EE Times News
China’s NAND Specialist YMTC Moves Closer to IPO
Published: August 21, 2026, 1:51 pm
YMTC must raise capital to explore demand for AI-driven memory while balancing domestic and overseas markets.
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The Human Brain Versus AI: Similar Results, Very Different Machines
Published: August 21, 2026, 7:43 am
Contrast 20 watts with a megawatt: The brain and the LLM aren’t in the same race.
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Synopsys Updates CXL IP Portfolio for AI-Era Infrastructure
Published: August 20, 2026, 2:07 pm
Synopsys’s CXL 4.0 IP aims to help designers build faster, more flexible and secure disaggregated computing architectures as AI systems demand more memory capacity and bandwidth.
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Andes Condor Closure Came Amid Broader Cost-Cutting Effort
Published: August 19, 2026, 10:00 pm
Andes Technology’s decision to close Condor was part of a broader 10-20% operational cost-cutting exercise, with Condor probably considered too expensive a bet.
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IBM Makes Quantum Cryogenics Modular, but Scaling Problems Remain
Published: August 19, 2026, 1:55 pm
IBM’s new cryogenic architecture tackles one obstacle to fault-tolerant quantum computing, while exposing wiring, control, interconnect, and reliability challenges.
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Hackaday News
Thermoacoustic Sterling Engine is Now Fully 3D Printable
Published: August 21, 2026, 8:00 pm
Would you like to make your own energy? Why, who doesn’t in this era of rising costs! A sterling engine always looks like a good fit for that: highly efficient, …read more
PVC Pipe Turned DIY Digital Telescope
Published: August 21, 2026, 6:30 pm
[Makestreme] had always wanted to own a nice telescope, but found that budget would not stretch to anything above a cheap model with a limited 50 mm aperture. Wanting a …read more
Hackaday Podcast Episode 383: QR Codes, Caving Gear, and the Old School Way to Learn Electronics
Published: August 21, 2026, 5:00 pm
In this week’s episode, Hackaday Editors Elliot Williams and Tom Nardi start things off by getting excited about the recently announced 2026 Retrocomputing Challenge. From there the conversation will cover …read more
Building a Discrete Component 75 Baud Modem
Published: August 21, 2026, 3:30 pm
These days, modems are pretty fancy bits of kit, what with to keep up with the speeds of cable, VDSL, and fiber connections. At lower speeds, though, it’s entirely possible …read more
This Week in Security: Apple Warns Users, Stripe Merchants Leak Keys, Copilot Helps Hack Itself, and Comcast Senses Movement
Published: August 21, 2026, 2:00 pm
Apple has started sending some users push notifications warning that they have been targeted with specific malware. No specific information about the threat Apple detected is available. While multiple iOS …read more
Adafruit Blog News
Deep Sleep with CircuitPython #CircuitPythonDay
Published: August 21, 2026, 8:00 pm
If you’d like to maximize the battery life on a CircuitPython project, you need to be able to put your program to sleep when it’s not doing something. For instance, you may want to read a temperature or fetch some data only every few minutes or hours. In between, your board can go to sleep […]
John Park’s Workshop — LIVE! Today CircuitPython Day 8/21/26
Published: August 21, 2026, 7:58 pm
Up next! It’s JOHN PARK’S WORKSHOP — LIVE! — Coming up at 4pm ET / 1pm PT Friday, 8/21/26 LIVE TEXT CHAT IS HERE in the Adafruit Discord chat! Projects CircuitPython Parsec Learn Guide Recap Tool Tips Retro Gear! and more! The live video will be on Youtube LIVE, Twitch, Periscope (Twitter) and Facebook. Join […]
Unlocking a locked/deactivated e-waste Cricut Maker
Published: August 21, 2026, 7:48 pm
xssfox in Australia, while taking some rubbish down, spotted a Cricut Maker in e-waste. A quick look at it revealed that the it was in fairly good cosmetic condition with the exception of the rollers being perished. I knew that Cricut were pretty aggressive with disabling/locking machines, but I gathered it would still be worth […]
Subscribe to the Adafruit Youtube channel! #Youtube #AdafruitLearnSystem
Published: August 21, 2026, 6:30 pm
Are you subscribed to the Adafruit Youtube channel? If you’re not already subscribed, click here! . It’s a free and easy way to keep up with our newest episodes. Here’s some of what we’re up to. Electronics Show and Tell Wednesdays 7:30pm Electronics show and tell every Wednesday at 7:30pm ET. Adafruit Ask […]
A Guide to Self-Hosting AI Models on a Raspberry Pi #piday #raspberrypi
Published: August 21, 2026, 5:23 pm
Hackernoon has this quick how’s and why’s of setting up a Raspberry Pi 5 as a local AI agent. I was burning through $40-60/month on OpenAI API calls for my agent project. Every conversation, every code review, every “summarize this for me” was a metered API call. Worse, I was sending personal data to […]
Electronics Weekly News
Android XR advances as Jetpack XR SDK core libraries reach beta
Published: August 21, 2026, 2:39 pm
Google is announcing that its Jetpack SceneCore, ARCore for Jetpack XR, and XR Runtime libraries are officially in beta status. And Jetpack Compose is to follow soon, it says. Basically, […]
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Exotic Materials Adding Cost To Semis
Published: August 21, 2026, 1:30 pm
19 years ago the chip industry was facing a similar problem to today – the need for, and rising cost of, exotic materials. ‘Semiconductor firms are facing critical pricing choices […]
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Saildrone, Lockheed Martin demonstrate live-fire from USV platform
Published: August 21, 2026, 10:30 am
Lockheed Martin is highlighting a successful collaboration with Saildrone, a specialist in maritime autonomous systems. USV Basically, an unmanned surface vehicle (USV) was equipped with lethal defence technology, the live-fire […]
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JEDEC to host Automotive Electronics Forum
Published: August 21, 2026, 9:17 am
The JEDEC Solid State Technology Association has announced that it is hosting an Automotive Electronics Forum. The event will take place on 17 September 2026 in Santa Clara, California. The […]
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Most Read – Feynman GPU, Vishay sensor, Optoelectronic devices
Published: August 21, 2026, 9:05 am
There's the next frontier of advanced optoelectronics, Samsung Foundry putting back its 1.4nm process to 2029, and Vishay sampling a short distance VCSEL-based proximity sensor...
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