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Exclusive—Renesas Exec Talks Humanoid Robotics, Analog Solutions, and More

Exclusive—Renesas Exec Talks Humanoid Robotics, Analog Solutions, and More

In this interview article, Renesas VP Peter Jenkins discusses how the company is leveraging its automotive sensor heritage and mixed-signal ICs to power the future of edge AI and humanoid robotics.


News 18 hours ago by Jeff Child
Renesas Intros 64-bit MPU Duo for Advanced HMI and IoT Edge Systems

Renesas Intros 64-bit MPU Duo for Advanced HMI and IoT Edge Systems

The RZ/G3L and RZ/G3SE share a pin-compatible package platform and 1-mW-level standby power.


News Oct 01, 2026 by Jake Hertz
Nvidia Quantum Middleware Jumpstarts Quantum Fault Tolerance

Nvidia Quantum Middleware Jumpstarts Quantum Fault Tolerance

A new addition to Nvidia's CUDA-Q quantum computing platform adds logical qubit error correction and abstraction to significantly speed reliable quantum application development.


News Sep 30, 2026 by Duane Benson
Microchip Clock Buffers Bridge SoCs & FPGAs With Higher-Voltage Sources

Microchip Clock Buffers Bridge SoCs & FPGAs With Higher-Voltage Sources

The SY757xx family translates clock inputs from 1.2 to 3.3 V down to 1.2 V LVCMOS outputs at frequencies up to 250 MHz,


News Sep 28, 2026 by Jake Hertz
Recent Semiconductor Deals Reflect Uptick in AI and Quantum Development

Recent Semiconductor Deals Reflect Uptick in AI and Quantum Development

Recent semiconductor business moves from Nvidia, MediaTek, GlobalFoundries, Qualcomm, Amazon, and Analog Devices highlight growing investment in AI infrastructure, quantum manufacturing, optical connectivity, and edge intelligence.


News Sep 23, 2026 by Austin Futrell
MediaTek Intros 3 nm SoC Designed for AI-First Googlebooks

MediaTek Intros 3 nm SoC Designed for AI-First Googlebooks

Announced today, MediaTek's new 3 nm Dimensity CX C10 Max SoC features an all-big-core Arm CPU and NPU 890 to bring flagship AI performance to fanless Googlebooks.


News Sep 21, 2026 by Jeff Child
MediaTek Unveils 2 nm SoC for Agentic AI Smartphones

MediaTek Unveils 2 nm SoC for Agentic AI Smartphones

The flagship system-on-chip pairs a 4th-generation All Big Core CPU and dual neural processing units to drive high-end compute and proactive mobile intelligence.


News Sep 16, 2026 by Jeff Child
Delos Data Unveils Architecture and Silicon to Break AI Interconnect Bottlenecks

Delos Data Unveils Architecture and Silicon to Break AI Interconnect Bottlenecks

Launched today, Delos Data’s Nonstop AI portfolio intros Apollo Data Interface silicon, the Morpheus development platform, and a system-level reference architecture to eliminate tail latency, maximize power efficiency, and scale agentic AI clusters.


News Sep 15, 2026 by Jeff Child
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
Microchip Debuts Rev 2 of Its PolarFire FPGA Ethernet Sensor Bridge

Microchip Debuts Rev 2 of Its PolarFire FPGA Ethernet Sensor Bridge

The new PolarFire FPGA-powered board from Microchip brings multiple sensors to Nvidia edge AI platforms.


News Aug 24, 2026 by Duane Benson
Espressif Unwraps Open-Source Device-to-Cloud-to-Phone IoT Platform

Espressif Unwraps Open-Source Device-to-Cloud-to-Phone IoT Platform

The rebuilt platform puts the previously closed cloud backend under an Apache 2.0 license and runs on AWS serverless services in a customer's own account.


News Aug 24, 2026 by Luke James