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Your 2023 Back-to-School Guide to All About Circuits’ Educational Resources

Whether you are just starting your first year as an engineering student, working on a second or third degree, or simply want to brush up on key topics, All About Circuits has the resources you need: awesome textbooks, technical articles, calculators, and more for your EE studies.

October 11, 2023 by Jeff Child

Touting Energy Efficiency, AMD Announces 4th-gen EPYC Embedded Processors

At Embedded World this week, AMD has unveiled its 4th-gen EPYX Embedded processors. The chips offer energy efficiency along with some embedded-specific features.

March 15, 2023 by Jeff Child

STMicro Brings Its Free STM32 MCU Edge AI Toolset to the Cloud

The new cloud-based version includes a GitHub-based model resource, and remote access to a “board farm” to remotely benchmark edge-AI models on STM32 MCU boards.

January 31, 2023 by Jeff Child

From RISC-V to 3D NAND Technology—Looking Back at the Trends of 2022

Catch up on some of the technology and industry trends we’ve noticed from 2022.

December 31, 2022 by Kimber Wymore

TSMC to Make 3nm Semiconductors at Arizona Fab

To meet worldwide demands, the largest semiconductor manufacturers are ramping up capacity. Among them, TSMC plans to build 3nm chips at its Arizona fab.

November 28, 2022 by Lianne Frith

5 Online EE Resources I WOULD Have Been Thankful For

On this Thanksgiving Day, Jeff wonders what his EE college days would have been like if he’d had access to All About Circuits’ rich online resources.

November 24, 2022 by Jeff Child

Samsung’s 8th-gen Vertical NAND (V-NAND) Enters Mass Production

The new generation of V-NAND marks a major memory milestone for the industry, with Samsung claiming highest bit-density.

November 10, 2022 by Jake Hertz

Your Back-to-School Guide to All About Circuits’ Educational Resources

For students back in college for their Fall semester—and anyone who needs a refresher—here’s the lowdown on our top-notch textbooks, technical articles, and calculators for EE studies.

October 12, 2022 by Jeff Child

Memory Technology Roadmap Unveiled at Samsung Tech Day 2022

Samsung recently unveiled its company roadmap, including plans to pursue 1.4nm, new memory technologies, and a "total solution fabless."

October 11, 2022 by Jake Hertz

Take Our 2022 EETech Global Engineering Survey

Join your engineering community peers and take our EETech 2022 Global Engineering Survey. 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!

August 09, 2022 by Jeff Child

Researchers Unveil Liquid-based Memory Concepts for Mass Storage

Researchers at IMEC have divulged two proposed schemes for implementing liquid-based memories. Could they provide a future replacement for NAND flash mass storage?

July 23, 2022 by Darshil Patel

Finding Your EE “Why” With Thy Tran: The “Semiconductor Gypsy”

In honor of Woman’s History Month, AAC talked with Micron’s Thy Tran who has made waves in the industry, inspiring new engineers and helping to bring groundbreaking DRAM technology to life.

March 31, 2022 by Kimber Wymore

Three New Memory Technologies Keep Pace With Computing Demands

Three recent announcements reflect what's happening in the memory space—and how it correlates with advances in high-performance computing.

December 17, 2021 by Nicholas St. John

Micron Seeks to Solve Data Center Challenges with New Generation SSD

Data centers are facing serious challenges as technology continues to boom and Micron is out to keep them at bay with its latest solid-state drive.

October 07, 2021 by Jake Hertz

Can 3D NAND Flash Memory Side Step the Challenges of NAND?

Traditional NAND often faces power, performance, and cost inefficiencies. NEO Semiconductor has announced recently-patented X-NAND to bypass these limitations.

August 18, 2021 by Ikimi .O

Mythic Redefines Edge AI by Combining Analog Processing and Flash Memory

A seemingly unique and fruitful approach, analog processing has been the key to Mythic AI’s success. Its newest processor could be a hopeful contender in the world of edge computing.

June 07, 2021 by Jake Hertz

What’s Trending in Memory Technology in 2021?

While fabrication grounds to a halt and the electronics supply chain shutters, chip manufacturers and researchers are still hard at work developing better memory technology for enhanced compute potential.

April 08, 2021 by Adrian Gibbons

Micron Jumps Ship on Once-heralded 3D XPoint Memory, Selling Utah Chip Factory

Micron has announced the sale of its Utah chip factory as it ceases production of a once "revolutionary" memory chip developed in partnership with Intel.

March 23, 2021 by Luke James

SK Hynix to Acquire Intel’s NAND Memory Business

US chipmaker Intel is selling part of its NAND memory chip business to SK Hynix for $9 billion in a deal that will see the South Korean semiconductor supplier become the world’s second-largest flash memory chipmaker.

October 22, 2020 by Luke James

How Does Non-Volatile Memory Express Reach Such High Data Transfer Rates?

Using PCIe protocols, NVMe addresses the issue of data rate bottlenecks—proving to be even faster than SAS and SATA protocols purpose-built for hard disk drives.

August 11, 2020 by Dr. Steve Arar