FAULHABER BXI: Made for the Next Generation of Robotics
FAULHABER introduced the BXI, its most powerful integrated drive system yet, delivering up to 20 Nm torque within a 34 mm package. The unit combines an internal‑rotor motor, stepped planetary gearhead, and a 15‑bit absolute encoder, operating up to 50 V. Its flat aluminum housing enhances thermal dissipation and corrosion resistance, making it ideal for space‑constrained, high‑power‑density robotic joints. Paired with the MC5010 motion controller, the BXI offers streamlined commissioning and precise torque‑sensitive positioning.
Embedder v0.3.1 Nominated for Embedded Award 2026 as the AI Firmware Platform Moves Into Production
Embedder’s AI‑powered firmware platform v0.3.1 has been nominated for the Embedded Award 2026 in the Startup category, signaling its shift from experimental to production‑validated. The tool grounds large‑language‑model agents in hardware‑specific documentation, enabling real‑time code generation, compilation, flashing and hardware‑in‑the‑loop...
Apple MacBook Neo Review: Can a Mac Get by with an iPhone’s Processor Inside?
Apple introduced the MacBook Neo, a sub‑$600 entry‑level Mac that swaps the traditional M‑series silicon for the iPhone‑derived A18 Pro processor. Priced at $599 (or $499 with education discount), the Neo offers a 13‑inch display, fan‑less design, and Apple’s ecosystem integration...
Lux Aeterna Closes $10M Seed to Build Reusable Sats
Lux Aeterna, a Colorado‑based startup founded by former Starlink engineer Brian Taylor, closed a $10 million seed round led by Konvoy Ventures to develop its reusable satellite platform Delphi. The 200‑kg demo satellite, built with COTS parts and a NASA‑partnered heat...
Kaohsiung Mayor to Visit U.S. to Strengthen Semiconductor Ties
Kaohsiung Mayor Chen Chi‑mai will lead a city delegation to the United States to deepen semiconductor ties, beginning with Arizona and then attending Nvidia’s GPU Technology Conference in San Jose. The mission seeks cooperation on advanced manufacturing, AI applications, and...
Würth Elektronik Presents New Radio Module Variants
Würth Elektronik has introduced two new RF modules, Proteus‑IV and Ophelia‑IV, built around Nordic’s nRF54L15 SoC. Proteus‑IV ships as a ready‑to‑use Bluetooth LE 6.0 module with preinstalled firmware, while Ophelia‑IV is a developer‑focused platform that runs Zephyr RTOS and allows custom...
The Ayaneo Pocket Air Mini X B.Duck Limited Edition Might Be This Year's Cutest Android Gaming Handheld
Ayaneo released a limited‑edition Pocket Air Mini featuring the Chinese B.Duck mascot, priced at $109.99. The handheld retains the standard Pocket Air Mini hardware—a 4.2‑inch LCD, MediaTek Helio G90T, 3 GB RAM, 64 GB storage, and a 4,500 mAh battery. Its bright yellow...
Alstom to Deliver Signalling for Lodz High-Speed Rail Tunnel
Alstom has signed a contract with construction firm PORR to design, install and integrate advanced signalling for the new 4.6‑km high‑speed rail tunnel in Łódź, a cornerstone of Poland’s Y‑rail corridor linking Warsaw, the forthcoming national airport and, eventually, Poznań...
INTERTRAFFIC: Tönnjes Unveils Hybrid Chip for Secure Vehicle Identification
Tönnjes introduced a hybrid Rain RFID/NFC chip at Intertraffic 2026, developed with EM Microelectronic. The dual‑frequency tag combines long‑range UHF identification with smartphone‑based NFC verification and features AES‑128 authentication plus expanded memory. Designed for seamless integration, it works with existing...
Sumo Digital Partners with Arm to Explore AI-Powered "PC-Class" Graphics for Mobile Games
Sumo Digital has partnered with chip designer Arm to evaluate Arm’s new neural technology, which embeds AI‑powered accelerators within its GPUs. The collaboration aims to deliver "PC‑class" graphics on mobile devices by leveraging AI‑driven rendering techniques. Sumo is testing the...
The AI Tariff We Are All Going to Pay (And It’s Not Energy Prices)
The article warns that AI’s explosive compute needs are creating an "AI tariff" by monopolizing memory, storage and wafer capacity. DRAM prices have jumped up to 300% and SSD costs have doubled, pushing laptop prices 20‑30% higher. Hyperscalers have locked...
XTool Honors International Women's Day with "Her Voice, Made Visible" Campaign Featuring Artist Domonique Brown
xTool wrapped its International Women’s Day “Her Voice, Made Visible” campaign with a Los Angeles MakerFest that highlighted women makers. The program, featuring artist Domonique Brown and her work on the F2 Ultra laser cutter, showcased how precision tools can...
Why the Future of Audio May Be Built on a Semiconductor Chip
Danish deep‑tech firm SonicEdge is commercialising MEMS‑based micro‑speakers that generate sound directly from a semiconductor chip, eliminating traditional moving‑coil drivers. The solid‑state design delivers up to 20 kHz bandwidth, higher efficiency and a 100 mg form factor, far lighter than conventional micro‑speakers....
I've Always Wanted This "Excellent" 55in Fire TV – Now It's Cheaper than Ever
Amazon’s 55‑inch Fire TV Omni QLED is now on sale for £449.99, a 40 % discount from its original £749.99 price. The QLED panel supports 4K resolution with Dolby Vision and HDR10+ Adaptive, but only offers a 60 Hz refresh rate and...
Low-End Smartphones Hit Hardest by Memory Price Surge
Counterpoint Research warns that soaring DRAM and NAND prices will lift the bill of materials for entry‑level smartphones by roughly 25% this quarter. Memory components could represent 43% of the cost structure for devices priced under $200, driving an estimated...
MSI MPG CORELIQUID P13 360 (2026) CPU Cooler Review
MSI’s MPG CORELIQUID P13 360 AIO cooler blends premium aesthetics with engineering tweaks aimed at better thermal contact and streamlined cable management. The unit features a full‑plane screwless copper cold plate, a 27 mm, 12‑channel radiator, and CycloBlade 9 ARGB fans that promise strong airflow...
Hammertech AS Signs Three-Year Frame Agreement for AquaFieldTM Mud Meters
Hammertech AS, a subsidiary of Nordic Technology Group, has secured a three‑year frame agreement with a leading international oil‑and‑gas services company to supply its AquaField™ Mud multiphase meters. The customer projects an outtake of roughly 90 meters across the contract...
Quectel Unveils Versatile Pi Series SBCs to Power Developer Innovation
Quectel Wireless Solutions has launched the Pi series of single‑board computers, comprising the Pi M1, L1 and H1 models. The boards target industrial IoT, robotics, and edge‑computing applications, offering LTE, Wi‑Fi, Bluetooth, and Ethernet connectivity. The flagship H1 features a Qualcomm...
ROG Strix G10X Brings Holographic Flair to Flagship Desktop Gaming
ASUS unveiled the ROG Strix G10X, a flagship pre‑built gaming desktop featuring its proprietary AniMe Holo holographic fan display. The system packs up to an AMD Ryzen 9 X3D‑series CPU, an RTX 5090 GPU, 128 GB DDR5 RAM and a 4 TB PCIe 4.0 SSD within a 104‑liter...
Indra Leading GIGaNTE Project to Develop Autonomous Spanish Gallium Nitride and Advanced Packaging Technologies
Indra Group is spearheading the €9 million, four‑year GIGaNTE initiative to create a fully autonomous Spanish gallium‑nitride (GaN) and advanced packaging ecosystem. The project targets high‑reliability radar and communications systems for defence, developing proprietary GaN processes, monolithic microwave integrated circuits and...
The Specialty Device Surge Part 1: Wafer Size Transitions Are Powering The Future Of Specialty Devices And Bringing New Challenges
Specialty devices—including SiC and GaN power transistors, MEMS, photonics, and CIS—are shifting from traditional 150mm and 200mm wafers to larger 200mm and 300mm formats. GaN power is moving to 300mm, while SiC power advances to 200mm, and photonics, MEMS, and...
NVIDIA Investing $2bn in Coherent’s R&D, Capacity Expansion and Operations as It Builds Out US-Based Manufacturing
NVIDIA announced a multi‑year strategic agreement with Coherent Corp, investing $2 billion to fund research, capacity expansion, and US‑based manufacturing. The deal includes a non‑exclusive purchase commitment and future access rights to Coherent’s advanced laser and optical networking products. By scaling...
Enabling Seamless Monitoring, Test, And Repair In Multi-Die Designs
The semiconductor industry is turning to 2.5D/3D multi‑die designs to meet AI‑driven performance and efficiency goals. However, testing, monitoring, and repairing hidden chiplets remain a major hurdle. Synopsys and TSMC showcased a demo vehicle built on TSMC’s N3P process that...
The Petabyte Problem: How AI Is Finally Making Semiconductor Manufacturing Data Actionable
Semiconductor manufacturers are grappling with petabyte‑scale data from probe, assembly and test operations, yet less than 5% is currently used for analytics. PDF Solutions introduced its Exensio platform, combining a parallel data architecture, semantic integration, and agentic LLM capabilities to...
Ensuring AI Reliability: Mitigating OCP’s Silent Data Corruption Risks
An Open Compute Project whitepaper, co‑authored by NVIDIA, Google, Meta and Microsoft, warns that silent data corruption (SDC) is escalating in AI data centers as process geometries shrink and workloads intensify. SDC originates from timing violations, voltage‑frequency scaling, and wear‑out,...
Detecting Chemical Variability At Advanced Nodes
Advanced‑node semiconductor yield is increasingly eroded by subtle chemical variability in thin films, interfaces, and residues rather than obvious particle defects. This molecular variability manifests as parametric drift and margin erosion that only appear under workload or thermal stress, making...
Quintauris and eSOL Partner on RISC-V Automotive Software Integration
Quintauris and eSOL have announced a partnership to embed eSOL’s real‑time operating system into Quintauris’ RISC‑V automotive platforms. The joint effort targets production‑ready solutions for advanced driver assistance systems, vehicle‑control functions and zonal architectures. By offering a consistent software foundation,...
Marelli Targets Brazil, India and EMEA with New Engine Control Units
Marelli has introduced a new generation of port‑fuel‑injection (PFI) engine control units (ECUs) that cater to gasoline, flex‑fuel and CNG powertrains. The product line is offered in three region‑specific variants for Brazil, India and the broader EMEA market, each designed,...
Cambridge Pixel Introduces HPx-700 for Edge-Based Radar Input & Signal Processing
Cambridge Pixel has launched the HPx-700, an ARM‑based radar input and signal processor that moves complex radar processing to the edge. The fanless, low‑SWaP unit converts analogue radar returns into network‑ready data, removing the need for host PCs. It ships...
How HPC Systems Are Making Things Easier
Moffitt Cancer Center launched the Collaborative Computing Center (CCC), a private, on‑premises HPC environment funded by a $2 million NIH S10 grant. The system features roughly 30 compute nodes, a dedicated internet link, and 1.3 petabytes of high‑speed Hammerspace storage, creating a...
Analyst Estimates Nintendo Is Losing $160 on Every Japanese Region-Locked Switch 2 Sold
Nintendo released a Japan‑only, region‑locked Switch 2 priced at 49,980 yen (about $343), markedly higher than the global model. Toyo Securities analyst Hideki Yasuda estimates the console loses roughly $160 for every unit sold in Japan, based on a $400 production cost....
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Validate GPU Health in Kubernetes with Rafay Zero Trust Kubectl Access
Rafay’s zero‑trust kubectl lets operators run commands inside pods on remote GPU‑enabled Kubernetes clusters without exposing the API or using bastion hosts. Using this workflow, they open an exec session to the nvidia‑dcgm‑exporter pod and execute nvidia‑smi to verify driver,...
Wipro Enterprises Eyes Entry Into Semiconductor Sector
Wipro Enterprises is exploring entry into semiconductor manufacturing, focusing on outsourced assembly and test (OSAT) operations. The company is in early talks and is actively scouting a credible technology partner to enable the move. This initiative follows similar investments by...
Lenovo Delivers ‘Largest-Ever’ TruScale IaaS Engagement for Sharon AI
Lenovo has installed a 1,000‑GPU NVIDIA B200 cluster at NextDC’s M3 data centre for Australian neocloud provider Sharon AI, marking its largest‑ever TruScale infrastructure‑as‑a‑service deal. The Blackwell‑based system delivers up to three times the training speed and fifteen times the...
HPE CEO Antonio Neri: ‘Elevated’ Memory Prices To ‘Persist Well Into 2027’
HPE CEO Antonio Neri warned that soaring DRAM and NAND costs will keep server memory prices elevated through 2027. The memory components now represent more than half of a traditional server’s bill of materials and that share is rising. HPE...
Chip Price Hikes Spread as Asia’s Chipmakers Plan Record Spending
Asian chipmakers, from giants to smaller players, are raising prices as AI‑driven demand fuels a record $136 billion capex plan for 2026, a 25% increase over last year. Companies such as Vanguard, Unimicron and Winbond announced price hikes ranging from 5%...
Hexagon Semi’s HX77 AR Display Processor Achieves Ultra-Low Power Consumption with VeriSilicon’s Nano IP Portfolio
Hexagon Semiconductor’s new HX77 AR display processor, built on a RISC‑V heterogeneous‑computing architecture, has taped out successfully using VeriSilicon’s Nano IP portfolio. The SoC combines the GCNanoUltraV GPU, DW100 DeWarp, and DC9200Nano display IP to deliver 2K @ 60 fps output while consuming...
Rode’s Rodecaster Video Core Makes Livestreaming Even Cheaper
Rode has launched the Rodecaster Video Core, a budget‑friendly all‑in‑one livestreaming console positioned below its flagship Video and mid‑range Video S models. The unit eliminates physical controls, relying entirely on the Rodecaster app for operation. It offers three HDMI inputs, one...
China’s Chip Bosses Endorse Semiconductor Push in Next 5-Year Plan
China’s leading semiconductor firms, including AI chipmaker Cambricon Technologies and packaging specialist Tongfu Microelectronics, have publicly backed the draft of the country’s 15th five‑year plan, which places the chip sector at the core of its technology agenda. The plan calls...
Deal Alert: Beats Studio Pro Headphones Are Up to 51% Off for Spring
Beats by Dre has slashed prices on its premium audio lineup, most notably the Beats Studio Pro over‑ear headphones. The Studio Pro now sells for $169.95, a 51% discount from its $349.99 launch price, matching Black Friday levels. The headphones...
Tesla Opened Its First Semi Truck Megacharger That's Not At A Tesla Factory
Tesla opened its third Megacharger, the first located outside a factory, at a travel center in Ontario, California. The 750 kW charger, while slower than the 1.2 MW sites in Lathrop and Sparks, is the first public Megacharger accessible to Semi owners....
These Smart Glasses Are Similar Meta Ray-Bans, but Support Google’s Gemini
Rokid has rolled out a software update that adds native support for Google’s Gemini large‑language model to its AI‑powered smart glasses. The “Style” model mirrors Meta’s Ray‑Ban glasses with open‑ear speakers, a 12 MP camera, and a 12‑hour battery, but costs...
The Sideload 025: Folding Tablets and Other MWC Wishes
The Sideload episode 25 recaps Ben Schoon’s highlights from MWC 2026, focusing on Qualcomm’s new wearable‑focused chipset, Lenovo’s concept gaming tablet with a foldable screen, and Honor’s experimental robot smartphone. The podcast underscores a broader industry shift toward hybrid devices...
Lowering Graphics Settings Can Sometimes Hurt Performance, but Not How You'd Expect
Gamers often lower graphics settings to boost FPS, but doing so can unintentionally create a CPU bottleneck, especially when pairing a high‑end GPU like the RTX 4090 with an older processor. Reducing GPU load may cause the GPU to finish frames...
This Mini PC Is an Absolute Powerhouse, and a New Discount Makes It Even Better
The BOSGAME P3 Mix Mini PC packs an AMD Ryzen 5 7640HS processor, Radeon 760M graphics, 32 GB DDR5 RAM and a 1 TB PCIe 4.0 SSD, yet its footprint remains tiny. Amazon is offering a $124 discount, bringing the price down to $495 from $619. The system...
Quad Cortex Mini Amp Modeler: All the Power, Half the Size
At NAMM 2024 Neural DSP’s Quad Cortex mini captured a Best‑in‑Show award, delivering the full processing power of its larger sibling in a device half the size and priced at $1,400. The compact unit packs over 90 amp models, 100...
This INSIGNIA 55″ 4K Fire TV Just Dropped Under $200
Amazon’s Insignia brand has launched a 55‑inch 4K UHD TV for $199.99, a $150 discount from its usual price. The set features built‑in Fire TV OS, Alexa voice control, Apple AirPlay, and access to major streaming services. With a modest...
UAG Launches Its First Android Find Hub Tracker, Priced at $45
UAG has entered the Google Find Hub market with the Metropolis Tracker Card, a 3 mm‑thin, IPX4‑rated device priced at $45. The Android‑compatible card offers up to five months of battery life, Qi wireless charging, and a built‑in speaker for location...
Most Projectors Fake Brightness Numbers, and Here’s How to Spot It
Projector listings, especially in the $100‑$300 range, frequently advertise exaggerated brightness figures far exceeding actual performance. Brands often use non‑standard metrics like LED lumens or lamp brightness, while legitimate measurements rely on ANSI or ISO lumens. Epson has sued several...
Action Needed to Avoid Memory Loss
U.S. federal contractors are facing a severe DRAM and NAND flash shortage driven by AI and data‑center demand, pushing commercial memory prices up more than 500 %. The scarcity is expected to persist through late 2027, with projected triple‑digit price hikes...