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March 2026

Mar 05 Learnings From The Polish Energy Sector Attacks
Mar 05 Q1 NAND price up 85-90%
Mar 05 Sorry Strait
Mar 04 This Student-Built EV Focuses on Repairability
Mar 04 Nvidia's Groq Plot Thickens
Mar 04 Broadcom Makes Lasers?
Mar 04 Countdown to IEEE’s Annual Election
Mar 02 How Electrical Engineers Fight a War
Mar 02 A Pattern Of Failure
Mar 02 How Quantum Data Can Teach AI to Do Better Chemistry
Mar 02 What Military Drones Can Teach Self-Driving Cars
Mar 02 OpenAI completes $110bn funding round
Mar 02 High margins and low volumes
Mar 02 Week 9, 2026
Mar 01 Letting Machines Decide What Matters

February 2026

Feb 28 Video Friday: Robot Dogs Haul Produce From the Field
Feb 27 Finding Something to Bitch About
Feb 27 Bond Strength, Biocompatibility, and Beyond
Feb 27 Chip Industry Week In Review
Feb 27 Tensor Robocar hooks up with Arm
Feb 27 Lane Motorsport signs Axon Cable
Feb 27 Smartphone market to fall 13%
Feb 27 Europeans Dominate Winter Olympics
Feb 26 From Headsets to Hearing Aids
Feb 26 Fable: Hottie Totty
Feb 26 How Stupid Would It Be to Put Data Centers in Space?
Feb 26 Using Data And AI More Effectively In EDA
Feb 26 Arm and Linaro launch CoreCollective
Feb 26 Qorvo BAWplexer delivers deep skirts
Feb 26 Nvidia-based PCs
Feb 25 How to Thrive as a Remote Worker
Feb 25 Jimi Hendrix Was a Systems Engineer
Feb 25 Photons as a Service
Feb 25 Back-End Automation Tackles Growing Complexity
Feb 25 Blog Review: Feb. 25
Feb 25 Purpose-Built Tools for Connected Design
Feb 25 Kioxia sampling UFS 5.0 NAND
Feb 25 Workplace Death and Disease
Feb 25 They Create Momentum
Feb 24 Your Watch Will One Day Track Blood Pressure
Feb 24 The AI Datacenter CPU Yellow Pages
Feb 24 The Cloudy Semiconductor Market Driver
Feb 24 Chip Industry Technical Paper Roundup: Feb. 24
Feb 24 Research Bits: Feb. 24
Feb 24 Chiplets 2026: Where Are We Today?
Feb 23 Anglia signs Sensata
Feb 23 The Age Verification Trap
Feb 23 New Performance Requirements For Audio
Feb 23 Agent Pi
Feb 23 Mikroe EnOcean 5 Click
Feb 23 Apple No.1 in Europe
Feb 23 Ed Refurbs The PM
Feb 23 Week 8, 2026
Feb 22 Poem: The Attraction of Blackberries
Feb 21 Video Friday: Humanoid Robots Celebrate Spring
Feb 20 European Chip Industry Crisis
Feb 20 Chip Industry Week in Review
Feb 20 The On-Device LLM Revolution
Feb 20 Automotive Week In Review
Feb 20 New York ditches robotaxi proposal
Feb 20 Best Connected Airports
Feb 19 The U.S. and China Are Pursuing Different AI Futures
Feb 19 Laser Arrays May Simplify Co-Packaged Optics
Feb 19 SEMI 2026 U.S. Policy Strategy
Feb 19 When Cleaning Chips Isn’t Clean Enough
Feb 19 Toshiba IEGT for HV converters
Feb 19 Fable: The Famous Computer
Feb 19 IEEE Course Improves Engineers’ Writing Skills
Feb 18 Wi-Fi 7 Moves To The IoT
Feb 18 Imec’s record-breaking ADC
Feb 18 Mouser signs ic-Haus
Feb 18 Top Ten Countries For Innovation
Feb 17 Wolfspeed adds VP of sales for EMEA
Feb 17 We’re Measuring Data Center Sustainability Wrong
Feb 17 Asians More Optimistic Than Most
Feb 17 Get the Gadget Master newsletter!
Feb 17 Research Bits: Feb. 17
Feb 17 The Race Begins For Much Bigger Abstractions
Feb 17 One-on-One With proteanTecs CEO Shai Cohen
Feb 17 HBF challenges HBM
Feb 17 Fraunhofer adds 10G TSN IP core
Feb 16 Where’s There’s Trust
Feb 16 This Former Physicist Helps Keep the Internet Secure
Feb 16 Quantum test bed opens in Quebec City
Feb 16 Chip Industry Technical Paper Roundup: Feb. 16
Feb 16 ChatGPT to add adult content
Feb 16 $1.7trn 2030 datacentre capex
Feb 16 Ed Cools On AI
Feb 15 Week 7, 2026
Feb 15 NASA Let AI Drive the Perseverance Rover
Feb 14 The $200 Billion Bet
Feb 13 Time to be The "Unlucky" customer again?
Feb 13 Weekly: Memory is cyclical
Feb 13 Chip Industry Week In Review
Feb 13 Automotive Week In Review
Feb 13 Toshiba expands eFuse lineup
Feb 13 DCPI market to top $80bn in 2030
Feb 12 LEDs Enter the Nanoscale
Feb 12 What the FDA’s 2026 Update Means for Wearables
Feb 12 Daily: Nexperia saga resumes
Feb 12 Only A Few AI Platforms Can Survive
Feb 12 Only A Few AI Platforms Can Survive
Feb 12 Tips for Using AI Tools in Technical Interviews
Feb 11 How Can AI Companions Be Helpful, not Harmful?
Feb 11 How Do You Define an AI Companion?
Feb 10 The Greatest AI Show On Earth
Feb 10 The Greatest AI Show On Earth
Feb 10 How and When the Memory Chip Shortage Will End
Feb 10 IEEE Honors Global Dream Team of Innovators
Feb 09 New Devices Might Scale the Memory Wall
Feb 09 Week 6, 2026
Feb 07 Famine: The 3rd Rider of the Apocalypse
Feb 06 The MI450 Waiting Game
Feb 03 Breaking Boundaries in Wireless Communication
Feb 03 AI Hunts for the Next Big Thing in Physics
Feb 03 Daily: No newsletter today
Feb 02 Don’t Regulate AI Models. Regulate AI Use
Feb 02 Week 5, 2026
Feb 01 LuSEE-Night: See You on the Far Side of the Moon

January 2026

Jan 31 Explore the Stratosphere With a DIY Pico balloon
Jan 31 Ode to Very Small Devices
Jan 31 Go Global to Make Your Career Go Further
Jan 30 The Masters of Narrative Realignment
Jan 29 Germany's Semiconductor Industry & Job Landscape
Jan 26 Week 4, 2026
Jan 25 Intel's Larabee Legacy
Jan 23 The Increasing Complexity of the Semiconductor Supply Network
Jan 23 Weekly: DeepSeek, a year out
Jan 19 Week 3, 2026
Jan 16 The Declining Capacity of TSMC
Jan 13 Week 2, 2026
Jan 10 Semiconductor Jobs & Skills Outlook 2026
Jan 08 2026 AI & Semiconductor Outlook
Jan 07 A Colossus on Tiny Silicon Feet
Jan 05 Week 1, 2026
Jan 04 Lithography Economics
Jan 01 Jensen Groks Groq

December 2025

Dec 31 The year of the Flock of Black Swans
Dec 30 Right Tool for the Job
Dec 23 2025: The Year in Review
Dec 23 Week 51, 2025
Dec 22 Complete: The Deconstruction of a Semiconductor Cycle
Dec 19 From a World of Hurt to Vertical Violence
Dec 16 The Deconstruction of a Semiconductor Cycle
Dec 15 Week 50, 2025
Dec 14 TPU Mania
Dec 08 Week 49, 2025
Dec 03 The end of the 2026 Semiconductor Cycle
Dec 01 Is Optics Really the Next Memory?

November 2025

Nov 30 Week 48, 2025
Nov 24 Market Volatility: Some Thoughts
Nov 24 The Circular Collapse Cult has Converted to Cudaism
Nov 24 Week 47, 2025
Nov 22 Nvidia Q3 Earnings
Nov 18 Gadget Book: The Wireless Cookbook
Nov 18 Emerging Risks
Nov 18 Research Bits: Nov. 18
Nov 18 Chip Industry Technical Paper Roundup: Nov. 18
Nov 18 Arm to add NVLink to Neoverse
Nov 17 Week 46, 2025
Nov 17 Edge AI Is Starting To Transform Industrial IoT
Nov 15 Understanding SkyWater
Nov 14 Apple’s Failed Foray Into Mac Clones
Nov 14 Chip Industry Week in Review
Nov 13 Get to Know the IEEE Board of Directors
Nov 13 Two Visions for the Future of AR Smart Glasses
Nov 12 The Complicated Reality of 3D Printed Prosthetics
Nov 11 The Silent Rotation Inside the Datacenter
Nov 11 Be a Force for Good On Giving Tuesday
Nov 10 Week 45, 2025
Nov 10 DARPA and Texas Bet $1.4 Billion on a Unique Foundry
Nov 08 Master List - From Bitcoin to AI
Nov 07 D2D Cont'd: Game Theory Gone Wild
Nov 06 AMD & Apple Earnings
Nov 05 AMD's Bottleneck Guidance?
Nov 04 Master List - Datacenter Companies & Startups

October 2025

Oct 28 Did The Dutch Draw a Line — Or a Bottleneck?
Oct 28 Earnings Recap So Far (And Ideas)
Oct 24 My Precious - TI’s Love Affair with Inventory.
Oct 22 D2D Cont'd: Fear or Faith?
Oct 22 One Peak short of Twin Peaks
Oct 22 SerDes Matters!
Oct 16 Not All Light Travels West
Oct 15 Obsolescence
Oct 13 Thriving or surviving?
Oct 07 The Tool Cool Trade Winds
Oct 02 Where We Go From Here

July 2025

Jul 30 Robotics Levels of Autonomy
Jul 26 Turing Award Histories
Jul 23 TSMC Q2 Review
Jul 19 MIPS
Jul 15 Software Follow Up

February 2024

Feb 26 Podcast with Siècle Digital

December 2023

Dec 05 Chipmaking Amid War in Israel

November 2022

Nov 03 Navi 31 Die Shot

September 2022

Sep 28 Monolithic Sapphire Rapids
Sep 25 PS5 Refresh: Oberon Plus
Sep 23 Apple A16 Die Analysis
Sep 02 USB4 v2

August 2022

Aug 29 Ryzen 7000 Desktop Preview
Aug 12 AMD's RDNA 3 Graphics

June 2022

Jun 26 The TRUTH of TSMC 5nm