EE Times News
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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Cyient Semiconductors’ Power Play: How Kinetic Technologies Fits the Puzzle
Published: April 23, 2026, 8:19 am
Cyient Semiconductors amps up India's custom silicon game with Kinetic Technologies.
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NewPower Worldwide Named a Partner of the Year at HPE 2026 Partner Summit
Published: April 22, 2026, 7:12 pm
NewPower Worldwide wins HPE Spares Supply Chain Partner of the Year for operational excellence.
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TSMC Unfolds Map for Process, Packaging Tech
Published: April 22, 2026, 7:00 pm
TSMC unveils chip tech roadmap, slashing AI power use and boosting density.
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Hackaday News
A Solar Powered Plant Monitor That Almost Works
Published: April 23, 2026, 3:30 pm
Keeping plants alive is easy if you’re diligent and never forget to check on your green friends. However, a little electronic help never hurts. To that end, [Narrow Studios] built …read more
VCF East and Maker Faire Make For a Busy Weekend
Published: April 23, 2026, 2:00 pm
For those of us with an interest in hacking and making, events where we can meet up with like minded folks and check out the projects they’re working on don’t …read more
KernelUNO, An OS For The Arduino Uno
Published: April 23, 2026, 11:00 am
If you were to point to a single device responsible for much of Hackaday’s early success, it might be the Arduino Uno. The little board from an Italian university with …read more
GameCube Bot Records Your Play In A Weird Way
Published: April 23, 2026, 8:00 am
If you wanted to record yourself playing on a GameCube, you could use a VCR to capture the video output on tape. But there is a more interesting way to …read more
Making RAM at Home in Your Own Semiconductor Fab
Published: April 23, 2026, 5:00 am
There’s little point in setting up your own shed-based clean room for semiconductor purposes if you don’t try to do something practical with it. Something like responding to the RAMpocalypse …read more
Adafruit Blog News
LEGOs flexi legs #3Dprinting #3DThursday
Published: April 23, 2026, 5:30 pm
Cayouche shared this post on MakerWorld! Bring your minifigures to life with these articulated Flexi Legs, designed specifically for LEGOs-like figures! 🔧 Perfect Compatibility These legs snap directly into original minifigures with no modification required. Tight fit for stability while maintaining smooth movement. 🦵 Flexible Articulation The articulated design allows for natural movement, enabling dynamic […]
TPU Coffepot Table cover #3DPrinting #3DThursday
Published: April 23, 2026, 4:00 pm
Kaski93 shares: Hario V60 Coffeepot TPU Table Cover made with PETG and TPU. Cover Your table from heat and your coffee to get cold too fast download the files on: Every Thursday is #3dthursday here at Adafruit! The DIY 3D printing community has passion and dedication for making solid objects from digital models. Recently, […]
A San Francisco storefront is entirely managed by Claude
Published: April 23, 2026, 3:07 pm
Andon Labs has been deploying AI agents into the real world, giving them real tools and real money and documenting the consequences. You may know us as the creators of Claudius, the AI running a vending machine at Anthropic’s office. But frontier models have become really good, and running vending machines is too easy for […]
3D Hangouts – BLE Beacon Ears, Tetris Building and Orion Spacecraft
Published: April 23, 2026, 3:00 pm
3D Hangouts – BLE Beacon Ears, Tetris Building and Orion Spacecraft This week @adafruit we’re playing tetris, casting spells and looking at prototypes from JLC (if they arrive on time for the show). Pedro is working on a BLE beacon using the Adafruit CLUE. Noe is working on a tetris game inspired by the MIT […]
Enthusiast fabricates his own RAM in a garden shed cleanroom
Published: April 23, 2026, 2:32 pm
Last time we saw Dr. Semiconductor, he had completed his backyard shed with all the equipment and clean room capability to fabricate silicon chips. Now he posts about checking whether someone can DIY themselves out of the DRAM crisis. The doctor go through the semiconductor process steps required to make an array of memory cells […]
Electronics Weekly News
What’s next for Silicon Labs, the IoT and AI
Published: April 23, 2026, 3:00 pm
On a visit to Austin, Texas, Caroline Hayes visited Silicon Labs and spoke to Ross Sabolcik, lead of the company’s industrial and commercial IoT business unit about meeting evolving customer ...
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Fable: The Man Who Saved A Billion Lives
Published: April 23, 2026, 1:22 pm
Ther was a man who saved a billion lives by developing high-yielding wheat strains. His new wheat strains doubled the wheat yields in Pakistan and India saving hundreds of millions ...
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AI accelerates simulation and data collection in development system
Published: April 23, 2026, 8:15 am
The Octolux RDS (Rapid Development System) was unveiled at Microelectronics US by NTX Embedded. The hardware design platform uses AI-powered HMI/control systems to reduce design time. It can enable customers ...
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Marvell buys Polariton
Published: April 23, 2026, 6:51 am
Marvell has bought Polariton Technologies, a developer of high-speed, low-power plasmonics-based silicon photonics devices. The acquisition strengthens Marvell’s optical technology portfolio by adding advanced modulation capabilities that enable continued scaling ...
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ST Q1 revenues of $3bn up 23% y-o-y
Published: April 23, 2026, 6:35 am
ST had Q1 revenues at $3.10bn at a gross margin of 33.8% for an operating income of $70m. For Q2 it expects revenues of $3.45bn at a gross margin of ...
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