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Melexis Adds 5V Pico-Resolver for Space-Constrained Motor Designs

Melexis Adds 5V Pico-Resolver for Space-Constrained Motor Designs

The new device pairs Triaxis Hall sensing with analog sine and cosine outputs in a 2.0 mm x 2.5 mm package aimed at through-shaft and side-of-shaft actuators.


News Sep 14, 2026 by Luke James
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
The LM3914: Turning a Voltage Into a Row of Lights

The LM3914: Turning a Voltage Into a Row of Lights

National Semiconductor reduced the analog bar-graph display to a single IC, a handful of LEDs, and one resistor. The level meter was never the same.


News Sep 11, 2026 by Luke James
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
Alif Semiconductor Unveils $49 StartKit Platform for Edge AI Development

Alif Semiconductor Unveils $49 StartKit Platform for Edge AI Development

The new evaluation kits aim to lower the barrier for on-device AI development with Alif’s AI/ML hardware-accelerated Ensemble and Balletto MCUs.


News Sep 09, 2026 by Jeff Child
Sensibel’s MEMS Smart Optical Microphone Hits New Performance Peaks

Sensibel’s MEMS Smart Optical Microphone Hits New Performance Peaks

The new mic offers an 84-dBA signal-to-noise ratio and a 146-dB acoustic overload point—a 10-dB improvement over the industry standard.


News Sep 09, 2026 by Duane Benson
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
Big Moves Propel eVTOLs Closer to Autonomous Flight and More

Big Moves Propel eVTOLs Closer to Autonomous Flight and More

Archer Aviation is developing pilotless eVTOLs, CATL is ready to produce safer batteries, and Florida is building out its flight testing track.


News Sep 07, 2026 by Shannon Cuthrell
Targeting Robotics, TI Claims First Commercial CAN XL Transceiver

Targeting Robotics, TI Claims First Commercial CAN XL Transceiver

Touted as the first commercial CAN XL transceiver, the device offers 20 Mbps data rates, larger payloads, and CAN FD compatibility for industrial and robotic networks.


News Sep 04, 2026 by Joshua Tidwell
Paragraf Launches 12-Channel Graphene FET Platform and Real-Time Reader

Paragraf Launches 12-Channel Graphene FET Platform and Real-Time Reader

The PMF2002 multiplexes 12 customer-functionalized graphene sensing channels on one device, while the new Enterprise Reader adds direct electronic readout and real-time analysis.


News Sep 04, 2026 by Luke James
AMD to Bring UCIe Chiplet Connectivity to Versal RF Adaptive SoCs

AMD to Bring UCIe Chiplet Connectivity to Versal RF Adaptive SoCs

Select Versal RF Series devices will be AMD's first adaptive SoCs with native UCIe 1.1 interfaces, allowing designers to co-package third-party chiplets.


News Sep 03, 2026 by Luke James
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
Bourns Adds LTCC Bandpass Filters for 5G C-Band RF Front Ends

Bourns Adds LTCC Bandpass Filters for 5G C-Band RF Front Ends

The new devices provide compact C-band filtering options for 5G RF front-end designs from 3,300 MHz to 5,000 MHz.


News Sep 01, 2026 by Austin Futrell
A Peek Inside the Electronics on the Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope

A Peek Inside the Electronics on the Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope

The Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope’s mirror may get the headlines, but its detector chips, photon-counting cameras, and downlink amplifier tell the electronics story.


News Aug 31, 2026 by Robert Martin
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
The 4N35: One LED, One Phototransistor, and a Barrier Nothing Crosses

The 4N35: One LED, One Phototransistor, and a Barrier Nothing Crosses

An LED facing a phototransistor inside a 6-pin package became the default way to pass a signal across a barrier while blocking everything else.


News Aug 28, 2026 by Luke James
Microchip Reveals One of Its Lowest Power Atomic Clocks Yet

Microchip Reveals One of Its Lowest Power Atomic Clocks Yet

Drawing less than 120 mW and tolerating 30 krad of total ionizing dose, the chip-scale atomic clock keeps LEO satellites synchronized when GNSS timing is unavailable.


News Aug 27, 2026 by Luke James
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