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2D Semiconductors May Be Key to 3D Integration, Say Stanford Researchers

2D Semiconductors May Be Key to 3D Integration, Say Stanford Researchers

New research indicates how 2D semiconductors could advance monolithic 3D integration in a scalable way—prolonging Moore's law in the process.


News Apr 02, 2022 by vishvachi
AI Meets Quantum Technology in New Google Spinoff, Sandbox AQ

AI Meets Quantum Technology in New Google Spinoff, Sandbox AQ

Sandbox AQ, a new spinoff from Alphabet (Google), is looking to use AI and quantum technologies to solve today's problems in cybersecurity, sensing, and communications.


News Apr 01, 2022 by Dale Wilson
5G Gets a “Massive” Boost Thanks to NXP’s New mMIMO RF Power Transistors

5G Gets a “Massive” Boost Thanks to NXP’s New mMIMO RF Power Transistors

By adding a new series of RF power discrete solutions, NXP now offers the "largest RF GaN (gallium nitride) portfolio" for massive multiple input, multiple output (mMIMO) 5G radios.


News Apr 01, 2022 by Lianne Frith
Finding Your EE “Why” With Thy Tran: The “Semiconductor Gypsy”

Finding Your EE “Why” With Thy Tran: The “Semiconductor Gypsy”

In honor of Woman’s History Month, AAC talked with Micron’s Thy Tran who has made waves in the industry, inspiring new engineers and helping to bring groundbreaking DRAM technology to life.


News Mar 31, 2022 by Kimber Wymore
 Modern Motor Drivers Enable a Common Platform for Power Tool Designs

Modern Motor Drivers Enable a Common Platform for Power Tool Designs

With so many power tool options, designing for compatibility can be a struggle. Learn more about this challenge leveraging metal–oxide–semiconductor field-effect transistors (MOSFETs).


Companies Vie for Title of “World’s Smallest GaN Charger”

Companies Vie for Title of “World’s Smallest GaN Charger”

To meet the demand for faster chargers, many companies are investing in GaN-based power converters—the smaller, the better.


News Mar 30, 2022 by Darshil Patel
Amphenol FCI DDR5 Memory Module Sockets (SMT) | NPB

Amphenol FCI DDR5 Memory Module Sockets (SMT) | NPB

This New Product Brief (NPB) is part of a video series highlighting the features, applications, and technical specs of newly-released products.


Molex 5G mmWave RF Flex-to-Board Connectors | New Product Brief

Molex 5G mmWave RF Flex-to-Board Connectors | New Product Brief

This New Product Brief (NPB) is part of a video series highlighting the features, applications, and technical specs of newly-released products.


Wyss Institute Researchers Take Aim at Replicating the Immune System Onto a Chip

Wyss Institute Researchers Take Aim at Replicating the Immune System Onto a Chip

Meshing together bioengineering with electronics, Wyss Institute researchers developed a microfluidic organ-on-a-chip (OoC) to mimic human immune functions and study the efficacy of vaccines on a chip.


News Mar 30, 2022 by Darshil Patel
Arduino and Foundries.io Lock Their Sights on Embedded IoT Security

Arduino and Foundries.io Lock Their Sights on Embedded IoT Security

As newer engineers are looking for more ways to break into the Internet of Things (IoT) space, a team-up between Arduino and Foundries.io is hoping to create an easy, secure solution: the Portenta X8.


News Mar 29, 2022 by Jake Hertz
Industry Virtual Workshop: Using Accelerometers Made for Industry 4.0 and Smart Factories

Industry Virtual Workshop: Using Accelerometers Made for Industry 4.0 and Smart Factories

Join ROHM Semiconductor for this hands-on virtual workshop, where you will learn what makes ROHM's KX132-1211 & KX134-1211 accelerometers suited to tackle the challenges of Industry 4.0 and Smart Factories.


Workshops In partnership with ROHM Semiconductor
ANALOG DEVICES INC. EagleEye™ Trial Kit | Featured Product Spotlight

ANALOG DEVICES INC. EagleEye™ Trial Kit | Featured Product Spotlight

This Featured Product Spotlight is part of a video series exploring the specifications, applications, and market context of new products.


XILINX Kria K26 System-on-Module | Featured Product Spotlight

XILINX Kria K26 System-on-Module | Featured Product Spotlight

This Featured Product Spotlight is part of a video series exploring the specifications, applications, and market context of new products.


Ep. 42 | Groq CEO and Ex-Googler Jonathan Ross on the Petaflop AI Chip and First Ever TPU

Ep. 42 | Groq CEO and Ex-Googler Jonathan Ross on the Petaflop AI Chip and First Ever TPU

Groq’s chip architecture is something all electrical engineers will drool over. It not only focuses on high-performance computing (HPC), artificial intelligence (AI), and machine learning (ML), but it can do 1 PetaOp—1 quadrillion operations per second. “Which is four commas, not three... yeah,” Groq’s CEO Jonathan Ross emphasizes while confirming it is indeed 300X faster than NVIDIA’s chip. This “successful college dropout” designed Google’s TPU (tensor processing unit) and came up with $10B ideas at X - the moonshot factory, but “never in a million years” thought he’d be Groq’s CEO.


Eleven T&M Functions, One Device: Liquid Instruments Introduces the “Instrument-on-Chip”

Eleven T&M Functions, One Device: Liquid Instruments Introduces the “Instrument-on-Chip”

With an FPGA at its heart, the Moku product series allows engineers to tap into a suite of programmable test instruments—all on a single device.


News Mar 28, 2022 by vishvachi
Chiplet Design Hopes to Rise Up as a Contender for Sidestepping Moore’s Law

Chiplet Design Hopes to Rise Up as a Contender for Sidestepping Moore’s Law

To overcome Moore's Law and die-to-die interconnection issues, the world’s top companies are turning to chiplet design for their next-generation computing hardware.


News Mar 28, 2022 by Jake Hertz
Understanding Side Channel Attack Basics

Understanding Side Channel Attack Basics

Learn the basics of side channel attacks (SCAs), the threat they pose security for hardware-level security, and why they can be so powerful.


Photonic Wire Bonding Process Could Open Door to More Photonic Electronics

Photonic Wire Bonding Process Could Open Door to More Photonic Electronics

As photonics technology seeks its niche in the industry, one hurdle to overcome is a scalable fabrication process. One technique called photonic wire bonding (PWB) hopes to push photonics forward.


News Mar 26, 2022 by Abdulwaliy Oyekunle
Clothing That Can Hear? MIT Researchers Create Acoustic Fabric

Clothing That Can Hear? MIT Researchers Create Acoustic Fabric

Taking inspiration from the biological auditory system, MIT researchers have created a fabric that senses sound signals and converts them to electrical signals, analogous to how a microphone works.


News Mar 25, 2022 by Abdulwaliy Oyekunle
NVIDIA Boasts “World’s Most Advanced Chip” in Latest Tensor Core GPU

NVIDIA Boasts “World’s Most Advanced Chip” in Latest Tensor Core GPU

Taking aim at creating a future supercomputer, NVIDIA has created a new H100 Tensor Core graphics processing unit (GPU) leveraging its latest architecture, Hopper.


News Mar 25, 2022 by Jake Hertz