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
Fibrous Muscles for Humanoid Robotics
Published: July 14, 2026, 3:30 pm
At the current rate of robotics development, you might assume that we’re close to Skynet taking over. However, while we likely wouldn’t do well in a physical fight against a …read more
UDP Broadcasting and the Joys of IPv4 Subnetting
Published: July 14, 2026, 2:00 pm
In the previous installment on UDP broadcasting and service discovery, the basics of both were explored, including an implementation in the form of NyanSD and its protocol. Contained in the …read more
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
Adafruit Blog News
Measuring your antenna’s radiation pattern with a drone
Published: July 14, 2026, 3:50 pm
Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV / drones) systems offer a flexible, cost-effective alternative to traditional, expensive indoor chambers for testing large, installed antennas in their operational environments. Researchers developed a specialized, heat-resistant hexacopter with high-precision, sub-centimeter GPS tracking to collect antenna data, even in harsh conditions. To process the resulting irregular data, the team created the […]
The tinytapeout-to-radio-chip path now exists
Published: July 14, 2026, 3:30 pm
A university team designed the frequency-synthesizer core of a WiFi/BLE-class radio (a full 2.4 GHz fractional-N PLL) on IHP’s open 130nm BiCMOS process using a 100% open-source EDA flow — no proprietary tools anywhere. The hard part was always the passives: nobody trusted open models for on-chip spiral inductors, so open silicon stuck to digital. […]
ICYMI Python on Microcontrollers Newsletter: CircuitPython and MicroPython IDEs Grow, Kattni Rembor Chairing PyCon US and More!
Published: July 14, 2026, 2:22 pm
If you missed this week’s Python on Microcontrollers Newsletter, here is the ICYMI (in case you missed it) version. To never miss another issue, subscribe now! – You’ll get a terrific newsletter each Monday (which is out before this post). 12,356 subscribers worldwide! The next newsletter goes out Monday morning and subscribing is the best way to keep […]
eRoadBook is a Rally-Inspired GPS Device
Published: July 14, 2026, 2:00 pm
image via Instructables user gokux Take the rally experience off road with Instructables user gokux‘s eRoadBook: eRoadBook is a self-contained GPS navigation device built around the Seeed XIAO ESP32S3 Plus and a 4.26-inch ePaper display. It’s designed for long road trips, trail rides, rallies, cycling tours, and hiking expeditions — anywhere you need to […]
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 […]
Electronics Weekly News
VectorBlox SDK supports AI inference in power-constrained edge AI apps
Published: July 14, 2026, 3:07 pm
Microchip is releasing its VectorBlox 3.0 Accelerator SDK to help simplify FPGA-based AI implementations. Specifically, it is for those deploying AI inference in power-constrained and mission-critical environments, such as aerospace ...
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JEDEC’s SPHBM4 standard for AI accelerators on organic substrates
Published: July 14, 2026, 1:42 pm
The standards body JEDEC has officially announced JESD330-4 for Standard Package High Bandwidth Memory (SPHBM4), which is related to artificial intelligence accelerators. SPHBM4 uses the same DRAM dies as HBM4, ...
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Population Growth Slowing
Published: July 14, 2026, 1:27 pm
The growth of the global population has been slowing down for decades. According to UN calculations, the world’s population will cross the 10-billion mark in 2061 but, by the end ...
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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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