5+ day, 22+ hour ago   (507+ words) Nvidia has acquired HuggingFace for $12.9 billion. The startup, which is named after an emoji, was founded by three French entrepreneurs in 2016. It has become the go-to repository for open-source AI models, datasets, and associated software libraries. In a press…...

1+ week, 5+ day ago   (1523+ words) Product configuration makes it possible for electronics manufacturers to offer different product variants without engineering every order from scratch. By defining options and compatibility rules in advance, manufacturers can give customers more choice while keeping BOMs, assembly processes, purchasing, testing,…...

1+ week, 3+ day ago   (178+ words) Automotive functional safety chiplet startup Athos Silicon has closed its doors. Former Athos CEO Charnjiv Bangar told EE Times that Athos has ceased operations after its board made the decision to wind down and dissolve the company. Athos originally developed…...

1+ week, 4+ day ago   (1263+ words) The demand for local AI inference is changing the requirements of AI-enabled SoCs. Indian startup HrdWyr is building its SoCs around the interaction of AI, real-time control, signal processing, and data movement. The Bengaluru-based fabless semiconductor company, founded by Ramamurthy…...

1+ week, 5+ day ago   (252+ words) Standard semiconductor lifecycles are built around the original manufacturer’s roadmap. Once a part reaches end-of-life milestones, it typically transitions to “Not Recommended for New Designs” (NRND), then to formal discontinuation—regardless of how long the systems that rely…...

1+ week, 5+ day ago   (248+ words) For IC Components, industry experience is not simply about being able to locate more products. It is also about understanding more accurately what customers actually need and which factors may affect the final sourcing decision. For memory products, IC Components…...

1+ week, 5+ day ago   (853+ words) SK Hynix’s first high-bandwidth memory (HBM) advanced packaging facility in the U.S., worth $4 billion, is aimed at helping to close a manufacturing vulnerability in the American semiconductor industry. South Korea’s memory giant said in an event in the…...

2+ week, 4+ day ago   (164+ words) The European Commission describes the CRA as applying to hardware and software products with digital elements made available on the EU market. Once a product is in scope, the manufacturer must do much more than run a scanner or create…...

2+ week, 4+ day ago   (1500+ words) The Andhra Pradesh state government has approved the ASIP project at ₹2,500 crore (~$300 million at the time of approval). In an exclusive conversation with EE Times, ASIP Technologies CEO Venkata Simhadri said the plant will begin with flip-chip ball-grid array…...

2+ week, 5+ day ago   (809+ words) TSMC’s difficulty stitching together AI accelerators with high-bandwidth memory (HBM) on a single chip gives Intel a chance to win foundry customers, according to Counterpoint Research co-founder Neil Shah and other analysts commenting to EE Times. TSMC’s CoWoS…...