EE Times News
Five Test Considerations to Prepare for Q-Day
Published: July 14, 2026, 12:30 pm
Q-Day is coming fast, and “harvest now, decrypt later” is already in play.
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Solving Motion, Connectivity, and Efficiency Challenges in Factory Automation
Published: July 14, 2026, 8:46 am
Explore factory automation challenges from the designer’s perspective and discover how to tackle development while improving performance.
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Spain Semiconductor Industry Convenes to Forge Domestic Alliances
Published: July 14, 2026, 7:32 am
AESEMI holds the first semiconductor MatchMaking day in Spain to forge new alliances and consolidate the ecosystem.
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Rochester Electronics and Qorvo® Team to Offer Long-Term Availability of RF Components
Published: July 13, 2026, 5:30 pm
NEWBURYPORT, MA – July 2026 Rochester Electronics, LLC, a premier continuous source of authorized semiconductors, and Qorvo®, a leading global provider of connectivity and power solutions, today announced the completion of a worldwide distribution agreement. This collaboration significantly expands access to Qorvo’s RF and power high-performance semiconductor solutions for customers worldwide, with a particular emphasis […]
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Interview with GlobalFoundries VP at MIPS ‘Physical AI is Agentic AI at the Edge’ Taipei Event
Published: July 13, 2026, 5:21 pm
GlobalFoundries’ Sudipto Bose explains how silicon photonics, GaN and MIPS/ARC fire up physical AI at the edge—watch now.
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Hackaday News
Open Book Touch Makes Crowd Funding Debut
Published: July 14, 2026, 11:00 am
If you have even the slightest interest in open hardware e-readers, you’ve certainly heard of [Joey Castillo]’s Open Book project. We’ve covered his efforts to develop an affordable reader that …read more
The Seemingly Impossible Oscillator
Published: July 14, 2026, 8:00 am
Back in the days when an integrated circuit meant a simple but expensive device such as a 741 or a 555, most electronics enthusiasts made do with discrete transistor circuits. …read more
Star Trek Was Right about Prompt Injection, Sorta
Published: July 14, 2026, 5:00 am
This following statement is a lie: “I am telling the truth”. Okay, now that it’s just us meatbags, let’s get down to brass tacks. Captain Kirk’s logic bombs couldn’t possibly …read more
Can’t Find That ISA Sound Card? No Worries!
Published: July 14, 2026, 2:00 am
Many older hackers will have at some point gotten rid of an old piece of hardware that they later ended up regretting. All those ISA cards were next to useless …read more
Get your ESP32 Sunny Side Up with this Solar Dev Board
Published: July 13, 2026, 11:00 pm
There are a lot of ESP32-based development boards out there– and why not? It’s a versatile chip that can be used in all sorts of situations, and people want boards …read more
Adafruit Blog News
This Historic 110-Year-Old NYC Business Is Shutting Down
Published: July 14, 2026, 12:16 pm
The American Wood Column Corp is located in Brooklyn, New York. It’s one of the last holdouts of old-school woodwork manufacturing in the city and is officially NYC’s last wood column factory. The family company’s CEO Thomas Lupo is quite candid and charming about the history and reality of the business, which will soon closer […]
Reviewing a trove of old computers in Germany
Published: July 13, 2026, 9:15 pm
On July 26, 2006, The Computer History Museum curator Dag Spicer received an unexpected email from Dortmund, Germany. It described what appeared to be a lost trove of rare computers abandoned in a warehouse in the town of Castrop-Rauxel. The Museum’s collections committee agreed that a visit was necessary to see exactly what was there […]
John Deere owners will get the right to repair their own equipment under a new FTC settlement
Published: July 13, 2026, 8:57 pm
It looks like John Deere owners can soon feel free to fix their own machines. The Federal Trade Commission and attorneys general from several states secured a right-to-repair settlement Wednesday with agriculture equipment giant Deere & Co. — commonly known as John Deere — that requires the company to let farmers and independent shops fix their […]
Using five monitors on a Commodore 128
Published: July 13, 2026, 8:37 pm
The 8-Bit Guy demonstrates a custom hardware setup to drive five separate displays from a single Commodore 128 computer. By splitting RGBI signal lines and leveraging specific VDC register configurations, The 8-Bit Guy explores the potential for unique multi-monitor output and extends these experiments to IBM EGA hardware. Check the video out below:
LightNMEA: a fast GNSS parser with minimal memory, specifically for MicroPython and Python
Published: July 13, 2026, 8:05 pm
LightNMEA is an extremely fast, zero-dependency, single-pass NMEA 0183 parser with minimal memory allocation, written specifically for MicroPython and Python (CPython). Designed for 32-bit microcontrollers (ESP32, STM32, RP2040) working with high-rate GNSS receivers (10-50 Hz multi-constellation GPS/GLONASS/BeiDou/Galileo modules). Why light_nmea? At the time of creation (2026), there was only one NMEA parser available for MicroPython […]
Electronics Weekly News
In-fab metrology and inspection: pivotal milestones and the road ahead
Published: July 14, 2026, 11:00 am
Anne-Laure Charley and Philippe Leray chart a journey through 40 years of in-fab metrology and inspection – linked to distinct periods in the logic scaling roadmap. In-fab semiconductor metrology and ...
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Published: July 14, 2026, 10:34 am
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UK’s Space and Defence Gateway opens in Harwell
Published: July 14, 2026, 8:58 am
The UK’s Space and Defence Gateway was officially opened by King Charles III at the Harwell campus in Oxfordshire. Defence Gateway The Gateway comprises a co-working and events to encourage ...
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IQE gets £14m order
Published: July 14, 2026, 8:09 am
IQE, the leadingsupplier of compound semiconductor wafer products and advanced material solutions, has secured a multi-year production order valued at $14 million from a strategic global technology customer. The order, ...
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Bosch starts semiconductor production in US
Published: July 14, 2026, 5:28 am
Bosch is beginning sample SiC IC production on 200 mm wafers at its first U.S. semiconductor factory, after finalising a $225 million Chips Act subsidy agreement with the U.S. Commerce ...
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