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August 30, 2026

Hollywood celebs are getting into microdrama apps

Several Hollywood celebs are ditching the massive eight-figure checks and exotic movie sets for a rising format: microdramas.

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August 30, 2026

Rowhammer Backdoor Injection Attack During Inference (Northeastern)

Researchers from Northeastern University published a technical paper titled “ROBBIN: Rowhammer-Based Backdoor Injection during Inference.” Abstract excerpt: “This work presents ROBBIN, a hardware-aware Rowhammer-based backdoor injection attack that integrates the device-specific vulnerability into the backdoor construction process. ROBBIN first characterizes the bit-flip patterns of a target DRAM and uses this information to iteratively select DR

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August 29, 2026

Nvidia gears up its influence in Washington, forming PAC — tells employees that decisions Congress makes over the coming years could have substantial consequences for the AI industry, according to rep

Nvidia establishes its employees federal political action committee (PAC) to fund politicians whose positions are favorable to Nvidia's interests.

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August 29, 2026

New US export controls reportedly target Chinese access to remote AI servers — Trump admin's cut-down AI diffusion rule could be shared with industry as soon as September

The Trump administration is reportedly drafting a rule to close a loophole around remote access to advanced AI compute, and it could be shared with trade groups as early as September.

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August 29, 2026

MSI brings DDR4 back to gaming laptops amidst DRAM crisis — Katana 15 HX C14 available with up to Core i9-14900HX and RTX 5070

With 32GB DDR4 SO-DIMM memory kits costing roughly half as much as comparable DDR5 kits, MSI’s new Katana 15 HX C14 could help reduce the impact of soaring memory prices.

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August 29, 2026

The three layers of agentic AI security: A defense-in-depth architecture for autonomous agents

Presented by Nutanix Autonomous systems that can reason, make their own decisions, and execute actions across an environment introduce a category of risk that application-level controls were never built to contain. Treating that risk as a single problem produces incomplete architectures, says Oscar Wahlberg, senior director of product management at Nutanix. "The guardrails to catch a malicious prompt won't stop an agent from hallucinating and doi

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August 29, 2026

DLSS 5 leaked and modders are putting Nvidia’s AI effects on everything

Modders are trying out an unofficial version of Nvidia's DLSS 5 on Skyrim, Cyberpunk 2077, GTA V, and a bunch of other games after code for the AI upscaling tech appeared in an early-access build of NBA 2K27. Members of the RenoDX modding channel on Discord reportedly found a way to extract the DLSS "Neural […]

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August 29, 2026

Trump’s EPA wants to let data centers hide their air pollution

Just as new data centers face growing backlash from neighboring communities, the US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is about to make it harder for people to weigh in on any pollution those centers create. The EPA plans to toss out a federal rule requiring public notice and an opportunity to comment when certain industrial sites […]

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August 29, 2026

Neocloud Lambda secures $1B in debt to buy more chips

Neocloud Lambda has raised $1B in private debt to buy Nvidia AI chips and lease them to Microsoft. It's the latest in a string of loans, underscoring the high cost of the AI boom.

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August 29, 2026

Gen Precision Automates DIMM Final Testing for DDR4 and DDR5 Memory Modules

The GTK-SPT1 automates DIMM handling and testing, targeting higher throughput and reduced operator involvement in memory production. The post Gen Precision Automates DIMM Final Testing for DDR4 and DDR5 Memory Modules appeared first on EE Times Asia .

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August 29, 2026

FSP Launches Next-Gen 3200W CRPS Power Solutions to Fully Power AI Edge and Next-Generation Data Centers

FSP Group, a global leading power supply manufacturer, leverages its deep R&D capabilities and forward-looking insights into computing architectures to announce two new 3200W Common Redundant Power Supply (CRPS) modules: the FSP3200-20HM (12V output) and FSP3200-21HE (54V output). Designed specifically for next-generation data centers, edge AI servers, and high-density workstations, FSP’s dual-voltage architecture (12V & … Read More → "FSP Launch

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August 29, 2026

Modelithics COMPLETE v26.4 Expands RF Passive Models for Keysight ADS

Modelithics has released version 26.4 of its COMPLETE Library for Keysight ADS, adding new nonlinear diode and GaN HEMT models alongside 20 new Microwave Global Models for capacitor and resistor […] Read the original post at Modelithics COMPLETE v26.4 Expands RF Passive Models for Keysight ADS

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August 29, 2026

YAGEO Expands Aluminum Polymer Capacitors for High-Temperature AI Server Power Rails

YAGEO Group has expanded its AO-CAP® aluminum polymer SMD capacitor portfolio with new A720 and A798 series options aimed at low-voltage, high-current power rails in AI servers and other demanding […] Read the original post at YAGEO Expands Aluminum Polymer Capacitors for High-Temperature AI Server Power Rails

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August 29, 2026

Filter Capacitors in Electric Vehicles: Knowles Safety MLCCs for BMS and Isolated DC/DC Converters

Filter capacitors are essential to controlling conducted electromagnetic interference (EMI) and switching-noise ripple in electric-vehicle battery and power-conversion systems. In high-voltage EV electronics, they can provide line-to-line or line-to-ground noise […] Read the original post at Filter Capacitors in Electric Vehicles: Knowles Safety MLCCs for BMS and Isolated DC/DC Converters

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August 28, 2026

Nvidia expects to sell $20 billion of Vera Rubin systems in Q3 as shipments begin — figure would account for 20% of its data center revenue mix, marks fastest ramp in company history

Nvidia expects Vera Rubin to become its fastest-ramping data center AI platform as it projects sales of Vera Rubin hardware to hit 20% of data center revenue in its third fiscal quarter.

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August 28, 2026

Hot Chips 2026: Cerebras lays out the future of wafer-scale AI — Nexus system architecture triples rack-scale performance, CS-6 wafer to incorporate stacked DRAM

At Hot Chips 2026, Cerebras revealed the next two generations of its wafer-scale accelerator roadmap. It also discussed the benefits of its new Nexus rack design for the CS-4 rack-scale accelerator and the performance of the three WS-3T wafer-scale engines contained within.

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August 28, 2026

Trump administration weighs expanding chip tariffs to laptops, consoles, and servers, report claims — January's data center exemptions may be scrapped

The Trump administration is weighing a second round of semiconductor tariffs that would extend duties beyond chips to products built with them.

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August 28, 2026

China's YMTC aims to become the world's largest NAND maker by the end of 2027, report says — company plans to overtake Samsung and SK hynix

The target would require YMTC to nearly double its market share in 16 months.

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August 28, 2026

Visa ships a security AI that patches production code before any human reviews it

Visa's open-source security harness now finds the vulnerability, writes the fix, and turns an adversarial panel on its own patch before any human reviews it. The whole loop ships on by default. A plain scan of the Visa Vulnerability Agentic Harness runs all 11 stages and edits source files in the target repo unless the operator caps it at detection. The announcement Thursday pairs the release with an expansion of the Visa Consulting & Analytics a

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August 28, 2026

AI industry says Trump plans to tax chips in the “single dumbest way imaginable”

Tech industry is perplexed by Trump’s plan to win AI race by taxing data centers.

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August 28, 2026

Report: Nvidia to acquire AI model repository Hugging Face for $13 billion

Nvidia is nabbing critical infrastructure for open models as interest grows.

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August 28, 2026

The biggest video game of all time looks like a movie

I think I know why Rockstar Games debuted its "extended look" of Grand Theft Auto VI on Netflix instead of immediately dropping it for free on YouTube. Unlike most video game trailers, the almost 27-minute preview of GTA VI felt more like a slice of a prestige crime drama than any video game trailer that […]

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August 28, 2026

Issues Stack Up With More HBM Layers

Hot Chips 2026: Thinner dies, more TSV area, thermal dissipation, and limited manufacturing capacity make HBM scaling much more difficult. The post Issues Stack Up With More HBM Layers appeared first on Semiconductor Engineering .

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August 28, 2026

TrendForce: DRAM, NAND Flash to Account for 68% of Major CSP CapEx in 2027

The rapid increase will be driven in part by soaring memory contract prices and robust procurement demand. The post TrendForce: DRAM, NAND Flash to Account for 68% of Major CSP CapEx in 2027 appeared first on EE Times Asia .

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August 28, 2026

From Benchmarks to Behavior: Rethinking Performance in Autonomous Robotics

The OpenNav Robotics Workload Benchmark tests autonomous robots running full perception, planning, control, and a 31B VLM simultaneously. AMD Ryzen AI Embedded X100 Series outperforms NVIDIA Jetson T5000 with 3.4x fewer missed control-loop deadlines, 1.6x more spare compute, and 2.7x better CPU utilization—plus 10-year lifecycle, -40–105°C range, AVX-512, and unified memory. Proof that balanced x86 APU beats GPU-first for real-world robotics. The

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August 28, 2026

Qualcomm Bets Open-Source AI Software Can Break Nvidia’s Lock-In

Modular aims to separate AI software from silicon choice, giving Qualcomm and other challengers a shot at Nvidia-dominated workloads. The post Qualcomm Bets Open-Source AI Software Can Break Nvidia’s Lock-In appeared first on EE Times .

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August 28, 2026

Keysight Accelerates AttoTude IC Design Cycles by More Than 50%

Keysight Technologies, Inc. (NYSE: KEYS) today announced that AttoTude Inc., a pioneer of next-generation ASICs over Dielectric interconnect technology for AI and hyperscale data center applications, has expanded its use of Keysight EDA software to manage its full IC design workflow. As a result, AttoTude has reduced its design cycles by more than 50% while … Read More → "Keysight Accelerates AttoTude IC Design Cycles by More Than 50%"

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August 28, 2026

Shortage Update: BF16, FP16, FP32 and 4 More Parts Affected

Supply chain update: BF16, FP16, FP32, BFLOAT16, HAE47 and 2 more may be experiencing shortage conditions. Subscribe Home Systems & Design Low Power - High Performance Manufacturing, Packaging & Materials Test, Measurement & Analytics Auto, Security & Edge

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August 28, 2026

Shortage Update: TPS54302, TPS62933, TPS629XX and 6 More Parts Affected

Supply chain update: TPS54302, TPS62933, TPS629XX, TPS563257, LM5013 and 4 more may be experiencing shortage conditions. When a point-of-load rail goes on allocation, the fastest fix is to conduct a parametric search. Filter the search on input range, output current, and

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August 27, 2026

Kansas town drops charges against teacher arrested for clapping during public hearings on data centers — says that ‘case has been dismissed without prejudice’

The disorderly conduct case against Lux Claridge has been dropped by the city in municipal court, making the teacher breathe a little bit easier. However, it was done "without prejudice," and the city's attorneys have passed the case on to the county for review.

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August 27, 2026

Hot Chips 2026: Nvidia presents Groq 3 LPX architecture and unveils its first third-party inference benchmark — LP30-based rack already in production, company says

Igor Arsovski, now Nvidia's VP of hardware, presented the Groq 3 LPX rack's architecture and published the first third-party benchmark of the hardware.

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August 27, 2026

Nvidia custom 'NVHBM' promises 30% higher bandwidth, 15% lower power than commodity HBM4e — custom base die and PHY will be available to NVLink Fusion partners

Nvidia has unveiled NVHBM, a custom high-bandwidth memory implementation that promises higher bandwidth and lower power for customers building chips within the NVLink Fusion partner program.

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August 27, 2026

Orchestration is the new challenge for CX in the age of AI agents

Presented by Tata Communications Enterprises are deploying AI agents, voice AI, and automation across messaging, voice, and digital channels faster than the architecture meant to support it. Most of that deployment has involved attaching conversational AI to legacy systems never built for it, says Gaurav Anand, global head of the Customer Interaction Suite at Tata Communications. "In the rush to deploy AI, organizations have largely bolted conver

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August 27, 2026

Nvidia is about to be a hundred-billion-dollar-a-quarter company

Nvidia's predicting it will pull in $108 billion in revenue within just a few months. It wouldn't be the first company to rake in over $100 billion in quarterly revenue - Amazon, Apple, and Alphabet have repeatedly reached the milestone. Nvidia said in its latest earnings report that it brought in a record $96.2 billion […]

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August 27, 2026

Amazon just tripled its order of Nvidia chips over ‘surging demand’

Amazon is adding another 2 million Nvidia GPU chips to its data centers over the next two years. But this extended partnerships stretches beyond buying more chips.

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August 27, 2026

AMD Spartan™ FPGA Grows Up: Bigger, Smarter, Scalable, More Secure

AMD Spartan™ UltraScale+™ SU200P FPGA in Production Built for Data Centers, Network Switches, and Industrial Systems The post AMD Spartan™ FPGA Grows Up: Bigger, Smarter, Scalable, More Secure appeared first on EE Times Asia .

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August 27, 2026

AMD Packs More Memory Capacity, Performance in a Smaller Design with Versal Premium Gen 2 Memory on Package

AMD Versal Premium Gen 2 MoP packs up to 32GB LPDDR5X in-package for 288GB/s bandwidth and 60% smaller footprint, with CXL 3.1/PCIe 6.0, -40–110°C operation, 15-yr lifecycle, and pre-validated memory to accelerate VPX defense, test & measurement, and physical AI edge designs. The post AMD Packs More Memory Capacity, Performance in a Smaller Design with Versal Premium Gen 2 Memory on Package appeared first on EE Times Asia .

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August 27, 2026

Reliable Power-Path Design: Integrating MOSFETs, Diodes, TVS Devices, and Capacitors

Design a reliable 24V power path, pick the right MOSFET, diode, TVS, and capacitor to handle surges, reverse polarity, and inrush current The post Reliable Power-Path Design: Integrating MOSFETs, Diodes, TVS Devices, and Capacitors appeared first on EE Times .

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August 27, 2026

Aetina Supports NVIDIA Jetson Orin Nano 2 for Next-Generation Physical AI Edge Applications

Aetina Corporation, – a leading edge AI solution provider and accelerator of edge AI infrastructure, today announced its support for the new NVIDIA Jetson Orin Nano 2, further expanding Aetina’s presence within the NVIDIA Jetson edge AI ecosystem. As the next generation of entry-level edge AI robotics computers, Jetson Orin Nano 2 brings more powerful … Read More → "Aetina Supports NVIDIA Jetson Orin Nano 2 for Next-Generation Physical AI Edge Ap

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August 27, 2026

Rackspace Technology Launches Rackspace Cloud, Among the First Fully Managed Multitenant Cloud Platforms Built on VMware Cloud Foundation 9.1

Rackspace Technology® (NASDAQ: RXT), a global enterprise AI infrastructure and solutions provider, today announced the launch of Rackspace Cloud, a fully managed, multitenant cloud platform powered by Broadcom’s VMware Cloud Foundation 9.1 (VCF 9.1), initially available in Dallas, followed soon by North Virginia and Chicago areas. Rackspace is among the first providers to bring a fully managed multitenant platform to … Read More → "Rackspace Tech

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August 27, 2026

KYOCERA AVX Releases Vibration-Proof Aluminum Electrolytic Capacitors

KYOCERA AVX, a leading global manufacturer of advanced electronic components engineered to accelerate technological innovation and build a better future, released two new series of compact, vibration-proof aluminum electrolytic capacitors engineered for harsh industrial environments. Designed to overcome the mechanical stress challenges that have limited the application of aluminum electrolytic capacitors in industrial applications, the … Read Mo

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August 26, 2026

Get 16GB of DDR5 RAM for $70 and start your AM5 gaming rig with this bundle — $568 for Ryzen 7 7700X3D, 16GB G.Skill DDR5 RAM, Asus TUF B650-E motherboard, and free AIO

568.99 ($200/26% off) gets you a 3-item Newegg combo: a Ryzen 7 7700X3D, Asus B650 board, 16GB of G.Skill DDR5-6000, and a free 240mm AIO thrown in — a inexpensive avenue into AM5.

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August 26, 2026

OpenAI’s 700W Jalapeño ASIC outpaces 1,400W Nvidia flagship GPU — claims up to 1.9x throughput per kilowatt and 3.6x lower latency, co-developed with Broadcom

OpenAI arrived at Hot Chips on Tuesday with benchmarks claiming its first in-house chip beats Nvidia's GB300.

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August 26, 2026

Hot Chips 2026: Samsung makes LPDDR5X smart with logic unit in memory — LPDDR5X-PIM is 3.01x faster than LPDDR5X in AI inference with 8x the bandwidth

Samsung detailed the industry's first LPDDR5X-PIM at Hot Chips 2026, adding logic directly to memory to speed up data-intensive workloads like AI inference.

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August 26, 2026

Perplexity partners with Nvidia to launch Portable Computer, a fully local AI agent with zero token costs

Perplexity is launching Portable Computer today, a version of its agentic "Computer" platform that runs entirely on hardware users already own — starting with Nvidia's DGX Spark desktop supercomputer and Linux machines equipped with Nvidia RTX GPUs . The launch, developed in close partnership with Nvidia, is one of the most aggressive attempts yet to move serious AI agent workloads off the cloud and onto local devices. The model, the user's files

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August 26, 2026

Prompt injection ranks No. 1 with OWASP and No. 12 in the incident record. The attack itself is invisible to a scan.

A CISO who sees a low CVE count and deprioritizes prompt injection is reading the scoreboard wrong. Prompt injection has held the No. 1 spot on the OWASP Top 10 for LLM Applications for three consecutive years . When two leaders of that list checked it against 6,639 labeled real-world incidents, it came back at No. 12. The drop measures visibility rather than danger, because the attack operates where a vulnerability scanner cannot see it. That fi

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August 26, 2026

OpenAI loses a top data center exec, as stream of high-profile departures continues

Before Malone left, OpenAI had already reshuffled its infrastructure org, shifting his reporting line away from President Greg Brockman and putting Vice President Sachin Katti in charge of the group.

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August 26, 2026

Liquid Cooling Becoming Standard for High-end AI Infrastructure

TrendForce projects liquid cooling penetration among AI chips to reach 53% in 2026 and approach 60% in 2027. The post Liquid Cooling Becoming Standard for High-end AI Infrastructure appeared first on EE Times Asia .

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August 26, 2026

TSMC’s HBM-Packaging Yield Issues Help Intel, Analysts Say

TSMC’s CoWoS bottlenecks could hand Intel a foundry opening as AI chipmakers eye EMIB and new memory tech. The post TSMC’s HBM-Packaging Yield Issues Help Intel, Analysts Say appeared first on EE Times .

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August 26, 2026

IBM and Arm: Expanding the Arm ecosystem for the next era of enterprise computing

The industry is converging on Arm as the platform for modern cloud computing, reflected in the next-generation cloud and AI infrastructure being built and deployed by companies including AWS, Google, Meta, Microsoft, NVIDIA and OpenAI. That momentum – reinforced by a software ecosystem of more than 22 million developers worldwide – is now extending into … Read More → "IBM and Arm: Expanding the Arm ecosystem for the next era of enterprise computi

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August 26, 2026

Infineon acquires C2i Semiconductors to expand its innovation capabilities in AI data center power management solutions

Acquisition strengthens Infineon’s leadership in power solutions for AI data centers and accelerates software-defined power architectures from grid to core C2i Semiconductors adds highly differentiated expertise in intelligent digital power management, multiphase controllers and system-level power architectures especially for vertical power delivery including Substrate Integrated Voltages Regulators (SIVR) Transaction expands Infineon’s innovatio

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August 26, 2026

Showcasing Cutting-Edge RF/Microwave Components at IMS 2026

The team is presenting a microwave application seminar about thin-film sputtering technologies and exhibiting its extensive selection of cutting-edge RF and microwave components, including capacitors, couplers, filters, antennas, inductors, and resistive products engineered to solve complex SWaP-C, performance, and reliability challenges in 5G, 6G, IoT, aerospace, defense, radar, and satcom applications. FOUNTAIN INN, S.C. (June 8, 2026) – KYOCER

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August 26, 2026

NEW Vibration-Proof Aluminum Electrolytic Capacitors

The new AEVA and AEVB Series aluminum electrolytic capacitors are engineered for harsh industrial environments, delivering high-CV, long-lifetime performance in compact, surface-mount packages that reliably withstand up to 30g acceleration and operating temperatures extending from -55° to +125°C. FOUNTAIN INN, S.C. (August 25, 2026) – KYOCERA AVX, a leading global manufacturer of advanced electronic components engineered to accelerate technologic

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August 26, 2026

Passive Components for Industrial Automation and Robotics (Dossier Report 08/26)

Passive Components Blog has published its Industrial and Robotics Passive Components Dossier 08/26 technical dossier report. It is a compact, high-information, architecture-focused study of how industrial automation and robotics designs […] Read the original post at Passive Components for Industrial Automation and Robotics (Dossier Report 08/26)

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August 26, 2026

Vishay Releases High-Power Thick Film Resistors for Compact Power Modules

Vishay Intertechnology has released the RPWA 650 series, a new family of thick film power resistors rated at up to 650 W of continuous power in a low-profile package. The […] Read the original post at Vishay Releases High-Power Thick Film Resistors for Compact Power Modules

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August 26, 2026

Current-Dependent Inductors: Using Non-Linear Inductance in Buck Converters and PFC Stages

Current-dependent inductors are power magnetics deliberately designed so that their inductance varies with DC current. Rather than treating inductance roll-off as only a limitation, designers can use a controlled inductance-versus-current […] Read the original post at Current-Dependent Inductors: Using Non-Linear Inductance in Buck Converters and PFC Stages

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August 26, 2026

YAGEO Adds X8 Flexible-Termination Automotive MLCCs for 150°C Designs

YAGEO Group has expanded its automotive MLCC portfolio with VW80808-compliant X8R and X8G capacitors using flexible termination technology. The new YAGEO KEMET-series MLCC ceramic capacitors target compact, high-reliability electronics exposed […] Read the original post at YAGEO Adds X8 Flexible-Termination Automotive MLCCs for 150°C Designs

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August 26, 2026

Component Shortage Alert: CT500SA, CT200SA Supply Constrained

Supply chain update: CT500SA, CT200SA may be experiencing shortage conditions. (Tokyo, Japan – August 19, 2026) Yokogawa Test & Measurement Corporation today announces the release of its second-generation of AC/DC split core curr

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August 25, 2026

Anthropic’s new Claude Tag update lets its Slack agent read the full conversation — and jump in unprompted

Anthropic is making a calculated bet that the biggest bottleneck in enterprise AI isn't model intelligence — it's the fact that most people still use AI alone. In an exclusive interview with VentureBeat, Scott White, Anthropic's head of product for enterprise, laid out the company's thesis for what it calls " multiplayer AI ": a shift away from the single-user chatbot paradigm toward AI agents that operate across teams, read organizational contex

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August 25, 2026

Data centers become "killer application" for new power transformer tech

Solid-state transformers could also benefit EV charging and someday households.

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August 25, 2026

Hot Chips 2026: SK hynix pushes hybrid bonding to HBM5 as AI memory hits 775-micron ceiling — firm extends MR-MUF through Nvidia Rubin

The problem, per SK, is that HBM cubes are capped at a total thickness of 775 microns, the standard thickness of a 300mm logic wafer.

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August 25, 2026

Infineon buys C2i Semiconductors

Infineon has bought C2i Semiconductors of Bangalore. C2i specialises in software-defined multiphase controllers and smart power stages for AI data center applications. “We founded C2i Semiconductors with the vision of […] The post Infineon buys C2i Semiconductors appeared first on Electronics Weekly .

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August 25, 2026

Nvidia’s Inference Pivot Reaches Rebellions in Korea

Nvidia is reportedly in talks with Korean inference upstart Rebellions about a technical partnership, investment, or acquisition. The post Nvidia’s Inference Pivot Reaches Rebellions in Korea appeared first on EE Times .

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August 25, 2026

Radiation Tolerance of Tantalum Polymer Capacitors

Environments rich in ionizing radiation create a particularly difficult functional challenge for electronic components. Spacecraft, nuclear reactors, particle accelerators, and hardened military equipment (to name a few examples) demand that their electrical systems operate correctly, even in the presence of high energy particles, cosmic rays, X-rays, and the like. Such radiation adversely affects electronics in […] The post Radiation Tolerance o

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August 24, 2026

Nvidia’s GB300-powered DGX Station desktop tower listed for nearly $100,000 online — Enterprise AI powerhouse now available to buy for mere mortals with lots of cash

Nvidia's most powerful desktop offering, the GB300 DGX Station, is available to buy starting from just $94,930 and you can spec it up to $108,350. It offers 748GB of unified memory shared across the 72-core Grace CPU and Blackwell Ultra GPU, and it can be yours in a pretty standard-looking desktop chassis today.

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August 24, 2026

Nvidia reportedly warns biggest customers of 15% price hikes on AI servers — memory costs continue to soar

The increases will take effect on Grace Blackwell and Vera Rubin systems shipping early next year.

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August 24, 2026

Grab the Asus Prime Radeon RX 9070 OC for $629.99 — save $120 on this 16GB gaming GPU for reliable 1440p and 4K gaming

The Asus Prime Radeon RX 9070 OC is available for just $629.99 on Amazon, delivering strong 1440p performance, 16GB of VRAM, a 2,610MHz boost clock, and a triple-fan cooling system at a $120 discount.

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August 23, 2026

25 years after the death of 3dfx, the Voodoo 3 gets a Linux driver update — classic Voodoo GPUs can now boot without a PC BIOS

It's been a quarter-century since the firm folded, but the graphics chips still have utility in esoteric use cases.

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August 22, 2026

Nvidia finds that simple linear math can replace costly AI model handoffs

When an agentic AI system hands a task from a small model to a larger one — or back down again — it pays a steep tax: the receiving model has to recompute the entire conversation from scratch, driving up compute costs and latency. This is a major bottleneck for enterprises building long-horizon, multi-LLM workflows. To solve this challenge, researchers at Nvidia have introduced a cross-model KV cache transfer technique that directly maps the pref

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August 22, 2026

Nvidia partners with data center developer Cloverleaf

Nvidia continues to pour money into data center development — just as AI data centers bring lots of money into Nvidia.

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August 22, 2026

Most Read – Feynman GPU, Vishay sensor, Optoelectronic devices

There's the next frontier of advanced optoelectronics, Samsung Foundry putting back its 1.4nm process to 2029, and Vishay sampling a short distance VCSEL-based proximity sensor... The post Most Read – Feynman GPU, Vishay sensor, Optoelectronic devices appeared first on Electronics Weekly .

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August 22, 2026

China’s NAND Specialist YMTC Moves Closer to IPO

YMTC must raise capital to explore demand for AI-driven memory while balancing domestic and overseas markets. The post China’s NAND Specialist YMTC Moves Closer to IPO appeared first on EE Times .

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August 21, 2026

How Will The Custom HBM Business Work?

There is no one-size-fits-all — yet. The post How Will The Custom HBM Business Work? appeared first on Semiconductor Engineering .

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August 21, 2026

Serval’s super agent Catalyst creates roving background agents to identify and fix IT issues before they’re ticketed

Serval is making Catalyst , its AI agent for building enterprise automations, generally available Thursday and enabling it by default for customers — allowing teams of AI agents to decide what should be automated and then build the automation itself. Catalyst sits above Serval’s AI-native service management platform as an admin-facing “super agent.” It can inspect ticket history, standard operating procedures or natural-language instructions, ide

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August 21, 2026

One in five enterprises can't stop a runaway AI agent's spending in real time

Enterprise AI teams have stopped betting on a single orchestration platform. The median enterprise now runs three at once — not by accident, but because none of them fully trusts a single vendor to run the show, according to VB Pulse data . This is not just to avoid vendor lock-in and retain flexibility (although that’s a big part of it). There’s still a lot of uncertainty, even distrust, in vendors’ security and permissioning capabilities. Enter

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August 21, 2026

CXMT planned to use stolen Samsung IP to develop its DRAM, court hears — former Samsung engineer who jumped to Chinese memory maker now behind bars

Former Samsung engineers stole process recipe of the company's 18nm-class DRAM node to sell it to CXMT, according to a new report from Korea.

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August 21, 2026

Michigan township combats nuclear weapons data center by passing ban on new electrical infrastructure — 220,000-square-foot hyperscale project is backed by University of Michigan and the Los Alamos Na

Ypsilanti Township is blocking a University of Michigan data center designed for researching nuclear weapons by temporarily stopping the electrical substation it needs to operate. It also put a one-year moratorium on the data center's water connection request earlier this year/

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August 21, 2026

Component Shortage Alert: ADP1876 Supply Constrained

Supply chain update: ADP1876 may be experiencing shortage conditions. Published: August 20, 2026 Updated: August 20, 2026 Topic: EOL Alert

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August 20, 2026

The Future Of AI Compute Won’t Run On Just One Kind Of Chip

Power, token cost, interconnects, and software orchestration are pushing data centers toward heterogeneous clusters built from CPUs, GPUs, NPUs, optics, and custom accelerators. The post The Future Of AI Compute Won’t Run On Just One Kind Of Chip appeared first on Semiconductor Engineering .

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August 20, 2026

VentureBeat names Rob Strechay as its first Lead Analyst, expanding its enterprise AI research push

Rob Strechay, until recently managing director and principal analyst at theCUBE Research, has joined VentureBeat as our first Lead Analyst and a founding analyst of VentureBeat Research. His arrival is the next step in a deliberate move at VentureBeat toward deeper specialization: analysis built for the technical decision-makers — the directors, VPs, CIOs, and CTOs — who are evaluating, buying, and deploying enterprise AI. The enterprise AI stack

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August 20, 2026

TrueFoundry's open source AI agent harness TrueForge boasts 30%-75% cheaper task completion than Claude Managed Agents

Another day, another new AI agent harness is released. Only this time, it's one that aims to solve a growing enterprise problem as AI agents proliferate: enabling greater developer control of agents and tools, while reducing cost. TrueFoundry , a San Francisco B2B machine learning startup co-founded in 2021 by former Meta engineers, has released its own custom TrueForge harness under the permissive MIT License on Github . Thus, it can be used wit

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August 20, 2026

Google Gemini is getting a dedicated student hub

As we're gearing up for back-to-school season, Google is rolling out a new dedicated student hub in Gemini. It's a one-stop repository for collecting research in a study notebook, creating flashcards, taking practice quizzes, and more. Google is also enhancing its study notebooks with support for graphs and images. It can even add test dates […]

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August 20, 2026

China shifting massive AI data center complexes to rural provinces to tap surplus energy — ‘Eastern Data, Western Computing’ strategy has Chinese tech giants Huawei and Tencent building AI infrastruct

Chinese tech giants are putting up data centers in rural Chinese provinces with zero resistance. The abundance of land and energy in these areas allowed infrastructure to easily be built with limited issues, although some experts still question how much development they can bring to these areas.

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August 20, 2026

Microchip advances PolarFire FPGA Ethernet Sensor Bridge with Rev 2.0

Microchip Technology has released Revision 2.0 of its PolarFire FPGA Ethernet Sensor Bridge. This is a smaller, production-ready board for sensor integration using NVIDIA HSB (Holoscan Sensor Bridge) technology. The […] The post Microchip advances PolarFire FPGA Ethernet Sensor Bridge with Rev 2.0 appeared first on Electronics Weekly .

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August 19, 2026

Research Bits: Aug. 18

Edge AI hardware/algorithm co-design; memtransistor with programmable response speeds; artificial synapse with long- and short-term memory. The post Research Bits: Aug. 18 appeared first on Semiconductor Engineering .

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August 19, 2026

Enterprises are overpaying for simple AI queries — Snowflake's gateway now auto-routes to cut costs up to 3x

Enterprise teams running AI agents at scale are finding that a single model handles every task poorly — either the model is too expensive for simple questions or not capable enough for hard ones. Model routing, which picks the right model for each task automatically, is becoming the fix. Snowflake’s Cortex AI Gateway now offers dynamic model routing to address that: enterprises can select “auto” instead of a fixed model, and the system routes eac

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August 19, 2026

Commerce AI is fragmenting. Here is why that matters.

Presented by Rezolve Ai Enterprise AI investment in commerce has never been higher. And enterprise AI outcomes in commerce have rarely been more inconsistent. That gap is not a coincidence. It is the predictable result of a pattern that has repeated itself across every major technology shift in retail: the industry adds new capabilities faster than it integrates them. That pattern is now playing out in commerce AI. The point solution pattern The

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August 19, 2026

GLM-5.3 hits the API at $1.4/$4.4 per million tokens

After a stunning debut last week with cyber capabilities so advanced they reportedly found a previously undetected vulnerability in Cursor, GLM-5.3, the new frontier open source language model from Chinese startup z.ai, has now hit the application programming interface (API) — allowing developers the ability to build atop it and plug it into their agents and applications. Developers who previously subscribed to a GLM Coding Plan are currently lim

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August 19, 2026

Marvell Targets AI Bottlenecks with Memory-Disaggregation Portfolio

Marvell attacks AI’s memory choke point with SSD, CXL, and photonic fabrics to push data nearer compute. The post Marvell Targets AI Bottlenecks with Memory-Disaggregation Portfolio appeared first on EE Times .

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August 18, 2026

Controlling Voltage Droop In 2.5D PIM Chiplet Architectures (Washington St., UW-Madison)

Researchers from Washington State University and University of Wisconsin–Madison published a technical paper titled “ReVolt: Power Delivery Network-Aware Voltage Droop Control for 2.5D PIM Chiplet Architectures.” Abstract “Processing-in-memory (PIM)-based 2.5D multi-chiplet platforms are enablers for machine learning (ML) workloads. However, their performance is affected by the power delivery network (PDN), where varying chiplet-level current dem

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August 18, 2026

As enterprises confront AI agent sprawl, xpander wants them to own their own control and context layer

Enterprise AI has a new infrastructure problem: companies are accumulating agents faster than they are developing systems to govern them. Gartner estimates that the average global Fortune 500 company will have more than 150,000 AI agents in use by 2028, up from fewer than 15 in 2025. Yet only 13% of organizations believe they currently have the right AI agent governance in place, according to the research firm. That widening gap is creating a mar

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August 18, 2026

One AI module faked 86% of a pipeline's accuracy gains by feeding another the answers

A retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) system is built to answer strictly from the documents it retrieves. But when engineers optimize these AI pipelines end-to-end, the reader module can learn a shortcut: instead of relying on retrieved evidence, it starts answering from its own internal memory — while the system's overall accuracy keeps climbing. This is the hidden challenge of "role drift," a failure mode in compound AI systems where individua

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August 18, 2026

Cursor launches Origin code hosting platform as GitHub outage exposes opening in AI coding race

Cursor began rolling out Origin , its own code hosting platform, to paid users on Monday morning. Roughly three and a half hours later, GitHub's status page lit up with what became a six-hour-and-forty-two-minute global degradation — error rates near 20% across pull requests, issues and the API, and near 50% on archive and raw file downloads, according to GitHub's incident log . Enterprise single sign-on went down with it: SAML, OIDC, SCIM provis

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August 18, 2026

Qwen3.8-27B runs frontier-class coding agents and reasoning locally, no cloud API required

The biggest AI model release of the past few days, at least among the developers and AI power users on social media, wasn't a frontier cloud model from OpenAI, Anthropic or Google. It was a 27-billion-parameter model from Alibaba: Qwen3.8-27B landed on Hugging Face on Friday under an enterprise-friendly, open source Apache 2.0 license, giving developers downloadable weights for a dense multimodal model. But Qwen3.8-27B isn't a garden variety smal

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August 18, 2026

America's largest grid wants to cut power to new data centers first during shortages — 50MW-plus data centers must bring their own electricity generation to avoid shutoffs

PJM Interconnection has asked federal regulators to approve rules that would cut power to new data centers ahead of households during supply shortages.

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August 18, 2026

Memory prices climb 500% in 12 months, up to 10x the lowest ever tracked prices — 128GB of DDR5 now $3,399

Analysis of historical price data trends indicates that the memory crisis has driven RAM prices to never-before-seen heights.

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August 18, 2026

Fluid-Side Observability Expands AI Hardware Reliability

As AI systems increasingly rely on liquid cooling, coolant condition is emerging as a reliability signal. The post Fluid-Side Observability Expands AI Hardware Reliability appeared first on EE Times .

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August 18, 2026

Nvidia Bets on the Classical Side of Quantum Computing

Nvidia positions classical computing infrastructure as a critical layer in the race to build useful quantum computers. The post Nvidia Bets on the Classical Side of Quantum Computing appeared first on EE Times .

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August 18, 2026

Component Shortage Alert: GD32H77R Supply Constrained

Supply chain update: GD32H77R may be experiencing shortage conditions. Published: August 18, 2026 Updated: August 18, 2026 Topic: technology-guide

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August 17, 2026

Component Shortage Alert: TS332IST Supply Constrained

Supply chain update: TS332IST may be experiencing shortage conditions. Hello, We are facing shortage issues with TS332IST, we need an alternative replacement for this component as soon as possible, as our shortage is comi

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August 17, 2026

Component Shortage Alert: 36PDT, 12PDT Supply Constrained

Supply chain update: 36PDT, 12PDT may be experiencing shortage conditions. I have in front of me a parallel port switch box, consisting of three Centronics ports - common, A and B - connected via a rotary switch that appears

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August 17, 2026

Component Shortage Alert: LM386 Supply Constrained

Supply chain update: LM386 may be experiencing shortage conditions. I am building my own audio amplifier for personal use (previously, I was working on it for study purposes). The result is great, the bass is good enou

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August 17, 2026

Component Shortage Alert: ADS1115-WELL Supply Constrained

Supply chain update: ADS1115-WELL may be experiencing shortage conditions. Some references as to how I got here... https://forum.arduino.cc/t/how-to-measure-pos-and-neg-voltages-across-shunt-resistor/96605 Why can't a "differ

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August 17, 2026

Component Shortage Alert: RJ45 Supply Constrained

Supply chain update: RJ45 may be experiencing shortage conditions. Sorry if this isn't an appropriate question for this board. If it's not, can you suggest a better place to ask it rather than just closing the questio

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August 17, 2026

Component Shortage Alert: 2N5551CS, 2SC3503C Supply Constrained

Supply chain update: 2N5551CS, 2SC3503C may be experiencing shortage conditions. I'm trying to understand this discrete UcD full-bridge amplifier (schematic attached). I have an idea about the working principle and the feedback loo

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August 17, 2026

Component Shortage Alert: GB300, NVL72 Supply Constrained

Supply chain update: GB300, NVL72 may be experiencing shortage conditions. Published: July 17, 2026 Updated: July 17, 2026 Topic: Market Watch

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August 17, 2026

Component Shortage Alert: STM32H543, STM32H553 Supply Constrained

Supply chain update: STM32H543, STM32H553 may be experiencing shortage conditions. Published: July 20, 2026 Updated: August 11, 2026 Topic: Market Watch

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August 17, 2026

Shortage Update: AD9361, AD9361BBCZ, AD9363 and 1 More Parts Affected

Supply chain update: AD9361, AD9361BBCZ, AD9363, AD9364 may be experiencing shortage conditions. Published: August 2, 2026 Updated: August 2, 2026 Topic: Hot Part

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August 17, 2026

Shortage Update: VSC8479, VSC8479YHQ-01, VSC8479YYY and 1 More Parts Affected

Supply chain update: VSC8479, VSC8479YHQ-01, VSC8479YYY, VSC8479YHQ-02 may be experiencing shortage conditions. Published: August 13, 2026 Updated: August 13, 2026 Topic: EOL Alert

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August 17, 2026

DeepSeek's top-ranked V4 Flash stumbles on real agent tasks as its prices surge

DeepSeek's V4 Flash has topped model leaderboards and been hailed by developers as a "total monster" since its rollout. But in real-world testing, it completed just 53.8% of a batch of complex agent tasks. Composio ran the model through eight different agent harnesses , including Claude Code, Codex, and OpenCode, on 30 deliberately difficult, multi-step tasks spanning live tools like Gmail, GitHub, Slack, and Google Sheets. Of 240 total runs, 129

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August 17, 2026

Cutting RAG inference costs 6x starts with deciding what never reaches the LLM

Most teams building retrieval augmented generation (RAG) systems for high stakes classification make the same architectural bet: Route every ambiguous case straight to the language model and trust the retrieved context to sort it out. This works fine in a demo. It falls apart the moment the system has to survive an audit, a regulator, or a compliance officer asking why a specific decision was made six months ago. I have spent the last year buildi

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August 17, 2026

Dell CEO unveils new 'Dude, you’re getting a Dell (AI server rack)' video — PC maker recycles famous PC ad campaign to tout its new AI data center products

Dell has created a humorous AI-era update to its iconic early-2000s 'Dude, you’re getting a Dell' series of commercials.

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August 16, 2026

Nvidia turns $5B Intel stock bet into $30B windfall — filing reveals new $21B SpaceX stake and complete exit from Arm stock

Nvidia quietly makes strategic and financial investments in clients, partners, and suppliers: CoreWeave, Coherent, Intel, Nokia, and SpaceX.

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August 16, 2026

Grab this Nvidia RTX 5070 Ti gaming PC for $2,099 before it sells out —prebuilt powerhouse includes a Core Ultra 7 265KF, 32GB RAM, 1TB SSD

The Acer Predator Orion 6000 gaming desktop is currently on sale for $2,099, $700 off its regular price.

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August 16, 2026

Grab this RTX 5070 gaming PC for just $1,499, saving $600 off list price — Acer Nitro 85 prebuilt comes with 16GB of RAM, Core Ultra 7 265F, and a 1TB PCIe 4.0 SSD

The Acer Nitro 85 gaming desktop is currently on sale for $1,499, which is $600 off its regular price for a PC that would otherwise cost you $2,000 to spec out yourself.

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August 15, 2026

Chip Industry Week In Review

Lam Research and ASE expansions; data center shifts; CPO system architecture initiative; 2D-transistor interface solution; USENIX HW security; patent suits; image sensors; programmable AI memtransistor; Nvidia's new plan; earnings; Tier IV's L4 auto chip. The post Chip Industry Week In Review appeared first on Semiconductor Engineering .

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August 15, 2026

Cargo thieves ram security escorts to hijack AI hardware shipments in California — brazen thieves employ PIT maneuver, rear-ending tactics to secure goods for the black market

Cargo thieves knocked two private security escort vehicles out of action on California roads in recent months, then made off with millions of dollars in AI data center hardware.

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August 15, 2026

G.Skill Trident Z5 NeoX RGB DDR5-6000 C30 2x16GB Review — EXPO ULL memory kit to max out your Ryzen

G.Skill's Trident Z5 NeoX is the brand's latest series with the AMD EXPO ULL feature, but can the DDR5-6000 C30 prove to be the fastest memory kit for AMD?

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August 15, 2026

Standards and AI will shape-shift EDA

As AI and machine learning are getting more and more integrated into the EDA workflows, there are new challenges emerging around areas such as interoperability, data exchange, trust, and reproducibility. […] The post Standards and AI will shape-shift EDA appeared first on Electronics Weekly .

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August 14, 2026

DDR5 9600 RDIMMs: Raising The Performance Benchmark For Server Memory

The ability to move and manage data efficiently is a defining challenge for data center architects. The post DDR5 9600 RDIMMs: Raising The Performance Benchmark For Server Memory appeared first on Semiconductor Engineering .

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August 14, 2026

Copper’s Grip On AI Scaling Is Starting To Slip

As AI clusters push beyond rack-scale limits, optical interconnects and circuit switching are reshaping how data centers scale. The post Copper’s Grip On AI Scaling Is Starting To Slip appeared first on Semiconductor Engineering .

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August 14, 2026

Writer says its new Palmyra X6 model cuts AI agent costs by 52% as token spending surges

Writer , the enterprise AI agent platform used by Fortune 500 companies including Accenture, Uber, and Vanguard, released its new flagship model Palmyra X6 today, alongside a rebuilt agent orchestration "harness" and new governance tools designed to give IT leaders control over runaway token spending. The headline numbers are striking: Writer says its agent product now operates at an average 52% lower cost, with a 48% improvement in speed and a 1

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August 14, 2026

Why Capital One built its multi-agent AI platform around open-weight models

Presented by Capital One At VB Transform 2026 , Kel Vanee, MVP of machine learning engineering at Capital One, spoke with Sam Witteveen, Senior Technology Contributor at VentureBeat, about how the bank built a scalable multi-agent AI architecture around deeply customized open-weight models rather than relying on an off-the-shelf foundation model. "At Capital One, we're not just using AI, we're building AI," Vanee said. The groundwork was laid yea

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August 14, 2026

DeepSeek Harness launches as open source rival to Claude Code, alongside V4-Pro on API with higher prices

DeepSeek is expanding beyond the model layer and deeper into the software developers use to put AI agents to work. The Chinese AI lab on Thursday launched the official version of DeepSeek-V4-Pro , an updated flagship model focused heavily on agentic workloads, alongside DeepSeek Harness v0.1 , a new open-source agent harness that gives developers an alternative to integrated coding-agent environments such as Anthropic’s Claude Code. Together, the

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August 14, 2026

Google’s Gemini 3.7 Flash targets coding and agents with a 50% introductory price cut

Google is rolling out Gemini 3.7 Flash , a new version of its workhorse AI model that puts coding, agentic workflows and knowledge work at the center of the upgrade — while temporarily cutting API prices in half. The release arrives just three weeks after the release of Gemini 3.6 Flash , an unusually short turnaround that Google attributes to developer feedback and algorithmic improvements. For enterprise developers, the more consequential story

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August 14, 2026

Using Agents to Maximize NVIDIA Jetson Memory Usage at the Edge

Discover how NVIDIA Jetson's software optimization stack can reclaim significant memory, enabling teams to run bigger AI workloads at a lower module cost. The post Using Agents to Maximize NVIDIA Jetson Memory Usage at the Edge appeared first on EE Times .

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August 14, 2026

AI’s Next Bottleneck Is Public Consent

AI’s next choke point isn’t chips—it’s public trust as states slow data centers over power, water, and secrecy. The post AI’s Next Bottleneck Is Public Consent appeared first on EE Times .

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August 13, 2026

What Are DDR5 DIMM Chipsets? The Complete Guide To RCDs, PMICs, SPD Hubs, And More

How DDR5 DIMM chipsets work, why they matter, how they build upon DDR5 technology, and how emerging module architectures are extending memory bandwidth. The post What Are DDR5 DIMM Chipsets? The Complete Guide To RCDs, PMICs, SPD Hubs, And More appeared first on Semiconductor Engineering .

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August 13, 2026

Self-Supervised Layout Generation To Fix Advanced-Node DRVs (Nvidia, Duke)

Researchers from NVIDIA and Duke University published a technical paper titled “SCALE: Self-Supervised Constraint-Aware Layout GEneration for Local P&R DRV Fixing at Advanced Nodes.” Abstract “As semiconductor manufacturing advances toward sub-2nm nodes, local place-and-route (P&R) design-rule violation (DRV) fixing is increasingly limited by complex rule interactions, dense multi-layer routing geometries, and foundry-specific constraints. While

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August 13, 2026

Skan AI raises $63 million betting that watching how employees actually work is the missing layer of enterprise AI

Skan AI , a startup that builds what it calls a " context graph of work " by observing how employees actually perform their jobs across enterprise software, has raised $63 million in Series C funding co-led by Cathay Innovation and Dell Technologies Capital , the company announced Wednesday. Citi Ventures , Bloomberg Beta , State Farm Ventures , and Wipro Ventures also participated in the round, which brings the seven-year-old company's total fun

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August 13, 2026

SpaceXAI debuts Grok 4.6, overtaking Kimi K3's performance and matching GPT-5.6 Sol for world's third best on Artificial Analysis

Elon Musk's company SpaceXAI, formerly known as xAI, has released Grok 4.6 , its latest frontier AI model, with a focus on long-running agents, coding and knowledge work — and a pricing strategy designed to make those workloads cheaper to run. The model scores 61 on the third-party Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index , surpassing the popular open weights Chinese model from Moonshot, Kimi K3, and tying rival OpenAI's GPT-5.6 Sol Max and improvi

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August 13, 2026

Four of five enterprises that secured AI agent identities still can't contain one that goes rogue

Visa's president of technology, Rajat Taneja, walked the VB Transform 2026 audience through aiming Anthropic's Mythos at Visa's own payment network . The model stitched minor weaknesses into working exploit chains, and Visa open-sourced the harness that governed the hunt. That's what it looks like when an enterprise has the engineering depth to act on what it finds. Most don't get there. Just over half, or 53%, of enterprises have already had an

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August 13, 2026

CoreWeave proves Nvidia's aging AI GPUs from 2020 can generate profit nine years after deployment, signs A100 contracts into 2029 — power constraints and legacy infrastructure keep old GPUs profitable

CoreWeave reported $2.58 billion in quarterly revenue, up 112% year over year.

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August 13, 2026

AI data center developers begin suing local jurisdictions behind bans and moratoriums — claims range from officials exceeding authority to violations of due process and equal protection laws

Some data center developers are suing local governments for passing temporary bans and moratorium, saying that they such moves violated their rights to due process and equal protection. This move has gotten one county to reverse their decision, while others are still fighting the cases in court.

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August 13, 2026

Nvidia doubles RTX PRO 6000 Blackwell's MSRP to a staggering $16,000 — 96GB card started pre-orders below $8,000 last year

A data center GPU has become more expensive because of the AI boom enabled by unprecedented data center buildouts — shocking. Nvidia's RTX 6000 Pro Blackwell is now twice as costly as it was last year at the time of its launch, and 20% more expensive than even a couple of months ago.

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August 13, 2026

Intel may be heading back to memory

Intel CEO Lip-Bu Tan (pictured) is teasing  a return for Intel to the memory market.  ”I used to be, ‘do not invest in memory because it is a kind of […] The post Intel may be heading back to memory appeared first on Electronics Weekly .

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August 13, 2026

Building Supply Chain Resilience: Selecting Reliable Capacitor Suppliers

Supply chain stability is becoming a key consideration for companies when selecting electronic components. Discover more! The post Building Supply Chain Resilience: Selecting Reliable Capacitor Suppliers appeared first on EE Times .

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August 13, 2026

Meta Cuts Server Count 25% by Reusing Old Memory: Can Anyone Else Do It?

Meta squeezes 25% fewer servers from old DDR4 via CXL, but most firms face messy DIMM, power, and telemetry traps. The post Meta Cuts Server Count 25% by Reusing Old Memory: Can Anyone Else Do It? appeared first on EE Times .

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August 12, 2026

Nvidia's Switchyard router reshuffles AI models mid-task, cutting task costs to a third in its own tests

Enterprises running always-on AI agents keep hitting the same tradeoff. Send every task to a frontier model and the bill climbs fast. Build custom routing logic to send easy tasks to cheaper models and that becomes its own engineering project, one that has to be maintained every time a workflow changes. Nvidia is proposing a fix that touches both ends of that problem at once. The company is out on Tuesday with Nemotron 3.5 Lightning, a 30-billion

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August 12, 2026

LTX-2.5 can generate a 10-second AI video from an image in just 6.8 seconds on Nvidia superchips — and it's open weights

LTX , the open world model company spun out of Lightricks, today released LTX-2.5, the newest version of its open-weights video and "world" model and it arrives natively integrated into ComfyUI , the node-based workflow tool that has become the de facto prototyping environment for open generative media, through a strategic day-one launch partnership between the two companies. The model is available now as open weights on Hugging Face , inside Com

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August 12, 2026

Mistral AI wants to build 1 gigawatt of European compute by 2030 — and lock in customers now.

Mistral AI wants to turn European AI sovereignty from a talking point into a product — one with a service-level agreement attached. The French artificial intelligence company announced Tuesday a three-part expansion of its infrastructure business: regional inference endpoints that let customers choose whether their AI workloads run in Europe or the United States, a new "Priority Tier" backed by an uptime guarantee for mission-critical deployments

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August 12, 2026

AMD highlights Ryzen 5 5500 briefly topping Amazon CPU best sellers, beating 9800X3D — $80 DDR4 CPU remains a top seller during memory crunch

AMD's marketing director shared a screenshot of the Amazon CPU best sellers list, but the four-year-old, $80 Ryzen 5 5500 was at the top of the charts.

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August 12, 2026

SK hynix to expand production capacity in China as it mulls Solidigm IPO, report claims — second phase of fab could boost local production by 50%

As demand for high-end data center SSDs peak, SK hynix upgrades its Chinese facilities and plans Solidigm listing at NASDAQ.

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August 12, 2026

TDK vibration-resistant axial capacitors for 125 V

Addressing what it sees as increasing demand for compact and high-ripple-current DC-link capacitor banks, TDK is expanding its axial/soldering star-aluminium electrolytic capacitor lineup. This is both adding 125 V-rated components […] The post TDK vibration-resistant axial capacitors for 125 V appeared first on Electronics Weekly .

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August 12, 2026

AI Hardware’s Next Frontier Is Integration

The LID World Summit 2026 showed why AI progress now depends on system-level advances in memory, packaging, photonics, and power. The post AI Hardware’s Next Frontier Is Integration appeared first on EE Times .

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August 12, 2026

Managing Your Component Library for Supply Chain Resilience

To take a PCB from design to production, an unmanaged component library is a hidden liability. Obsolete parts, single-source vulnerabilities, long lead times, counterfeit exposure, and compliance gaps often go undetected until they trigger costly redesigns, audit failures, or production delays. This guide shows how to solve those problems at their source. By transitioning to […] The post Managing Your Component Library for Supply Chain Resilience

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August 12, 2026

AMD Challenges GPU-Centric Architectures as It Takes Aim at Nvidia in Robotics

AMD’s new SoC for robots combines CPU, GPU, NPU on one chip with unified memory. The post AMD Challenges GPU-Centric Architectures as It Takes Aim at Nvidia in Robotics appeared first on EE Times .

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August 12, 2026

Component Shortage Alert: SOT23, SOT143B Supply Constrained

Supply chain update: SOT23, SOT143B may be experiencing shortage conditions. The USBLC6-2SC6 is one of the most designed-in ESD protection parts on USB and high speed data lines, which keeps it in steady demand. This page is a

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August 12, 2026

Shortage Update: STM32, STM32F4, STM32F407 and 6 More Parts Affected

Supply chain update: STM32, STM32F4, STM32F407, GD32F407, GD32 and 4 more may be experiencing shortage conditions. A Findchips sourcing guide. Overview Evaluating STM32 alternatives was once a practice adopted only during times of shortage. However, seeking second

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August 11, 2026

Chip Industry Technical Paper Roundup: Aug. 10

Ultrafast optical switching in doped semis; PIM simulation; foundry-compatible silicon photonics MEMS switching; GPU-accelerated switching-power analysis; neuromorphic computing; magneto-ionic HW security; bond front velocity; measuring heat movement. The post Chip Industry Technical Paper Roundup: Aug. 10 appeared first on Semiconductor Engineering .

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August 11, 2026

How Data Center AI Can Keep Growing, Despite Supply Chain Bottlenecks

Efficiency is key for the next two to five years. But what happens when supply eventually catches up? The post How Data Center AI Can Keep Growing, Despite Supply Chain Bottlenecks appeared first on Semiconductor Engineering .

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August 11, 2026

Failure Analysis HW Enables System-Level Debug For 3D ICs (Google, TU Delft)

Researchers from Google and Delft University of Technology published a technical paper titled “Innovative FA Hardware Solution to Enable System-Level Debug of 3D ICs.” Abstract Excerpt: “This paper presents a novel Failure Analysis (FA) hardware and sample preparation solution that enables System-Level FA on mobile System-on-a-Chip (SoC) PoP devices, where the DRAM is stacked atop... » read more The post Failure Analysis HW Enables System-Level D

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August 11, 2026

Meta returns to open source with Muse Glimmer, an Apache 2.0 licensed 30B parameter AI model optimized for agents — available now

Meta today released Muse Glimmer, a 30-billion-parameter open-weight model designed to run autonomous AI agents directly on consumer hardware — pushing agentic workloads that normally depend on cloud infrastructure onto high-end Macs and PCs. Just as notable as what the model does is how it's licensed. Glimmer arrives under the permissive, industry-standard Apache 2.0 open source license — the company's first fully open release since it succeeded

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August 11, 2026

Brex assumes its AI agents could do anything — so it watches the network, not the code

Brex CEO Pedro Franceschi offered a blueprint for one of the pressing challenges facing the enterprise today at VB Transform 2026 : securely deploying AI agents, like the open-source OpenClaw, into production environments. Unlocking this enterprise value requires a mindset shift. The industry needs to move past vague terminology and focus on concrete enterprise roles. “People talk a lot about agents, but I think 'agents' is a terrible name. It's

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August 11, 2026

AWS Continuum integrates with OpenAI Codex and Anthropic Claude Code in major AI security push

Amazon Web Services is threading its AI-powered security infrastructure directly into the coding environments built by two of its fiercest rivals — and in doing so, it is making a bold bet that controlling the security layer matters more than controlling the model. AWS announced at Black Hat USA 2026 this month that its Continuum platform for code vulnerabilities will integrate directly into Anthropic's Claude Code and OpenAI's Codex , alongside

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August 11, 2026

Amazon backs power plant that may become top source of US climate pollution

Amazon announces first off-the-grid data center in race to reap AI profits.

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August 11, 2026

Nvidia reportedly testing lower memory configs of Rubin Ultra as memory shortage bites back — designs tested include as little as 192 GB and step back to HBM4

Nvidia is reportedly testing at least three Rubin Ultra configurations that pack as little as 192 GB of memory, as opposed to the 1 TB of HBM4E originally announced.

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August 11, 2026

GeForce RTX 50-series GPU prices spike as much as 39% as Blackwell price hikes hit the US — RTX 5070 gets a 36% hike, RTX 5060 up 27% at the median of Newegg listings

After recent news of price hikes on RTX 50-series GPUs in other regions, those same increases now appear to have come Stateside, as Newegg prices for some Blackwell cards have spiked as much as 39% compared to June 2026.

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August 11, 2026

Can AI Command Earth-to-Orbit Operations?

The aerospace and defense sector is facing a confluence of geopolitical instability, rapid technological advances, evolving security requirements, and complex global supply chains. The post Can AI Command Earth-to-Orbit Operations? appeared first on EE Times .

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August 10, 2026

Component Shortage Alert: GB300 Supply Constrained

Supply chain update: GB300 may be experiencing shortage conditions. Subscribe Home Systems & Design Low Power - High Performance Manufacturing, Packaging & Materials Test, Measurement & Analytics Auto, Security & Edge

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August 10, 2026

Qwen 3.8-Max and Claude Opus 5 show why raw benchmark scores don't predict the bill

Alibaba released Qwen 3.8-Max this week and marketed the preview as second only to Claude Fable 5 (their launch-day table was more equivocal: the model leads on one of 12 coding-agent rows). But an independent harness came close to the opposite conclusion: a benchmark run , apparently using the Preview version, put Qwen 3.8-Max's best effort setting mid-pack, and its default setting last. Both results are real and defensible. The gap between them

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August 10, 2026

No cloud, no GPUs, no problem: Liquid AI's new model LFM2.5-2.6B brings powerful AI agents to devices as small as a Raspberry Pi

Earlier this week, the AI startup Liquid, formed in 2023 by former MIT computer scientists, debuted LFM2.5-2.6B , a new open-weight language model designed specifically for agentic workloads. In release materials and a recent interview with VentureBeat, Liquid's researchers said LFM2.5-2.6B can run entirely on local hardware — from smartphones and laptops down to a Raspberry Pi — without relying on cloud inference or GPUs, unlocking edge AI appli

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August 10, 2026

Modder pumps liquid directly over bare GPU silicon via 3D-printed block — drops RTX 2060 Super load temps to 28°C despite initial leaks

The fearless TrashBench has been testing direct die water cooling of graphics cards and suffered most of the leaky nightmares you might expect.

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August 10, 2026

After Seven CEOs in 10 Years, Imagination Is Sticking to Its Strategy

Imagination dumps CPU/NPU dreams, doubles down on GPUs and China under CEO No. 7. The post After Seven CEOs in 10 Years, Imagination Is Sticking to Its Strategy appeared first on EE Times .

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August 04, 2026

Compute Clusters Break Out Of National Labs To Scale AI

For compute-intensive applications, clusters of nodes that act as a single computer offer a way to scale performance and provide a workaround for organizations that lack access to leading-edge AI chips. The post Compute Clusters Break Out Of National Labs To Scale AI appeared first on Semiconductor Engineering .

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August 04, 2026

Chip Industry Week In Review

DAC's big buzz; CHIPS Act $; China's immersion DUV; UMC expands; SIA's state of the industry; DRAM shortages; earnings; PCB design credential program; IBM's quantum advantage; AI security alliance; foreign robotics ban. The post Chip Industry Week In Review appeared first on Semiconductor Engineering .

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August 04, 2026

Stop graphing everything: When GraphRAG actually beats vector RAG

If you have built anything with retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) in the last two years, you have lived its central frustration: You chop your documents into chunks, embed them, retrieve the top few that look similar to the question, and hand them to the model. For “What was our Q3 refund policy?” This works beautifully. For “What are the recurring themes across two years of customer complaints?” it falls flat — because no single chunk contain

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August 04, 2026

How NTT DATA AIVista closes the last mile of agentic AI for enterprise agents

Presented by NTT DATA AIVista At VB Transform 2026 , NTT DATA AIVista CEO Bratin Saha joined VentureBeat CEO and editor-in-chief Matt Marshall to discuss the last-mile challenge of operationalizing frontier models in regulated production, where reliability, context, guardrails, and security determine whether AI delivers enterprise value. The conversation centered around the question facing every enterprise now pouring money into AI: how to conver

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August 04, 2026

Qwen3.8-Max arrives with a bold claim: it outperforms GPT-5.6 Sol Max and Fable 5 on agentic computer use

Chinese e-commerce and cloud giant Alibaba's famed Qwen team of AI researchers last night unveiled Qwen3.8-Max , a new flagship 2.4-trillion-parameter mixture-of-experts (MoE) multimodal large language model (LLM) that targets one of the most competitive corners of the frontier AI market: autonomous software engineering and long-horizon enterprise work. If the company's published benchmarks hold up under broader independent testing, Qwen3.8-Max d

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August 04, 2026

Lexar lists 32GB DDR5 memory with homegrown Chinese chips — 3,999 Yuan ($592) price undercuts hopes for cheaper CXMT-powered RAM

Lexar's latest Thor RGB kit likely uses CXMT-made DRAM, but its pricing remains comparable to premium DDR5 memory from established brands.

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August 04, 2026

In a troubling sign, Nvidia RTX 50 series prices jump up to 30% in South Korea — TSMC wafer hikes and $20 GDDR7 modules push RTX 5090 past $5,100

The latest round of price increases affects the entire RTX 50 lineup, with premium models bearing the brunt of rising production costs.

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August 04, 2026

Renesas Tackles Memory Bottleneck with MRDIMM Update

Renesas’s Gen 3 DDR5 MRDIMM attacks AI’s memory choke point with 16,000 MT/s bandwidth and no platform overhaul. The post Renesas Tackles Memory Bottleneck with MRDIMM Update appeared first on EE Times .

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