EE Times News
Next-Gen Integrated Voltage Regulators with Multilayer Power Inductors and Ceramic Capacitors
Published: May 12, 2026, 5:00 pm
Explore TAIYO YUDEN’s advanced metal power inductors and MLCCs for efficient power solutions in next-generation AI and GPU applications.
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Apple-Intel Foundry Deal Could Reshape U.S. Chip Manufacturing
Published: May 12, 2026, 1:09 pm
The reported agreement may just represents a symbolic hedge against TSMC concentration.
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AI Delivers Faster, Actionable DRC Closure for Complex SoC Designs
Published: May 12, 2026, 1:00 pm
Calibre Vision AI helps SoC teams quickly group and analyze DRC violations, speeding debug, convergence, and tapeout predictability.
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Rising EV and AI Loads Bring Connectors Into Early Design Decisions
Published: May 12, 2026, 8:05 am
Explore how advanced interconnect solutions drive EV and AI infrastructure growth in this interview with Amphenol.
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The Memory Wall Is Real, Here Is the Door
Published: May 11, 2026, 5:16 pm
The DRAM crunch is real—secure your AI product roadmap now with memory compression or risk falling behind.
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Hackaday News
CRTs Are Too Mainstream, So Game on a Mechanical TV Instead
Published: May 12, 2026, 8:00 pm
Aside from nostalgia, people claim to like CRTs because they’re apprehendable– the technology just makes more sense than the arcane wibbly-wobbly solid-state madness going on inside the driver chip of …read more
A Cyberdeck That Runs Linux…in an Altoids Tin
Published: May 12, 2026, 6:30 pm
In the time Hackaday has been in existence we must have brought you plenty of projects housed in Altoids tins, as well as a sizeable number of cyberdecks. But until …read more
2026 Hackaday Europe: Pre-party, More Workshops, and Everything Else
Published: May 12, 2026, 5:20 pm
With Hackaday Europe no more than two days away, we want to help you wrap up all of the last loose ends. And that means last-minute changes in the workshop …read more
The History of Altec Lansing
Published: May 12, 2026, 2:00 pm
If you bought computer audio hardware a few decades ago, you may remember coming across products from Altec Lansing. That you probably haven’t thought of that name in some time …read more
This Random Number Generator Does It With Neon
Published: May 12, 2026, 11:00 am
The quest for true randomness has roots in cryptography and is a rabbit hole that gets surprisingly deep with alarmingly rapidity. Still, the generation of random-enough numbers is a popular …read more
Adafruit Blog News
The hottest anti-AI gadget is a Cyberdeck
Published: May 12, 2026, 9:14 pm
On TikTok, young women are going viral for crafting whimsical homemade computers inside purses. (A) TikTok creator, whose real name is Annike Tan, unveiled her very first build in March with a video partially captioned “fuck it. cunty cyberdeck.” In that TikTok, she puts the hardware together and shows off the frilly details, like a custom […]
How to reverse-engineer almost any keyboard matrix with Raspberry Pi Pico
Published: May 12, 2026, 8:45 pm
thanishurs31 on Instructables has developed a Pi Pico and CircuitPython solution to scan an entire keyboard ribbon cable matrix. The old way to tackle this is the continuity-meter dance — you probe every possible pin pair, draw a grid, cross things out, wonder if that reading was real or just a ghost, and eventually end […]
The summary of the MIT working group on generative AI and the work of the future
Published: May 12, 2026, 8:16 pm
To conclude MIT’s working group on generative AI and the work of the future, the group has released a paper summarizing the findings from three years of research on companies’ experiments with generative AI. Across the applications of generative AI addressing these challenges, there has been a shift in the core tasks that professional and […]
DIY 1920-1930 Carbon Microphone
Published: May 12, 2026, 8:00 pm
Prop and scenic painting technician Carousse shared this really cool carbon microphone on instructables. I worked on a play that required a functioning early 20th century carbon microphone. They are rare, expensive, actors can accidently drop them and would need to be re-wired with a modern wireless microphone. I like this kind of challenge because […]
You’ve seen the Chip Shortage and the Memory Shortage, now prepare for the PCB Shortage
Published: May 12, 2026, 7:58 pm
The conflict in the Middle East has disrupted supplies of crucial raw materials and pushed up prices of the printed circuit boards (PCB) used in almost all electronic devices, from smartphones and computers to AI servers, industry sources and executives have said. The disruption is a fresh blow to electronics manufacturers which are already grappling […]
Electronics Weekly News
CHIIPS #32 – Georgia Elliot-Smith from Engineers without Borders UK
Published: May 12, 2026, 4:09 pm
Engineers without Borders UK aims to put global responsibility at the heart of engineering. And Georgia talks about the Engineering for People Design Challenge, how the UK manages its industrial waste, and environmental engineering.
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Picture of the Day: TI-84 Evo Graphing Calculator adds Python support
Published: May 12, 2026, 3:14 pm
Calculators have changed a bit since my schooldays. Check out TI's new smartphone-like calculator to see: the TI-84 Evo Graphing Calculator!
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King’s Awards for Enterprise 2026
Published: May 12, 2026, 1:58 pm
The King’s Awards for Enterprise 2026 have been announced, and Electronics Weekly studied the list of winners to discover which electronics-related organisations have been honoured this year. They were officially ...
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US Troops In Europe
Published: May 12, 2026, 1:29 pm
The United States said on May 1, 2026, that it plans to withdraw around 5,000 troops from Germany. Germany remains by far the largest hub of U.S. military personnel in ...
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UDE adds multi-core debug support for ST’s Stellar P3E automotive MCU
Published: May 12, 2026, 9:27 am
The Universal Debug Engine (UDE) debugging, tracing, and testing tool from PLS (Programmable Logic & Systems) now also supports Stellar P3E microcontrollers from STMicroelectronics. This is ST’s first automotive MCU ...
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