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Altera Unveils a New Agilex FPGA Portfolio and Agentic AI Developer Tool

Altera Unveils a New Agilex FPGA Portfolio and Agentic AI Developer Tool

Announced today, Altera has a new FPGA portfolio along with an AI expert companion designed to accelerate development for next-generation digital and physical AI fabrics.


News About 15 hours ago by Jeff Child
Summit 2026 Keynote - Intelligence with Consequences: Developing Physical AI for a Better World

Summit 2026 Keynote - Intelligence with Consequences: Developing Physical AI for a Better World

Renesas UX leader Ivo Marocco explores physical AI and intelligence at the edge. He details how autonomous systems and humanoid robots must be developed responsibly, safely, and efficiently.


News Oct 21, 2026 by Renesas Electronics
Efinix Buckles Down on 64-bit RISC-V Performance for Embedded FPGA Designs

Efinix Buckles Down on 64-bit RISC-V Performance for Embedded FPGA Designs

Efinix expands its Sapphire RISC-V SoC family with a configurable 64-bit processor offering larger memory support, Linux capability and FPGA acceleration for embedded and edge AI designs.


News Oct 19, 2026 by Joshua Tidwell
Ambarella Debuts Standalone AI Accelerator for Physical AI Designs

Ambarella Debuts Standalone AI Accelerator for Physical AI Designs

The X7 runs on 2-5 W, connects over PCIe Gen 3 or USB 3.2, and uses the same CVflow engine already in over 50 million of the company’s AI SoCs.


News Oct 12, 2026 by Luke James
Hubble Raises $200M to Connect Standard Bluetooth Devices by Satellite

Hubble Raises $200M to Connect Standard Bluetooth Devices by Satellite

The Seattle startup has reached a $1.6 billion valuation by turning Bluetooth LE chips into globally trackable assets—all the way from space.


News Oct 07, 2026 by Luke James
Rambus Gets to the Root of SoC Security With Caliptra Support

Rambus Gets to the Root of SoC Security With Caliptra Support

Rambus' CryptoManager Root of Trust solution for Caliptra-based SoCs adds hardware security, attack protection, and lifecycle management for data center and AI chips.


News Oct 06, 2026 by Joshua Tidwell
3 Hardware Highlights From Qualcomm’s Snapdragon Summit 2026

3 Hardware Highlights From Qualcomm’s Snapdragon Summit 2026

The Snapdragon 8 Elite Extreme Gen 6 and 8 Elite Gen 6 are the first mobile SoCs to break the 5 GHz barrier, while Snapdragon Sound Elite Gen 2 targets camera-equipped AI wearables.


News Oct 06, 2026 by Luke James
Nordic Rolls Out New Multiprotocol SoC for Size- and Cost-Effective IoT

Nordic Rolls Out New Multiprotocol SoC for Size- and Cost-Effective IoT

Nordic Semiconductor's nRF54LC10A combines Bluetooth LE, Thread, Zigbee, and Matter support with low power consumption and advanced security in a compact package for IoT devices.


News Oct 02, 2026 by Joshua Tidwell
Microchip Clock Buffers Bridge SoCs & FPGAs With Higher-Voltage Sources

Microchip Clock Buffers Bridge SoCs & FPGAs With Higher-Voltage Sources

The SY757xx family translates clock inputs from 1.2 to 3.3 V down to 1.2 V LVCMOS outputs at frequencies up to 250 MHz,


News Sep 28, 2026 by Jake Hertz
MediaTek Intros 3 nm SoC Designed for AI-First Googlebooks

MediaTek Intros 3 nm SoC Designed for AI-First Googlebooks

Announced today, MediaTek's new 3 nm Dimensity CX C10 Max SoC features an all-big-core Arm CPU and NPU 890 to bring flagship AI performance to fanless Googlebooks.


News Sep 21, 2026 by Jeff Child
MediaTek Unveils 2 nm SoC for Agentic AI Smartphones

MediaTek Unveils 2 nm SoC for Agentic AI Smartphones

The flagship system-on-chip pairs a 4th-generation All Big Core CPU and dual neural processing units to drive high-end compute and proactive mobile intelligence.


News Sep 16, 2026 by Jeff Child
Apple Targets AI Compute With New M6 and M5 Ultra Processors

Apple Targets AI Compute With New M6 and M5 Ultra Processors

M6 is Apple's first 2-nm chip and features a dual 16-core Neural Engine, while the M5 Ultra joins four dies to achieve 1.2 TB/s of unified memory bandwidth.


News Sep 11, 2026 by Jake Hertz
Qualcomm Splits One IoT Quad-Core Die Across Consumer and Industrial Lines

Qualcomm Splits One IoT Quad-Core Die Across Consumer and Industrial Lines

The Q-2390 and IQ-2390 share a Cortex-A78/A55 complex, an Adreno 704 GPU, and an optional RISC-V real-time core, with the industrial part introducing the IQ2 Series.


News Sep 10, 2026 by Luke James
Arm Rolls AI-Native Compute Platforms for Edge, Physical, and Cloud Systems

Arm Rolls AI-Native Compute Platforms for Edge, Physical, and Cloud Systems

Announced today, the company's new CSS for Mobile 2 platform, Total Design for Physical AI program, and Neoverse CSS N4 platform provide specialized architectures for agentic AI workloads across various domains.


News Sep 07, 2026 by Jeff Child
AMD to Bring UCIe Chiplet Connectivity to Versal RF Adaptive SoCs

AMD to Bring UCIe Chiplet Connectivity to Versal RF Adaptive SoCs

Select Versal RF Series devices will be AMD's first adaptive SoCs with native UCIe 1.1 interfaces, allowing designers to co-package third-party chiplets.


News Sep 03, 2026 by Luke James
AI Craze Drives Wave of Semiconductor Deals Toward $1T Chip Era

AI Craze Drives Wave of Semiconductor Deals Toward $1T Chip Era

In this edition of Business Shorts, we spotlight five announcements that show AI demand is reshaping everything from Wall Street financing to washing machines.


News Aug 26, 2026 by Luke James
Espressif Unwraps Open-Source Device-to-Cloud-to-Phone IoT Platform

Espressif Unwraps Open-Source Device-to-Cloud-to-Phone IoT Platform

The rebuilt platform puts the previously closed cloud backend under an Apache 2.0 license and runs on AWS serverless services in a customer's own account.


News Aug 24, 2026 by Luke James
Ceva and Actions Show Off Strengths of Bluetooth HDT in New Audio Chips

Ceva and Actions Show Off Strengths of Bluetooth HDT in New Audio Chips

The ATS296X series from Actions Technology combines Ceva's High Data Throughput radio IP with Actions' own dual-RF design, targeting links of roughly 7.5 Mbps.


News Aug 17, 2026 by Luke James
Silicon Labs Unwraps Its ‘Lowest Power’ BLE SoC Targeting IoT Devices

Silicon Labs Unwraps Its ‘Lowest Power’ BLE SoC Targeting IoT Devices

The EFR32BG2B SoC family supports Bluetooth 6 and is the lowest power Bluetooth LE chip with channel sounding from Silicon Labs.


News Aug 14, 2026 by Duane Benson
Ambiq Rolls Out Two SoC Series Targeting Edge AI Applications

Ambiq Rolls Out Two SoC Series Targeting Edge AI Applications

The six new chips offer a wide range of connectivity and graphics options for wearables, hearables, AR devices, health monitors, industrial sensors, and beyond.


News Aug 12, 2026 by Duane Benson