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Everything Goes Up! Top Trends of 2024

Everything Goes Up! Top Trends of 2024

Three hot technologies are leading the way in continuing the Moore’s Law performance increases that can no longer be achieved by transistor scaling alone.


News Dec 23, 2024 by Dale Wilson
Our 2024 Favorites: Hand-Picked Highlights from the All About Circuits Team

Our 2024 Favorites: Hand-Picked Highlights from the All About Circuits Team

We publish hundreds of articles every year—too many even for our team to read them all. So, we decided to share our favorite 2024 news, technical articles, projects, and podcasts with each other and all of you. Enjoy!


News Dec 20, 2024 by Dale Wilson
Microchip Unwraps PolarFire Solution Stacks for Imaging and Robotics

Microchip Unwraps PolarFire Solution Stacks for Imaging and Robotics

The new software solution stacks target challenging applications such as smart robotics and medical imaging.


News Dec 18, 2024 by Duane Benson
PI Introduces 1700V Switcher IC With More Than 99% Reliability

PI Introduces 1700V Switcher IC With More Than 99% Reliability

Power Integrations has upped its GaN game with InnoMux-2 IC, delivering more than 90% efficiency from a 1000 VDC bus and supplying up to 60 W from three accurately regulated outputs.


AMD First to Release FPGA Devices With CXL 3.1 and PCIe Gen6

AMD First to Release FPGA Devices With CXL 3.1 and PCIe Gen6

Unveiled today at Electronica, AMD designed the new FPGA to act as a “traffic cop” in larger AI systems.


News Nov 12, 2024 by Jake Hertz
Remembering Charles Sporck, the Johnny Appleseed of Fabs

Remembering Charles Sporck, the Johnny Appleseed of Fabs

It takes more than physicists and electrical engineers to advance the semiconductor industry. Charles Sporck, ME, helped drive the early days of the tech industry with production, operations, and management expertise.


News Nov 04, 2024 by Duane Benson
Renesas and Intel Collaborate on Power Management ICs for AI PCs

Renesas and Intel Collaborate on Power Management ICs for AI PCs

The partnership has produced three new integrated circuit solutions for Intel's next generation of battery-efficient laptops.


News Oct 29, 2024 by Jake Hertz
Altera Introduces New FPGA Line at Its Innovators Day Conference

Altera Introduces New FPGA Line at Its Innovators Day Conference

The Agilex 3 line includes small form-factor FPGAs with AI and an integrated MCU.


News Sep 24, 2024 by Duane Benson
AMD Brings Small, Low-Cost FPGAs to ADAS and Digital Cockpits

AMD Brings Small, Low-Cost FPGAs to ADAS and Digital Cockpits

AMD says the new Artix Ultrascale field programmable gate arrays maintain advanced capabilities while shrinking component size and cost.


News Sep 23, 2024 by Duane Benson
Rohm Blends Analog and Digital for Optimal Power Control

Rohm Blends Analog and Digital for Optimal Power Control

LogiCoA provides digital precision with power consumption equivalent to analog power supplies.


News Aug 06, 2024 by Jake Hertz
Alphawave Reveals Multiprotocol I/O Chiplet Tapeout, Collabs with Arm, Samsung

Alphawave Reveals Multiprotocol I/O Chiplet Tapeout, Collabs with Arm, Samsung

A string of new announcements has catapulted Alphawave Semi into the industry’s spotlight.


News Jun 19, 2024 by Jake Hertz
Synopsys Claims Industry’s First PCI Express 7.0 IP Set

Synopsys Claims Industry’s First PCI Express 7.0 IP Set

Armed with key functions available in separate blocks, designers can get a headstart on PCIe Gen 7 with Synopsys’s newest IP.


News Jun 11, 2024 by Aaron Carman
ISSCC 2024: Inside AMD’s Zen 4c—The Area-Optimized Cloud Computing Core

ISSCC 2024: Inside AMD’s Zen 4c—The Area-Optimized Cloud Computing Core

AMD engineers presented their latest innovation this week at ISSCC, showing the world how they realized the Zen 4c CPU core.


News Feb 23, 2024 by Aaron Carman
Siemens Unveils 3-Piece Emulation and Prototyping Solution

Siemens Unveils 3-Piece Emulation and Prototyping Solution

The new hardware-assisted verification and validation system marks a first for the EDA industry.


News Feb 21, 2024 by Jake Hertz
AMD Launches Embedded+ Architecture Blending Ryzen and Versal

AMD Launches Embedded+ Architecture Blending Ryzen and Versal

Unveiled today, the new architecture hopes to facilitate sensor integration, offloaded processing, and faster times to market.


News Feb 06, 2024 by Jake Hertz
Researchers Create World’s First Graphene Semiconductor

Researchers Create World’s First Graphene Semiconductor

Georgia Tech research could bring graphene's benefits for semiconductors in microelectronics.


News Jan 18, 2024 by Jake Hertz
Firms Forge Alliance to Bring Piezoelectric MEMS to the Middle Market

Firms Forge Alliance to Bring Piezoelectric MEMS to the Middle Market

Launched today, this new alliance promises to make high quality thin-film piezoelectric (PZT) technology more accessible to piezoelectric MEMS developers.


News Jan 17, 2024 by Duane Benson
Editor’s Choice: Our Top 10 News Articles of 2023

Editor’s Choice: Our Top 10 News Articles of 2023

Looking back on the year, here’s a review of the most popular News articles on All About Circuits.


News Dec 31, 2023 by Jeff Child
Can There Be Any Doubt? In Our Industry, 2023 Was ‘The Year of AI’

Can There Be Any Doubt? In Our Industry, 2023 Was ‘The Year of AI’

While the rest of the world spent 2023 playing with ChatGPT, the electronics industry put AI into everything from processors to edge IoT chips to EDA tools.


News Dec 27, 2023 by Jeff Child
Quantum Technology Takes on the Task of Electrical Die Sorting

Quantum Technology Takes on the Task of Electrical Die Sorting

Rohm has teamed up with Quanmatics to deploy quantum technology in a large-scale semiconductor manufacturing facility for the first time.


News Dec 20, 2023 by Jake Hertz