What Is Power Usage Effectiveness (PUE) In Data Centers?


In 2024, data centers consumed around 415 terawatt hours (TWh), or about 1.5% of global electricity, says the International Energy Agency. As the backbone of the digital economy, data centers are estimated to consume 2-3% of the world’s electricity by 2030. To manage this consumption, industry leaders have relied on a single metric: Power usage effectiveness (PUE). What is power usage ... » read more

Beyond the Clinic: A Blueprint For Developing Reliable, Edge AI-Enabled Medical Devices


In a quiet farmhouse in rural Utah, hundreds of miles from the nearest city, a pregnant mother wakes up and waits for a kick that doesn’t come. In this part of the country—one of the many "medical deserts" where 30% of counties lack a single gynecologist—the nearest hospital is a 500-mile journey. Usually, this moment of silence leads to a desperate phone call to an HMO where a nurse asks... » read more

Humanoid Touch And Voice Are Improving Rapidly


Key Takeaways Humanoid robots are rapidly expanding beyond factories and logistics toward broader, general-purpose roles (including in-home assistance), driven by advances in AI and sensing. Compared with vision and language, touch (haptics) and hearing/voice in real environments remain the hardest — and most commercially important — sensing challenges, requiring fast sensor fusio... » read more

Designing GPUs For Developers: A Conversation With Godot


Godot has rapidly established itself as one of the most important graphics engines in today’s ecosystem. Free, open source, and increasingly capable across 2D, 3D, mobile, desktop, and beyond, it represents a philosophy that resonates strongly with modern developers. In this conversation, Clay John—who leads Godot’s rendering team—shares how Godot thinks about performance, iteration,... » read more

Next-Gen Batteries Require Impedance Data And Active Balancing


Key Takeaways Electric vehicles and energy storage systems using LFP batteries require more sophisticated diagnostic methods because they exhibit very flat cell voltages across various charge levels, making it harder to estimate usable energy. Battery management systems are leveraging new components, AI/ML, digital twins, and other techniques to get more accurate, real-time data, includ... » read more

High-NA EU Lithography: Extending The STCC Formula (Science Tokyo)


A new technical paper, "Source-position-dependent transmission cross coefficient formula including polarization and mask three-dimensional effects in high-numerical-aperture extreme ultraviolet lithography" was published by researchers at Institute of Science Tokyo. This work is based on the paper presented at SPIE Advanced Lithography + Patterning 2026. "The polarization effect is not negli... » read more

Hardware From Specifications Using AI


There is a lot of excitement these days surrounding the idea that AI could make it possible to go from a specification to a design with absolutely no hardware skills. Well, get in line, because this is the umpteenth potential technology that was going to make that possible. Don't get me wrong, it just might do it, but will this be an implementation that is reliable, have decent performance, ... » read more

Blog Review: May 6


Synopsys' Prith Banerjee identifies key challenges in designing AI data centers and why addressing them requires a transformative approach that impacts every aspect of the system design and its individual components. Cadence's Meet S Chauhan checks out what's new in MIPI C-PHY v3.0, including the new 18 wire state mode that can support high-resolution display and image sensors and motion vec... » read more

Enabling A Critical Phase in SoC Development


High speed execution of an SoC model on an FPGA-based prototyping system is essential—both to permit development and verification of the full software stack and to understand hardware/software interactions—before silicon is available. But for SoC designs that include high-speed, voluminous I/O, it is equally essential that the prototype be exercised with large amounts of real-world I/O o... » read more

Power And Sensing – Selection Guide 2026


The semiconductor industry is undergoing a transformation. This transformation is driven by the critical role semiconductors play in decarbonization and digitalization and their ability to enable innovation across fields at an unprecedented scale. Recent advancements in AI, autonomous driving, humanoid robots, and our increasingly connected lifestyles are just a few examples of the rapid change... » read more

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