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Hardware-Based Security for FPGAs: Protecting Against Evolving Threats

Hardware-Based Security for FPGAs: Protecting Against Evolving Threats

Learn how rising security threats, quantum computing, and strict regulations demand FPGA architectures with integral hardware security and crypto agility for long-term compliance.


An Arduino-Compatible Relay Controller for RS-485 Networks

An Arduino-Compatible Relay Controller for RS-485 Networks

This project brief describes how to build and use an Arduino-compatible relay interface board that switches a 10 A load over an RS-485 network.


MediaTek Unveils 2 nm SoC for Agentic AI Smartphones

MediaTek Unveils 2 nm SoC for Agentic AI Smartphones

The flagship system-on-chip pairs a 4th-generation All Big Core CPU and dual neural processing units to drive high-end compute and proactive mobile intelligence.


News Sep 16, 2026 by Jeff Child
Delos Data Unveils Architecture and Silicon to Break AI Interconnect Bottlenecks

Delos Data Unveils Architecture and Silicon to Break AI Interconnect Bottlenecks

Launched today, Delos Data’s Nonstop AI portfolio intros Apollo Data Interface silicon, the Morpheus development platform, and a system-level reference architecture to eliminate tail latency, maximize power efficiency, and scale agentic AI clusters.


News Sep 15, 2026 by Jeff Child
Apple Targets AI Compute With New M6 and M5 Ultra Processors

Apple Targets AI Compute With New M6 and M5 Ultra Processors

M6 is Apple's first 2-nm chip and features a dual 16-core Neural Engine, while the M5 Ultra joins four dies to achieve 1.2 TB/s of unified memory bandwidth.


News Sep 11, 2026 by Jake Hertz
Qualcomm Splits One IoT Quad-Core Die Across Consumer and Industrial Lines

Qualcomm Splits One IoT Quad-Core Die Across Consumer and Industrial Lines

The Q-2390 and IQ-2390 share a Cortex-A78/A55 complex, an Adreno 704 GPU, and an optional RISC-V real-time core, with the industrial part introducing the IQ2 Series.


News Sep 10, 2026 by Luke James
Arm Rolls AI-Native Compute Platforms for Edge, Physical, and Cloud Systems

Arm Rolls AI-Native Compute Platforms for Edge, Physical, and Cloud Systems

Announced today, the company's new CSS for Mobile 2 platform, Total Design for Physical AI program, and Neoverse CSS N4 platform provide specialized architectures for agentic AI workloads across various domains.


News Sep 07, 2026 by Jeff Child
Targeting Robotics, TI Claims First Commercial CAN XL Transceiver

Targeting Robotics, TI Claims First Commercial CAN XL Transceiver

Touted as the first commercial CAN XL transceiver, the device offers 20 Mbps data rates, larger payloads, and CAN FD compatibility for industrial and robotic networks.


News Sep 04, 2026 by Joshua Tidwell
IBM & Arm Reveal Fruits of Partnership: The First Dual-Architecture CPU

IBM & Arm Reveal Fruits of Partnership: The First Dual-Architecture CPU

The 2-nm processor runs Arm and z/Architecture instructions natively on the same core.


News Sep 02, 2026 by Jake Hertz
A Peek Inside the Electronics on the Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope

A Peek Inside the Electronics on the Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope

The Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope’s mirror may get the headlines, but its detector chips, photon-counting cameras, and downlink amplifier tell the electronics story.


News Aug 31, 2026 by Robert Martin
MaxLinear Unveils Control-Plane Portfolio for Next-Gen AI Infrastructure

MaxLinear Unveils Control-Plane Portfolio for Next-Gen AI Infrastructure

RackCommander groups MaxLinear's USB UARTs, RS-485 transceivers, GPIO expanders, and power devices for rack-level management.


News Aug 31, 2026 by Jake Hertz
From BMW to Data Centers: Brands Tap 3 Known Chips in New Ways

From BMW to Data Centers: Brands Tap 3 Known Chips in New Ways

Companies across industries are leveraging tech from NXP, MaxLinear and Nordic Semiconductor on automotive UWB, accelerated OpenZFS storage, and low-power Bluetooth Mesh sensing.


News Aug 28, 2026 by Joshua Tidwell
AI Craze Drives Wave of Semiconductor Deals Toward $1T Chip Era

AI Craze Drives Wave of Semiconductor Deals Toward $1T Chip Era

In this edition of Business Shorts, we spotlight five announcements that show AI demand is reshaping everything from Wall Street financing to washing machines.


News Aug 26, 2026 by Luke James
NXP Launches MCUs Blending 10BASE-T1S Ethernet and Post-Quantum Security

NXP Launches MCUs Blending 10BASE-T1S Ethernet and Post-Quantum Security

The new MCX A5 MCUs integrate 10BASE-T1S Ethernet, topology discovery, and post-quantum security to streamline and protect industrial edge networks.


News Aug 25, 2026 by Jeff Child
Microchip Debuts Rev 2 of Its PolarFire FPGA Ethernet Sensor Bridge

Microchip Debuts Rev 2 of Its PolarFire FPGA Ethernet Sensor Bridge

The new PolarFire FPGA-powered board from Microchip brings multiple sensors to Nvidia edge AI platforms.


News Aug 24, 2026 by Duane Benson
Espressif Unwraps Open-Source Device-to-Cloud-to-Phone IoT Platform

Espressif Unwraps Open-Source Device-to-Cloud-to-Phone IoT Platform

The rebuilt platform puts the previously closed cloud backend under an Apache 2.0 license and runs on AWS serverless services in a customer's own account.


News Aug 24, 2026 by Luke James
Researchers Use Photons & Phonons for Long-Distance Qubit Communication

Researchers Use Photons & Phonons for Long-Distance Qubit Communication

The team employed a quantum material and chip architecture that could be key in scaling quantum computers to one million qubits.


News Aug 18, 2026 by Dr. Steve Arar
First-Pass Silicon Success at Advanced Nodes: How to De-Risk Tapeout

First-Pass Silicon Success at Advanced Nodes: How to De-Risk Tapeout

Skyrocketing SoC costs mean traditional testing can't catch every sub-7nm escape. Early formal verification, unified workflows, and strict gated signoffs are key to avoiding costly respins.


Silicon Labs Unwraps Its ‘Lowest Power’ BLE SoC Targeting IoT Devices

Silicon Labs Unwraps Its ‘Lowest Power’ BLE SoC Targeting IoT Devices

The EFR32BG2B SoC family supports Bluetooth 6 and is the lowest power Bluetooth LE chip with channel sounding from Silicon Labs.


News Aug 14, 2026 by Duane Benson
Preserving Battery Life: Waking the FPB-RA0E1 from Low-Power Mode Using a 32-Bit Interval Timer

Preserving Battery Life: Waking the FPB-RA0E1 from Low-Power Mode Using a 32-Bit Interval Timer

This article shows you how to configure Software Standby mode and implement a periodic wake-up routine on the Renesas FPB-RA0E1 Fast Prototyping Board, built around the Arm Cortex-M23-based RA0E1 MCU.