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Intel Lifts the Curtain on ‘Sapphire Rapids’ Workstation Processors

Intel Lifts the Curtain on ‘Sapphire Rapids’ Workstation Processors

For years, Intel has been steadily upping the core count for its desktop processors. Now, the company is following suit with its high-end workstation processors.


News Feb 16, 2023 by Hannah DeTavis
Infineon Unveils Tiny MEMS Microphone Touting High SNR, 520 μA Power

Infineon Unveils Tiny MEMS Microphone Touting High SNR, 520 μA Power

Putting its proprietary MEMS technology and clever ASIC design to work, Infineon marries high audio quality and low lower in a tiny microphone device.


News Feb 13, 2023 by Jeff Child
Power ICs Debut as High-side and Low-side Smart Switch Solutions

Power ICs Debut as High-side and Low-side Smart Switch Solutions

A slew of high-side and low-side smart switch chips have emerged, offering interesting alternatives for a variety of automotive and industrial use cases.


News Feb 10, 2023 by Jake Hertz
Fabless FPGA/eFPGA Players Ramp up Their Innovations—a Roundup

Fabless FPGA/eFPGA Players Ramp up Their Innovations—a Roundup

With products built on some of the most advanced semiconductor fab processes—like TSMC’s 7 nm node—fabless FPGA/eFPGA providers are rolling out new updated open-source tools, new devices, and new IP.


News Feb 08, 2023 by Jeff Child
Qualcomm Brings Big SoC Upgrade to Samsung Galaxy S23 Series

Qualcomm Brings Big SoC Upgrade to Samsung Galaxy S23 Series

Samsung's new flagship smartphone is leaving behind in-house Exynos processors in favor of Qualcomm’s Snapdragon 8 Gen 2 mobile processor.


News Feb 07, 2023 by Jake Hertz
Remembering Karl Alex Müller, the Swiss Superconductor Pioneer

Remembering Karl Alex Müller, the Swiss Superconductor Pioneer

Swiss physicist Karl Alexander(Alex) Müller leaves his legacy as the discoverer of high-temperature superconductors, a feat that earned him a Nobel Prize in physics.


News Feb 06, 2023 by Biljana Ognenova
Introduction to Double Data Rate (DDR) Memory

Introduction to Double Data Rate (DDR) Memory

Learn about double data rate (DDR) memory key concepts and applications surrounding this digital communication technique, where two data words are transferred during one clock cycle.


Siemens Rolls Out IC Design Tool for Data-driven Verification

Siemens Rolls Out IC Design Tool for Data-driven Verification

Seeking to leverage today’s data-rich engineering world, Siemens has released Questa Verification IQ, a software platform enabling data-driven IC verification.


News Feb 03, 2023 by Jeff Child
NeuralTree SoC Detects and Blocks Symptoms of Neurologic Disorders

NeuralTree SoC Detects and Blocks Symptoms of Neurologic Disorders

With NeuralTree, EPFL researchers are vaulting traditional challenges of implantable SoCs, like low channel count, system complexity, and large area.


News Feb 01, 2023 by Jake Hertz
A Neutral Atom Quantum Computer: From Nobel Prize to Reality

A Neutral Atom Quantum Computer: From Nobel Prize to Reality

Pasqal, a company based on Nobel Prize-winning research, has recently secured over $100M in funding to progress its neutral atom architecture.


News Jan 26, 2023 by Jake Hertz
Tree Tech: Enlisting Electronics in Environmental Protection

Tree Tech: Enlisting Electronics in Environmental Protection

As organizations and governments around the world seek solutions to climate change and deforestation, engineers are playing their part in the quest for ecological balance.


News Jan 25, 2023 by Robert Keim
Vertical Transistor Prototype Shows Promise for Biomedical Wearables

Vertical Transistor Prototype Shows Promise for Biomedical Wearables

With the ability to operate in both blood and water, the organic electrochemical transistor is proven useful for onsite signal processing.


News Jan 24, 2023 by Jake Hertz
Bluespec Teams Up with Synopsys for RISC-V Core Verification Effort

Bluespec Teams Up with Synopsys for RISC-V Core Verification Effort

With their collaboration, the firms hope to enable faster and improved functional verification testing for Bluespec’s RISC-V cores.


News Jan 24, 2023 by Jake Hertz
Exclusive—IBM Shares Details of Its 400+ Qubit Quantum Processor

Exclusive—IBM Shares Details of Its 400+ Qubit Quantum Processor

All About Circuits spoke with IBM physicist and chief quantum hardware architect Oliver Dial to get exclusive details on IBM's 400+ qubit quantum processor: Osprey.


News Jan 23, 2023 by Ingrid Fadelli
A Primer on Digital Pulse Amplitude Modulation

A Primer on Digital Pulse Amplitude Modulation

An encoding technique used for digital communication, pulse amplitude modulation (PAM) converts a discrete-time signal into a variable-amplitude continuous-time signal that is suitable for high-speed wired communication systems.


Texas Instruments Announces First Ultrasonic Lens Cleaning Chipset

Texas Instruments Announces First Ultrasonic Lens Cleaning Chipset

Texas Instruments has developed two ultrasonic lens cleaning ICs to enable self-cleaning cameras and sensors.


News Jan 19, 2023 by Jake Hertz
AMD Launches Program Enabling Turnkey Designs Based on its Kria SOMs

AMD Launches Program Enabling Turnkey Designs Based on its Kria SOMs

Leveraging the company’s FPGA-based Kria system-on-modules (SOMs) and its app store methodology, AMD is unveiling a new ODM partner effort.


News Jan 18, 2023 by Jeff Child
Apple Debuts Second Family of In-house Processors: M2 Pro and M2 Max

Apple Debuts Second Family of In-house Processors: M2 Pro and M2 Max

The new chips from Apple usher in the company’s second generation of in-house silicon for Macbooks.


News Jan 18, 2023 by Jake Hertz
Imagination Technologies Reimagines GPUs With Ray Tracing

Imagination Technologies Reimagines GPUs With Ray Tracing

Imagination Technologies has revealed a ray tracing GPU with high power efficiency and low cost.


News Jan 17, 2023 by Darshil Patel
Menlo Micro Supports Low–power MEMS With High-voltage Driver IC

Menlo Micro Supports Low–power MEMS With High-voltage Driver IC

Created for MEMS applications where high voltages are needed, the company’s new driver IC features an embedded charge pump.


News Jan 17, 2023 by Jake Hertz