Processors
Tachyum Open Sources Its Prodigy ISA and Platform to Make AI More Widely Accessible
Tachyum has announced that its Prodigy platform is now open source, letting developers, partners, and customers around the world adopt, build on, port, optimize, and test software for it.
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Building in the Open: A Designer's Guide to Open Source Hardware
In 1817, a German inventor named Karl von Drais built a strange two-wheeled wooden contraption to get across the grounds of a royal garden faster. He called it a draisine. It had no pedals, no gears, no rubber you pushed it along with your feet like a scooter. It wasn't a great bicycle. I
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$12M U.S. Army grant funds Penn State's animal-inspired drone sensing system
A research team led by Penn State engineers has received a $12 million grant from the U.S. Army Research Laboratory to develop what's essentially a digital brain, inspired by how insects and small animals make smart decisions using very limited information. Saptarsh
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AMD Reaches Definitive Agreement to Acquire Taalas for Specialized AI Inference Silicon
AMD has announced it has reached a definitive agreement to acquire Taalas, a company focused on specialized AI inference silicon. The acquisition is intended to add differentiated inference technology and engineering expertise to AMD’s long-term AI roadmap as AI inference workloads become m
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BEL and Esri India Sign MoU to Advance GIS and GeoAI for Defence Applications
Bharat Electronics Limited, a state-owned defence electronics company, has signed a memorandum of understanding with Esri India Technologies aimed at cooperating on surge deployment for BEL and broader defence services. Under the agreement, the two organizations pla
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MeitY and Drone Federation India Launch NIDAR 2.0 Challenge Built Around India's VEGA Chip
The Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology (MeitY), working with the Drone Federation India, has launched the second edition of the National Innovation Challenge for Drone Application and Research, known as NIDAR 2.0, under the government's SwaYaan initiative. The launch event took
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Toshiba Starts Mass Production of Compact Microcontrollers with Arm Cortex-M4 Core for Single-Motor Control Applications
Toshiba has begun mass production of its TXZ+ Family Entry-Class M4L Group, a line of compact microcontrollers built around an Arm Cortex-M4 processor core with a floating-point unit, aimed at next-generation home appliances, consumer products, and industrial equipment.
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Altera Announces Innovators Day Event Series for FPGA Developers
Altera Corporation has announced the schedule for its Innovators Day event series, running across North America, Asia, and Europe between October 2026 and February 2027. Aimed at FPGA developers, system architects, and engineers, the events will showcase recent developments in programmable comput
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Synopsys Showcases Agentic AI and Silicon Design Advances at 2026 DAC Chips to Systems Conference
At this year's DAC Chips to Systems Conference, Synopsys is highlighting its latest work in agentic AI and advanced chip design technology, aimed at helping customers move AI-powered products from initial concept to production faster, with better quality, efficiency, and precision along the way.<
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Synopsys, Intel Foundry Expand Collaboration to Speed Design Readiness on Intel 14A
Synopsys, has announced, at the 2026 DAC Chips to Systems Conference, an expanded collaboration with Intel Foundry, including the certification of AI-powered EDA flows on Intel's 14A process technology. The move advances design enablement from design technology co-optimization (DTCO) to system-aw
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mimik Brings Agentic AI to AMD's Ryzen AI Embedded X100 Series Processors
mimik has introduced mimOE Embedded Edition, a package combining its Agentix Operating Engine with a set of tools designed for AMD's newly released Ryzen AI Embedded X100 Series processor, a chip family aimed at physical AI, autonomous systems, and industrial automation. Available for downloa
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Primis AI Rebrands as ChipNexus, Launches NEX for AI-Driven Chip Design Automation
Primis AI has rebranded itself as ChipNexus and introduced NEX, an AI platform aimed at automating multi-step engineering workflows in semiconductor and hardware design. The company frames the rebrand as a response to a shift in what hardware teams actually need: not a chatbot that generates code
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