Chip Industry Week In Review


Around the world South Korea unveiled a sweeping AI and semiconductor investment drive, planning three mega projects that tie semiconductors, physical AI/robotics, and AI data centers into a single industrial plan, with government support for regional chip clusters, packaging capacity, power, water, sites, and workforce development. Among the new investments: Samsung will spend $260B on n... » read more

AI Data Centers And Auto Industry Converge On Same Issues


Key Takeaways:   AI data centers need power from a range of sources, including batteries, to safeguard against blackouts, transient voltage spikes, and grid demand spikes.   As with regenerative braking and bidirectional charging in electric vehicles, data centers could feed power or heat back into the grid for public use, but the immediate goal is to disrupt the grid as little ... » read more

Platform Firmware Resiliency: How To Protect Your Data Center From The Ground Up


Data centers have become the foundation of modern digital infrastructure, but one of their most critical security layers remains dangerously exposed. Platform firmware, which controls everything from system initialization to hardware configuration, is increasingly targeted by sophisticated cyberattacks. A successful firmware compromise is difficult to detect, survives reboots, and can give atta... » read more

Fine-Tuning Humanoid Vision And Movement


Key Takeaways: Humanoids and autonomous vehicles share a zonal architecture, a need for FuSa, and a reliance on radar technology to see around corners and through objects. Multiple cameras with different fidelities can better replicate a human’s field of view; for example, some can provide wide fields of view at low grade, low fidelity, while others strive for infinite fidelity in a... » read more

Solid-State Circuit Breakers From A System Perspective


Explore SSCBs from a holistic system perspective and understand how they transform system architecture, protection concepts and overall performance. This presentation highlights their role in modern power distribution, showing how they enable smarter control, faster protection and improved efficiency across applications. Ideal for engineers evaluating next-generation power systems. Read more... » read more

Wi-Fi Flies Higher As Edge AI Build-Out Takes Root


Key Takeaways: Wi-Fi 7 is becoming an essential technology for edge AI, and subequent demands for even better reliability will grow as the edge build-out takes shape. Edge computing is based on the assumption that more data will be processed and stored locally, which will help reduce data leakage and theft. The big challenge ahead will be orchestrating data movement across different ... » read more

Chip Industry Week In Review


Notable deals Cadence and Intel Foundry inked a multi-year agreement to advance design technology co-optimization and create PDKs for Intel Foundry's 14A process. Nvidia and SK hynix announced a multi-year partnership to co-develop memory technology for AI infrastructure and physical AI. Teradyne unveiled an integrated test cell solution with TEL that supports known-good device scree... » read more

Chip Industry Week In Review


Computex in Taiwan: Arm and Nvidia introduced an AI PC platform, RTX Spark, with an Arm-based Grace CPU, Blackwell RTX GPU, and unified memory. Cadence announced a fully autonomous virtual agentic AI design engineer, enabling customers to run dynamic simulations in automated workflows. Intel launched Xeon 6+, its first data-center CPU built on Intel Foundry's 18A process. The company... » read more

Orbital Data Centers Are Souped-Up Satellites – For Now


Key Takeaways: Today’s orbital data centers are better described as compute centers in space, as they resemble satellite constellations more than terrestrial data centers. The most common power solution is sun-synchronous solar at the poles, but this requires a multi-hop data relay from power-hungry compute to standard satellite constellations in the low-orbit mesh, then to Earth. ... » read more

AI-Defined Vehicles Increase Pressure On Auto Ethernet Reliability


Key Takeaways: For AI-defined vehicles and onboard agentic AI, Automotive Ethernet provides high bandwidth for sensor data fusion, TSN ensures low latency and synchronization for real-time decisions, and MACsec secures the data link. Time-sensitive networking (TSN) is an essential protocol for ensuring 10BASE-T1S delivers data to where it needs to go on time. Still, it becomes less esse... » read more

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