Key Things to Know: As monolithic chips become ever larger and more complex, monolithic manufacturers face lower yields and increased costs. It is now possible to “mix and match” pre-manufactured, monolithic chiplets from which to...

By Gary Elinoff | 02-10-2025

Key Things to Know: AI workloads are outpacing traditional hardware, exposing the limitations of CPUs and even GPUs in handling deep learning at scale. Researchers at University College Dublin have demonstrated a bare-metal RISC-V...

By Robin Mitchell | 23-09-2025

Key Things to Know: MEMS overtakes quartz: The SiTime Titan Platform™ completes the shift from quartz to MEMS in oscillators, clocks, and resonators. Integration advantage: Titan moves resonators into SoC packages, cutting design d...

By Jack Pollard | 22-09-2025

Key Things to Know: Legacy interconnects such as PCIe and Ethernet are limiting scalability in AI and high-performance computing workloads. Huawei’s UB-Mesh proposes a unified fabric connecting CPUs, GPUs, NPUs, memory, and storage...

By Robin Mitchell | 18-09-2025

Key Things to Know: Traditional ultrasound wearables rely on rigid, lead-based piezoelectric materials that face regulatory and comfort challenges. Capacitive micromachined ultrasonic transducers (CMUTs) provide a lead-free, flexib...

By Liam Critchley | 16-09-2025

Key Things to Know: The Year 2038 Bug is caused by the overflow of 32-bit signed integers used to track Unix time, resetting system clocks to 1901 or 1970. It poses the greatest risk to legacy infrastructure and embedded systems st...

By Robin Mitchell | 15-09-2025

The project to develop the technology was led by PhD researcher Tess Watt (Heriot-Watt University/PA). Key Things to Know: AI in medicine shows promise for early disease detection, but clinical integration still faces ethical, technical,...

By Robin Mitchell | 11-09-2025

Key Things to Know: Interconnect bottlenecks in CPUs and QPUs are now as limiting as transistor performance, slowing overall system scaling. Terahertz (THz) wireless links, using phased-array transmitters and quantum-inspired recei...

By Robin Mitchell | 09-09-2025

Key Things to Know: Traditional roll-to-roll methods keep cells effectively 2D, limiting architecture-led gains in energy density, charge rate, and safety. 3D printing (FDM, DIW, SLA, BJ) enables tailored porosity and ion pathways,...

By Robin Mitchell | 08-09-2025

Key Things to Know: EMRs: Proven and low-loss when closed, but slow, wear-prone, and require continuous coil power that wastes energy. Solid-state switches: Fast and durable in harsh environments, yet add losses and heat, lack true...

By Chris Keimel | 04-09-2025

Key Things to Know: Market outlook: Graphene is shifting from startup novelty to global business, with value projected to grow from about €160 million today to roughly €1.8 billion by the mid-2030s, driven by high-volume uses and productio...

By Paul Whytock | 03-09-2025

Key Takeaways about Silicon Germanium Technology – Low Cost meets GHz Speeds: Silicon Germanium (SiGe) chips feature the powerful, critical ability to combine high-frequency elements and ordinary CMOS digital logic on the same monolithic c...

By Gary Elinoff | 02-09-2025

Key Things to Know: Solar energy is not entirely clean — manufacturing and disposal of panels involve toxic materials and high energy use. Lead in conventional perovskite solar cells is a major environmental concern, driving resear...

By Robin Mitchell | 02-09-2025

Key Things to Know: New AI-powered wearable: Researchers from Oxford, UCL, and Xi’an Jiaotong University have developed a self-powered sensor to monitor knee joint torque in real time. Addresses critical gap: The device targets the...

By Robin Mitchell | 01-09-2025