Category: Design engineering
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Legacy electronics support increasingly depends on recovering lost board data. Wonderful PCB is expanding reverse-engineering services aimed at rebuilding undocumented designs for medical and industrial hardware.
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Sensor authenticity is becoming a hardware problem, not software alone. ETH Zurich has built a chip that signs data at capture to help expose manipulated media.
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Cloud-streamed XR is moving into mainstream engineering workflows today. NVIDIA’s CloudXR 6.0 support in visionOS lets Apple Vision Pro access remote RTX compute for high-end 3D, simulation, and design-review sessions.
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Semiconductor education is shifting toward lab-ready workflows and measurement discipline. Keysight’s new university packages bring device test, on-wafer analysis, and photonic IC measurement into structured teaching labs.
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Zel Components has launched a new platform for certified sourcing. The site combines sample-led evaluation, vetted manufacturing partners, and local inventory to widen access to alternative parts across Europe.
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Leankon has widened its NFC antenna range to nine modules. The expanded 13.56 MHz line packages ferrite-backed, connector-ready options into a broader off-the-shelf portfolio for healthcare, access control, and industrial IoT hardware.
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Teradyne is pushing board test further into AI server manufacturing. Omnyx combines structural, parametric, high-speed interconnect, and operational test in one platform for complex data-centre hardware.
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Europe’s ferroelectric memory push has reached an important manufacturing test. CEA-Leti and Fraunhofer IPMS have completed the first wafer exchange inside the FAMES pilot line for HZO-based memory stacks.
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Microelectronics US 2026 brings applied design constraints into sharper focus. The Austin event will gather engineers across semiconductors, photonics, and embedded systems to address packaging, thermal density, supply chains, functional safety, embedded AI, and secure deployment.
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Kight is turning domestic batteries into a scaled manufacturing proposition. Its planned Dumfries plant would assemble AI-managed 10kWh home storage systems built around a non-graphite anode chemistry and an EnergiFlow control stack tuned to tariff, demand, and grid signals.