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I’m Thankful for These 6 EE Online Resources on All About Circuits

I’m Thankful for These 6 EE Online Resources on All About Circuits

On Thanksgiving today, Jeff reflects on how electronics technology enables all our amazing devices, and shares six useful All About Circuits online resources to be thankful for.


News Nov 23, 2023 by Jeff Child
Arm Releases the Cortex-M52 Aimed At Low-Power Embedded AI

Arm Releases the Cortex-M52 Aimed At Low-Power Embedded AI

Rounding out its portfolio, the latest Arm processor—announced today—sports AI performance in low-power silicon.


News Nov 22, 2023 by Aaron Carman
Sapeon Goes Toe to Toe With Nvidia With New AI Accelerator

Sapeon Goes Toe to Toe With Nvidia With New AI Accelerator

The South Korean startup is making a name for itself in the AI computing hardware space.


News Nov 21, 2023 by Jake Hertz
UCLA Creates First Stable, Fully Solid-State Thermal Transistor

UCLA Creates First Stable, Fully Solid-State Thermal Transistor

The transistor prototype opens doors for more efficient thermal management in integrated circuits—and even presents interesting opportunities in human metabolic research.


News Nov 21, 2023 by Darshil Patel
Microsoft Ventures Into Custom Silicon With New AI Accelerator and CPU

Microsoft Ventures Into Custom Silicon With New AI Accelerator and CPU

Microsoft is making its debut into in-house silicon with two new custom chips, claimed to improve AI performance in its data centers.


News Nov 20, 2023 by Aaron Carman
Nvidia Pulls Ahead in GPU Performance Race With New Processor

Nvidia Pulls Ahead in GPU Performance Race With New Processor

Nvidia says the H200 Tensor Core GPU, which doubles the performance of its predecessor, is now the world’s most powerful GPU.


News Nov 20, 2023 by Duane Benson
Microchip Responds to New Automotive Safety Standards With Security IC

Microchip Responds to New Automotive Safety Standards With Security IC

The new security IC better supports large key sizes while maintaining backward compatibility for smaller keys.


News Nov 17, 2023 by Jake Hertz
MEMS Silicon Speaker Boasts Breakthrough at Over 140 dB Low-Frequency SPL

MEMS Silicon Speaker Boasts Breakthrough at Over 140 dB Low-Frequency SPL

Employing an ultrasound technique, xMEMS Labs has created a powerful MEMS speaker with a broad frequency range for next-gen applications.


News Nov 14, 2023 by Aaron Carman
Researchers Rethink Computer Vision With All-Analog Photoelectronic Chip

Researchers Rethink Computer Vision With All-Analog Photoelectronic Chip

An all-analog photoelectric chip promises to be three orders of magnitude faster and six orders of magnitude more energy efficient than existing processors.


News Nov 13, 2023 by Duane Benson
RISC-V Rollouts Abound at This Week’s North America RISC-V Summit

RISC-V Rollouts Abound at This Week’s North America RISC-V Summit

Reporting a “banner year” for adoption, these RISC-V developments show the versatility of the ISA.


News Nov 10, 2023 by Aaron Carman
Side-Channel Attack Threatens Safari Browser Through Apple Processors

Side-Channel Attack Threatens Safari Browser Through Apple Processors

An international team of researchers recently found that Apple’s Safari web browser is still susceptible to a Spectre attack called iLeakage.


News Nov 09, 2023 by Arjun Nijhawan
FPGA Advances Tackle Mounting Data Demands From E-Trading to AI Processing

FPGA Advances Tackle Mounting Data Demands From E-Trading to AI Processing

In this roundup, we discuss how AMD, Intel, and Lattice Semiconductor are pushing the boundaries of FPGAs with new offerings.


News Nov 06, 2023 by Jake Hertz
Apple Announces M3 Family: ‘Most Advanced Chips for a Personal Computer’

Apple Announces M3 Family: ‘Most Advanced Chips for a Personal Computer’

The race for more powerful computing silicon is heating up with three new offerings from Apple.


News Oct 31, 2023 by Jake Hertz
Qualcomm Lifts the Curtain On Its Most Powerful PC Processor

Qualcomm Lifts the Curtain On Its Most Powerful PC Processor

The latest Snapdragon processor brings on-device AI performance to desktop computers.


News Oct 30, 2023 by Aaron Carman
After 84 Years, Canada Stops Broadcasting Time From Its Atomic Clocks

After 84 Years, Canada Stops Broadcasting Time From Its Atomic Clocks

Despite being based on cesium atomic clocks—reportedly accurate within one second over 300 million years—the broadcast was shut down over concerns about its accuracy when received via digital streaming.


News Oct 26, 2023 by Duane Benson
Codasip’s New RISC-V Processor Family Dials In on Custom Compute

Codasip’s New RISC-V Processor Family Dials In on Custom Compute

The latest RISC-V IP makes processing power customizable for a wide span of embedded applications.


News Oct 23, 2023 by Aaron Carman
Nvidia Targets Generative AI for Robotics with New Frameworks

Nvidia Targets Generative AI for Robotics with New Frameworks

At ROSCon 2023 this week, the release of the Metropolis and Isaac ROS 2.0 frameworks makes AI-powered robotics more practical and easier to develop.


News Oct 19, 2023 by Aaron Carman
Intel Drills Down on Performance With New Desktop Processors

Intel Drills Down on Performance With New Desktop Processors

Intel's latest desktop processor family includes six new variants, offering up to 24 cores and 32 threads and up to 6 GHz of frequency for high-performance gaming.


News Oct 18, 2023 by Jake Hertz
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
Semidynamics and Signature IP Expand Multi-Core RISC-V and CHI Options

Semidynamics and Signature IP Expand Multi-Core RISC-V and CHI Options

Two relatively new players in the CPU world, Semidynamics and Signature IP, have announced multi-core RISC-V and CHI interconnect IP for compute-intensive applications like AI/ML.


News Oct 09, 2023 by Duane Benson