AOI Awarded $20.9m Texas Semiconductor Innovation Fund Grant
Applied Optoelectronics Inc (AOI) has secured a $20.9 million grant from the Texas Semiconductor Innovation Fund to fund a 210,000 ft² manufacturing expansion in Sugar Land, Texas. The new facility will become one of the nation’s largest production sites for AI‑focused data‑center transceivers. AOI expects the project to generate more than 500 high‑skill jobs over the coming years. Governor Greg Abbott highlighted the investment as a catalyst for Texas’s leadership in semiconductor innovation.
ARRI Debuts Faster, Lighter Cforce MAX Lens Motor for Hi-5 Ecosystem
ARRI has launched the cforce MAX lens motor for its Hi‑5 control system, delivering twice the speed of the previous cforce plus model. The new motor is 15% smaller and lighter, making it suitable for larger cine primes, zooms, vintage...
Google's Tensor G6 Rumors Nearly Had Me Hyped, but It Might Let Me Down
Leaked specifications suggest Google’s upcoming Tensor G6 SoC will adopt a 1+4+2 core configuration, featuring a 4.11 GHz C1‑Ultra prime core and a mix of C1‑Pro cores. The rumor also claims the chip will use the five‑year‑old PowerVR C‑Series CXTP‑48‑1536 GPU,...
NEVI EV Charger Rollout Sped up in 2025, Still Not Fast Enough Due to Roadblocks
The National Electric Vehicle Infrastructure (NEVI) program, funded with $5 billion under the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act and supplemented by $2.5 billion from the Charging and Fueling Infrastructure program, finally accelerated charger deployments in 2025. Operational stations rose from 26 at...
Meta Ramps up AI Spend as It Pushes Advanced Models
Meta announced a $107 bn multi‑year cloud commitment as it expands datacenters to power next‑generation AI models. For Q1 2026 the company posted $56.3 bn revenue, a 33% year‑over‑year jump, and lifted its capital‑expenditure outlook to $125‑$145 bn, reflecting a $10 bn increase due to...
RETTAR Looks to Take 3D Spatial Sensing in Mines & Stockyards to the Next Level
Beijing Rettar Technology unveiled its 3DPro2501 laser scanner, a high‑precision, dust‑resistant system designed for mining fronts and aggregate stockyards. The device creates detailed 3D point clouds in minutes, cutting post‑blast assessment from hours to real‑time. Integrated with cloud platforms, it...
Beosound Haven Speaker by Bang & Olufsen and Antolini
Bang & Olufsen has teamed with Italian stone specialist Antolini to launch the Beosound Haven, an outdoor speaker that treats sound as an architectural element. The device features a spherical aluminium driver perched on a monolithic Taj Mahal quartzite base, echoing...
More 'Pixel Glow' Rumors Light up Google's Plans, Teases Its AI's Involvement
Google’s engineering teams appear to be reviving the long‑rumored Pixel Glow feature, with diagnostic code indicating an eight‑color LED array could be integrated into upcoming Pixel phones and possibly laptops. The same code references “Gemini Glow,” suggesting the company’s Gemini AI may...
Ohme and VW Expand Home Charging Partnership
Ohme and Volkswagen Group Info Services have launched an official API that links Volkswagen’s MEB‑based electric models to Ohme’s smart home chargers across Europe. The integration lets drivers view real‑time state‑of‑charge data in the Ohme app and automatically shift charging...
South Australia Begins Construction of 1,000 MWh Battery as 4-Hour Energy Storage System
Alinta Energy has started building the first phase of the Reeves Plains Energy Hub in South Australia, featuring a 250 MW battery with roughly 1,000 MWh of storage. The four‑hour system, constructed by GenusPlus with CATL modules and Power Electronics inverters, is...
Gotion Unveils 5 MW/18.8 MWh Ensclosed Battery Storage System
Gotion High‑Tech unveiled its first Grid Gen2 high‑voltage cascaded storage system, a single‑cabin unit delivering 5 MW of power and 18.8 MWh of energy. The system passed a scientific‑technology appraisal and earned an “international leading” designation. It uses a three‑phase, grid‑forming architecture that...
US Big Tech Ratchets Up AI Spending Past $700 Billion This Year
U.S. hyperscalers are set to spend up to $725 billion on capital expenditures this year, driven primarily by AI‑focused data‑center equipment. Alphabet and Meta raised their full‑year capex guidance, while Microsoft disclosed a $190 billion estimate that matches Alphabet’s projection. Amazon kept...
UL Solutions Builds New Testing Lab in Germany
UL Solutions announced the construction of a new electromagnetic compatibility (EMC) and wireless testing laboratory in Neu‑Isenburg, Germany. The facility will accommodate large, complex connected systems across industrial, medical, automotive and consumer sectors. By offering local testing capabilities, UL aims...
How Rising Storage Costs Are Forcing a Re-Think of Enterprise AI Data Strategies
Rising storage costs are forcing enterprises to rethink AI data strategies. In the last year, major storage vendors lifted prices by 10‑50%, prompting IT leaders to seek ways to stretch budgets while supporting AI workloads. Vendors such as Komprise, Hammerspace...
Tower Semiconductor and Axiro Push High-Efficiency SiGe for Next-Gen Radar
Tower Semiconductor and Axiro Semiconductor have introduced a new family of silicon‑germanium (SiGe) beamforming ICs for Ku‑ and X‑band radar and satellite communications. The devices, now moving to volume production in Tower’s U.S. fabs, promise higher gain, linearity, output power...
Turkish Firm Baykar Develops Kamikaze Drone with 1,000km Strike Range
Turkish defense firm Baykar unveiled MIZRAK, an AI‑powered loitering munition capable of striking targets over 1,000 km away with seven‑hour endurance. The weapon can carry either a 40 kg dual‑warhead or a 20 kg single‑warhead with RF seeker, and it operates autonomously in...
3D Systems Clears the EU Bar and Enters Europe’s Denture Market
U.S. printer maker 3D Systems has secured Class IIa MDR certification for its NextDent Jet Base, Jet Teeth materials and NextDent 300 MultiJet printer, unlocking commercial sales of a full‑denture printing system across the European Union starting May 4. The clearance lets dental...
Eternal.ag Launches Omni-Directional Trolley as ‘Stepping Stone to Fully-Automated Greenhouses’
German agritech startup Eternal.ag unveiled an omni‑directional trolley designed as a stepping stone toward fully automated greenhouses. The trolley can navigate rows without dismounting and can be upgraded into the company’s Harvester robot, with the full purchase price credited toward...
ISM 2.0 Must Support Ecosystem Development, Says American Synopsys
Synopsys senior vice‑president Prith Banerjee urged the Indian government to treat the upcoming ISM 2.0 programme as an ecosystem initiative rather than a collection of isolated incentives. The centre plans to allocate roughly ₹1,000 crore (about $120 million) for FY27, building on the...
Foundry Capacity Is Limiting Who Competes At Leading Edge Nodes
Leading‑edge semiconductor capacity at 2nm and below is being monopolized by hyperscale customers such as Apple, Nvidia and Broadcom, leaving smaller chip developers with limited wafer access. As a result, firms are turning to advanced packaging and chiplet architectures to...
Unlocking High-Speed Serial Link Signal Integrity With AMI Model
High‑speed interfaces such as PCIe Gen5, USB4, and DDR5 demand rigorous signal‑integrity analysis, but traditional SPICE simulations are too slow for millions of bits. The Algorithmic Modeling Interface (AMI) offers a standardized .ami/.dll approach that embeds FFE and DFE equalization, delivering...
Facilitating Complex SoC Design Through Automation And Integration
The article outlines how Arteris tackles soaring system‑on‑chip (SoC) complexity with a unified automation suite. Magillem Registers creates a single source of truth for hardware‑software interfaces, while Magillem Packaging standardizes IP intent across vendors. FlexGen then auto‑generates network‑on‑chip (NoC) architectures...
Solving Clock Signal Integrity And Jitter Issues
A new blog highlights the growing problem of clock signal integrity and jitter in deep‑submicron chips, where power‑network noise can cause metastability and reduced Fmax. Traditional simulations are slow and often miss subtle timing violations across large clock networks. Synopsys...
From Standards To Systems: The Chiplet Era On Arm
Arm is transitioning from monolithic system‑on‑chips to multi‑die chiplet architectures, backed by the Arm Chiplet Specification Architecture (ACSA) and the OCP Foundation Chiplet System Architecture. While traditional SoCs hit reticle and power limits, chiplets offer modular scaling, better yields, and...
O2 Looks To Boost Sunderland 5G Service
Telefonica UK, operating as O2, and infrastructure firm Cornerstone have submitted a planning application to Sunderland City Council to install new rooftop antennas and upgrade fiber at the Sunderland Telephone Exchange. The upgrade aims to boost 5G capacity in response...
Cheaper Tokens, Bigger Bills: The New Math of AI Infrastructure
Enterprises are moving from experimental AI models to production‑grade, agentic workloads, shifting the primary cost driver from model training to the infrastructure that powers billions of inference requests. Although per‑token inference costs have dropped roughly tenfold in the past two...
Sponsored: Liquid Cooling for AI Data Centers: 3 Risks and How a Trusted Partner Ensures Success
AI‑driven data centers are confronting unprecedented power densities as Nvidia’s latest GPUs consume 1,000‑1,400 W each, pushing rack loads to roughly 142 kW and eyeing 1 MW in the near term. Traditional air cooling can’t dissipate that heat, prompting a shift to direct...
ASUSTOR Flashstor Gen3 NAS Brings NVMe Storage and AI Acceleration
ASUSTOR announced its Flashstor Gen3 NAS line‑up, debuting at COMPUTEX 2026, featuring all‑flash storage built on PCIe Gen4 NVMe drives and AI acceleration. The two models – Flashstor 6 Gen3 and Flashstor 12 Pro Gen3 – are powered by an AMD Ryzen 5 PRO 8640U with an integrated NPU delivering up...
Xiaomi Gaming Mouse 2 Teased With New PixArt Flagship Sensor
Xiaomi has unveiled a teaser for its upcoming Gaming Mouse 2, highlighting a new flagship‑grade optical sensor from PixArt. The teaser, released through Xiaomi’s official channels, has already generated buzz on gaming forums. While the exact sensor model remains undisclosed, the...
ASRock Launches 27 Inch 400Hz Fast IPS Gaming Monitor
ASRock unveiled two new gaming monitors, the 27‑inch PG27QFW2A and the 32‑inch PG32QFT. The PG27QFW2A pushes a WQHD panel to a 400 Hz refresh rate with a 1 ms response time, while the larger PG32QFT offers 180 Hz at the same resolution. Both...
ExOne Global Brings Printhead Manufacturing to Detroit, Updates Pricing and Support for U.S. Customers
ExOne Global Holdings announced that it will begin domestic manufacturing of its Spectra Mono‑Z printheads at a new facility in Canton, Michigan, marking the first step in a broader U.S. production strategy. The company also launched a Detroit‑based parts inventory,...
Intel 18A-P Node Brings Efficiency Gains Without Density Scaling Shift
Intel will unveil the 18A‑P node at the VLSI 2026 Symposium, an optimized spin on its 18A process that targets power and performance gains without altering transistor density. The new variant promises roughly 9% higher performance at the same power envelope...
Intel and SoftBank Explore HB3DM Memory with Higher Bandwidth Than HBM4
Intel and SoftBank’s joint venture Saimemory announced the HB3DM memory architecture, a nine‑layer stack that uses hybrid bonding and roughly 13,700 TSVs per layer to push bandwidth density to about 0.25 Tb/s per mm², delivering an estimated 5.3 TB/s per 171 mm² module....
Rocsys M1 Debuts as Multi-Bay Hands-Free Charging Solution for Robotaxi Fleets
Rocsys unveiled the M1, a hands‑free charging system that can service up to ten robotaxi bays from a single unit. The solution, currently in pilot testing, promises a 99.9% plug‑in success rate and up to 75% higher depot efficiency, translating...
Mosaic SoC Secures Funding for Spatial Wearable Push
Swiss semiconductor startup Mosaic SoC announced a $3.8 million pre‑seed round led by Founderful and the Kick Foundation. The funding will accelerate development of a proprietary multi‑core chip designed to handle visual and positional sensor data without relying on power‑hungry GPUs....
Welsh Parliament Upgrades IP Broadcast Infrastructure
NEP Bow Tie has completed a major upgrade of the Welsh Parliament’s broadcast infrastructure, replacing legacy equipment with an IP‑based SMPTE 2110‑7 core. The project refitted the primary meeting chamber, the Siambr, added resilient DANTE/AES67 audio networks, and installed new multiviewer‑driven...
Samsung Sees No Respite as Memory Shortage Set to Worsen
Samsung Electronics reported a record quarterly profit in its memory division, with operating profit soaring to $36.2 billion – a 49‑fold increase year‑over‑year. The company warned that AI‑driven demand will widen the memory supply gap through 2027, even as it signs...
Galaxy S26 Review: Samsung’s Still-Compact Flagship Android
Samsung’s Galaxy S26 launches as the most affordable and compact flagship in its line, priced at $899 with a 6.3‑inch 120 Hz AMOLED display and 12 GB of RAM. It runs on Samsung’s new Exynos 2600 processor, delivering performance close to Snapdragon‑based rivals...
Willand Reaches One Million Units, Expands Production in China and Malaysia
Willand, the operator of the Segway Navimow brand, celebrated the rollout of its one‑millionth robotic lawn mower at its Changzhou R&D and manufacturing base. The achievement arrives as global robotic mower sales jumped 327% in the first half of 2025 and...
Australia and Finland Explore Manufacturing Links in Quantum Technologies Collaboration
Finland’s VTT Technical Research Centre and Australia’s CSIRO are exploring a joint effort to link research, development and manufacturing of quantum‑technology components under Finland’s “Quantum Leap” initiative. The partnership was discussed at the Quantum Australia Conference in Adelaide, where VTT...
Rajant Health & Videosoft Global Expand Cowbell Platform for Scalable Mobile Edge Intelligence
Rajant Health and Videosoft Global have deepened their partnership to upgrade the Cowbell distributed edge‑execution platform with ultra‑efficient video streaming. The enhanced system leverages Rajant’s Kinetic Mesh networking and Videosoft’s compression tech to cut video bandwidth needs by 10‑ to...
Qualcomm Q2 2026 Revenue at $10.6 Bn as IoT, Automotive and AI Chips Offset Smartphone Decline
Qualcomm reported Q2 fiscal 2026 revenue of $10.6 bn, a 3% decline driven primarily by a 13% drop in smartphone sales. Growth in its IoT and automotive divisions offset the weakness, with revenues up 9% to $1.73 bn and 38% to $1.33 bn...
High-Precision 3D Measurement in a New Ultra-Compact Form
Micro‑Epsilon unveiled the scanCONTROL 8500, the smallest SMART 3D laser scanner in its class, featuring a 4K sensor matrix and up to 25 million points per second. The unit integrates full 3D data processing, delivering calibrated point clouds or 2D profiles directly...
AI-Driven Design Tools Unlock New Capabilities in Flat Optical Devices
Researchers at Korea University have detailed how artificial intelligence is dismantling the design bottlenecks that have limited metasurfaces—ultra‑thin flat optical components—from lab prototypes to commercial products. AI‑driven surrogate models cut simulation time from weeks to milliseconds, while inverse design lets...
Harvard Team Achieves Milliwatt UV Light Generation On a Photonic Chip
Harvard researchers have built a chip‑scale ultraviolet light source on thin‑film lithium niobate that delivers 4.2 mW of on‑chip power at 390 nm, roughly 120 times more than prior demonstrations on the same platform. The device uses a frequency‑up‑conversion process that merges two...
OnePlus Pad 4 Launch Live: OnePlus Pad 4 with 13.2-inch Display Launched in India
OnePlus unveiled the Pad 4 in India, featuring a 13.2‑inch 3.4K LCD panel with a 144 Hz refresh rate and the Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 5 chipset. The tablet ships with up to 12 GB of LPDDR5x RAM, 512 GB of UFS 4.1 storage, a 13,380 mAh battery and 80 W...
The 9 Best Fitness Trackers For Women, Tested And Reviewed By Fitness Editors
Women’s Health editors tested nine fitness trackers and ranked the Fitbit Charge 6 as the top pick for women, citing its premium features, water resistance and a six‑month Fitbit Premium membership for $120. The roundup also highlights budget‑friendly options like the Amazfit...
Google to Sell Its TPUs to some Customers, Who Also Fancy Big-G GPUs
Alphabet announced that Google Cloud will begin selling its custom Tensor Processing Units (TPUs) to a select group of customers for on‑premise deployment. The move follows strong demand from AI labs, capital‑markets firms, and high‑performance computing users, and complements growing...
The Foldable Future or Familiar Past of Mobile Phones?
Motorola’s Razr 2026 launch pivots the brand from a hardware‑centric challenger to a lifestyle‑focused offering, emphasizing design, tactile finishes, and nostalgia. The lineup, priced between $799 and $1,899, includes a Razr Fold with a tablet‑size screen, up to 16 GB RAM, and a...
Iran Crisis a Wake-Up Call for India to Push Indigenous Semiconductor Design, Says L&T's Sanjay Gupta
The Iran conflict has highlighted supply‑chain fragility, prompting L&T Semiconductor’s Sanjay Gupta to call for a faster push toward indigenous chip design in India. Gupta says the short‑term impact on L&T is minimal, but the crisis underscores the need for...