, he did …read more
Hackaday Europe 2026: Project Gigapixel
Published: July 20, 2026, 5:05 pm
There was once a race to put out cameras with ever higher numbers of megapixels to snare customers eager to take the highest quality digital photos. These days, we know …read more
Old SSDs Find New Life as Game Cartridges
Published: July 20, 2026, 3:30 pm
Game companies might not like physical media much anymore, but gamers sure do. There’s nothing like pawing over your collection to find what to play, and inserting a cartridge with …read more
Adafruit Blog News
Taking the unexpected routes in animation and gaming
Published: July 20, 2026, 9:27 pm
Marcin Wichary looks at “bumping the lamp” – a phrase coined by Disney during the production of Roger Rabbit to describe going above and beyond what was expected of the animators. A lesson learned: I see craft blossom when it can flow from individuals, and when the organization and attendant processes recognize that. Let people […]
Starting a ZX Spectrum shooting gallery in earnest
Published: July 20, 2026, 9:10 pm
Michael Martin is working through a port of a shooting gallery Rosetta-stone program to the ZX Spectrum. It’s been a long road. We started out knowing how to control text and bitmap output and a decent handle on I/O. From there we designed a reasonably efficient blitting system that operated on 16×16 “sprites” that we carefully prepared for […]
Using a MikroTik as a home router
Published: July 20, 2026, 8:59 pm
Rafał Opiłowski was looking at setting up a new homelab, starting with a comprehensive networking setup. Given my experiences related to performance and security issues with ISP-provider routers, I wanted to have a better control over the traffic on my home network. I decided to heavily focus traffic on wired connections, to offload WiFi and […]
The Brick Game, through the ages
Published: July 20, 2026, 8:47 pm
The handheld games of 2000: how could we forget the LCD screens and the cheesiness. Nicole Express got one at a church fundraiser and did a comparison with another model which advertises voice. Another oddity about the box. Take a look at the screen. Notice that it has square blocks with a square inside, and […]
The SmartFont Library for LED matrix displays
Published: July 20, 2026, 8:28 pm
The SmartFont Library by Chaiwat Leanyos is a generic C++ font library for embedded systems (Arduino, ESP32, etc.), designed for efficient rendering of UTF-8 strings on pixel-based displays. It features special support for Thai Language, correctly positioning vowels and tone marks (0x0E00 – 0x0E7F). Features UTF-8 Support: Handles multi-byte characters automatically. Thai Language Layout: Automatically […]
Electronics Weekly News
Modular test architecture is driving force for Emerson
Published: July 20, 2026, 2:56 pm
The modular system, based on NI technology combines a high-performance FPGA core, for processing real-time data, and interchangeable SerDes interface devices which can be swapped according to the configuration requirements […]
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SWISSto12 $70m raises Series C for HummingSat development
Published: July 20, 2026, 1:52 pm
SWISSto12, the Swiss manufacturer of satellite and payload systems, has closed its $70 million Series C funding round. The capital raise follows the award of $84.8 million from the European […]
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European space funding bucks global trends
Published: July 20, 2026, 9:38 am
The European Space Agency (ESA) has released its latest Space Economy Report covering the year 2025. It gives an overview of the developments shaping Europe’s space sector. Its findings include […]
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Xi sets out China’s AI stall
Published: July 20, 2026, 6:08 am
Chinese president Xi Xinping told the World AI Conference in Shanghai at the weekend: “As ancient Chinese observed: ‘A man of wisdom adapts to changes. A man of knowledge acts […]
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Semi stocks falling
Published: July 20, 2026, 5:24 am
Semiconductor company shares have lost over $3tn in value since June. The SOX is 20% lower than its June high and the iShares Semiconductor ETF is down 15% from June. […]
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