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ICs or Integrated Chips are the fundamental building blocks of all modern-day electronic devices. They're made of lots of tiny parts like resistors, capacitors, and transistors printed into a small piece of material known as silicon. These chips are in almost everything electronic we...

It was indeed another win for RISC-V as Intel announced a big move to support the pre-silicon development of RISC-V devices with the launch of the Intel Pathfinder for RISC-V, a unified development environment for hobbyists and industries. Though a major leap for the RISC-V movement,...

HARTING 3D-MID Component Carriers enable alternative component positioning and mounting utilizing fully automated assembly and soldering. These 3D molded interconnect devices can replace circuit boards utilizing a 3-dimensional circuit on molded plastic. This 3D shape can allow for more...

Torex Semiconductor XC6810 Linear Charger IC for Li-ion Batteries comes in an ultra-small (1.17mm x 1.57mm x 0.33mm) WLP-12-01 package that is compatible with wireless charging and contact power supplies. The charging current (1mA to 25mA) provides a wide 3.8V to 4.4V charging voltage...

SkyWater Technology has announced that it will be extending its partnership with Alphabet’s Google, releasing an open source Process Design Kit., for its commercial 90nm, fully depleted silicon on insulator (FDSOI), CMOS process technology. This announcement came shortly after the US...

With the exponential increase in the demand and requirement of silicon-based chips, Google, in partnership with SkyWater Technology, has launched a new platform to encourage and help the developer community to get started with its Open MPW shuttle program. Leveraging SkyWater’s...

Efabless has launched a 100% open-source FPGA chip CLEAR, built on Caravel - an open-source ASIC platform provided as a base (SoC) and offering an end-to-end open design, right down to the CPU core. The explanation of the product is simple and quite relatable to the maker's community -...

Eben Upton, Founder and Chief Executive Officer of one of the very famous and successful embedded electronic hardware manufacturers, Raspberry Pi, has published news on January 17, 2022, aiming to beat the semiconductor chip shortage by introducing a dedicated Raspberry Pi store to...