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Intelligent Cost Optimization is a Competitive Advantage
Published: April 24, 2026, 1:00 pm
Intelligent cost optimization is not about cutting indiscriminately. It’s about understanding where investment creates differentiation and when efficiency can improve profitability.
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What Hormuz Exposed About Our Semiconductor Supply Chain
Published: April 24, 2026, 8:00 am
The semiconductor industry is facing a reckoning it has postponed for years.
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Why Chip Sovereignty Is No Longer About Chips—But Systems
Published: April 23, 2026, 8:30 pm
Exclusive interviews with Mark Papermaster, CTO of AMD, and Chris Miller, author of “Chip War” and professor at Tufts University
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Designing and Optimizing the Stability of Switch Mode Power Supplies
Published: April 23, 2026, 2:00 pm
Switch mode power supplies have a regulation loop to generate a fixed output voltage. Such a loop needs to provide a stable output voltage generation, and it needs to speed up the regulation. When a power supply can react to line and load changes faster, typically fewer output capacitors are required for the same quality […]
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Telecom Industry Bets on Automation to Tackle AI Squeeze
Published: April 23, 2026, 1:07 pm
The telecom sector's survival hinges on rapid software automation to counteract soaring hardware costs fueled by the booming AI demand.
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Hackaday News
Hackaday Podcast Episode 367: Radioactive Weather, Continuous Pickles, and Moon Junk
Published: April 24, 2026, 4:10 pm
When Elliot Williams and Al Williams compare their notes on the week in Hackaday, you know you’ll get at least one or two bad puns. How bad? Tune in and …read more
Spool Roller Gets Touch Screen
Published: April 24, 2026, 3:30 pm
If you have a desktop 3D printer, you probably want something to hang filament spools on. [LVTRC] has a spool roller that fits the bill. It also incorporates a scale …read more
This Week in Security: Annoyed Researchers, Dangling DNS, and Hacks that Could Have Been Worse
Published: April 24, 2026, 2:00 pm
The author of the BlueHammer exploit, which was released earlier this month and addressed in the last Patch Tuesday, continues to be annoyed with the responses from the Microsoft security …read more
How Anthropic’s Model Context Protocol Allows for Easy Remote Execution
Published: April 24, 2026, 11:00 am
As part of the effort to push Large Language Model (LLM) ‘AI’ into more and more places, Anthropic’s Model Context Protocol (MCP) has been adopted as the standard to connect …read more
Reviving Nintendo’s Early Arcade Game, Wild Gunman
Published: April 24, 2026, 8:00 am
There’s retrogaming, and then there’s retro gaming. This next project falls into the second category, as [Callan] of 74XX Arcade Repair digs into the original Wild Gunman, first released by Nintendo …read more
Adafruit Blog News
Retro 3D Printing Classic Video Games!
Published: April 24, 2026, 4:00 pm
3D Printing Nerd shared this video on Youtube! I decided to put the Bambu Lab H2C to the ultimate test with over 10 days of non stop 3D printing while I headed off to the UK for the Sanjay Mortimer RepRap show. I’m mashing up some of my favorite childhood memories with some seriously high […]
KiCad Breadboard Builder
Published: April 24, 2026, 2:16 pm
KiCad Breadboard Builder by Robin Kerstens is a KiCad 9 / 10 Action Plugin for introductory analog electronics courses at the University of Antwerp. Students draw a schematic in Eeschema, then use this plugin to wire up the same circuit on a virtual breadboard — placing components, drawing jumper wires, and validating their work against the […]
How to Add Electronics to Your Indoor Plants
Published: April 24, 2026, 2:00 pm
Does anything beat the feeling of merging two hobbies? Indoor plant parents and tinkerers, we’ve put together some of our favorite plant related guides for ya: PyPortal Pet Planter with Adafruit IO Soil Moisture Sensor with Circuit Playground Express and MakeCode Adafruit Bonsai Buckaroo Discord and Slack Connected Smart Plant with Adafruit IO Actions Chauncey […]
Sound-Reactive Nautilus Lamp (Arduino Project) #3DPrinting #3DThursday
Published: April 24, 2026, 12:00 am
seanliang00 shares: I made this cool Nautilus lamp, and it reacts to sound. If I clap or sing a song next to it, it triggers a cool running light effect. I made it open-source so everyone can make it. download the files on: Every Thursday is #3dthursday here at Adafruit! The DIY 3D printing […]
flying bird {with fun flexi fidget wings} #3DThursday #3DPrinting
Published: April 23, 2026, 11:00 pm
Shared by TuesdayIsMyFavorateDayOfTheWeek on Thingiverse: Download the files and learn more Every Thursday is #3dthursday here at Adafruit! The DIY 3D printing community has passion and dedication for making solid objects from digital models. Recently, we have noticed electronics projects integrated with 3D printed enclosures, brackets, and sculptures, so each Thursday we celebrate and highlight […]
Electronics Weekly News
Jedec previews LPDDR6 update for non-mobile AI platforms
Published: April 24, 2026, 3:00 pm
The JEDEC Solid State Technology Association is previewing a set of new features planned for incorporation into the next version of its Low Power Double Data Rate 6 (LPDDR6) standard ...
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Thales Alenia Space, Airbus join forces for Polish satcom mission
Published: April 24, 2026, 1:16 pm
Thales Alenia Space, Airbus Defence and Space, and RADMORare working together to develop a geostationary defence telecommunications satellite dedicated to the Polish Ministry of Defence. RADMOR is part of WB ...
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Most Read – Optical transceivers, Price hikes, OCX scrapped
Published: April 24, 2026, 11:09 am
Looking only at those written in the last week, the most read stories on our website cover abandoning the OCX update to GPS capabilities, Marvell buying Polariton Technologies, and UMC informing customers of price rises.
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Microchip devices enable CPLD-like functionality on MCU
Published: April 24, 2026, 10:06 am
The PIC16F13276 and PIC18-Q35 families see Microchip expanding its Configurable Logic Block (CLB)–based MCU portfolio. CPLD Aiming at motor control, industrial automation and automotive safety applications, they seek to combine ...
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Upbeat Q1 for Intel
Published: April 24, 2026, 5:30 am
Intel’s Q1 revenue was up 7% YoY at $13.6 billion. The loss for the quarter was $3.7 billion. The forecast for Q2 revenue was $13.8 billion to $14.8 billion. The ...
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