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Onsemi Unveils Image Sensors That Boost Battery Life by 40 Percent

Onsemi Unveils Image Sensors That Boost Battery Life by 40 Percent

Aimed at Smart Homes and Offices, this new image sensor family promises to blend high performance with ultra-low power draw while moving key functionality from the image processor on to the sensor.


News Oct 10, 2023 by Duane Benson
Semidynamics and Signature IP Expand Multi-Core RISC-V and CHI Options

Semidynamics and Signature IP Expand Multi-Core RISC-V and CHI Options

Two relatively new players in the CPU world, Semidynamics and Signature IP, have announced multi-core RISC-V and CHI interconnect IP for compute-intensive applications like AI/ML.


News Oct 09, 2023 by Duane Benson
Gowin and Andes Team Up on First 22 nm SRAM FPGA With RISC-V Core

Gowin and Andes Team Up on First 22 nm SRAM FPGA With RISC-V Core

FPGA vendor Gowin Semiconductor has teamed with RISC-V IP developer Andes Technology to develop an SRAM FPGA SoC with a hard-instantiated RISC-V core.


News Sep 11, 2023 by Duane Benson
In Promising New Study, Analog AI Chip Restores a Stroke Patient’s Voice

In Promising New Study, Analog AI Chip Restores a Stroke Patient’s Voice

The University of California researchers implanted 253 electrodes over the patient's speech center of the brain, intercepting signals that, if not for the stroke, would have gone to muscles in her lips, tongue, jaw, and larynx.


News Sep 01, 2023 by Duane Benson
Rohm’s Automotive Hall ICs Offer ‘Industry-Leading Withstand Voltage’

Rohm’s Automotive Hall ICs Offer ‘Industry-Leading Withstand Voltage’

Rohm has devised a new unipolar and latch Hall-effect sensor to better detect magnetic fields in automotive designs.


News Aug 28, 2023 by Jake Hertz
Qualcomm Reveals Snapdragon G Series Processors for Handheld Gaming

Qualcomm Reveals Snapdragon G Series Processors for Handheld Gaming

Qualcomm has a robust portfolio of computing solutions for gaming. Now, the company has released a new family of SoCs, broken into three tiers to meet different handheld gaming needs.


News Aug 25, 2023 by Jake Hertz
Audio Roundup: Three New Offerings Amp Up Sound Performance

Audio Roundup: Three New Offerings Amp Up Sound Performance

New products from Dolphin Design, Qualcomm, and Cirrus Logic work independently toward better performance, power consumption, and latency across the audio device industry.


News Aug 12, 2023 by Duane Benson
Understanding the Compute Hardware Behind Generative AI

Understanding the Compute Hardware Behind Generative AI

Generative AI tools like ChatGPT have had a huge impact in numerous sectors of society. As engineers, it’s helpful for us to understand the computing technology that makes it possible.


Hailo Debuts Two Additions to Hailo-8 AI Accelerator Portfolio

Hailo Debuts Two Additions to Hailo-8 AI Accelerator Portfolio

AI at the edge is now in reach for more designers, thanks to the newly-announced Hailo accelerator chips.


News Aug 04, 2023 by Aaron Carman
Startup HaiLa Aims Its Ambient IoT Tech at a ‘No Batteries’ IoT Future

Startup HaiLa Aims Its Ambient IoT Tech at a ‘No Batteries’ IoT Future

Emerging from stealth mode, HaiLa believes they can enable a future of IoT nodes without batteries.


News Aug 01, 2023 by Jake Hertz
Graphene FET Tests Multiple Diseases On Chip at Once

Graphene FET Tests Multiple Diseases On Chip at Once

Archer Materials’ latest device uses ultra-thin graphene to detect multiple diseases on one chip. The next goal: a reconfigurable biochip.


News Aug 01, 2023 by Aaron Carman
Cadence and Research Partners Build First Binaural Hearing Aid SoC

Cadence and Research Partners Build First Binaural Hearing Aid SoC

Cadence, GlobalFoundries, and several university research teams have developed the Smart Hearing Aid Processor (SmartHeAP), the first SoC to process sound from both ears simultaneously.


News Jul 26, 2023 by Jake Hertz
ATT and GATT—How Bluetooth LE Devices Store Data

ATT and GATT—How Bluetooth LE Devices Store Data

Learn how ATT and GATT protocols help Bluetooth LE devices store and manage data, making it easier for connected devices to work together seamlessly.


Ex-Apple Engineers Develop ‘Disappearing Computer’ in Pin-sized Device

Ex-Apple Engineers Develop ‘Disappearing Computer’ in Pin-sized Device

With a wearable projector that acts as a "non-physical smartphone," Humane hopes its flagship computing device will help people stay present in everyday life.


News Jul 11, 2023 by Chantelle Dubois
Lightelligence Reports ‘World’s First’ Optical Network-on-Chip Processor

Lightelligence Reports ‘World’s First’ Optical Network-on-Chip Processor

The new processor is said to use optical networking to overcome scaling challenges in conventional computing architecture.


News Jul 11, 2023 by Jake Hertz
AMD Claims Planet’s Largest FPGA-based SoC for Emulation and Prototyping

AMD Claims Planet’s Largest FPGA-based SoC for Emulation and Prototyping

The company positions the new chiplet-based SoC as well suited for todays’ ever more complex chip designs.


News Jun 27, 2023 by Jake Hertz
Broadcom Now Sampling Second Wave of Wi-Fi 7 Chips

Broadcom Now Sampling Second Wave of Wi-Fi 7 Chips

The new set of Wi-Fi 7 chips will appear in devices such as routers, gateways, and client devices.


News Jun 26, 2023 by Jake Hertz
One Year Later, Renesas Details the Status of Its Reality AI Acquisition

One Year Later, Renesas Details the Status of Its Reality AI Acquisition

Renesas has a lot to show in the one year since it acquired the startup Reality AI.


News Jun 22, 2023 by Jake Hertz
Nordic Semiconductor Releases Low-cost Wi-Fi 6 IC Option

Nordic Semiconductor Releases Low-cost Wi-Fi 6 IC Option

The new Wi-Fi companion IC adds Wi-Fi 6 capabilities to an embedded system.


News Jun 20, 2023 by Jake Hertz
Intel Makes New Quantum Chip Available to Research Community

Intel Makes New Quantum Chip Available to Research Community

Tunnel Falls removes barriers to entry for quantum research by leveraging traditional transistor processes for high-yield fabrication.


News Jun 19, 2023 by Aaron Carman