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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
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
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
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
‘World’s First’ Photonic AI Processor Installed in Supercomputing Facility

‘World’s First’ Photonic AI Processor Installed in Supercomputing Facility

Q.ANT's photonic processor has gone live at Leibniz Supercomputing Centre, cutting energy use by up to 90%.


News Jul 29, 2025 by Joshua Tidwell
Using a Fabric Architecture, Startup Claims Most Energy-Efficient Processor

Using a Fabric Architecture, Startup Claims Most Energy-Efficient Processor

With its E1 processor announced today, Efficient Computer is hoping to usher in a new era of general-purpose computing efficiency.


News Jul 24, 2025 by Jake Hertz
Hailo Launches ‘First-Ever’ Edge AI Accelerator with On-Device Generative AI

Hailo Launches ‘First-Ever’ Edge AI Accelerator with On-Device Generative AI

Hailo-10H launch arrives as the edge AI accelerator market is projected to grow from $10.13 billion in 2025 to $113.71 billion by 2034, driven by the demand for privacy-first, low-latency AI processing.


News Jul 23, 2025 by Luke James
Arago’s Light-Speed Gamble: Can Photonics Reinvent the AI Chip?

Arago’s Light-Speed Gamble: Can Photonics Reinvent the AI Chip?

As the AI industry hits an energy wall, Arago is rewriting the rules of compute.


News Jul 14, 2025 by Luke James
3 Acquisitions Show Heavy Investment in AI, IoT, and High-End Processors

3 Acquisitions Show Heavy Investment in AI, IoT, and High-End Processors

Siemens, Nordic Semiconductor, and SkyWater Technology have each completed strategic acquisitions across software, cloud, and foundry capacity.


News Jul 08, 2025 by Luke James
Sedai Secures $20M to Create the “Self-Driving Cloud”

Sedai Secures $20M to Create the “Self-Driving Cloud”

An autonomous infrastructure platform built on AI agents is reshaping how enterprises manage cloud environments.


News Jun 24, 2025 by Luke James
At Its Advancing AI Event, AMD Reveals New GPUs, Software, and Systems

At Its Advancing AI Event, AMD Reveals New GPUs, Software, and Systems

AMD is building an end-to-end AI ecosystem to keep pace with the next phase of AI driven by open standards.


News Jun 17, 2025 by Jake Hertz
Renesas’ New MPU Tackles HMI Challenges Head On With Built-In Memory

Renesas’ New MPU Tackles HMI Challenges Head On With Built-In Memory

Tailored for advanced human-machine interfaces, the new RZ/A3M MPU can reduce system cost by integrating memory and simplifying PCB design.


News May 30, 2025 by Joshua Tidwell
NXP Leverages AI Acceleration in Dev Kit for Automotive Security

NXP Leverages AI Acceleration in Dev Kit for Automotive Security

With a 4x increase in CPU performance, the upgraded dev kit better facilitates secure automotive communication between the vehicle’s gateway and its wireless technologies.


News May 29, 2025 by Jake Hertz