CXO Interview with Solaiman Rahim of ChipAgents - Dr. Solaiman Rahim is a multidisciplinary technology executive with over 25 years of experience driving innovation in the chip automation space at the intersection of systems, semiconductors, high-performance computing, and AI. As Chief Product Officer at ChipAgents, he leads the scaling of the Agentic...
Risks behind the optimism of Korea's 2027 super budget - Risks behind the optimism of Korea's 2027 super budget Temporary chip-driven tax windfalls and state-led investments could weaken Korea’s long-term fiscal resilience. 11/10/2026 - 10:01 AM Opinion Desk
E Ink Unveils Spectra™ 6 9-Color for Smoother, More Vibrant Images - E Ink announced the release of E Ink Spectra™ 6 9-color, a new color system that expands the Spectra 6 platform from six to nine base colors. This increased range moves ePaper further beyond flatter, muted tones to render more vivid, natural-looking photographs.
How China gets the Nvidia chips it needs to develop AI - Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang has admitted to having an affair, reportedly with a Chinese executive at a Singapore-based company that the United States suspects of smuggling AI microchips into China.
Anthropic's Fable 5.2 and Mythos 5.2 advance agentic AI - The launch of Claude Fable 5.2 and Claude Mythos 5.2 marks a decisive shift in artificial intelligence, transitioning models from passive task completion to true autonomous collaboration. Built on a shared neural foundation, the twin models divide responsibilities to balance sheer technical capability...
AI’s Efficiency Challenge For The Semiconductor Industry - AI is reshaping the tools, data, and collaboration models used to design, manufacture, and test silicon. The post AI’s Efficiency Challenge For The Semiconductor Industry appeared first on Semiconductor Engineering .
Barrick Mining Moves on Earnings; Google's New AI Chips | Stock Movers - On this episode of Stock Movers: - Shares of Barrick Mining (B) rose in premarket trading after the miner reported third-quarter earnings that beat the average analyst estimate as strength in gold offset copper weakness. The company also said that its Nevada Gold Mines initial public offering remains...
Who Really Operates the World’s Greenest Fab? - TechInsights’ experimental Most Sustainable Fab Ranking compares the environmental performance of 218 global semiconductor manufacturing facilities.
Semiconductor Companies Get Tough on AI Investment, but Measuring Returns Remains a Challenge - HTEC research finds semiconductor companies are ahead in scaling AI, yet fragmented measurement is making it harder to connect engineering gains to business outcomes. The post Semiconductor Companies Get Tough on AI Investment, but Measuring Returns Remains a Challenge appeared first on Semiconductor...
CTO Interview with Ed Plowman of Imagination Technologies - Ed Plowman is Chief Technology Officer at Imagination Technologies, where he leads technology strategy, advanced architecture research and long-term innovation initiatives. He focuses on the convergence of graphics, compute and artificial intelligence, helping shape the next generation of efficient and...
Examining the insides of an economical phono preamp - Equalization, amplification, location. That’s a phono preamp in a nutshell. But the "devil's in the details". And then there’s the grounding… The post Examining the insides of an economical phono preamp appeared first on EDN .
Fable: The Home For Geniuses - The “Pope of Physics” as his colleagues called him because of his infallibility in solving physics problems, was increasingly concerned by anti-Semitic laws passed by his country’s fascist government because […] The post Fable: The Home For Geniuses appeared first on Electronics Weekly .
阿貢實驗室獲百倍 GPU 記憶體加持，結合全新 AI 算力開啟「自主實驗室」研究新紀元 - 美國能源部阿貢國家實驗室（Argonne National Laboratory）4 宣布，將擴充其推論服務（Inference Service）的運算資源，讓研究人員能使用更多先進模型，並將人工智慧更深入地整合到科學工作流程中。這項升級由阿貢領導運算設施（ALCF）推動，在新增...
Machines that think: trust and provenance - This is the twelfth part in a series on how AI is crossing out of software and into the physical world. This time, Jan Bosch looks at what it takes to establish that something is real when anything can be synthesized.
When the economic illusion fades - When the economic illusion fades Fuel price controls and a semiconductor-led export boom may be hiding weakening household finances and deeper structural vulnerabilities. 11/8/2026 - 10:01 AM Opinion Desk
Team unlocks large-scale Fourier transforms for analog in-memory computing - Fourier transforms are mathematical calculations that can be used to identify the frequencies that make up a signal and shed light on their individual contributions. These transforms have been used, for example, to unveil ...
Quantum Discovery Reveals Why More Powerful Lasers Can Actually Slow Atoms Down - Researchers have uncovered an unexpected way to control the movement of atomic layers in quantum materials. Scientists have discovered that two carefully timed laser pulses can move atomic layers in a quantum material more effectively than a single, more powerful pulse. Published in Nature Physics, the...
Saskatchewan’s Semiconductor Strength Is Connecting the Pieces - Saskatchewan brings together AI infrastructure, quantum research, chip design talent, and advanced materials expertise to expand its role in Canada’s technology ecosystem. The post Saskatchewan’s Semiconductor Strength Is Connecting the Pieces appeared first on EE Times .
Three-Dimensional Chess Anyone? The Challenges of Power Integrity for Multi-Die Designs - Power integrity has been a substantial design challenge for a long time. In the multi-die era, the problems associated with EMIR analysis must now move beyond the chip to consider interactions across the entire stack. The effects to be analyzed span a multi-dimensional, multi-material space. The graphic...
LTE Cat 1bis or 5G RedCap? RF design decisions behind an IoT modem refresh - The choice among LTE Cat 1bis, LTE-M, NB-IoT, and 5G RedCap should be made as an RF system decision, not from a modem datasheet alone. The post LTE Cat 1bis or 5G RedCap? RF design decisions behind an IoT modem refresh appeared first on EDN .
Congratulations to Stefano Di Matteo and Emanuele Valea on winning the Best Paper Award at DDECS 2026! - The work of Stefano Di Matteo (CEA-Leti) and Emanuele Valea (CEA-List) received the Best Paper Award at the IEEE International Symposium on Design and Diagnostics of Electronic Circuits and Systems, held in April 2026 in Bratislava, Slovakia. Their area of expertise? Efficiently integrating post-quantum...
Nickel/aluminium is the smarter alternative to traditional silver/aluminium EMI shielding materials - Nickel-aluminium (Ni/Al) is emerging as an alternative to silver-aluminium (Ag/Al) in shielding applications, writes Rachid Ait El Cadi. For decades Ag/Al conductive elastomer gaskets have occupied a leading position in electromagnetic […] The post Nickel/aluminium is the smarter alternative to traditional...
Fiber Sensing Company Optics11 Secures $56M in Funding - Optics11, a deep-tech company developing fiber optic sensing for underwater intelligence and energy grids, has secured €50 million ($56M) in follow-on equity investment to accelerate its capacity to meet global customer demand. As European...
What It Takes to Let a Farm Robot Work Alone - Safe agricultural autonomy depends on matching safeguards to the machine, its surroundings, and the people who interact with it. The post What It Takes to Let a Farm Robot Work Alone appeared first on EE Times .
Defects and Structural Evolution in CrSBr: Machine-Learning Potentials for Atomistic Simulations - The layered van der Waals semiconductor CrSBr combines intrinsic magnetic order with semiconducting and optical properties, making it a promising material for multifunctional electronic and photonic applications. Understanding how defects and structural transformations affect its properties under experimentally...
Korea’s petrochemical giants plunge back into red as war-driven windfall fades - Korea’s petrochemical giants plunge back into red as war-driven windfall fades Major petrochemical companies swung to a combined third quarter loss as costly naphtha, weaker prices and Chinese oversupply intensified pressure for restructuring. 11/9/2026 - 04:18 AM News Team
The "Semi-Apocalypse": Market Panic, Enterprise AI, and the 2028 GPU Glut Theory - In the latest episode of "The Circuit" based on the transcript provided in the file "ben-jay (12).txt", hosts Ben Beheron and Jay Goldberg cover a wide spectrum of technology and semiconductor news, opening with a discussion on the unexpected shortage of Apple's premium polishing cloths, which Ben argues...
Google expands its 8th-Gen TPU portfolio for agentic AI - Google has expanded its eighth generation TPU portfolio with the TPU 8tx and TPU 8i Max. Following on from the TPU 8t and TPU 8i releases in April, it marks […] The post Google expands its 8th-Gen TPU portfolio for agentic AI appeared first on Electronics Weekly .
Mitsui Chemicals to Take Over Chip Linchpin JSR for $12 Billion - Japan’s Mitsui Chemicals Inc. is buying JSR Corp. for ¥1.84 trillion ($12 billion) with support from state-backed Development Bank of Japan to strengthen its hold over a key chip materials linchpin.
The Optical Super Highway For AI - Exponentially increasing AI compute performance requires exponential interconnect speeds. The post The Optical Super Highway For AI appeared first on Semiconductor Engineering .
The secret signals of keyless fobs - Here’s how your fob speaks to your car and the clever security engineering that keeps thieves from listening in. The post The secret signals of keyless fobs appeared first on EDN .
The Midterms Hit AI: Data Center Pushback, a Market Whipsaw, and Earnings That Tell a Different Story - A midterm election that put data centers on the ballot, followed by one of the sharpest two-day market swings in recent memory, changed the AI conversation this week, even as earnings from AMD, Arm, Lattice, and Coherent pointed to demand that hasn't slowed. Patrick Moorhead and Daniel Newman unpack what...
Samsung Names 10 Outstanding Researchers in Future Technology Program - Samsung has presented its first awards to researchers who delivered outstanding results under its Future Technology Fostering Program, which has supported scientific research for 14 years.Samsung said on Nov. 5 that it held the 2026 Samsung Future Technology Fostering Program Annual Forum at the Wes
CEO Interview with Mark Rushworth of Finchetto - Mark Rushworth is CEO of the all-optical network switch company, Finchetto, a photonics startup developing fully optical network switching technology for AI and hyperscale data centers. He specializes in integrated photonics and optical networking, with a focus on reducing the power consumption and latency...
Siemens Expands Chip-Design Business With Software Deal - Siemens AG agreed to buy family-owned Lauterbach GmbH to expand its chip-design portfolio, part of a strategy of acquiring specialist technology firms to help meet rising demand for state-of-the-art semiconductors.
AMD Zen 6 EPYC ‘Venice’ deep dive and benchmarking - AMD has pulled back the curtain on its Zen 6 microarchitecture. We deep-dive into the differences between Zen 5 and 6, as well as detail our first benchmarks of AMD’s Venice CPUs.
ESA signs OHB for next-gen Sentinel-3 topography mission - The German space systems integrator OHB has been awarded, by the European Space Agency (ESA), a €554 million contract for two next-gen Sentinel-3 topography satellites. The Sentinel-3 Next Generation Topography […] The post ESA signs OHB for next-gen Sentinel-3 topography mission appeared first on...
Simple circuit detects sequence errors and failure in three-phase power supplies - All-phases presence and correct phase sequencing are both critical conditions for proper three-phase line-powered equipment operation. The post Simple circuit detects sequence errors and failure in three-phase power supplies appeared first on EDN .
The History of SMIC: China’s Rise in Semiconductor Manufacturing - Semiconductor Manufacturing International Corporation (SMIC) is one of the most important companies in the development of China’s semiconductor industry. Founded in Shanghai in 2000 by Taiwanese semiconductor executive Richard Chang, SMIC emerged with an ambitious objective: to establish a world-class...
CTO Interview with Ed Plowman of Imagination Technologies - Ed Plowman is Chief Technology Officer at Imagination Technologies, where he leads technology strategy, advanced architecture research and long-term innovation initiatives. He focuses on the convergence of graphics, compute and artificial intelligence, helping shape the next generation of efficient and...
Fujitsu's Growth Strategy in Integrated Report 2026 - Explore Fujitsu’s growth strategy toward 2035 through Integrated Report 2026, including Technology-driven value creation, AI-driven management and people, materiality, and the connection between social and corporate value.
Tax Exporters Less - As an incentive to export, the Government should seriously consider limiting the proposed “payroll tax” to firms exporting less than ten per cent of their output. so, 65 years ago, […] The post Tax Exporters Less appeared first on Electronics Weekly .
European AI companies have raised $27.6bn this year - Europe AI companies raised $27.6B in the first nine months of 2026, up 3.2x from $8.6B in 9M 2025, says Tracxn Technologies. The ten largest rounds raised $19.0B of that, […] The post European AI companies have raised $27.6bn this year appeared first on Electronics Weekly .
G&H to Acquire Acousto-Optic Solutions Provider IntraAction Corp. - G&H, a provider of advanced photonic solutions, has acquired IntraAction Corp, a designer and manufacturer of acousto-optic solutions enabling precise modulation, deflection, and control of laser beams. IntraAction’s technologies address applications in industrial, telecom, and the life sciences.
When the economic illusion fades (KOR) - When the economic illusion fades (KOR) Fuel price controls and a semiconductor-led export boom may be hiding weakening household finances and deeper structural vulnerabilities. 11/8/2026 - 07:27 PM Opinion Desk
CEA-Leti and SMS-E Join Forces to Optimize the Performance of Components - As part of their partnership, CEA-Leti and SMS-E are collaborating to expand the applications of nanosecond laser annealing—a process that facilitates the integration of multiple layers of transistors and leading to increasingly high-performance power components.
Semiconductor Earnings Sugar Rush Likely to Fade, Says JPMorgan’s Peters - Grace Peters, global investment strategy co-head at JPMorgan Private Bank, calls semiconductor stocks “the epicenter of this drawdown,” but says that earnings assumptions show markets are “reasonably valued.” She says the firm doesn’t have a reason to step back from investing in equities as...
Still Looking for Diamonds - Silicon carbide demand surges, but Europe risks hollow sovereignty as investment flows abroad; see why Bulgaria’s fab needs customers first. The post Still Looking for Diamonds appeared first on EE Times .
Ed Takes Advantage From Project Fear - The government is terrified that the behaviour of the revolting frogs will cross the channel and infect our own people who, enraged by the same problems of rising living costs […] The post Ed Takes Advantage From Project Fear appeared first on Electronics Weekly .
Samsung cash pile tops 200 trillion won as chip boom fuels record spending - Samsung cash pile tops 200 trillion won as chip boom fuels record spending The semiconductor surge gives Samsung more room for shareholder returns, AI-driven investment and expanded chip production. 11/8/2026 - 12:15 AM News Team
CEO Interview With Trey Closson of Amplio - Trey Closson is the Co-Founder and CEO of Amplio, an AI-powered industrial asset recovery company helping manufacturers recover value from surplus equipment and inventory. With over a decade of experience in global logistics, supply chain strategy, and operations, Trey previously led international logistics...
