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Synopsys announced the UALinkSec_200 Security Module, the first hardware implementation that complies with the UALink 200 G specification’s security framework. The module provides end‑to‑end AES‑GCM encryption and authentication at the full 200 GT/s lane rate, integrating with Synopsys’ UALink controller IP and 224 G Ethernet‑based PHY. Designed for AI clusters scaling to 1,024 accelerators, it maintains sub‑microsecond retransmission latency while keeping power draw low. By leveraging standard 802.3dj PHY components, the solution offers a drop‑in path for secure, high‑speed interconnects.
Xiaomi captured the top spot in Russia’s smartphone market for the first quarter, achieving a 27% share of devices activated according to RuStore data. Samsung follows at 21%, while Transsion’s Tecno, Infinix and iTel brands hold 14%. Realme secured 12%,...
The Metal 1.0, a desktop LPBF metal 3D printer, launched on Kickstarter with a price of €8,500 (~$9,840), promising low‑cost entry to metal additive manufacturing. It uses a 60 W diode laser, a small 128 × 100 mm build area (stretch version 128 × 150 mm), and offers...
Pine64, known for low‑cost open‑source hardware, announced the PineTime Pro smartwatch, adding an AMOLED display, GPS, blood‑oxygen sensor and a digital crown. The company has paused production of several other devices amid a global RAM shortage, but the new watch aims...
Agentic AI is emerging as an autonomous layer for semiconductor design and manufacturing, building on decades of heuristic, machine‑learning, and generative‑AI advances. By orchestrating specialized agents across specification, microarchitecture, verification, and physical implementation, firms report up to ten‑fold acceleration of...
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Echodyne CEO Eben Frankenberg explained how the company leveraged breakthrough meta‑material technology to create small, affordable electronically scanned radars for both military and commercial use. Founded in 2014 within Nathan Myhrvold’s Intellectual Ventures, the firm secured $135 million in 2022 funding...
Researchers at Tohoku University have created belt‑shaped VO₂(B) single crystals that detect ethanol vapor at room temperature with roughly 19 times higher sensitivity than conventional V₂O₅ nanofibers. The crystals are produced via a hydrothermal reduction process, eliminating the need for...
Researchers at the Technical University of Denmark have quantitatively analysed an all‑optical quantum memory that stores a qubit in a fibre loop and stabilises it via teleportation‑based error correction. By optimising the syndrome decoder, they predict logical infidelity below 1 %...
Researchers at National Taiwan University introduced a unified analytical framework that captures how channel thickness, trap states, interface quality, and surface roughness together dictate the performance of ultrathin indium‑oxide and tungsten‑doped indium‑oxide transistors. The model accurately reproduces I‑V characteristics across...
Jamaica’s customs now detains every imported 3‑D printer, subjecting each device to a background investigation before release. The policy targets the growing threat of 3‑D‑printed firearms, a concern echoed worldwide. With only 44 printers entering the island over three years—about...
Seagate announced its next‑generation Mozaic 4+ platform, the industry’s only heat‑assisted magnetic recording (HAMR) storage solution now qualified in production with two leading hyperscale cloud providers. The new drives offer up to 44 TB per disk and are positioned to evolve toward...
Frore Systems announced a $143 million Series D round that pushes its valuation to $1.64 billion, officially making it a unicorn and bringing total funding to $340 million. The capital will fund global rollout of its AI‑focused thermal stack, including LiquidJet, LiquidJet Nexus and AirJet...
Xscape Photonics announced an additional $37 million funding round, raising its total Series A to $81 million and doubling the company’s valuation. The new capital backs the launch of FalconX, the industry’s first fully redundant ELSFP laser module that delivers eight wavelengths and...
Micron Technology completed its acquisition of Powerchip Semiconductor Manufacturing Corp.’s P5 site in Tongluo, Taiwan, adding roughly 300,000 sq ft of 300 mm cleanroom space. The company will begin retrofitting the existing facility in March and plans to construct a second, similarly sized...
Granicus, a digital‑engagement platform for more than 7,000 public‑sector agencies, continues to rely on Wowza Media Systems for its hybrid video infrastructure. The company operates roughly 70 cloud‑based Wowza instances alongside over 100 on‑prem deployments, enabling live and on‑demand streaming...
Pure Storage’s Everpure platform is adding ActiveCluster for File, a policy‑driven, autonomous solution that extends high‑availability across an entire fleet of file storage systems. The feature enables continuous file access and automatic workload mobility without requiring new hardware. It integrates...
QNAP Systems has launched QuWAN Express, a lightweight VPN solution that extends its QuWAN SD‑WAN architecture to enable encrypted point‑to‑point NAS‑to‑NAS connections without additional routers. The service leverages QNAP’s cloud‑based Super Node relay, allowing NAS devices behind firewalls or without...
Goodram (Wilk Elektronik) is expanding its long‑standing partnership with Kioxia to add enterprise‑class SSDs for data‑center, cloud and server applications across Europe. The new portfolio features PCIe 5.0 NVMe drives built on BiCS FLASH 3D NAND, offering high throughput, low latency and...
Roku’s Streaming Stick 4K is now priced at $35.99, reflecting a 28% discount from its regular retail price. The deal, posted on March 24, 2026, makes the device one of the most affordable 4K streaming solutions on the market. The stick retains Roku’s...
Meta’s AI‑enabled smart glasses are being marketed as hands‑free wearables, but women report being filmed without consent as the discreet camera and coverable LED indicator enable covert recording. Victims say videos are uploaded to social platforms, drawing abusive commentary and...
Nvidia reports 19 automotive partners working on robotaxi technology, though most currently only field driver‑assist systems. The partners lack sufficient robotaxi‑grade Lidar units and the billions of miles of driving data needed to train the new AI chips. Consequently, they...
Apple built fifteen years of market dominance by owning its silicon, a strategy that powered the mobile‑first era. The rise of artificial intelligence has shifted the critical hardware to specialized AI accelerators, many of which are owned by rivals such...
A CPU‑Z database entry has surfaced for a rumored AMD Ryzen 9 9950X3D2, describing a 16‑core, 4 nm processor with a boost clock above 5.1 GHz and a 200 W TDP. The listing shows 128 MB of L3 cache split 96 MB + 32 MB, which conflicts with expectations of...
Daniel Pyrathon, a New York resident near three subway lines, grew frustrated with repeatedly unlocking his phone to check train times. He engineered a wall‑mounted e‑ink display that pulls live departure data for his nearest stations. The device uses a...
Three friends in Osijek, Croatia—Fabio, Lovro, and Ian—started EON Watches in 2023 after failing to find the custom Casio models they wanted. They invested in modding equipment and began producing bespoke Casio timepieces. Since launch, the micro‑brand has shipped more...
AMD’s Ryzen AI Max+ 395 mobile processor, featuring integrated graphics comparable to a discrete GPU and support for up to 128 GB of LPDDR5‑8000 memory, is now being offered in a growing lineup of mini PCs. Prices for these AI‑focused workstations...
The article wraps up a three‑part series on multi‑die design by highlighting automated routing as the next critical step for high‑speed die‑to‑die interfaces such as High‑Bandwidth Memory (HBM) and Universal Chiplet Interconnect Express (UCIe). It explains how dense bump maps...
The Port Authority of the Southern Tyrrhenian and Ionian Seas secured roughly €2 million (about $2.2 million) from Italy’s Fund for Technological Innovation and Digitalization to build a private 5G network at the Port of Gioia Tauro. The project, which earned a top‑score...
ABB has released SPR2025, the latest Symphony Plus distributed control system (DCS) package, integrating its Automation Extended platform. The update adds system‑wide OPC UA, an Ethernet backbone, and support for modern Microsoft operating systems and virtualization platforms, enabling secure, interoperable...
iFLYTEK has launched AI Translation Earbuds that support 60 languages and provide real‑time, two‑second latency interpretation. The device combines dual microphones, a bone‑conduction sensor, and active noise cancellation to achieve up to 97% speech‑recognition accuracy in noisy environments. Battery life...
Researchers at the National Center for Supercomputing Applications (NCSA) used the Delta and DeltaAI systems to test RADAR, an AI-driven framework that fuses gravitational‑wave and radio‑astronomy data for multi‑messenger astrophysics. The framework demonstrated that analysis can occur where data reside,...
Samsung’s next flagship foldable, the Galaxy Z Fold 8, is slated for a summer 2024 debut and a leak suggests notable hardware upgrades. The device is expected to house a larger 5,000 mAh battery with 45 W fast charging, while retaining the 6.5‑inch...
Data centre projects rarely fail because demand disappears; they slow when delivery proves harder than planned. The most common friction points are power deliverability, permitting, long‑lead equipment, commissioning, late design changes, site logistics, operational readiness, monitoring integration, third‑party dependencies, and...
Google has reduced the price of its Google TV Streamer to $79.99, a 20% discount from the regular $99.99 list price. The device offers 4 GB of RAM, an integrated Matter smart‑home hub, an Ethernet port, and a remote‑finder feature. While...
Liquid AI unveiled LFM 2.5, a vision‑language model that runs entirely on laptops and smartphones using WebGPU and ONNX Runtime. The hybrid architecture blends convolutional blocks with grouped query attention, delivering real‑time image captioning, document analysis, and video processing. It supports...
The RG56 Pro Max is a budget‑focused retro handheld that sports a 5.5‑inch 720p IPS display, hall‑based analog sticks, and a Rockchip 3562 processor. It runs emulators smoothly up to PSP and Dreamcast, but performance drops on more demanding platforms...
Apple is slated to unveil a 2026 Mac Mini powered by its next‑generation M5 and M5 Pro silicon, likely at WWDC in June. The new models will keep the 2024’s minimalist chassis but upgrade to a 10‑core GPU, super‑core architecture,...
The Linux kernel’s extensible scheduler class sched_ext will now prioritize idle SMT siblings before other idle CPUs, altering the idle‑CPU selection policy. The change, slated for the Linux 7.1 merge window, first checks a sibling hyper‑thread, then same‑LLC, same‑NUMA, and finally any...
Silicon Motion unveiled its AI‑optimized boot storage lineup, FerriSSD and Ferri‑UFS/eMMC, at Embedded World 2026, targeting industrial, data‑center, and automotive platforms. The Ferri portfolio delivers PCIe Gen4 boot drives with power‑loss protection, encryption and long‑life support, while meeting automotive standards such...
ATP Electronics unveiled two major storage advances at Embedded World 2026. The new E600Vc/E700Pc e.MMC, measuring just 6.7 mm, is the smallest in the market, delivers up to 70% power savings and offers 64 GB TLC or 20 GB pSLC capacities for smart‑wearable...
DataCore Software's Puls8, a Kubernetes‑native storage platform, won the 2026 Kubernetes Storage Award from StorageNewsletter. The solution builds on OpenEBS and the MayaData acquisition to deliver high‑performance, resilient persistent storage for stateful workloads such as databases and AI/ML pipelines. Puls8...
At the Chiplet Summit, Arteris highlighted its multi‑die interconnect portfolio, showcasing FlexGen, FlexNoC and the coherent Ncore platform for AI, HPC and automotive ADAS applications. The solutions support up to four die‑to‑die links per chiplet and flexible sub‑assembly configurations, enabling...
Asustor is expanding the classic 3‑2‑1 backup rule to a new 3‑2‑1‑1‑0 framework, adding an offline or immutable copy and zero‑error verification. The company’s MyArchive hardware creates air‑gapped removable drives, while its WORM storage locks data against alteration. Asustor also...
The NFC Forum announced that its NFC Wireless Charging (WLC) Specification and NFC Data Exchange Format (NDEF) Technical Specification have been formally adopted as IEC global standards. The IEC’s multi‑stage voting process yielded unanimous consensus, confirming the specs meet rigorous...
Apple’s newest MacBook Pro lineup introduces the M5 and M5 Pro, priced at $1,699 and $2,199 respectively. The M5 Pro adds a 15‑core CPU, 16‑core GPU, 24 GB RAM and double the memory bandwidth, while the base M5 retains a 10‑core CPU and...
Parallel Systems, an LA‑based startup, is piloting autonomous freight rail cars that operate without a traditional locomotive. The driverless units rely on a suite of cameras, lidar sensors and remote operators to navigate existing U.S. tracks. If the trials prove...
Elon Musk announced in April 2025 a joint venture between Tesla, xAI and SpaceX to build the "Terrafab" in Austin, Texas – an advanced semiconductor fab designed to deliver a terawatt (1,000 GW) of AI compute per year, dwarfing the current...
Apple unveiled the AirPods Max 2, a major upgrade to its premium headphones, while external storage prices surged to levels exceeding a new MacBook Air. A rumored iPhone Fold is slated for a December 2026 launch, following the iPhone 18 Pro release, indicating a shift in...
A team of researchers demonstrated that an electric current can actively stabilize spins in energetically unfavorable states within a near‑isotropic tungsten‑cobalt‑iron‑boron‑magnesium‑oxide thin film. By fine‑tuning the film’s heat treatment, the material allows spins to point in any direction, producing large...
Ai+ Smartphone introduced its Nova Series in India, with the Nova 2 and Nova 2 Ultra slated for an April 9, 2026 launch on Flipkart and select retailers. The lineup expands to five models—including Nova 2 Pro, Nova 2 Neo and Nova Flip—over the coming months, emphasizing customizable design, strong...
