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Texas Instruments Intros New SoC Family at CES to Scale Automotive AI

Texas Instruments Intros New SoC Family at CES to Scale Automotive AI

All About Circuits met with Texas Instruments at CES 2026 to learn about the company’s newest automotive SoCs.


News Jan 12, 2026 by Jake Hertz
Ceva Expands Edge AI Portfolio From Wearables to SDVs

Ceva Expands Edge AI Portfolio From Wearables to SDVs

At CES 2026, All About Circuits met with Ceva to learn about its latest hardware releases and collaborations driving the future of edge AI.


News Jan 12, 2026 by Jake Hertz
Broadcom Intros Wi-Fi 8 Chipset and AI Processor for Smart Homes

Broadcom Intros Wi-Fi 8 Chipset and AI Processor for Smart Homes

The new accelerated processing unit pairs with dual-band Wi-Fi 8 radios to deliver power-efficient, secure on-device AI inference to residential consumers.


News Jan 12, 2026 by Luke James
Exclusive—TSMC Enlightens Us About Its Next Steps in This Q&A

Exclusive—TSMC Enlightens Us About Its Next Steps in This Q&A

In this article, Gordon posed a set of questions to TSMC about their next steps going forward.


News Jan 09, 2026 by Gordon Feller
MIT Flips the Challenges of Chip Stacking On Its Head

MIT Flips the Challenges of Chip Stacking On Its Head

Low-temperature BEOL transistors and memory elements aim to cut data-movement energy in AI workloads.


News Jan 08, 2026 by Luke James
AI Chip Race Heats Up With Intel, Nvidia, and AMD’s CES Debuts

AI Chip Race Heats Up With Intel, Nvidia, and AMD’s CES Debuts

The industry's biggest chipmakers came to CES with processors that will shape the future of AI PCs, data center computing, and embedded AI.


News Jan 08, 2026 by Duane Benson
Design Wins: Four Designs Rethink Compute, Power, and Integration

Design Wins: Four Designs Rethink Compute, Power, and Integration

This four-product roundup highlights new hardware platforms for spaceborne AI, EV power, wireless sensing, and private 5G.


News Jan 07, 2026 by Joshua Tidwell
The Countdown: Preparing Manufacturing Systems for the Post-Quantum Era

The Countdown: Preparing Manufacturing Systems for the Post-Quantum Era

Decades of captured data and IP face future exposure from harvest-now, decrypt-later attacks. Products and systems built today need quantum-resistant security integrated from design through deployment.


NXP Ushers Agentic AI to the Edge with New AI Development Tools

NXP Ushers Agentic AI to the Edge with New AI Development Tools

Announced today at CES, the new tools focus on inference-first deployment to embedded processors rather than retrofitting cloud-native workflows.


News Jan 06, 2026 by Jake Hertz
NXP Makes Its CES Reveal: A Central Compute Platform for Smart Vehicles

NXP Makes Its CES Reveal: A Central Compute Platform for Smart Vehicles

Announced today, the new real-time, super-integration processor is the next step in NXP’s automotive processing platform.


News Jan 05, 2026 by Jake Hertz
The New Moore’s Law: Why Optical Computing Could Redefine Scaling for AI

The New Moore’s Law: Why Optical Computing Could Redefine Scaling for AI

Optical computing is the "New Moore's Law" for AI. It solves electronic scaling limits, offering higher speed, lower power, and efficiency gains proportional to problem size for matrix operations.


Knowledge and Nostalgia: 2025’s Top Educational Articles

Knowledge and Nostalgia: 2025’s Top Educational Articles

Ring in the new year with this roundup of All About Circuits' most popular educational content, both technical and historical.


News Dec 31, 2025 by Abby Garfinkle
Our 2025 Top Trend: AI Assimilates

Our 2025 Top Trend: AI Assimilates

Do you remember when supercomputers were described by their processing power? That was so 2024. Today, we talk about the power for processing. Goodbye terraops, hello terrawatt-hours!


News Dec 28, 2025 by Dale Wilson
Our Top 2025 Research Stories: Rubber CMOS, Washable Electronics, and More

Our Top 2025 Research Stories: Rubber CMOS, Washable Electronics, and More

Enjoy this roundup of our favorite All About Circuits research news articles of 2025!


News Dec 26, 2025 by Jeff Child
From 124-Layer PCBs to the 555 Timer: Our Favorite Content of the Year

From 124-Layer PCBs to the 555 Timer: Our Favorite Content of the Year

Explore our editors' top picks from 2025, featuring breakthrough AI hardware, legendary chip history, behind-the-scenes insights, and exclusive industry interviews.


News Dec 25, 2025 by Dale Wilson
The Configurable Matrix Computer: A New Alternative to the von Neumann Architecture

The Configurable Matrix Computer: A New Alternative to the von Neumann Architecture

Learn how this new type of AI processor provides a 100x improvement in power and performance over conventional GPUs or MCUs.


AWS Touts Its ‘Most Powerful and Efficient’ CPU Yet

AWS Touts Its ‘Most Powerful and Efficient’ CPU Yet

New Graviton5-based EC2 M9g instances push performance, core density, and security design to the next level.


News Dec 19, 2025 by Jake Hertz
Q.ANT’s New Photonic Processor Pushes AI and HPC Beyond Silicon’s Limits

Q.ANT’s New Photonic Processor Pushes AI and HPC Beyond Silicon’s Limits

Q.ANT has debuted NPU 2 with enhanced nonlinear optical processing, delivering major gains in efficiency and performance for next-generation AI and HPC workloads.


News Dec 18, 2025 by Joshua Tidwell
Using Synopsys Tools, Complex AI SoC Achieves Verification in 5 Weeks

Using Synopsys Tools, Complex AI SoC Achieves Verification in 5 Weeks

Rebellions employed Synopsys' VCS, ZeBu, Virtualizer, and the Verification Continuum to achieve full bring-up and live demo just five weeks after first silicon.


News Dec 17, 2025 by Duane Benson
Introduction to Second-Order Type-1 PLLs

Introduction to Second-Order Type-1 PLLs

Learn how adding a lowpass loop filter to a PLL with a single integrator impacts both the frequency-domain and time-domain response.