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
AIM-ing For a More Open Platform Than Discord
Published: July 15, 2026, 5:00 am
Do you remember AIM? It may suprize you to hear that AOL’s instant messanger was actually supported all the way up to 2017– two years after Discord launched. Unlike Discord, …read more
Benchmarking Repairability Scores with an Asus Tablet
Published: July 15, 2026, 2:00 am
A few years ago, France introduced a mandatory repairability score for consumer goods like laptops and tablets. It involves five criteria that range from documentation and availability of spare parts …read more
Full Body VR Tracking Is Just Some Recycled Hardware Away
Published: July 14, 2026, 11:00 pm
Full body tracking in VR applications involves attaching sensors to one’s body, and [Jaki] has a DIY method to do it on the cheap: the Vive Tracker Lite project repurposes …read more
The Neo Geo Does Run DOOM After All
Published: July 14, 2026, 8:00 pm
Perhaps the most ridiculous statement that anyone can make is that a computer system with clearly enough processing power ‘cannot run DOOM‘. This is why we accept the premise that a …read more
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
Adafruit Blog News
Building a robotics research setup that lives next to a desk
Published: July 14, 2026, 9:29 pm
Matthias Plappert at dfdx labs will spend the next several months doing independent research on robotic manipulation, and doing it in the open. I don’t expect the main output to be papers or an open-source codebase. What I care about here is the research log itself: what works, what fails, and what I learn from […]
An Advanced Nintendo Entertainment System
Published: July 14, 2026, 9:22 pm
decrazyo on GitHub outlines the process for modding the Nintendo Entertainment System (NES) to use 2 PPUs for advanced graphical features. I don’t expect anyone to actually bother building this so the docs might be kind of half-assed at times. Check out my modified fork of Mesen2 if you’d like to play with this concept without modding […]
A Beavis Ultrasound PnP ISA sound card replica
Published: July 14, 2026, 9:12 pm
Eric Schlaepfer On Tube Time has designed the Beavis Ultrasound PnP, an open source replica of the Gravis Ultrasound Pnp. Unlike other clones, this design includes the entire schematic as well as the reverse-engineered source code of the GAL. While Eric notes “I have not generated the fab package since I have not actually fabricated […]
A virtual pen plotter
Published: July 14, 2026, 9:04 pm
Frank Force (KilledByAPixel on GitHub) has created a 3D pen-plotter simulator in the browser. Drop in an SVG and watch a little AxiDraw-style machine draw it on virtual paper. The arm sliding, pen lifting, stepper motors whirring. It doesn’t make anything real but it’s nice to watch. Speed — 1× (real time) up to 1000× for […]
Recording the integrated circuit decapsulation process
Published: July 14, 2026, 8:55 pm
azya on X (formerly Twitter) recorded a video of the IC decapsulation process. The hot air gun nozzle is visible in the top-left corner, with the temperature set to ~150°C. This method works great for small chips. On larger dies, some compound often remains in the center, which I remove by boiling in rosin. See […]
Electronics Weekly News
Arm to expand use of Arteris security technology
Published: July 15, 2026, 5:26 am
Arm is to expand its adoption of Arteris’ hardware security assurance product, Cycuity Radix, on select Arm CPU designs. Arteris’ technology helps identify and mitigate potential security weaknesses and vulnerabilities, ...
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UMC shipping Sipho wafers
Published: July 15, 2026, 5:25 am
SILITH Technology, a silicon photonics fabless company, and UMC have announced the first mass-production wafer delivery of photonic ICs from UMC’s Singapore fab. The collaboration combines SILITH’s silicon photonics innovation ...
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NextGO Epi raises €2m for Gallium Oxide development
Published: July 15, 2026, 5:22 am
NextGOEpi, a Berlin-based deep tech startup spun off from Leibniz-Institut für Kristallzüchtung (IKZ), producing Gallium Oxide epitaxial wafers for next-generation power electronics, has secured a €2 million pre-seed funding round. ...
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element14 offers products for free in return for reviews
Published: July 15, 2026, 5:15 am
element14 has launched a new initiative within its RoadTest programme, inviting engineers to apply to test and review a product of their choosing. The initiative allows participants to request any ...
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Configurable pressure sensor span down to 2 bar.
Published: July 15, 2026, 5:00 am
Melexis has introduced low-pressure variants across its Triphibian pressure sensor family, supporting configurable pressure spans as low as 2 bar. Available for the MLX90830, MLX90833, and MLX90834, the variants extend ...
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