EE Times News
MIPS on the RISC-V Shift: ‘Physical AI Is Agentic AI at the Edge’
Published: July 6, 2026, 5:00 pm
MIPS bets RISC-V and ARC AI will power physical AI in cars and factory robots. Watch the interview and learn more.
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Voice Is Key to Physical AI; Development Methods Need to Catch Up
Published: July 6, 2026, 12:41 pm
To solve far-field ASR challenges, physical AI needs acoustic reality, prompting engineers to use physics-based simulation.
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Kioxia All Set to Raise the NAND Game in AI SSDs
Published: July 6, 2026, 7:29 am
Here is how the Japanese chipmaker is cashing in on NAND flash demand in data center SSDs.
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Breakthrough CNT Pellicles Deliver 66x Durability and Sufficient Transmittance
Published: July 6, 2026, 4:00 am
Explore the latest breakthrough in CNT pellicles for EUV lithography: durability is up to 66 times higher, with less transmittance loss.
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Inside Infineon’s €5B Dresden Fab: Virtual Fab Cloning Fast-Tracked the Launch
Published: July 4, 2026, 10:40 am
At the opening of its Dresden smart power fab, Infineon’s COO said virtual fab cloning enabled delivery three months ahead of schedule.
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Hackaday News
How to Rebuild an 1800s Victorian Leclanché cell
Published: July 6, 2026, 8:00 pm
The 19th century was an absolutely electrifying era, including in a literal sense. Although the phenomenon of electricity had been known by that time for centuries, actually making it do …read more
The Bit79 was a Famicom clone that took the “Family Computer” Name Seriously
Published: July 6, 2026, 6:30 pm
While the original name of what much of the world knows as the NES was the Nintendo Family Computer, or Famicom for short, it was very rarely used as a …read more
Ultra-Long Range Flights To Ease Australian Air Travel
Published: July 6, 2026, 5:00 pm
Pity the poor Australians. Isolated on a jagged hunk of land far from everywhere else, these industrious people have to take two-legged flights (or more) to reach a great many …read more
A New Challenger Approaches the Open Source Vehicle
Published: July 6, 2026, 3:30 pm
Cheap vehicles are thin on the ground in 2026, but [Andy Didorosi] thinks he has the answer for low-speed applications with an open source kei truck. Still in the early …read more
Hackaday Europe 2026: Is Your Blood Pressure Monitor Lying To You?
Published: July 6, 2026, 2:02 pm
Blood pressure is one of the so-called “vital signs” that medical practitioners use to determine the basic state of a patient in any given moment. It’s exactly what it sounds …read more
Adafruit Blog News
Bypassing the Sound Blaster’s new firmware signature check
Published: July 6, 2026, 8:53 pm
Rasmus Moorats recently demonstrated a few vulnerabilities in the Sound Blaster Katana V2/V2X/SE which allowed one to hijack the device over Bluetooth and turn it into an attacker-controlled keyboard peripheral, injecting keystrokes into the connected machine. One of the flaws I highlighted in my previous post was that CTP, which the mobile and desktop applications use to […]
An Atomic Force Microscope and specialized etching
Published: July 6, 2026, 8:29 pm
Applied Science explores the mechanics of a MEMS-based atomic force microscope by imaging biological samples and testing specialized etching techniques. Through careful sample preparation, such as using gelatin for immobilization, Applied Science investigates how surface modifications on stainless steel respond to various electrochemical processes. Makers of this microscope: See the video below:
The Windows CE Dreamcast Community edition
Published: July 6, 2026, 8:08 pm
The Dreamcast shipped a stripped-down Windows CE 2.12 that retail games booted into and never exposed. Windows CE Dreamcast Community Edition takes that same on-disc CE runtime and turns it into something you can actually use: a multitasking windowed desktop and an in-progress TCP/IP stack over the Broadband Adapter — all baked into a standard bootable Dreamcast disc. […]
Apricot Computers: an underrated British brand
Published: July 6, 2026, 7:48 pm
David L. Farquhar clearly notes that Sinclair and Amstrad and Acorn are well known vintage computers. But when it comes to British brands, it seems like one that you don’t hear a lot about Apricot. But thanks to a television program that aired in early 1990, we know a fair bit about Apricot’s triumphs and […]
A Raspberry Pi Compute Module 0 (CM0) 3D model (STEP)
Published: July 6, 2026, 7:31 pm
Mirosław Folejewski has created a 3D model of the Raspberry Pi Compute Module 0 (CM0) System-on-Module (SOM) in STEP format. While designing hardware based on the Raspberry Pi CM0, I searched for an official 3D CAD model provided by Raspberry Pi. However, I was unable to find a STEP model for the CM0 on the manufacturer’s […]
Electronics Weekly News
Orbital Compute gears up for 10 gigawatts of AI compute in space
Published: July 6, 2026, 3:40 pm
Orbital Compute is unveiling plans for a 100,000-satellite constellation of orbital datacentres to provide AI computing power in space. A filing with the US Federal Communications Commission (FCC) outlines “artificial-intelligence ...
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Firefly, Astrobotic, Intuitive win NASA lunar lander contracts
Published: July 6, 2026, 1:55 pm
Nasa has awarded lunar lander contracts contracts totalling almost $600 million to three companies: Firefly, Astrobotic and Intuitive Machines. Specifically, Astrobotic is awarded $297.9 million total for two deliveries. And ...
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Oil Production Falls
Published: July 6, 2026, 1:25 pm
The USA lifted its blockade of the Strait of Hormuz late Thursday last week as a 60-day window to turn an interim peace agreement with Iran into a full-fledged one ...
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Pickering PXI/PXIe analogue output modules target HIL simulation
Published: July 6, 2026, 9:52 am
Pickering Interfaces is expanding its signal sourcing and sensor simulation portfolio with new PXI/PXIe analogue output modules: the 41-770 PXI, 43-770 PXIe, 41-625 PXI, 43-625 PXIe and PXI 41-761A. The ...
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Micron breaks ground on $9bn Hiroshima fab expansion
Published: July 6, 2026, 1:29 am
At the weekend, Micron broke ground on a $9.3 billion expansion of its fab in Hiroshima supported by a $4.8 billion allocation by the Japanese government. “Micron’s very first HBM ...
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