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Our 2025 Top Trend: AI Assimilates

Our 2025 Top Trend: AI Assimilates

Do you remember when supercomputers were described by their processing power? That was so 2024. Today, we talk about the power for processing. Goodbye terraops, hello terrawatt-hours!


News Dec 28, 2025 by Dale Wilson
Our Top 2025 Research Stories: Rubber CMOS, Washable Electronics, and More

Our Top 2025 Research Stories: Rubber CMOS, Washable Electronics, and More

Enjoy this roundup of our favorite All About Circuits research news articles of 2025!


News Dec 26, 2025 by Jeff Child
AWS Touts Its ‘Most Powerful and Efficient’ CPU Yet

AWS Touts Its ‘Most Powerful and Efficient’ CPU Yet

New Graviton5-based EC2 M9g instances push performance, core density, and security design to the next level.


News Dec 19, 2025 by Jake Hertz
Q.ANT’s New Photonic Processor Pushes AI and HPC Beyond Silicon’s Limits

Q.ANT’s New Photonic Processor Pushes AI and HPC Beyond Silicon’s Limits

Q.ANT has debuted NPU 2 with enhanced nonlinear optical processing, delivering major gains in efficiency and performance for next-generation AI and HPC workloads.


News Dec 18, 2025 by Joshua Tidwell
Using Synopsys Tools, Complex AI SoC Achieves Verification in 5 Weeks

Using Synopsys Tools, Complex AI SoC Achieves Verification in 5 Weeks

Rebellions employed Synopsys' VCS, ZeBu, Virtualizer, and the Verification Continuum to achieve full bring-up and live demo just five weeks after first silicon.


News Dec 17, 2025 by Duane Benson
Microsoft Announces New Custom CPU Powered by Arm

Microsoft Announces New Custom CPU Powered by Arm

Azure Cobalt 200 aims to deliver a 50% performance gain over its predecessor for real-world cloud workloads.


News Dec 02, 2025 by Jake Hertz
Qualcomm Ruggedizes New Processors for Industrial PCs at the Edge

Qualcomm Ruggedizes New Processors for Industrial PCs at the Edge

The chips are Qualcomm's first industrial-grade PC processors built for PLCs, panel PCs, and edge controllers with support for Windows.


News Nov 26, 2025 by Luke James
Roundup: Flood of New AI Hardware Comes to Bolster Data Centers

Roundup: Flood of New AI Hardware Comes to Bolster Data Centers

In this roundup, we highlight six recent announcements that demonstrate how semiconductor leaders are redefining the hardware stack for large-scale AI inference.


News Nov 19, 2025 by Austin Futrell
Embedded World NA Showcases the Next Chapter of Embedded Intelligence

Embedded World NA Showcases the Next Chapter of Embedded Intelligence

From neuromorphic edge silicon to formal Rust verification, this year’s show revealed how embedded design is evolving at every level.


News Nov 12, 2025 by Luke James
Polyn Implements Its NASP Tech Into Voice Activity Detection Chip

Polyn Implements Its NASP Tech Into Voice Activity Detection Chip

The company’s first silicon-proven NASP device delivers microwatt-level, real-time voice processing at the sensor edge.


News Nov 10, 2025 by Jake Hertz
Retina-Implanted Chip and AR Restore Sight to Those With Vision Loss

Retina-Implanted Chip and AR Restore Sight to Those With Vision Loss

Researchers in Europe have restored reading vision to people with dry age-related macular degeneration using a retinal implant and AR glasses.


News Nov 10, 2025 by Joshua Tidwell
MediaTek Processor Sets New Benchmark for Chromebook Efficiency

MediaTek Processor Sets New Benchmark for Chromebook Efficiency

All About Circuits attended a private media briefing in New York City to learn how this chip can extend "all day battery life for every day computing."


News Nov 04, 2025 by Jake Hertz
NXP Rolls Out AI-Enabled Applications Processor Targeting Automotive

NXP Rolls Out AI-Enabled Applications Processor Targeting Automotive

NXP’s new SoC brings on-chip neural processing and security to in-cabin intelligence.


News Oct 31, 2025 by Jake Hertz
Arm Opens Access to Chiplet Architectures and AI Platforms

Arm Opens Access to Chiplet Architectures and AI Platforms

Arm is lowering the barrier to entry for chiplet-based SoCs and Armv9-powered AI devices across data centers, cars, and the edge.


News Oct 28, 2025 by Luke James
Apple Looks to the Future of AI With New M5 Processor

Apple Looks to the Future of AI With New M5 Processor

Apple’s M5 chip brings per-core neural acceleration, a 30% boost in memory bandwidth, and GPU-driven AI to the MacBook Pro and iPad Pro.


News Oct 24, 2025 by Luke James
Intel Unwraps Panther Lake, the First AI PC Platform Built on 18A

Intel Unwraps Panther Lake, the First AI PC Platform Built on 18A

Intel has pulled back the curtain on Panther Lake, the first client architecture built on its advanced 18A process node.


News Oct 20, 2025 by Luke James
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
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
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