Semiconductors news — Sunday 18 October 2026

Semiconductor Engineering 23:28 UTC

Researchers at the UC Berkeley, Samsung Electronics , and Intel published “Nanoelectromechanically Gated Gain Cell eDRAM.” Abstract Excerpt : “The memory wall and the slowdown of static random access memory (SRAM) scaling have renewed…

Semiconductor Engineering 22:51 UTC

Researchers at Cadence Design Systems and the University of Notre Dame published “A Composable AI-Accelerated Iterative Solver for 3D-IC Thermal Modeling.” Abstract : “Accurate thermal analysis of heterogeneous 2.5D/3D-IC packages is…

ServeTheHome 22:16 UTC

In our GL.iNet Comet Q (GL-RMQ1) review, we see how this USB Type-C remote KVM device with Tailscale makes connectivity easy The post GL.iNet Comet Q GL-RMQ1 Review A Single USB Type-C Cable Remote KVM Device with Tailscale appeared first…

Semiconductor Engineering 22:10 UTC

Researchers at Missouri University of Science and Technology published “Can Autonomous Vehicles Keep Their Cool? A Survey of Thermal Side-Channel and Perception Attacks.” Abstract excerpt : “This survey systematizes thirteen representative…

The Information 22:00 UTC

Tech earnings season is back (yes, I know it feels like it never ends). This time, we’ve got a slight twist: Meta Platforms has broken with the pack and is reporting its September-quarter earnings on Wednesday, a week ahead of its big tech…

The Information 20:57 UTC

Anthropic announced the creation of a new fund that will get at least 5% of its shares and support public-benefit causes such as addressing the employment impact of AI. The Anthropic Public Benefit Fund could get an additional 2% of the…

The Information 20:08 UTC

Microsoft has pulled out of a planned U.K. data center Nscale was building for it, an Nscale spokesperson said, after the cloud provider faced delays accessing power to bring the site online. The cancellation is likely to weigh on Nscale’s…

SemiWiki 17:00 UTC

Francisco Almada Lobo is CEO and co-founder of Critical Manufacturing. He began his career at a CIM research institute and joined Siemens Semiconductors in 1997. In 2004 he led the migration of an MES in a running high-volume facility, and…

Tom's Hardware 16:03 UTC

The DLSS-NR project on AMD by Daniel Blanco was first released on September 3, 2026, bringing DLSS 5 Neural Rendering to Radeon GPUs; in the latest 0.8.0 update, however, it makes all the main DLSS features available, featuring DLSS SR…

The Information 15:30 UTC

How many young AI cloud providers can the market, and Nvidia, support? That’s one of the big questions after a week in which investors worried about the data center buildout and the risks that its unproven participants, known as neoclouds…

Tom's Hardware 15:24 UTC

Anycubic's Kobra X Multicolor 3D Printer is at the lowest price it's ever been since reaching retail availability. Prime members who head over to the Anycubic store on Amazon can now snag this well-reviewed device for just $299.99 for a…

Tom's Hardware 15:02 UTC

The U.S. Air Force has just successfully conducted an airborne test where an F-22 Raptor pilot directed an Anduril YFQ-44A Fury drone during simulated combat. According to The Defense Watch , the fighter pilot gave tactical commands to the…

The Information 15:00 UTC

The Trump administration has opened the door for entrepreneurs to start new banks in the U.S., many funded by venture capital. But there’s a catch for fast-growing newcomers. Upstarts like Palmer Luckey’s Erebor Bank, as well as other new…

SemiWiki 15:00 UTC

Semiconductor manufacturing depends on lithography: the process of transferring tiny circuit patterns onto a silicon wafer. Conventional extreme-ultraviolet (EUV) lithography projects light with a wavelength of 13.5 nanometers through a…

Tom's Hardware 14:02 UTC

You don’t need the latest and greatest PC hardware to have fun or even break overclocking world records. OC expert Luumi has demonstrated this very capably by achieving a new HWBot world record using an ancient Intel Core i5 4670K, a…

Tom's Hardware 13:25 UTC

In the evolution of gaming monitors, there is nothing more significant than the advent of G-Sync and FreeSync (AKA, Adaptive-Sync or VRR). By syncing the video card output and monitor refresh rate in real time, all frame tearing and…

Tom's Hardware 13:24 UTC

A Brazilian electronics and IT distributor, Oderço, has gone on Instagram after failing to find answers about a missing shipment of RTX 5090 GPUs worth around $470,000 or R$2,500,000. According to its Instagram post [machine translated]…

SemiWiki 13:00 UTC

Dr. Talluri joined K&S in August 2026 as a member of the Board and assumed the role of President and Chief Executive Officer of K&S in September 2026. Prior to joining K&S, Dr. Talluri served as President, Chief Executive Officer and a…

Tom's Hardware 12:50 UTC

A new 3D web game where you live "A Day in the Life of a Semiconductor Wafer Factory Worker" has gone viral in Taiwan, where it was developed. Available in Chinese, English, and Japanese, Fab24hr is a work simulator where you play one of…

Tom's Hardware 12:45 UTC

A new version of DLSS 5 on NBA 2K27 was just released, and modders have already extracted it and are running it on unsupported games. Modders are comparing performance between the older and newer Neural Rendering (NR) model and found it up…

Tom's Hardware 12:25 UTC

MIT engineers have built a soft, wearable shape-sensing sheet with self-tracking movement that could be useful for controlling games, virtual reality, and physical therapy applications, reports MIT News . The technology, which leverages…

Tom's Hardware 12:05 UTC

When the IETF decided to allow Unicode characters in domain names, many techies saw the move as commendable, but also fraught with danger, as hundreds of unique characters can look similar or identical across multiple alphabets. This can…

Tom's Hardware 11:45 UTC

More than 300 local data center construction moratoriums haven’t had a massive impact on planned buildouts, with only three projects at about 2.3 out of 21 gigawatts (GW) of data centers in moratorium areas likely to be delayed, with a…

Tom's Hardware 11:25 UTC

Anthropic is quietly lobbying for an AI safety bill that will allow the government to block an AI model’s release only if it poses a risk of causing $1 billion in damages or killing or injuring more than 50 people. According to Politico …

Tom's Hardware 11:00 UTC

A group of AI researchers at the Swedish Defense Research Agency (FOI) has developed an AI system that can identify concealed handguns using Wi-Fi signals, offering a non-intrusive alternative to visible cameras and cumbersome metal…

Tom's Hardware 10:30 UTC

DJI has delivered a battery-swapping drone dock, the Dock 4, with an automated 25-second swap this week, according to a company press release . The dock bypasses the normal recharging process, which would take about 30 minutes, and DJI…

Tom's Hardware 10:00 UTC

MapQuest, a long-time online mapping and navigation service that predates Google Maps, just released an app update that added a new Surveillance Layer. The company said on Bluesky that it plots the locations of known license plate readers…