EE Times News
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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ASML, Tata Electronics Partner for India’s First 300-mm Semiconductor Fab
Published: May 18, 2026, 8:26 am
Strategic deal brings Dutch lithography giant's technology to Gujarat facility.
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Hackaday News
Biofeedback Butterfly Beats With a Pulse
Published: May 19, 2026, 3:30 pm
Biofeedback is the idea of making one conscious of a biological process or feature, and then using this to try and exert control over the very same. [Mariia Hruntes] demonstrates …read more
How Search Engines Enabled Finding Needles in a WWW-Sized Haystack
Published: May 19, 2026, 2:00 pm
When the World Wide Web surged into existence during the 1990s, we were introduced to the problem of how to actually find something in this ever-ballooning construction zone that easily …read more
Remembering the Tech We Lost With a Virtual Graveyard
Published: May 19, 2026, 11:00 am
Although 1999 might still feel like yesterday for some of us, in the world of technology the intervening years are practically an eternity. New websites, applications and devices pop up …read more
Digital Organizer Given Modern Upgrade
Published: May 19, 2026, 5:00 am
Remember digital organizers? They were like the lower-spec version of a PDA that couldn’t really do much more than store a few phone numbers and calendar entries. [TundraLegendZ] recently grabbed …read more
Prolog Via Pokémon
Published: May 19, 2026, 2:00 am
Like many people who read Hackaday, we are fairly fluent in a number of computer languages, but we have to admit it is easier to pick up languages that look …read more
Adafruit Blog News
What your phone and its sensors can do in a browser
Published: May 19, 2026, 4:15 pm
Adam Hughes writes about the sensors contained in modern smartphones and how they can be used, especially with web browsers. Your phone is dense with sensors. Cameras and microphones, of course, but also accelerometers, gyroscopes, magnetometers, ambient light sensors, GPS, Bluetooth radios. Most of them are accessible from a web page — a single HTML […]
Fully preserving the Fisher-Price Pixter
Published: May 19, 2026, 3:45 pm
Dmitry Grinberg posts about the Fisher Price Pixter and the first ever complete reverse engineering, documentation, emulation, and preservation of all Fisher-Price/Mattel Pixter device series and [almost] all the games. Fisher-Price (owned by Mattel) produced some toys in the early 2000 under the Pixter brand. They were touchscreen-based drawing toys, with cartridge-based extra games one could plug in. […]
Very Low Frequency and Extremely Low Frequency Communications
Published: May 19, 2026, 3:25 pm
J. B. Crawford posts on the Computers Are Bad newsletter about Very Low Frequency and Extremely Low Frequency transmitters as used by the US, mainly for submarine communications. Radio communications with the US Navy dates back to 1887. And use on submarines started with launching new vehicles in 1909. Early tests didn’t go well. It […]
Read the Books That Won a 2026 Pulitzer Prize with NYPL
Published: May 19, 2026, 2:00 pm
NYPL shared this list of Pulitzer Prize winners and finalists that are available at the library. What a way to pick to your next read or listen! Each year the Pulitzer Prize recognizes excellence in journalism, books, drama, and music. The literary awards include fiction, nonfiction, history, biography, memoir/autobiography, and poetry and make for an […]
EFortune Cookie — a Tiny ESP32 Fortune Teller
Published: May 19, 2026, 12:16 pm
Super fun (and super cute-looking) project from maker gokux: While many makers are busy building desk buddіes, I wanted to try something unique. I wonderеd if a fortune cookie could actually hold an ΕSP32. This idea led to the eFortune Cookie, a smаll interactive gadget featuring an e-paper disрlay. By simply shaking the device, a […]
Electronics Weekly News
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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Blackstone and Google launch neo-cloud company
Published: May 19, 2026, 5:28 am
Blackstone, the private equity company, and Google are forming a neo-cloud company to acquire, build and rent out datacentre capacity. The initial investment is $5 billion in equity from Blackstone ...
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CXMT revenue up 700%
Published: May 19, 2026, 5:23 am
ChangXin Memory Technologies (CXMT) saw Q1 revenues rise 700% to $7.5 billion for a profit of $1.26 billion. In Q1 2025 it made a loss. CXMT forecast an H1 revenue ...
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Imec Ventures expands into US
Published: May 19, 2026, 5:22 am
Imec has established a dedicated imec.ventures presence in the US, with teams in Silicon Valley and on the East Coast. Imec aims to strengthen its engagement with the US innovation ...
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