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TSMC Defends Transistor Scaling Amid Huawei’s ‘Her’s Law’ Proposal
Published: June 1, 2026, 6:12 pm
Kevin Zhang said 3D integration is important, but transistor scaling remains the semiconductor industry's primary driver of performance and energy-efficiency gains.
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Early Memory Contention Checks Reduce IC Design Risks
Published: June 1, 2026, 2:00 pm
Automated schematic-level contention analysis detects memory bottlenecks early, improving SoC reliability, predictability, and silicon quality.
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High-Voltage GaN Bi-Directional Switches: Strong Performance, Simpler to Use
Published: June 1, 2026, 2:00 pm
The demand for more efficient power solutions continues to put pressure on designers to optimize system design without compromising performance. Read how you can simplify high-voltage power conversion and reduce system cost, size and complexity for a range of demanding applications with GaN BDS. High-voltage GaN bi-directional switches enable implementation of single-stage power converters with […]
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Product Recall Management Guide for Electronics Manufacturing SMBs
Published: June 1, 2026, 1:00 pm
This guide explains what product recalls are, what risks they create, and how small and midsize manufacturers can handle them in an organized way.
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AI-Accelerated Software Security Vulnerability Discovery: Is Hardware Next?
Published: June 1, 2026, 1:00 pm
AI is revolutionizing software vulnerability discovery. Could hardware security be next? Explore risks, AI threats and chip defense strategies. In depth.
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Hackaday News
Know Your Food: Cheesemaking
Published: June 1, 2026, 6:30 pm
There’s a thing that people who grew up on farms all share: a connection with food production that isn’t some mystical rose-tinted woo from a TV chef, but instead a …read more
Like a Wire Bender, But For Pop Tubes
Published: June 1, 2026, 3:30 pm
Are you familiar with pop tubes? Resembling the corrugated section of a bendy straw, they are at the core of PopTuber, an intriguing research project from the Actuated Experience Lab …read more
Revisiting Making Your Own Internet Router in 2026
Published: June 1, 2026, 2:00 pm
After my recent misadventures setting up an OpenWrt installation on a scruffy e-waste-level x86 PC, quite a few people chimed in with feedback, criticism and friendly hostility regarding things like …read more
Reverse Engineering A Rock Bottom NES Clone
Published: June 1, 2026, 11:00 am
The NES was Nintendo’s smash hit console of the 1980s, the international version of their Japanese Famicom system. It wasn’t a particularly complex device, so it was the subject of …read more
Classically-named Argus Robot Is Terminator Meets Tumbleweed
Published: June 1, 2026, 8:00 am
If you were making a multi-limbed symmetric nightmare of a robot, where else would you look for a name but Greek Mythology? The team at Duke University that came up …read more
Adafruit Blog News
Microcode inside the Intel 8087 floating-point chip: register exchange @kenshirriff
Published: June 1, 2026, 7:31 pm
In 1980, Intel introduced the 8087 floating-point chip, a co-processor that made floating-point operations up to 100 times faster. This chip was highly influential, and today most processors use the floating-point standard introduced by the 8087. Ken Shirriff takes a deep dive into this fascinating chip. The 8087 uses complicated algorithms to accurately compute functions […]
Making ceramic circuit boards
Published: June 1, 2026, 7:13 pm
Emily Velasco had recently been tagged in posts about a European feminist hacker collective that was making circuit boards out of clay they dug out of the ground and fired in a campfire. After having an epiphany about some experimental copper ceramics glazes i made last year, i thought i would see if i could […]
An App that Slows Down Your Phone…on Purpose?
Published: June 1, 2026, 6:26 pm
I recently got a new phone after my old phone spontaneously leapt out of my hands. It had been generations past due, so I expected some juicy new bells and whistles. I was immediately struck by how unremarkable this new phone was. Gone are the days of generational leaps in design or function; for the […]
Adafruit’s Top 10 Blog Posts of May 2026 #StateOfTheFruit #AdafruitTopTen
Published: June 1, 2026, 4:39 pm
1. Stormlight Spheres From Brandon Sanderson’s Stormlight Archive 2. The “Mac Nano” powered by the Raspberry Pi CM0 3. RFID Jukebox with ESP32 4. CERN open-sources its entire KiCad component library 5. Explaining Different Microcontrollers 6. Project Hail Mary’s “Science Mistakes” #SciFiSunday 7. Soldering Multi Holder, Print in Place – PCB & Wire Helper #3DThursday […]
Secluso – private DIY home security for Raspberry Pi
Published: June 1, 2026, 4:04 pm
Secluso provides private DIY home security using a Raspberry Pi, with encrypted remote access and a 5-minute software setup. Secluso is a private home security camera system for Raspberry Pi 2W. Watch live video, get alerts, and open recordings from your phone without handing your footage to a cloud provider. Secluso is developed by Secluso, […]
Electronics Weekly News
Nato selects JET Connectivity for DIANA innovation programme
Published: June 1, 2026, 2:59 pm
The maritime 5G specialist JET Connectivity – based in Farnborough, Hampshire – is celebrating being awarded a place on Nato’s DIANA (Defence Innovation Accelerator for the North Atlantic) Mission Track ...
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Pulling A Sickie
Published: June 1, 2026, 1:29 pm
53% of South Koreans do not take sick leave, according to a Statista consumer.insights.com survey. In China, 29% said they had not taken sick leave in the year before they ...
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Microchip 100/1000BASE‑T1 SPE PHYs integrate MACsec security
Published: June 1, 2026, 9:31 am
Microchip Technology is sampling its LAN878x and LAN888x families of Single Pair Ethernet (SPE) PHY (physical layer) transceivers, which are available in 100BASE-T1, 1000BASE-T1 and dual-speed 100/1000BASE-T1. As well as ...
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Arm CEO in line for $800m payout
Published: June 1, 2026, 7:27 am
Rene Haas (pictured), CEO of Arm, is in line for an $800m payday if Arm’s market cap hits $2tn by 2031. Arm’s market cap is currently $377bn. The award scheme ...
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Nvidia enters PC market
Published: June 1, 2026, 5:38 am
This morning, at Computex, Nvidia entered the PC market with the Arm-based RTX Spark processor. Later this year ASUS, Dell, HP, Lenovo, Microsoft Surface and MSI will come out first ...
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