EE Times News
Apple-Intel Foundry Deal Could Reshape U.S. Chip Manufacturing
Published: May 12, 2026, 1:09 pm
The reported agreement may just represents a symbolic hedge against TSMC concentration.
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AI Delivers Faster, Actionable DRC Closure for Complex SoC Designs
Published: May 12, 2026, 1:00 pm
Calibre Vision AI helps SoC teams quickly group and analyze DRC violations, speeding debug, convergence, and tapeout predictability.
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Rising EV and AI Loads Bring Connectors Into Early Design Decisions
Published: May 12, 2026, 8:05 am
Explore how advanced interconnect solutions drive EV and AI infrastructure growth in this interview with Amphenol.
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The Memory Wall Is Real, Here Is the Door
Published: May 11, 2026, 5:16 pm
The DRAM crunch is real—secure your AI product roadmap now with memory compression or risk falling behind.
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Wooptix Targets AI Packaging Bottleneck with Astronomy Tech
Published: May 11, 2026, 8:57 am
A Canary Islands startup brings wavefront imaging to semiconductor metrology, aiming to tackle wafer shape challenges in 3D integration.
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Hackaday News
The History of Altec Lansing
Published: May 12, 2026, 2:00 pm
If you bought computer audio hardware a few decades ago, you may remember coming across products from Altec Lansing. That you probably haven’t thought of that name in some time …read more
This (Pseudo) Random Number Generator Does It With Neon
Published: May 12, 2026, 11:00 am
The quest for true randomness has roots in cryptography and is a rabbit hole that gets surprisingly deep with alarmingly rapidity. Still, the generation of random-enough numbers is a popular …read more
Another Gift To The World From CERN: Their Entire Set Of KiCad Libraries
Published: May 12, 2026, 8:00 am
As the foremost boffins of Europe toil deep underneath the border between Switzerland and France in their never-ending quest to truly understand the fabric of the Universe, they rely on …read more
Reverse-Engineering and Documenting the Fisher Price Pixter
Published: May 12, 2026, 5:00 am
Between 2000 and 2002 the Fisher Price Pixter was sold to children as an educational handheld toy with a touch screen that enabled drawing and listening to music in addition …read more
The Walls Don’t Have Ears, But Fiber Optic Does
Published: May 12, 2026, 2:00 am
You normally think of fiber optic as something used in network cables. However, scientists employ dedicated fibers to detect earthquakes. In simple terms, they fire a laser down the fiber …read more
Adafruit Blog News
Visualize UART and I2C protocols in 3D
Published: May 12, 2026, 3:31 pm
Protoviz 3D is an interactive, web-based 3D communication protocol visualizer designed to help students, embedded engineers, and electronics enthusiasts understand what actually happens on the wire. The project currently supports UART (Universal Asynchronous Receiver Transmitter) and I²C (Inter-Integrated Circuit), aiming to make serial communication visual, intuitive, and observable rather than abstract. Learning communication protocols like UART and I²C […]
CERN open-sources its entire KiCad component library
Published: May 12, 2026, 3:22 pm
On May 7, 2026, the European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN) released its KiCad component library, which had been used internally, under an open-source CERN Open Hardware Licence Version 2 – Permissive license. The library contains data for over 17,000 electronic components, including schematic symbols and layout footprints, and is available to anyone free of […]
ICYMI Python on Microcontrollers Newsletter: New Python Versions, Now PCBs Are Getting Scarce, BeagleBoard and More!
Published: May 12, 2026, 2:33 pm
If you missed this week’s Python on Microcontrollers Newsletter, here is the ICYMI (in case you missed it) version. To never miss another issue, subscribe now! – You’ll get a terrific newsletter each Monday (which is out before this post). 12,370 subscribers worldwide! The next newsletter goes out Monday morning and subscribing is the best way to keep […]
The Desktop Riverbed
Published: May 12, 2026, 2:00 pm
In this video, tanks for nothin makes a custom tank to perfectly fill the space below their monitors and shows viewers the process of turning that tank into a riverbed ecosystem. NeoPixel Aquarium with Submersible Lights reef-pi
NEW LEARN GUIDE: Sensor-Locked Secrets with CircuitPython #Temperature & Humidity #AdafruitLearningSystem
Published: May 12, 2026, 1:16 pm
This project is about scrambling a secret message or picture in such a way that it can only be decrypted when certain environmental factors are met. The guide covers three different types of sensor inputs: GPS coordinates, lux light values, and temperature/humidity/CO2 readings. The general concept could be adapted for other types of sensors like […]
Electronics Weekly News
King’s Awards for Enterprise 2026
Published: May 12, 2026, 1:58 pm
The King’s Awards for Enterprise 2026 have been announced, and Electronics Weekly studied the list of winners to discover which electronics-related organisations have been honoured this year. They were officially ...
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US Troops In Europe
Published: May 12, 2026, 1:29 pm
The United States said on May 1, 2026, that it plans to withdraw around 5,000 troops from Germany. Germany remains by far the largest hub of U.S. military personnel in ...
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UDE adds multi-core debug support for ST’s Stellar P3E automotive MCU
Published: May 12, 2026, 9:27 am
The Universal Debug Engine (UDE) debugging, tracing, and testing tool from PLS (Programmable Logic & Systems) now also supports Stellar P3E microcontrollers from STMicroelectronics. This is ST’s first automotive MCU ...
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Published: May 12, 2026, 9:24 am
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Price rises spread to analogue, discretes and passives
Published: May 12, 2026, 5:28 am
More companies will be raising semiconductor prices rises, reports TrendForce, quoting multiple sources. According to eTime, TI will raise prices on July 1st and according to Sina increases could range ...
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