EE Times News
Inside Infineon’s €5B Dresden Fab: Virtual Fab Cloning Fast-Tracked the Launch
Published: July 4, 2026, 10:40 am
At the opening of its Dresden smart power fab, Infineon’s COO said virtual fab cloning enabled delivery three months ahead of schedule.
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SK hynix Plans $713B Domestic Investment
Published: July 3, 2026, 1:57 pm
SK hynix is set to invest $713 billion to expand its semiconductor manufacturing capacity in South Korea and plans a Nasdaq listing.
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Spain’s Semiconductor Landscape: Six Stories from a Growing Ecosystem
Published: July 3, 2026, 7:10 am
EE Times examines the companies, institutes, and policy initiatives positioning Spain within Europe’s next wave of semiconductor innovation.
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Turkey Needs to Make Its Own Chips, Not Just Design Them
Published: July 2, 2026, 12:42 pm
Turkey has built a strong chip design base, but without domestic manufacturing, its semiconductor sovereignty remains on loan.
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OpenSearch Powers AI Data Infrastructure as Agentic Workloads Scale
Published: July 2, 2026, 7:40 am
OpenSearch turns AI’s data deluge into hybrid search, observability, and agent monitoring while avoiding vendor lock-in.
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Hackaday News
Make a DIY E-ink Faceplate For Valve’s Steam Machine
Published: July 5, 2026, 5:00 am
Valve has always designed hacker-friendly hardware, and in that spirit, [NaKyle Wright] released Inkterface, a design for an E-ink faceplate to fit the recently released Steam Machine. As far as …read more
The Persistent Display We Never Got
Published: July 5, 2026, 2:00 am
We all know the e-ink persistent displays, as they’re cheap and plentiful enough to have become ubiquitous in applications such as supermarket price labels. But we don’t often see some …read more
Using Flatpak to Run a 1996 Version of the GIMP on Modern Linux
Published: July 4, 2026, 11:00 pm
Although there’s probably no good reason to want to run image editing software from 1996 other than for nostalgia’s sake, if you ever wanted to run the GIMP version 0.54 …read more
Disk Polishing Goes Open Source
Published: July 4, 2026, 8:00 pm
Optical media is great — it’s pretty high density, relatively durable, and decently long-lasting if well cared for. If not well cared for, well, it’s only relatively durable, and we’ve …read more
Time Never Moves Slowly With This Clock
Published: July 4, 2026, 5:00 pm
A clock is by its very nature a device for measuring time, and thus it moves forward at a constant rate. But how about in a theatrical setting, where time …read more
Adafruit Blog News
Made In NYC 🍎🇺🇸 #4thOfJuly #AmericanMakers
Published: July 4, 2026, 5:07 pm
MADE IN NYC aims to support NYC makers! Made in NYC is a nonprofit initiative that supports local manufacturers and makers in New York City. Made in NYC cultivates community through a variety of events, activities and platforms connecting Made in NYC businesses to each other, strengthening the local manufacturing ecosystem. MadeinNYC.org serves as a […]
Find the Closest Cooling Center
Published: July 4, 2026, 2:00 pm
image via NYC Cool Options NYC Cool Options is a map cooling centers and cool options for New Yorkers. Check on your friends and neighbors, drink water, and stay as cool as you can. Read more
Impactful U.S. Inventions #4thOfJuly #AmericanInventions
Published: July 3, 2026, 5:18 pm
From the internet to birth control, the Wall Street Journal rounded up U.S. inventions with BIG impact. Readers then voted on which ones were the most revolutionary. Readers whittled the list from 60 to 25, the top 10 include: Internet Light bulb Integrated Circuits Personal Computer Airplane AC/DC Electrical Power Systems Telephone Smartphone Refrigeration Nuclear […]
The Python on Microcontrollers Newsletter: subscribe for free
Published: July 3, 2026, 3:19 pm
The Python for Microcontrollers Newsletter is the place for the latest news involving Python on hardware (microcontrollers AND single board computers like Raspberry Pi). This ad-free, spam-free weekly email is filled with CircuitPython, MicroPython, and Python information that you may have missed, all in one place! You get a summary of all the software, events, projects, and the latest hardware worldwide once a week, no […]
Celebrate the 4th with NYC Parks #4thOfJuly
Published: July 3, 2026, 2:00 pm
image via NYC Parks The heat will pass soon, but while it’s still here you’ll find us bopping back and forth between the library and the playground sprinklers. NYC Parks has fun 4th of July events starting in the early evening on their calendar which means we can still celebrate despite the 🥵 Read […]
Electronics Weekly News
TDK E13 EM IGBT/FET gate drive transformers for xEV platforms
Published: July 3, 2026, 2:45 pm
TDK is introducing its E13 EM series of IGBT/FET gate drive transformers, designed for automotive 500-V battery systems. They are qualified to AEC-Q200 Rev. E and designed for operation from ...
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Dithering
Published: July 3, 2026, 1:30 pm
Europe’s involvement in the semiconductor industry has always an on-off, hot-cold, up-and-down kind of thing. The November 11th 1996 edition of Electronics Weekly carried this piece: ‘During the 1970s and ...
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Sony becomes Promoter member for MIPI Alliance
Published: July 3, 2026, 11:14 am
Sony Semiconductor is strengthening its relationship with the MIPI Alliance. It is becoming the newest Promoter member for the wired interface standards body. With the appointment, Sony obtains a seat ...
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Sponsored Content: Power System Reliability in Extreme Cold with -65°C Aluminum Electrolytic Capacitors
Published: July 3, 2026, 9:45 am
Extreme cold environments place unprecedented demands on power systems, making the low-temperature performance of aluminum electrolytic capacitors a critical factor in overall system reliability. I. In extreme cold environments, power ...
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Raytheon eyes large-aperture telescope for Lazuli Space Observatory
Published: July 3, 2026, 9:28 am
Raytheon has announced it is developing a large-aperture telescope for the Lazuli Space Observatory, part of The Eric and Wendy Schmidt Observatory System at Schmidt Sciences. It features on orbit‑tuning ...
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