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Microchip’s 1.2V Clock Buffers Link Latest SoCs and FPGAs with Higher Voltage Components The demand for low-voltage clock drivers continues to grow with the rapid adoption of advanced FinFET process nodes used in high-performance FPGAs, SoCs, AI accelerators and next-generation CPUs. Printed circuit board designers face increasing challenges due to the limited availability of standard 1.2V LVCMOS clock buffers and level-translating buffers capable of… |
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Component Selection Guide for AI Hardware: What to Check Before Finalizing MLCC, MCU, and CPU/GPU Peripheral BOMs From June to July 2026, AI hardware demand affected more than just GPUs, CPUs, and high-bandwidth memory. TrendForce reported that DRAM contract prices would rise by 13%–18% in Q3 2026. NAND Flash contract prices would rise by 10%–15%. The main drivers are AI inference systems and large data center deployments. The pressure also… |
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Someone Turned 4 Trashed Laptops Into a Private ChatGPT That Got Faster With One Laptop Removed Maker Joe C-J has repurposed four discarded Lenovo ThinkPad L380 laptops into a working, self-hosted AI computing cluster, capable of running large language models entirely offline. Each of the four motherboards was stripped from its laptop chassis and mounted into a custom 3D-printed frame, designed in Fusion and reprinted to accommodate a fourth node after an earlier three-node version… |
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Arm AGI CPU Debuts with 136 Cores, Focuses on AI Infrastructure Arm has introduced the AGI CPU, its first internally developed data center processor, marking a transition from its long-standing IP licensing model to delivering complete silicon solutions for cloud infrastructure. The launch is closely aligned with the growing demands of artificial intelligence workloads, particularly those requiring sustained, multi-step computation rather than traditional… |
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Raspberry Pi-Based 5” Portable Homelab Michael Klements built this 5-inch Raspberry Pi based lab rack by scaling down his actual lab rack by 50%, making it eight times smaller while preserving full rack-mount functionality. 3D printed using just 220g of filament with precision M3 brass inserts and screws, this portable homelab fits in your backpack yet powers a complete network stack. The setup includes an OpenWrt router running on… |
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NVIDIA Targets About 90% Reduction in Token Generation Costs With Rubin Platform At CES 2026, Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang presented Rubin, the company’s first “extreme-codesigned” AI platform. The new platform should reduce token-generation costs by roughly 90% versus its previous platform. This Blackwell successor, now in production, is named after astronomer Vera Rubin. The platform includes Rubin GPUs capable of 50 petaflops of NVFP4 inference, Vera CPUs designed for… |
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Self-Hosting Mini C Compiler for ESP32 The xcc700 is a very small, lightweight C compiler designed specifically for the ESP32 microcontroller. It is like a mini version of GCC or clang, but this system has some limitations. Instead of generating Windows .exe files, it produces ELF binaries for the Xtensa CPU, which is the processor architecture used in ESP32. Because it is so small, the compiler itself can run on the ESP32 and… |
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L&T Semiconductor Advances Chip Design with Focus on Automotive, Industrial, and Energy Markets L&T Semiconductor Technologies, a fabless chip design company, is making strides towards bolstering the country’s semiconductor industry. Its portfolio of products targeting the automotive, industrial, and energy sectors keeps expanding. At present, they entertain over 50 customers and are running 11 active projects. The company believes it has paced ahead of its planned timeline for the… |
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NVIDIA Launches Jetson Orin Nano Super, Claims 70% AI Performance Boost at Half the Price NVIDIA has launched the Jetson Orin Nano Super Developer Kit, the new kit delivers a staggering 1.7× performance boost for generative AI tasks, thanks to a "Super Mode" that unlocks higher GPU and CPU clock speeds. Priced at just $249 (down from $499) it’s now more accessible than ever to those itching to prototype edge AI applications. … |
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Compact Open-Source 600 MHz CPU Board with WiFi/BLE Communication Utilizes the Power of LuaJIT EdgePro1 from EdgePro is a tiny (32 mm by 16 mm) open-source development platform that utilizes powerful hardware and state-of-the-art firmware based on the POSIX-compliant Real-Time Operating System. Equipped with the U-Blox NINA-W102 communication module, EdgePro1 supports Wi-Fi and BLE communication and the main advantage of it is the full use of… |
