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Ambarella Debuts Standalone AI Accelerator for Physical AI Designs

Ambarella Debuts Standalone AI Accelerator for Physical AI Designs

The X7 runs on 2-5 W, connects over PCIe Gen 3 or USB 3.2, and uses the same CVflow engine already in over 50 million of the company’s AI SoCs.


News 5 hours ago by Luke James
Omnivision Unveils AI Companion Processor for Always-On Parking Surveillance

Omnivision Unveils AI Companion Processor for Always-On Parking Surveillance

The OAX7700 ASIC adds an NPU and pre-roll video capture to cut parking surveillance power consumption by 97%.


News Oct 09, 2026 by Jake Hertz
Overcoming Signal Integrity and Thermal Bottlenecks in AI-enabled Sensors

Overcoming Signal Integrity and Thermal Bottlenecks in AI-enabled Sensors

Designing compact AI sensor nodes forces signal integrity and thermal management to compete for limited PCB copper, creating severe PDN and thermal bottlenecks.


Summit 2026 Keynote - The Quiet Giant Goes All In: MediaTek is Diving Into AI Datacenters

Summit 2026 Keynote - The Quiet Giant Goes All In: MediaTek is Diving Into AI Datacenters

After building a $10B+ smartphone business, Yenchi Lee is standing up MediaTek's Datacenter BU from scratch to tackle full-stack AI silicon, 2.5D packaging, and co-packaged optics.


News Oct 07, 2026 by Dale Wilson
Renesas Intros 64-bit MPU Duo for Advanced HMI and IoT Edge Systems

Renesas Intros 64-bit MPU Duo for Advanced HMI and IoT Edge Systems

The RZ/G3L and RZ/G3SE share a pin-compatible package platform and 1-mW-level standby power.


News Oct 01, 2026 by Jake Hertz
Nvidia Quantum Middleware Jumpstarts Quantum Fault Tolerance

Nvidia Quantum Middleware Jumpstarts Quantum Fault Tolerance

A new addition to Nvidia's CUDA-Q quantum computing platform adds logical qubit error correction and abstraction to significantly speed reliable quantum application development.


News Sep 30, 2026 by Duane Benson
Recent Semiconductor Deals Reflect Uptick in AI and Quantum Development

Recent Semiconductor Deals Reflect Uptick in AI and Quantum Development

Recent semiconductor business moves from Nvidia, MediaTek, GlobalFoundries, Qualcomm, Amazon, and Analog Devices highlight growing investment in AI infrastructure, quantum manufacturing, optical connectivity, and edge intelligence.


News Sep 23, 2026 by Austin Futrell
Inside a Multi-$Billion IP Engine Driving IC and EDA Innovations

Inside a Multi-$Billion IP Engine Driving IC and EDA Innovations

John Koeter, former SVP of IP at Synopsys (retired), joins the podcast to discuss how pre-designed silicon blocks are accelerating chip development in the age of AI and 3D ICs.


MediaTek Intros 3 nm SoC Designed for AI-First Googlebooks

MediaTek Intros 3 nm SoC Designed for AI-First Googlebooks

Announced today, MediaTek's new 3 nm Dimensity CX C10 Max SoC features an all-big-core Arm CPU and NPU 890 to bring flagship AI performance to fanless Googlebooks.


News Sep 21, 2026 by Jeff Child
Nexperia NSF0x0120 N-Channel SiC MOSFETs | Featured Product Spotlight

Nexperia NSF0x0120 N-Channel SiC MOSFETs | Featured Product Spotlight

Nexperia NSF0x0120 N-Channel SiC MOSFETs deliver high-voltage switching performance for demanding power conversion applications. Watch and learn all about their features, specs, applications, and more!


new products Sep 20, 2026 by Mouser
MediaTek Unveils 2 nm SoC for Agentic AI Smartphones

MediaTek Unveils 2 nm SoC for Agentic AI Smartphones

The flagship system-on-chip pairs a 4th-generation All Big Core CPU and dual neural processing units to drive high-end compute and proactive mobile intelligence.


News Sep 16, 2026 by Jeff Child
Delos Data Unveils Architecture and Silicon to Break AI Interconnect Bottlenecks

Delos Data Unveils Architecture and Silicon to Break AI Interconnect Bottlenecks

Launched today, Delos Data’s Nonstop AI portfolio intros Apollo Data Interface silicon, the Morpheus development platform, and a system-level reference architecture to eliminate tail latency, maximize power efficiency, and scale agentic AI clusters.


News Sep 15, 2026 by Jeff Child
Apple Targets AI Compute With New M6 and M5 Ultra Processors

Apple Targets AI Compute With New M6 and M5 Ultra Processors

M6 is Apple's first 2-nm chip and features a dual 16-core Neural Engine, while the M5 Ultra joins four dies to achieve 1.2 TB/s of unified memory bandwidth.


News Sep 11, 2026 by Jake Hertz
Qualcomm Splits One IoT Quad-Core Die Across Consumer and Industrial Lines

Qualcomm Splits One IoT Quad-Core Die Across Consumer and Industrial Lines

The Q-2390 and IQ-2390 share a Cortex-A78/A55 complex, an Adreno 704 GPU, and an optional RISC-V real-time core, with the industrial part introducing the IQ2 Series.


News Sep 10, 2026 by Luke James
Arm Rolls AI-Native Compute Platforms for Edge, Physical, and Cloud Systems

Arm Rolls AI-Native Compute Platforms for Edge, Physical, and Cloud Systems

Announced today, the company's new CSS for Mobile 2 platform, Total Design for Physical AI program, and Neoverse CSS N4 platform provide specialized architectures for agentic AI workloads across various domains.


News Sep 07, 2026 by Jeff Child
IBM & Arm Reveal Fruits of Partnership: The First Dual-Architecture CPU

IBM & Arm Reveal Fruits of Partnership: The First Dual-Architecture CPU

The 2-nm processor runs Arm and z/Architecture instructions natively on the same core.


News Sep 02, 2026 by Jake Hertz
MaxLinear Unveils Control-Plane Portfolio for Next-Gen AI Infrastructure

MaxLinear Unveils Control-Plane Portfolio for Next-Gen AI Infrastructure

RackCommander groups MaxLinear's USB UARTs, RS-485 transceivers, GPIO expanders, and power devices for rack-level management.


News Aug 31, 2026 by Jake Hertz
From BMW to Data Centers: Brands Tap 3 Known Chips in New Ways

From BMW to Data Centers: Brands Tap 3 Known Chips in New Ways

Companies across industries are leveraging tech from NXP, MaxLinear and Nordic Semiconductor on automotive UWB, accelerated OpenZFS storage, and low-power Bluetooth Mesh sensing.


News Aug 28, 2026 by Joshua Tidwell
AI Craze Drives Wave of Semiconductor Deals Toward $1T Chip Era

AI Craze Drives Wave of Semiconductor Deals Toward $1T Chip Era

In this edition of Business Shorts, we spotlight five announcements that show AI demand is reshaping everything from Wall Street financing to washing machines.


News Aug 26, 2026 by Luke James
NXP Launches MCUs Blending 10BASE-T1S Ethernet and Post-Quantum Security

NXP Launches MCUs Blending 10BASE-T1S Ethernet and Post-Quantum Security

The new MCX A5 MCUs integrate 10BASE-T1S Ethernet, topology discovery, and post-quantum security to streamline and protect industrial edge networks.


News Aug 25, 2026 by Jeff Child