Imagination Technologies, now under its seventh CEO in a decade, Markus Mosen, has abandoned its RISC-V CPU and NPU ambitions to focus on its core GPU business, according to chief revenue officer Jake…
Chiplet architectures are emerging as a practical path to scalable automotive compute, according to an analysis by Embedded.com. The article reports that automotive compute demand has outpaced process…
AMD has acquired Taalas, the AI inference chip startup co-founded by former Tenstorrent CEO Ljubisa Bajic, who will rejoin AMD under Vamsi Boppana's AI organization. Taalas's first chip achieves over …
U.S. manufacturing activity hit a four-year high in July as the Institute for Supply Management's Manufacturing PMI climbed to 55.6%, up 2.3 percentage points from June's 53.3%, driven by surging AI i…
Semiconductor fabs face an execution mandate as demand for AI infrastructure locks in capacity years ahead, with leading-edge foundry capacity pre-booked through 2028. The bottleneck is diagnosing yie…
Synopsys Inc. reports that 3D ICs integrating hundreds of chiplets and millions of interconnects face thermal, warpage, and multiphysics challenges, requiring solutions across five design domains: exp…
Ikerlan, a Spanish-Basque technology center, has developed the BEGI project, a single-lens, passive, neuromorphic 4D sensor that mimics an insect eye to capture 3D depth and track motion using just on…
Upstream Security's 2026 Global Automotive Cybersecurity Report found that automotive-related Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures (CVEs) reached 450 new entries in 2025, up from 422 in 2024, with cum…
EE Times has released an eBook titled 'New Space: Power, Computing and Thermal Challenges Beyond Earth' that examines engineering innovations in the commercial space economy, including CubeSat power a…
Military AI agents face escalating cyberthreats, and technical defenses such as adversarial machine learning (AML) training and zero-trust frameworks are being deployed to protect them, according to a…
Renesas Electronics has unveiled its Gen 3 DDR5 multiplexed rank dual in-line memory module (MRDIMM) chipset, delivering speeds up to 16,000 MT/s and 25% higher memory bandwidth than its Gen 2, to add…
ChipAgents, a two-year-old startup, announced at DAC in Long Beach, California, that it closed an extended Series A round, adding $60 million to the $50 million raised in February 2026, bringing total…
NXP Semiconductors is in talks to acquire Ambarella, a move that could bolster NXP's automotive and edge AI capabilities. Ambarella, which generates only 22% of its revenue from automotive, brings low…
CEA-Leti program manager Pascal Vivet said 3D stacking and chiplet-based architectures are key to overcoming AI's memory and power density limits, as the institute develops interconnects from 10-micro…
A report from the Brennan Center states that U.S. AI-driven military programs could surpass $75 billion in the coming years, excluding secret programs, as nations like Russia and China invest heavily …
AI is compressing digital work, with 139,156 tech-sector job cuts in the first half of 2026, 83% more than the same period in 2025, and AI cited in over 101,000 cuts across U.S. employers, according t…
Qualcomm acquired AI software infrastructure startup Modular for close to $4 billion, betting on an open, hardware-agnostic software stack that enables AI inference across heterogeneous silicon. Modul…
Nidec Drive Technology showcased its FLEXWAVE and KINEX precision gear reducers at Automate 2026 as complementary solutions for next-generation robotics, including humanoids and collaborative robots. …
IoT Tech Expo Europe returns to the RAI Amsterdam on 19-20 October 2026 as part of TechEx Europe, focusing on Industrial AI, Edge AI, and secure embedded systems. The conference agenda, built around f…
Micron's new 256GB SOCAMM, built on its 1-gamma DRAM process, targets AI inference workloads by offering three times the power efficiency of standard DDR5 RDIMMs, according to Praveen Vaidyanathan, VP…