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Spinning Disks Sputter as AI Heats up Data

Spinning Disks Sputter as AI Heats up Data

AI-driven data demands are outpacing traditional HDDs. System developers must migrate to high-performance, secure, and efficient NVMe SSDs to scale for AI workloads.


ElastixAI Emerges From Stealth With FPGA Approach to Gen AI Supercomputing

ElastixAI Emerges From Stealth With FPGA Approach to Gen AI Supercomputing

In this exclusive interview, the Seattle startup says its software-ML-hardware co-design—announced today—converts off-the-shelf FPGA servers into high-efficiency AI inference engines.


News Feb 25, 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
Solving the QLC NAND Flash SSD Scaling Challenge

Solving the QLC NAND Flash SSD Scaling Challenge

Learn how to solve QLC NAND's endurance, ECC, and performance issues for hyperscale. The approach blends a PCIe Gen5 controller with hardware-accelerated LDPC, PerformaShape QoS, and more.


Your 2025 Back-to-School Guide to All About Circuits’ Educational Resources

Your 2025 Back-to-School Guide to All About Circuits’ Educational Resources

Are you a first year electronics engineering student? Or maybe working on a second or third degree in this field? All About Circuits has the resources you need: comprehensive textbooks, technical articles, calculators, videos, and more for your EE studies.


News Sep 19, 2025 by Jeff Child
AI’s Appetite for Memory: Can Hardware Designs Keep Pace?

AI’s Appetite for Memory: Can Hardware Designs Keep Pace?

Memory selection has become a priority, as AI system designs demand more memory. Learn how to navigate hardware designs impacts and supply chain issues, and how BOM management tools help smooth the way.


Micron Reveals Adaptive Write Technology and G9 QLC NAND in New SSD

Micron Reveals Adaptive Write Technology and G9 QLC NAND in New SSD

Micron claims the new SSD one-ups TLC value drives in user experience while maintaining QLC economics.


News Jul 07, 2025 by Luke James
Rethinking Computational Storage: Unlock the Processing Power of SSDs

Rethinking Computational Storage: Unlock the Processing Power of SSDs

Generic concepts of computational storage are a dead end, but targeted accelerators leveraging the massive on-board bandwidth of solid-state drives may benefit high-performance computing.


Littelfuse SRP1 High-Endurance Solid-State Relays | New Product Brief

Littelfuse SRP1 High-Endurance Solid-State Relays | New Product Brief

Littelfuse SRP1 High-Endurance Solid-State Relays are versatile and durable, designed to deliver superior reliability in high-frequency operations with 2x to 3x the life endurance cycles. Watch and learn all about their features, specs, applications, and more!


A Deep Dive on Winbond’s Memory Technology for Edge AI

A Deep Dive on Winbond’s Memory Technology for Edge AI

In this deep dive, we take a look at how Winbond’s CUBE technology solves memory challenges for edge AI designs.


News Nov 13, 2024 by Jeff Child
Edge AI Demands Call For Optimized Storage Controller Chips

Edge AI Demands Call For Optimized Storage Controller Chips

AI will push the limits of PCs and smartphones. In turn, demands on storage controller chips will be intense. Learn how chip architectures and firmware schemes must be optimized for these AI workloads.


Global Efforts Heat Up to Boost Semiconductor Production

Global Efforts Heat Up to Boost Semiconductor Production

Investments in semiconductor manufacturing have been on the rise in recent years. Here are a few new examples.


News Aug 22, 2024 by Jake Hertz
Memory Leaders Rise to Meet the Storage Challenges of AI

Memory Leaders Rise to Meet the Storage Challenges of AI

At this year's Future of Memory and Storage show, Microchip, Micron, and Samsung presented new memory solutions in the age of AI—from SSD controllers to LPDDR5X DRAM.


News Aug 08, 2024 by Jake Hertz
Switching Losses in Bipolar Junction Transistors

Switching Losses in Bipolar Junction Transistors

With the help of SPICE simulations, we examine two types of power dissipation that occur when BJTs are used as switches.


Micron to ‘Revolutionize’ Smart Vehicles With First Quad-Port SSD

Micron to ‘Revolutionize’ Smart Vehicles With First Quad-Port SSD

Micron simplifies data access in new vehicle architectures with its first multi-port automotive SSD.


News Apr 16, 2024 by Aaron Carman
Your 2023 Back-to-School Guide to All About Circuits’ Educational Resources

Your 2023 Back-to-School Guide to All About Circuits’ Educational Resources

Whether you are just starting your first year as an engineering student, working on a second or third degree, or simply want to brush up on key topics, All About Circuits has the resources you need: awesome textbooks, technical articles, calculators, and more for your EE studies.


News Oct 11, 2023 by Jeff Child
Powering a Green Future: Insights from Infineon’s Peter Wawer

Powering a Green Future: Insights from Infineon’s Peter Wawer

Dr. Peter Wawer brings insights from a distinguished career that has touched three unique major semiconductor technologies: silicon photovoltaics, embedded Flash, and now wide bandgap semiconductors for power electronics.


Touting Energy Efficiency, AMD Announces 4th-gen EPYC Embedded Processors

Touting Energy Efficiency, AMD Announces 4th-gen EPYC Embedded Processors

At Embedded World this week, AMD has unveiled its 4th-gen EPYX Embedded processors. The chips offer energy efficiency along with some embedded-specific features.


News Mar 15, 2023 by Jeff Child
STMicro Brings Its Free STM32 MCU Edge AI Toolset to the Cloud

STMicro Brings Its Free STM32 MCU Edge AI Toolset to the Cloud

The new cloud-based version includes a GitHub-based model resource, and remote access to a “board farm” to remotely benchmark edge-AI models on STM32 MCU boards.


News Jan 31, 2023 by Jeff Child
From RISC-V to 3D NAND Technology—Looking Back at the Trends of 2022

From RISC-V to 3D NAND Technology—Looking Back at the Trends of 2022

Catch up on some of the technology and industry trends we’ve noticed from 2022.


News Dec 31, 2022 by Kimber Wymore