An EE Times exclusive video interview with Sir Robin Saxby, founding CEO of Arm, on industry transformation in the age of AI, geopolitics, and how retirement has allowed him to support new startups.

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AI is turning chip patents into a geopolitical battle for dominance, from Nvidia’s CUDA moat to China’s filing surge.

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While opportunity charging is a practice applicable to both Lead Acidand Lithium-ion (Li-ion) batteries for motive power systems, fast charging is a key differentiator for Lithium-ion batteries. Because the chemistry allows fast charging without damaging cycle life, Li-ion multivoltge batteries can be charged opportunistically during breaks and don’t require battery swaps. Learn about best practices […]

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This whitepaper examines the limitations of manual cable validation processes and explores how automated testing strategies help address common engineering and manufacturing pain points. Topics include improving test repeatability, reducing operator-dependent variability, minimizing setup time, streamlining documentation, and enhancing production scalability. The paper also reviews the role of intelligent switching, automated test sequencing, digital recordkeeping, […]

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Scale-up optics will be decided by the link budget. The largest recoverable losses sit at the connector and inside the silicon photonics platform.

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The Claymore mine is a rather fearsome weapon of war, using explosives to blast a cone of shrapnel towards advancing enemies. It’s not really something you should try and build …read more

In a recent video [Sqwerks] does a deep-dive into the problem of disintegrating plastic enclosures of Nintendo DS consoles. These original NDS handheld consoles have a metallic-like coating that appears …read more

Want to feel the heat of nearby fire, explosions, or radiation? Or even just the gentle warmth and breeze of a sunny day in the wasteland? If you said yes, …read more

There are many ways to detect stress in an individual. You can use self-reporting checklists, you could try and measure various vital signs like respiratory rate and pulse and infer …read more

Old-school teletext with its pixelated text and block graphics may now be largely a thing of the past, but that doesn’t mean it’s without enthusiasts or there’s no more life …read more

I’m not sure if Don Quixote is still required reading in high school but I’m certain it is still one of the most influential works of literature to this day. The The Laredo Center for the Arts will be presenting The Quest to Dream III: A Rare Collection of the First Printed Don Quixote Illustrations […]

Zoe Skyforest writing at Hackaday covered a flip disc display by Zimm that throws out the usual electromagnet per pixel. The array is 37 by 18 square discs, black on one side and blue on the other, with no actuator behind any of them. Instead, a CNC machine does the flipping. A tool head scans […]

Dave Farquhar looks back at the Usenet post that started Linux, writing on The Silicon Underground. On August 25, 1991, Linus Torvalds posted to comp.os.minix to describe a free hobby operating system for 386 and 486 PCs. He had been working on it since April. He had the bash shell and the gcc compiler running […]

Cobalt is an open source application platform for Kobo e-readers, published at bandarlabs.github.io. It includes a launcher, a signed app store, a Rust SDK, and a runtime that keeps each app in its own unprivileged process. Install it once over USB, then install, update, and remove apps on the reader itself over WiFi. A reboot […]

LWN published a look at CrossPoint Reader, replacement firmware for the small ESP32-based e-readers that have been showing up from Chinese vendors over the past year. Dave Allie released the first version soon after the Xteink 4 went global. The MIT-licensed project now has more than 200 contributors and supports six devices built around the […]

With their estimated percentage  market shares, these were the top ten semiconductor manufacturing equipment vendors in Q2: % Applied 17-20 ASML 16-19 LAM 14-16 TEL 11-14 KLA 6-8 Naura 3-5 […]

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There's so much to learn. In my case, what exactly is a flip-squisk?! I learnt this one when reading about an Arduino-based flip-squisk display, to be precise.

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SpaceWERX, the U.S. Air Force space technology accelerator programme, will be investing in another 11 companies to develop innovative space technologies. Specifically, the funding will be via its Program Year […]

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Tendeg, the antenna specialist, has released NewTEN, its two-axis steerable reflector antenna for small spacecraft. It was showcased at the 40th Annual Small Satellite Conference in Salt Lake City. Reflector […]

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Much of the AI economy still looks suspiciously circular. Hyperscalers are  investing hundreds of billions of dollars to build AI data center using Nvidia’s chips. Nvidia partially invests its billions […]

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