Space is the next frontier for semiconductor manufacturing, as startup Besxar, founded by an ex-OpenAI technical director, completed its first SpaceX flight and recovered wafer samples without contamination.

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GRENOBLE, France – [2026, September 8th] CEA, Defacto Technologies, and Innova Advanced Technologies today announced the completion of SoC PLANNER, a three-years project funded by BPI France, as part of the France 2030 program, and aiming to develop next-generation System-on-Chip (SoC) design exploration platform. SoC PLANNER is now ready for early adopters. With over a […]

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Standards shouldn’t muzzle RFID’s next leap: Gen2X keeps Gen2 compatibility while boosting range, speed, and reliability.

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As AI workloads become more computationally demanding, Indian researchers argue that the next advance may come from rethinking computing architecture itself.

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What DAC 2026 revealed about agents, engines, trust—and why the industry should be optimistic.

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For a little while vacuum tubes and semiconductors were fighting a heated battle for dominance, with bipolar junction transistors and 1959’s RCA Nuvistor both allowing you to build a compact …read more

Nintendo has made many game consoles in its long history — one that famously overlaps that of the Ottoman Empire — but only one of them was ever Super. It’s …read more

In this specially-numbered podcast episode that lines up quite nicely with our Retrocomputing Challenge, Elliot Williams and Kristina Panos met over surprisingly low latency and loud beverages to bring you …read more

The revival in film photography has brought a range of specialist films to tempt the experimenter, as well as increased the popularity of loading your own cartridges. But perforating the …read more

Several times this summer, Microsoft’s Patch Tuesday, the monthly roundup of major security patches for Microsoft products, has included record-breaking numbers of security fixes. The August 2026 patch set actually …read more

  UPDATED GUIDE: Adafruit Metro M4 AirLift (WipperSnapper Essentials) You already know about the Adafruit Metro M4 featuring the Microchip ATSAMD51, with it’s 120MHz Cortex M4 with floating point support. With a train-load of FLASH and RAM, your code will be fast and roomy. And what better way to improve it than to add wireless? Now cooked in […]

Skye Jacobs, writing for TechSpot, reports that JAXA will launch its Martian Moons eXploration mission, MMX, from Tanegashima Space Center on October 20. The spacecraft will travel to Phobos and return at least 10 grams of material to Earth in 2031. It would be the first sample return from a moon orbiting Mars. Phobos has […]

  The Adafruit RP2040 Prop-Maker Feather is an all-in-one combination of the Feather RP2040 with a Prop-Maker FeatherWing plus a few tweaks based on feedback from expert prop-builders. Perfect for fitting into your next prop build! This Feather will unlock the ‘Imagineer’ inside all of us, with tons of stuff packed in to make sabers […]

Raj Patel, writing at Open Source For You, walks through the three pillars of observability without the usual vocabulary lesson. Metrics, logs, and traces are three ways of recording the same events inside a running system, each built around a different question. Logs keep one written entry per event, with a timestamp and whatever context […]

Sara Hashemi, writing for Popular Science, reports that scientists in China have filmed a deep-sea fish walking backward along the seafloor. The fish is Scalicus engyceros, an armored searobin. Its body is covered in bony plates, and stiff free fin rays stick out from its pectoral fins like small legs it uses to walk. The […]

TechWorks celebrated its 30th anniversary with the first TechWorks Semiconductors to Systems Summit (S2S26) in London. And it is calling for greater collaboration within the industry to turn UK technology […]

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The UK Electronics Skills Foundation (UKESF) is partnering with Unibots CIC to help make learning practical robotics more accessible and social for students. Unibots CIC is a non-profit organisation that […]

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28 years ago Intel’s commitment to making Arm processors was looking wobbly. The  ‘x86 everywhere’ concept  could have cost the company dearly. In March 1998, EW reported: Intel’s commitment to […]

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The U.S. Space Force has approved the location for the third and final site of the Deep Space Advanced Radar Capability (DARC), which involves a partnership of Australia, the UK […]

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The most popular stories on the site cover EnSilica opening a Space & Communications centre in Milan, Kioxia dismissing talks of a tie-up with Hynix, and Q2 DRAM contract prices increasing 60%...

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