As AI shifts from training to inference, optical interconnects are moving closer to chips to address bandwidth, latency, and energy bottlenecks. Imec researchers argue that co-packaged optics will be …
The White House issued an executive order accelerating the timeline for post-quantum cryptography (PQC) implementation, requiring federal contractors to comply with NIST standards by 2030. The order a…
A new white paper argues that AI data center infrastructure strategy has become a board-level issue as rack power densities exceed 200 kW and grid interconnection queues stretch beyond five years. The…
SambaNova completed a $1 billion funding round at an $11 billion valuation led by General Atlantic, and signed JPMorganChase as a customer for its AI inference systems. The company plans to use the fu…
MEMS-based switching technology offers a step change over traditional electromechanical and solid-state relays, combining near-zero resistance with fast switching and durability. These tiny devices re…
Ambarella is using AI agents to abstract its software development kit, enabling independent software vendors to port applications to its hardware in days instead of months. The company has onboarded I…
At the CHIPS NORTH Executive Summit, Canadian AI leaders urged the country to accelerate building sovereign AI infrastructure, including hardware, data centers, and compute access, to convert its rese…
MIPS by GlobalFoundries CEO Sameer Wasson and CTO Yankin Tanurhan discussed the company's acquisition of Synopsys' IP Processor Solutions business and the rise of physical AI in automotive and factory…
Voice interaction is becoming a foundational sensory capability for physical AI, but far-field speech recognition in complex acoustic environments remains a major challenge. Developers need better met…
Kioxia launched a 332-layer NAND flash with 4.8 Gb/s interface speed, leapfrogging rivals Micron, Samsung, and SK Hynix. The Japanese chipmaker targets enterprise and data center SSDs for AI workloads…
Infineon Technologies opened its €5 billion smart power fab in Dresden three months ahead of schedule, leveraging a 'one virtual fab' concept with digital twins and standardized global operations. The…
South Korean memory chipmaker SK hynix announced a 1,100 trillion won ($713 billion) investment plan to expand domestic manufacturing capacity, including new fabs for NAND and HBM, and will list on th…
The OpenSearch Foundation positions OpenSearch as an open data infrastructure layer for AI applications, search, observability, and security monitoring, as agentic workloads scale. Executive director …
The semiconductor industry is shifting from traditional chip scaling to heterogeneous large-scale integration (HLSI) to meet AI demands, according to imec. This new approach combines specialized techn…
Oxmiq Labs, the GPU startup founded by Raja Koduri, raised $35 million in Series A funding to expand its technology stack into custom data center-scale hardware and software, including bespoke silicon…
Satellites are becoming more autonomous with onboard processing and edge AI, generating more health data and heat, which is driving thermal management and telemetry closer together. Telemetry provides…
The Model Context Protocol (MCP), introduced by Anthropic and now governed under the Linux Foundation's Agentic AI Foundation, has emerged as a common framework for connecting AI models to external to…
EE Times moderated a panel on RISC-V ecosystem growth for Physical AI with Arteris, GlobalFoundries, and Tenstorrent at a Taipei event, discussing scalable robots, computing power balance, and the imp…
Europe's aerospace and defense sector faces a defining decade as geopolitical instability and advances in autonomous systems drive a push for technological independence. The conflict in Ukraine has ex…
Onsemi acquires Synaptics in a $7 billion all-stock deal to expand into edge AI computing and wireless connectivity, positioning itself for the physical AI market. The acquisition combines Synaptics' …