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Siemens Unveils ‘Groundbreaking’ Software for Automated Analog IC Tests

Siemens Unveils ‘Groundbreaking’ Software for Automated Analog IC Tests

Siemens claims the new software allows users to test analog circuitry in integrated circuits up to 100 times faster than traditional methods.


News Oct 02, 2025 by Duane Benson
At Its Innovators Day Event, Altera Unveils Expanded Agilex FPGA Portfolio

At Its Innovators Day Event, Altera Unveils Expanded Agilex FPGA Portfolio

Today, the FPGA company revealed an array of new announcements at its annual Altera Innovators Day developer conference.


News Sep 30, 2025 by Jake Hertz
The Motorola 68000: A 32-Bit Brain in a 16-Bit Body

The Motorola 68000: A 32-Bit Brain in a 16-Bit Body

Motorola’s 68000 blended 32-bit power with a 16-bit bus, creating a balanced, orthogonal, and elegant architecture that powered everything from Macintosh to arcade machines.


News Sep 26, 2025 by Luke James
AMD Aims New Embedded Processors at Low-Latency Edge Designs

AMD Aims New Embedded Processors at Low-Latency Edge Designs

The new processors bring Zen 5 performance, PCIe 5.0, and DDR5 to rugged edge applications, pairing high-throughput compute with longevity and security features.


News Sep 23, 2025 by Luke James
Optical Chip Beats Counterparts in AI Power Efficiency 100 Fold

Optical Chip Beats Counterparts in AI Power Efficiency 100 Fold

The integrated Fresnel lens architecture enables ultra-low-power convolution, potentially signaling a new era in on-chip photonic AI acceleration.


News Sep 22, 2025 by Luke James
Your 2025 Back-to-School Guide to All About Circuits’ Educational Resources

Your 2025 Back-to-School Guide to All About Circuits’ Educational Resources

Are you a first year electronics engineering student? Or maybe working on a second or third degree in this field? All About Circuits has the resources you need: comprehensive textbooks, technical articles, calculators, videos, and more for your EE studies.


News Sep 19, 2025 by Jeff Child
Nvidia Launches First GPU Purpose-Built for Million-Token AI Inference

Nvidia Launches First GPU Purpose-Built for Million-Token AI Inference

The Rubin CPX GPU brings million-token context windows to coding and generative video, with 8 exaflops of AI performance in a single rack.


News Sep 18, 2025 by Joshua Tidwell
Take Our 2025 EETech Engineering Insights Survey

Take Our 2025 EETech Engineering Insights Survey

Join your engineering community peers and take our EETech Engineering Insights Survey 2025. You’ll get a summary of the results once they’re released. And you’ll be entered for a chance to win an Amazon card prize!


News Sep 05, 2025 by Jeff Child
A Summer of Growth: GF Doubles Down on US Stronghold

A Summer of Growth: GF Doubles Down on US Stronghold

It's been a busy summer of partnerships, acquisitions, and fab expansions for GlobalFoundries. What does this say about the company's silicon roadmap?


News Sep 02, 2025 by Austin Futrell
Vannevar Bush and the Engineering of American Innovation

Vannevar Bush and the Engineering of American Innovation

Vannevar Bush shaped how the United States builds, funds, and thinks about technology. As both inventor and institutional architect, his work laid the foundations for digital logic, wartime research coordination, and the entire modern R&D landscape.


News Sep 02, 2025 by Luke James
The MOS 6502: How a $25 Chip Sparked a Computer Revolution

The MOS 6502: How a $25 Chip Sparked a Computer Revolution

Retro Register is a new All About Circuits column that explores technologies of the past and the lessons they hold for the future. Come along for our first deep dive on the MOS 6502.


News Aug 29, 2025 by Luke James
New Quantum Research Points Toward Practical Computing and Security

New Quantum Research Points Toward Practical Computing and Security

Three recent research efforts highlight how the quantum field is moving from laboratory experiments to scalable, commercial-ready technologies.


News Aug 28, 2025 by Luke James
Nvidia Issues Major Update of CUDA Toolkit to Accelerate CPUs and GPUs

Nvidia Issues Major Update of CUDA Toolkit to Accelerate CPUs and GPUs

CUDA Version 13 features new CPU resources, unified Arm platforms, and additional operating systems supported.


News Aug 21, 2025 by Duane Benson
UCLA and Broadcom Team Up to Craft Wafer-Scale Unidirectional Imager

UCLA and Broadcom Team Up to Craft Wafer-Scale Unidirectional Imager

A new multilayer diffractive optical processor blocks images in one direction while passing them in the other.


News Aug 18, 2025 by Luke James
Arm Reveals Plans to Outfit Its GPUs With Dedicated Neural Accelerators

Arm Reveals Plans to Outfit Its GPUs With Dedicated Neural Accelerators

New AI upscaling tech points to a 2026 mobile graphics future driven by on-chip inference.


News Aug 14, 2025 by Luke James
Semiconductor Collabs Yield Design Wins, From Chiplets to Charging Speed

Semiconductor Collabs Yield Design Wins, From Chiplets to Charging Speed

From high-performance EVs to low-power IoT modules and next-gen AI chiplets, three recent collaborations showcase how semiconductor innovation is driving new design frontiers.


News Aug 11, 2025 by Luke James
Renesas Intros 64-bit MPU Aimed at AI-Centric High-Performance HMI Designs

Renesas Intros 64-bit MPU Aimed at AI-Centric High-Performance HMI Designs

The new RZ/G3E MPU with quad CPU and NPU powers next-generation HMI devices with advanced processing.


News Aug 08, 2025 by Diego de Azcuénaga
First Ethernet-Based AI Memory Fabric System to Increase LLM Efficiency

First Ethernet-Based AI Memory Fabric System to Increase LLM Efficiency

Enfabrica's new Ethernet-based AI memory fabric system drops AI inference cost per user per token by up to 50%.


News Aug 05, 2025 by Duane Benson
Broadcom Reveals Ethernet Fabric Router IC for Distributed AI Computing

Broadcom Reveals Ethernet Fabric Router IC for Distributed AI Computing

Announced today, the new solution is said to introduce levels of compute scalability that extend beyond the physical limits of a single facility.


News Aug 04, 2025 by Jake Hertz
New Wave of Research Expands View of What Semiconductors Can Do

New Wave of Research Expands View of What Semiconductors Can Do

Recent research breakthroughs are pushing semiconductors far beyond traditional logic and memory roles into chemical catalysis, sustainable manufacturing, and quantum photonics.


News Jul 30, 2025 by Luke James