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How Christmas Became Electrified: An Engineer’s Holiday Tale

How Christmas Became Electrified: An Engineer’s Holiday Tale

While the twinkling lights adorning Christmas trees and homes are a familiar sight at this time of year, their earliest iteration looked quite different than our modern LEDs.


News Dec 24, 2024 by Luke James
Microchip Reveals CAN FD System Basis Chip in Tiny Footprint

Microchip Reveals CAN FD System Basis Chip in Tiny Footprint

The new series brings the power of CAN FD into a more highly-integrated solution.


News Dec 19, 2024 by Jake Hertz
Soundskrit to Democratize Directional Audio With New MEMS Microphones

Soundskrit to Democratize Directional Audio With New MEMS Microphones

The company claims the two new MEMS microphone modules incorporate "the world’s lowest-noise directional microphones."


News Dec 12, 2024 by Jake Hertz
3 New Connectors Push the Limits of Compact Size and High Performance

3 New Connectors Push the Limits of Compact Size and High Performance

In this final reflection on Electronica 2024, we round up three connectors from Samtec, Attend, and Same Sky Interconnect Group that stood out.


News Dec 10, 2024 by Darshil Patel
Nordic Simplifies Wireless Integration With New Low-Power SoCs

Nordic Simplifies Wireless Integration With New Low-Power SoCs

Announced at Electronica, Nordic's new wireless SoCs include an Arm processor core and built-in support for a wide variety of 2.4 GHz protocols.


News Nov 19, 2024 by Duane Benson
PI Introduces 1700V Switcher IC With More Than 99% Reliability

PI Introduces 1700V Switcher IC With More Than 99% Reliability

Power Integrations has upped its GaN game with InnoMux-2 IC, delivering more than 90% efficiency from a 1000 VDC bus and supplying up to 60 W from three accurately regulated outputs.


Apple Features M4 Pro and M4 Max Processors in New Macbooks and iMacs

Apple Features M4 Pro and M4 Max Processors in New Macbooks and iMacs

Apple calls its newest M4 additions "the most advanced family of chips ever built for a personal computer."


News Nov 11, 2024 by Jake Hertz
All About Circuits Looks Ahead to What’s Cooking for Electronica 2024

All About Circuits Looks Ahead to What’s Cooking for Electronica 2024

Join the All About Circuits team as we look ahead to next week's Electronica 2024 where we will be exploring the latest innovations in electronics technology.


News Nov 08, 2024 by Jeff Child
Renesas Embeds Powerful Arm Cortex-M85 Into Entry-Level MCUs

Renesas Embeds Powerful Arm Cortex-M85 Into Entry-Level MCUs

Renesas' new 32-bit MCUs maintain the power of its RA8 series MCUs while streamlining their features, making them cost-effective for high-volume embedded applications.


News Nov 07, 2024 by Jake Hertz
Renesas and Intel Collaborate on Power Management ICs for AI PCs

Renesas and Intel Collaborate on Power Management ICs for AI PCs

The partnership has produced three new integrated circuit solutions for Intel's next generation of battery-efficient laptops.


News Oct 29, 2024 by Jake Hertz
Qualcomm Claims ‘Fastest Mobile CPU’ With New Snapdragon Chip

Qualcomm Claims ‘Fastest Mobile CPU’ With New Snapdragon Chip

Qualcomm claims the new processor offers the mobile industry’s largest shared cache with record speeds for data retrieval.


News Oct 28, 2024 by Jake Hertz
Renesas Rolls Out MCUs Aimed at Appliances and Building Automation

Renesas Rolls Out MCUs Aimed at Appliances and Building Automation

The new MCUs merge performance, efficiency, and security for smart appliances.


News Oct 24, 2024 by Jake Hertz
TI’s PLDs Help Engineers Leap From Concept to Prototype in a Snap

TI’s PLDs Help Engineers Leap From Concept to Prototype in a Snap

The new family of programmable logic devices highly integrates features to reduce board space by up to 94%.


News Oct 10, 2024 by Jake Hertz
MediaTek Targets the ‘Agentic AI Era’ With Dimensity’s Next Evolution

MediaTek Targets the ‘Agentic AI Era’ With Dimensity’s Next Evolution

The company’s newest flagship SoC introduces architectural advances to bring performance and efficiency to the next wave of AI-capable smartphones.


News Oct 10, 2024 by Jake Hertz
Research Shorts: Advances in Night Vision, Liquid Batteries, and Beyond

Research Shorts: Advances in Night Vision, Liquid Batteries, and Beyond

In this edition of Research Shorts, we spotlight five news snippets exploring the feats of engineering students worldwide.


News Oct 08, 2024 by Kristijan Nelkovski
Remembering John B. Goodenough, Inventor of the Lithium-Ion Battery

Remembering John B. Goodenough, Inventor of the Lithium-Ion Battery

Dr. Goodenough received a Nobel Prize at the age of 97 for his contributions to making the Lithium-ion battery a reality.


News Sep 16, 2024 by Duane Benson
Qualcomm Raises the Bar on Thin, Light PC Performance With New CPU

Qualcomm Raises the Bar on Thin, Light PC Performance With New CPU

The new Snapdragon X Plus 8-core is designed to uphold high-performance standards while extending battery life by multiple days on Copilot+ PCs.


News Sep 12, 2024 by Jake Hertz
NXP Combines UWB Radar and Secure Ranging in a Single Chip

NXP Combines UWB Radar and Secure Ranging in a Single Chip

Announced today, NXP calls the Trimension SR250 the industry’s first single-chip solution that combines ultra-wideband radar sensing, secure UWB ranging, and on-chip processing.


News Sep 10, 2024 by Jake Hertz
Bluetooth Can Now Measure Distance, With Hardware Support En Route

Bluetooth Can Now Measure Distance, With Hardware Support En Route

Bluetooth SIG promises centimeter-level accuracy when measuring the distance between connected Bluetooth devices.


News Sep 09, 2024 by Duane Benson
Intel Ushers in the Age of AI PCs With New Core Ultra Processors

Intel Ushers in the Age of AI PCs With New Core Ultra Processors

Intel has revealed the details of the long-awaited Lunar Lake architecture, bringing advanced AI compute to personal computing.


News Sep 05, 2024 by Jake Hertz