Hackaday

Why Diamond Transistors Are So Hard To Make

Many things about diamonds seem eternal, including the many engineering problems related to making them work as a silicon ...
TechSpot

Qualcomm rewrote Arduino's TOS, and the community is not taking it well

Connecting the dots: When Qualcomm announced its acquisition of Arduino in October, the move was met with lukewarm enthusiasm. Since then, the UK chip designer has ...
Ars Technica

Arduino’s new terms of service worries hobbyists ahead of Qualcomm acquisition

Some members of the maker community are distraught about Arduino’s new terms of service (ToS), saying that the added rules put the company’s open source DNA at ...
PC Gamer

Nvidia's new six-trillion transistor Vera Rubin 'superchip' for AI makes the 92-billion transistor RTX 5090 gaming GPU look positively puny

Graphics Cards Intel CEO commits to building new GPUs and has hired the engineer who designed some of AMD's greatest graphics card hits to design them Graphics Cards Intel's Arc B770 gaming graphics ...
Hackaday

Identifying Fake Small-Signal Transistors

It’s rather amazing how many electronic components you can buy right now are not quite the genuine parts that they are sold as. Outside of dedicated platforms like Mouser, Digikey and LCSC you pretty ...
The University of Chicago Chronicle

UChicago scientists create novel, ultrathin material to make transistors

The ability to make a very miniature on/off switch changed the world. These tiny switches, known as transistors, make up the basis of all modern computing—they drive your cell phones, your bank ...
Forbes

Behind Qualcomm’s Arduino Acquisition: 33 Million IoT Developers

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Chief Analyst & CEO, NAND Research. Qualcomm, a company built on selling chips to companies like Samsung and Apple in volumes of ...
SlashGear

The Most Mass-Produced Invention In The World Isn't What You Think

Modern humans have existed for around 300,000 years, and in all the time we've been here, we've made a lot of things. In the early days, homo sapiens fashioned tools from flint and other materials, ...
Electronic Design

Qualcomm’s Acquisition of Arduino Creates a New Vibe—AI and Signal Processing on the UNO Q

Arduino is being acquired by Qualcomm subject to regulatory approval for an undisclosed sum. Qualcomm Arduino introduces a new UNO form factor board, the Arduino UNO Q, which features both a STM32 MCU ...
InfoWorld

With Arduino deal, Qualcomm pushes deeper into open-source and edge AI development

The chipmaker’s acquisition brings its Dragonwing-powered board and new AppLab development environment to a 33 million–strong open-source community. Qualcomm will acquire Arduino, the open-source ...
TechRepublic

Qualcomm to Acquire Arduino for Robotics and AI Development

Qualcomm has announced plans to acquire Arduino, the Italian open-source hardware and software company known for its developer-friendly boards and global community of creators. The deal, whose ...