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Upbeat Technology’s RISC-V MCU Takes Flight With Near-Threshold Computing

Upbeat Technology’s RISC-V MCU Takes Flight With Near-Threshold Computing

Developed with SiFive, the dual-core SoC uses patented error correction to achieve a record 16.8 µW/MHz/DMIPS, targeting next-gen wearables, drones, and IoT sensors.


News Oct 17, 2025 by Dale Wilson
Synaptics Launches New Multimodal Gen AI Processors for Smart IoT Edge Designs

Synaptics Launches New Multimodal Gen AI Processors for Smart IoT Edge Designs

Leveraging Synaptics’ partnership with Google Research, the new SoC is positioned between microcontroller-class devices and high-end embedded MPUs.


News Oct 16, 2025 by Jake Hertz
IBM Brings AI Inside the Mainframe With Spyre AI Accelerator

IBM Brings AI Inside the Mainframe With Spyre AI Accelerator

IBM's Spyre AI accelerator is graduating from prototype to commercially-ready chip, bringing AI inference into IBM mainframes and enterprise systems.


News Oct 13, 2025 by Duane Benson
Efinix Expands Titanium Line with High-Speed, AI-Focused FPGAs

Efinix Expands Titanium Line with High-Speed, AI-Focused FPGAs

Efinix has doubled its Titanium FPGA family, adding devices with transceivers up to 25.8 Gbps to support AI, edge, and industrial applications.


News Oct 06, 2025 by Austin Futrell
Qualcomm Comes Out With ‘Fastest Mobile SoC’ and ‘Fastest Windows CPUs’

Qualcomm Comes Out With ‘Fastest Mobile SoC’ and ‘Fastest Windows CPUs’

The dual launch places Snapdragon at the center of AI-focused mobile and PC experiences.


News Oct 06, 2025 by Jake Hertz
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