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Intel Demos Chip to Compute With Encrypted Data

SummaryFully homomorphic encryption (FHE) allows computing on encrypted data without decryption, but it’s currently slow on standard CPUs and GPUs.Intel’s Heracles chip accelerates FHE tasks up to 5,000 times faster than top Intel server CPUs.Heracles uses a 3-nanometer FinFET technology and high-bandwidth memory, enabling efficient encrypted computing at scale.Startups and...

NXP Drives Zonal Computing Transition With New Reference System

Announced today, the new zonal reference system includes pre-validated hardware and software for automotive intelligent data handling and multi-volt power distribution.

Finite-Element Approaches to Transformer Harmonic and Transient Analysis

Explore structured finite-element methodologies for analyzing transformer behavior under harmonic and transient conditions — covering modelling, solver configuration, and result validation techniques.What Attendees will LearnHow FEM enables pre-fabrication performance evaluation — Assess magnetic field distribution, current behavior, and turns-ratio accuracy through simulation rather than physical testing.How harmonic analysis uncovers saturation...

Indra leading GIGaNTE project to develop autonomous Spanish gallium nitride and advanced packaging technologies

Spain-based multi-national Indra Group is leading the research, development and innovation (RDI) project GIGaNTE (Gallium Nitride and Advanced Packaging Technologies Research Initiative), a strategic initiative to provide Spain with the necessary capabilities to autonomously develop technologies based on gallium nitride (GaN) for advanced defence applications, especially in high-reliability radar and...

NVIDIA investing $2bn in Coherent’s R&D, capacity expansion and operations as it builds out US-based manufacturing

NVIDIA of Santa Clara, CA, USA and materials, networking and laser technology firm Coherent Corp of Saxonburg, PA, USA have announced a multi-year strategic agreement to advance the frontier of advanced optics technologies, including manufacturing capacity and R&D, to enable next-generation AI infrastructure...

Synaptics Redefines Edge IoT with First AI-Native Wi-Fi 7 Connected MCU

Announced today at Embedded World, Synaptics claims the SYN765x as the first AI-native connected MCU with Wi-Fi 7, Bluetooth 6.0, and 802.15.4. It features a Cortex-M52 and Ethos-U55 NPU.

OFC 2026 Outlook: AI Data Center Optical Interconnect Trends from Pluggable Optics and LPO to CPO and MicroLED

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We Need A Proper AI Inference Benchmark Test

How Cross-Cultural Engineering Drives Tech Advancement

Innovation rarely happens in isolation. Usually, the systems that engineers design are shaped by global teams whose members’ knowledge and ideas move across borders as easily as data.That is especially true in my field of robotics and automation—where hardware, software, and human workflows function together. Progress depends not only on...

AXT’s Q4/2025 revenue constrained by delay in China export permits

AXT Inc of Fremont, CA, USA — which makes gallium arsenide (GaAs), indium phosphide (InP) and germanium (Ge) substrates and raw materials at plants in China — has reported an 11% drop in full-year revenue, from $99.4m in 2024 to $88.3m in 2025...

Daily: Proposal to trade US investment for AI chips

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Optics Primer, Part 3: Co-Packaged Optics (CPO)

From EML lasers and DSPs to silicon photonics and external CW lasers. How CPO works and the impact on the optical supply chain.

Intel Rolls Out Industrial Edge AI Processors and Healthcare AI Suite

Announced today at Embedded World, the new Core Series 2 may accelerate the industrial edge and real-time applications, while the healthcare suite may help providers meet the challenges of patient care using edge AI.

BluGlass enters AUS$1.25m development program with US tier-1 defence prime for visible GaN DFB lasers and gain chips

BluGlass Ltd of Silverwater, Australia — which develops and manufactures gallium nitride (GaN) blue laser diodes based on its proprietary low-temperature, low-hydrogen remote-plasma chemical vapor deposition (RPCVD) technology — has entered a new AUS$1.25m multi-phased development program, expected to progress over a 14–24-month period, to deliver its gallium nitride (GaN)...

Do Offshore Wind Farms Pose National Security Risks?

When the Trump administration last year sought to freeze construction of offshore wind farms by citing concerns about interference with military radar and sonar, the implication was that these were new issues. But for more than a decade, the United States, Taiwan, and many European countries have successfully mitigated wind...

How AI Is Boosting Gender Equality In High Performance Racing

Laminated: The Corporate version of Strategy

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Smartphone production grows 2.5% to 1.25 billion units in 2025

Global smartphone production grew 2.7% quarter-on-quarter from 328 million units in third-quarter 2025 to 337 million units in fourth-quarter 2025, supported by strong shipments of Apple’s new iPhone lineup, according to market research firm TrendForce...

AI Infrastructure Value Chain & Investment Bottlenecks Analysis for US/EU Markets

Large–Small Company Linkages in the AI Infrastructure Stack

Skyworks and MediaTek demo early 6G FR3 and PC1 RF front-end innovations at MWC

Skyworks Solutions Inc of Irvine, CA, USA (which manufactures analog and mixed-signal semiconductors) is showcasing an early 6G new FR3 frequency range RF front-end (RFFE) power amplifier at the Mobile World Congress 2026 (MWC26) in Barcelona, Spain (2–5 March). Presented in collaboration with Taiwanese fabless semiconductor company MediaTek Inc —...