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Infineon Serves Up GaN 40 V Switches Aimed at Portable Power Designs

Infineon Serves Up GaN 40 V Switches Aimed at Portable Power Designs

Two new CoolGaN BDS additions replace back-to-back silicon MOSFET pairs with chip-scale packages.


News 4 hours ago by Jake Hertz
Electrical Balance and Modal Analysis

Electrical Balance and Modal Analysis

In this article, we'll explore how modal analysis can be applied to problems of balance and common-mode current.


Goodbye Cuff: AI Radar Monitors Heart Health Across the Room

Goodbye Cuff: AI Radar Monitors Heart Health Across the Room

A new prototype tracks pulse transit time at four points on the body using millimeter-wave chirps and neural networks, pointing toward ambient at-home heart monitoring.


News 10 hours ago 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.


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
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
Nvidia Launches CPU for AI Agents, Claimed as 1.8x Faster Than x86 CPUs

Nvidia Launches CPU for AI Agents, Claimed as 1.8x Faster Than x86 CPUs

The 88-core Vera processor introduces Spatial Multithreading and a claimed 1.8x task-completion lead over x86 processors.


News Jun 04, 2026 by Luke James
Spinning Disks Sputter as AI Heats up Data

Spinning Disks Sputter as AI Heats up Data

AI-driven data demands are outpacing traditional HDDs. System developers must migrate to high-performance, secure, and efficient NVMe SSDs to scale for AI workloads.


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.


Automating PCIe 5.0/6.0 Cable and Connector Compliance Testing

Automating PCIe 5.0/6.0 Cable and Connector Compliance Testing

Automate PCIe 5.0/6.0 cable and connector compliance testing with scalable VNA-based measurements, deembedding, and pass/fail reporting.


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