EE Times News
Electronic Design Industry Rides Chip Wave, APAC Leads Q1 2026 Growth
Published: July 14, 2026, 5:00 pm
Chip design tools are cashing in: Q1 EDA revenue hit $5.7B as APAC surged 17.7% and hyperscalers went DIY.
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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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Hackaday News
2026 Frikkin Lasers Challenge: Laser Bandsaw
Published: July 14, 2026, 6:00 pm
Can you call it a bandsaw if it has neither band nor saw? [WeldingRod1] does, with his entry in the laser contest — a manually-controlled laser cutter that he’s dubbed …read more
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
Adafruit Blog News
From Linux to NuttX on the Adafruit Fruit Jam
Published: July 14, 2026, 6:34 pm
User speccy88 on the Adafruit Forums posts: I’ve been chasing a real OS for Fruit Jam. Started by forking Mr-Bossman’s Linux port — Fruit Jam’s a great target with its HDMI, USB, NeoPixels, speaker, buttons, IR receiver, and generous PSRAM/Flash. Got a lot of hardware working, plus HTTP, FTP, and Telnet servers, but Linux is […]
Reverse engineering the Raspberry Pi Compute Module 5
Published: July 14, 2026, 6:15 pm
Eric Schlaepfer On Tube Time has the reverse engineered schematic and layout for a Raspberry Pi Compute Module 5. It’s not meant to be fabricated–critical signal integrity parameters aren’t correct, it’s not 100% faithful to the original, the footprints aren’t a perfect match, and the bill of materials is not reverse engineered. You also won’t […]
Jim’s TrueType QR code font
Published: July 14, 2026, 6:07 pm
Jim’s TrueType QR Code Font is a real TrueType/OpenType font that turns bracketed text into QR codes during text shaping. There is no separate image generation or preprocessing step: type text like [hello], apply the font, and the font’s built-in OpenType rules render the QR code. Because the QR code is still text, you can […]
JP’s Product Pick of the Week — 6pm Eastern TODAY! 7/14/26 @adafruit #adafruit #newproductpick
Published: July 14, 2026, 5:52 pm
Come on by for JP’s Product Pick of The Week ! A new product pick will be revealed. The show airs at a special time this week 6pm ET / 3pm PT, today, due to the World Cup Semifinal 🇫🇷 v 🇪🇸 ⚽️ Check out the livestream right here inside this product page you won’t want […]
Book: Digital Deli, The Comprehensive, User-Lovable Menu of Computer Lore, Culture, Lifestyles and Fancy
Published: July 14, 2026, 5:43 pm
Digital Deli is a fantastic time capsule from 1984, edited by Steve Ditlea and credited to “The Lunch Group & Guests” — a menu-themed anthology (Appetizers, Soup and Crackers, Word Salad, Just Desserts) that tries to capture everything about the microcomputer moment as it was happening: hardware, culture, marriages, kids, and the quasi-religious fervor some […]
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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