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New Automotive ICs Cover Signal Integrity, Power Density, & Integration

New Automotive ICs Cover Signal Integrity, Power Density, & Integration

Recent automotive IC releases highlight ongoing efforts to improve signal integrity in ADAS, increase power density in compact inductors, and integrate sensing and logic functions for next-gen electric drive platforms.


News Mar 02, 2026 by Austin Futrell
Google Moonshot Company Taara Debuts ‘Radical’ Silicon Photonics Platform

Google Moonshot Company Taara Debuts ‘Radical’ Silicon Photonics Platform

Taara Photonics integrates 1,000+ light emitters in a finger-sized module, enabling electronic beam steering without mechanical parts.


News Mar 02, 2026 by Luke James
Inside the 7400-Series Era of Digital Logic

Inside the 7400-Series Era of Digital Logic

Texas Instruments’ SN7400 and the broader 7400-series TTL family defined how digital systems were built, debugged, and scaled from the mid-1960s through the early microprocessor age.


News Feb 27, 2026 by Luke James
Toshiba Keys Into Motors With Gate Driver and Sine-Wave Drive Controller

Toshiba Keys Into Motors With Gate Driver and Sine-Wave Drive Controller

With increasing electrification across vehicle subsystems, Toshiba is rolling out brushed and brushless DC motor control components.


News Feb 26, 2026 by Charles Lee
SK Hynix Details Low-Power DDR6 SDRAM at ISSCC 2026

SK Hynix Details Low-Power DDR6 SDRAM at ISSCC 2026

SK Hynix's new LPDDR6 SDRAM exhibits five key innovations to improve performance, reduce power consumption, and increase reliability.


News Feb 26, 2026 by Duane Benson
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
Renesas Looks to the Future of Automotive With New Memory and SoC Tech

Renesas Looks to the Future of Automotive With New Memory and SoC Tech

The company attended ISSCC with some big automotive announcements: a new approach to chiplet-based processing and a configurable 3-nm memory architecture.


News Feb 24, 2026 by Jake Hertz
New Materials Target Interconnect Performance and On-Chip Photonics

New Materials Target Interconnect Performance and On-Chip Photonics

New research explores ultra-low-k COF dielectrics, screens topological conductors for nanoscale wires, and reveals high-pressure hexagonal GeSn alloys.


News Feb 24, 2026 by Luke James
Geehy Launches Arm Automotive MCU for Body and Comfort ECUs

Geehy Launches Arm Automotive MCU for Body and Comfort ECUs

The 40 nm Arm Cortex-M4F device combines 256 KB flash, CAN FD, and ASIL-B positioning for NEV subsystems.


News Feb 23, 2026 by Luke James
Keysight Launches 3D Interconnect Designer for Chiplets and 3DICs

Keysight Launches 3D Interconnect Designer for Chiplets and 3DICs

The W3510E workflow targets pre-layout modeling, EM analysis, and early UCIe and BoW validation for advanced AI infrastructure designs.


News Feb 23, 2026 by Luke James
Vishay Adds 1200 V SiC MOSFET Power Modules in SOT-227 Packages

Vishay Adds 1200 V SiC MOSFET Power Modules in SOT-227 Packages

The five 1200 V SiC MOSFET power modules support up to 200 A for automotive, energy, and industrial systems.


News Feb 20, 2026 by Joshua Tidwell
Silanna Semiconductor’s FirePower ICs Boost and Charge, All on One Chip

Silanna Semiconductor’s FirePower ICs Boost and Charge, All on One Chip

Silanna’s SL2001 and SL2002 laser-firing ICs integrate resonant charging and high-current drive for LiDAR and rangefinding applications.


News Feb 19, 2026 by Joshua Tidwell
Microchip’s New MCU: A 32-bit Upgrade That Still Fits Old 8-bit Systems

Microchip’s New MCU: A 32-bit Upgrade That Still Fits Old 8-bit Systems

Microchip’s PIC32CM PL10 MCUs combine 32-bit Cortex-M0+ performance with AVR pin compatibility, MVIO, and functional safety support.


News Feb 19, 2026 by Joshua Tidwell
TI to Acquire Silicon Labs, Plus Other News in the Semiconductor World

TI to Acquire Silicon Labs, Plus Other News in the Semiconductor World

A cluster of early February deals pulled wireless MCUs, clocking IP, analog sensors, and AI-driven inspection software into larger platforms spanning IoT, automotive, industrial, and semiconductor manufacturing.


News Feb 17, 2026 by Luke James
STMicroelectronics Claims First Automotive MCU with Edge AI Acceleration

STMicroelectronics Claims First Automotive MCU with Edge AI Acceleration

The new MCU includes a dedicated neural processor and phase-change memory to boost performance in X-in-1 architectures.


News Feb 17, 2026 by Jake Hertz
Research Shorts: Medtech Targets Sleep, Speech, Strength, and More

Research Shorts: Medtech Targets Sleep, Speech, Strength, and More

Recent research explores healthcare diagnosis, monitoring, and rehab—from the "world's smallest programmable microbots" to wearables that restore speech to stroke patients.


News Feb 16, 2026 by Austin Futrell
Alpha & Omega Semi Unwraps 600 V Super Junction MOSFET Devices

Alpha & Omega Semi Unwraps 600 V Super Junction MOSFET Devices

The αMOS E2 platform seeks to deliver efficiency, ruggedness, and power density for high-voltage power conversion.


News Feb 16, 2026 by Jake Hertz
Toshiba Adds High-Speed CCD Image Sensor to Machine Vision Portfolio

Toshiba Adds High-Speed CCD Image Sensor to Machine Vision Portfolio

The new linear sensor pushes the capture speed envelope for industrial machine vision.


News Feb 13, 2026 by Duane Benson
National Semiconductor’s LM317 and the Rise of Adjustable Linear Power

National Semiconductor’s LM317 and the Rise of Adjustable Linear Power

Introduced in the mid-1970s, National Semiconductor’s LM317 condensed linear regulation into a three-terminal building block and turned voltage selection into a resistor choice.


News Feb 13, 2026 by Luke James
ST Launches LVDS Driver for High-Speed Data and Low-Voltage Logic

ST Launches LVDS Driver for High-Speed Data and Low-Voltage Logic

A space-grade quad LVDS line driver targets modern spacecraft data links with 600-Mbps throughput and wide-range CMOS compatibility.


News Feb 12, 2026 by Luke James