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Intel Outfits New Xeon Processors, Networking, and GPUs for Agentic AI

Intel Outfits New Xeon Processors, Networking, and GPUs for Agentic AI

At Computex, Intel described the CPU as the control plane for agentic workloads, pairing new processors and network controllers with fresh details on its inference GPU.


News Jun 05, 2026 by Luke James
Bricking Proof: Designing Safety-Critical RTL for eFuse Controllers

Bricking Proof: Designing Safety-Critical RTL for eFuse Controllers

An RTL glitch in an eFuse controller can permanently brick costly silicon. This article covers defense-in-depth FSM design, redundant watchdogs, and formal SVA verification.


The 1N4148: The Signal Diode That Ended Up Everywhere

The 1N4148: The Signal Diode That Ended Up Everywhere

Registered at JEDEC in 1968 as a tighter-spec successor to the 1N914, the 1N4148 became the most widely produced switching diode in history.


News Jun 05, 2026 by Luke James
Enter to Win an STM32C5 Nucleo-64 Development Board

Enter to Win an STM32C5 Nucleo-64 Development Board

Register now for your chance to win an STM32 Nucleo-64 development board from STMicroelectronics and Avnet SILICA.


giveaways May 29, 2026 by Avnet SILICA
Building Cost-Efficient Spectral Intelligence: A Modular Path to Scalable, High-Resolution Sensing

Building Cost-Efficient Spectral Intelligence: A Modular Path to Scalable, High-Resolution Sensing

Spectral sensing is emerging as an alternative to imaging for material identification and state detection across industrial, consumer, and medical applications. However, adoption has been challenged by cost, scalability, and design complexity.


Qualcomm Brings Wi-Fi 7 and On-Device AI to Broadband Hardware

Qualcomm Brings Wi-Fi 7 and On-Device AI to Broadband Hardware

The new MBM7 and MBM4 platforms add display, camera, and Hexagon-class AI inference to chips that previously only handled connectivity.


News Jun 03, 2026 by Luke James
The Kilo Lamp: An Interactive Lamp Controller

The Kilo Lamp: An Interactive Lamp Controller

This project brief provides the instructions for building a weight-sensitive LED lamp with an Arduino Uno and a handful of commercially available parts.


Bending Light: How Optics Research Is Rewriting the Rules of Computing

Bending Light: How Optics Research Is Rewriting the Rules of Computing

Recent advances in photonics may boost the performance of LiDAR sensors, increase the resolution of image projection, and integrate energy harvesting and light…


News Jun 02, 2026 by Duane Benson
Siemens Intros AI-Powered Library Characterizer to Speed IC Design

Siemens Intros AI-Powered Library Characterizer to Speed IC Design

New characterization software delivers 7x throughput gains by combining a predictive AI engine with a purpose-built SPICE simulator.


News Jun 02, 2026 by Luke James
Qualcomm Unwraps Products Bringing AI to Entry–Level Laptops and Robotics

Qualcomm Unwraps Products Bringing AI to Entry–Level Laptops and Robotics

At Computex 2026, the company is expanding its Edge AI ecosystem by introducing the Snapdragon C Platform for entry-level laptops, and the Dragonwing IQ10…


News Jun 01, 2026 by Jeff Child
Choosing an Off-Battery Power Management Integrated Circuit for Powering Automotive Electronics

Choosing an Off-Battery Power Management Integrated Circuit for Powering Automotive Electronics

Navigate off-battery PMIC design trade-offs for automotive instrument clusters and head units, including efficiency, low IQ, and EMI compliance.


BootLoop Unveils Tool Enabling AI-Powered Hardware-in-the-Loop Testing

BootLoop Unveils Tool Enabling AI-Powered Hardware-in-the-Loop Testing

The new framework enables hardware companies to go from zero infrastructure to a fully automated testing pipeline in days, leveraging an AI agent to generate…


News Jun 01, 2026 by Jeff Child
Overcoming Common Planar Phased Array Circuit Design Challenges

Overcoming Common Planar Phased Array Circuit Design Challenges

Explore practical techniques for improving performance, integration, and scalability in planar phased array circuit architectures.


Building Scalable X-Band Digital Beamforming Systems

Building Scalable X-Band Digital Beamforming Systems

Explore ADI’s Quad-Apollo MxFE X-band reference design, a 16-channel digital beamforming platform with phase-coherent direct RF sampling.