News from November 2026

The day is finally here for the launch of AMD's EPYC 9006 "Venice" platform and the Zen 6 CPU architecture.

AMD has been hard at work over the past two years to build a better server CPU, and thanks to its performance, Venice is primed to deliver another knockout blow for AMD The post AMD EPYC 9006 Results Are Here and AMD Delivers a Knockout Part Deux appeared first on ServeTheHome.

AI infrastructure, in-memory databases, and HPC workloads continue to drive requirements for memory capacity, performance, and data resilience.

At the CXL Pavilion at SC26 in Chicago, IL, Netlist will demonstrate three CXL memory proof-of-concept (POC) designs showing complementary approaches to intelligent memory tiering, data persistence, and memory expansion and reuse.

SC26 runs November 15–20, 2026; […] The post Netlist to Demonstrate Three CXL® Memory Proof-of-Concept Designs at the SC26 C…

Nick Clegg, former British deputy prime minister and Meta’s former president of global affairs, joins Frederick Kempe for a candid conversation about his time in government. The post Nick Clegg on Trump, Silicon Valley, and Big Tech’s political shift appeared first on Atlantic Council.

AMD EPYC Embedded 9006 Series SP7 CPUs deliver leadership performance with up to 256 cores, scalable PCIe Gen 6 and CXL 3.1 connectivity, advanced security and seven-year product longevity.

AMD Showcases 6th Gen AMD EPYC Processors to Lead Next Era of AI and Enterprise Computing

Cores, clocks, memory, and interconnects all perfectly balanced for a singular mission: keeping instinct fed.

Alice Huang is reportedly connected to a web of Chinese companies, which then leveraged her closeness to Jensen Huang to gain access to billions of dollars' worth of Nvidia GPUs.

Standard Network Policies limit you to applying policies at the namespace level, but ClusterNetworkPolicy (CNP) lets you apply granular networking policies across an entire cluster. When you use CNP, you can easily scale security and governance policies.

Recently, I experimented with this functionality in Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE) and saw the benefits for myself. In this post, we'll explore using CNP to control traffic to an LLM and cluster.

If you want to jump right into a hands-on lab, c…

Discrete device designer and manufacturer Nexperia B.V. of Nijmegen, the Netherlands (which operates wafer fabs in Hamburg, Germany, and Hazel Grove Manchester, UK) has launched new ultra-low-ohmic gallium nitride (GaN) FETs, expanding its low- and medium-voltage GaN portfolio with devices spanning 18V to 200V.

Designed to address power design challenges in AI data centres, humanoid robotics, battery-powered tools, renewable energy, high-efficiency SR and DC–DC conversion, the new devices combi…

MILWAUKEE, Nov. 10, 2026 /PRNewswire/ -- TEKLYNX International, trusted globally for barcode and RFID labeling software backed by knowledgeable, responsive support, announced it has become an NXP® Semiconductors Registered Partner to help organizations simplify RAIN RFID adoption and...

Kubernetes, the open source system that manages how applications run across thousands of AI factories, has become the foundation for AI, and the demands on it are only growing.

To help meet them, NVIDIA is deepening its commitment to open source at KubeCon + CloudNativeCon, the flagship conference for the Kubernetes and cloud-native communities. NVIDIA […]

The choice among LTE Cat 1bis, LTE-M, NB-IoT, and 5G RedCap should be made as an RF system decision, not from a modem datasheet alone. The post LTE Cat 1bis or 5G RedCap?

RF design decisions behind an IoT modem refresh appeared first on EDN.

The company outlined new STM32 microcontroller families and software tools for automotive control, motor drives, edge AI, and assisted firmware development.

Staera Semiconductor of San Francisco, CA, USA has emerged from stealth with a technology that builds optical data links directly into silicon chips. It targets the problem that now limits how fast and how large AI systems can grow: moving data between chips.

Formerly New Silicon Corp (NSC), the company has raised $4.6m in pre-seed funding, led by Openspace Capital with participation from SGInnovate, Black Kite Capital, 28 Holdings, In Group, and Decimus Technologies...

A political storm sparked by US media reports alleging American intelligence agencies suspect Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang was targeted in an espionage operation – a claim Beijing has denied – threatens to intensify Washington’s tech blockade on China following a Democratic midterm victory.

Analysts said the twin developments could give the US Congress the political momentum needed to plug loopholes in existing semiconductor restrictions, accelerating efforts to curb third-country chip smuggling and…

Power integrity has been a substantial design challenge for a long time. In the multi-die era, the problems associated with EMIR analysis must now move beyond the chip to consider interactions across the entire stack.

The effects to be analyzed span a multi-dimensional, multi-material space. The graphic at the top of this post… Read More The post Three-Dimensional Chess Anyone?

The Challenges of Power Integrity for Multi-Die Designs appeared first on SemiWiki.

According to tech Taiwan, reported by Wcctech, MediaTek people who are using Intel’s EMIB-T packaging technology have had a complaint from Intel engineers about their demands for quick answers to […] The post Tardy appeared first on Electronics Weekly.

SINGAPORE, Nov. 10, 2026 /PRNewswire/ -- Kulicke and Soffa Industries, Inc. (NASDAQ:KLIC) ("Kulicke & Soffa", "K&S" or the "Company"), a global leader in semiconductor assembly technology, today announced that a conference call is scheduled to discuss the Company's third fiscal quarter...

The new Hall sensors and IntelliFET switches address EV current measurement, efficient power distribution and protected 12 V automotive loads. The post Diodes Adds Hall Sensors and IntelliFET Switches for Automotive appeared first on Power Electronics News.

Tesla and SpaceX’s Terafab reportedly plans 1 million wafers per month after 2032, with about 700,000 for memory.

But if you're thinking about dropping over $10K for the purpose of building a local AI inference setup, is a Mac Studio right for you?

Rep. John Moolenaar, R-Mich., is the chairman of the Select Committee on China and told CNBC he expects answers about Jensen Huang's relationship.

Programmable active wafer chuck corrects bow, warpage and localized surface deviations on substrates up to 300 mm SAN FRANCISCO, Nov. 10, 2026 /PRNewswire/ -- As semiconductor processes place increasingly stringent demands on wafer flatness and positioning, PI (Physik Instrumente) has...

Tera gives engineers instant, source-linked answers drawn from the full depth of Altera's technical knowledge PALO ALTO, Calif., Nov. 10, 2026 /PRNewswire/ -- Vectara, the enterprise agent platform for trusted, hallucination-resistant artificial intelligence (AI), today announced that...

Hydrogen plasma passivates p-GaN without etching, improving HEMT stability, monolithic e/d-mode integration, and Schottky diode breakdown. The post Etch-Free GaN: Hydrogen Plasma Passivation for HEMTs, Monolithic ICs, and Schottky Diodes appeared first on Power Electronics News.

With GTA 6's digital pre-loads beginning on November 10, you'll need enough storage on your PS5 to match. Here are some of the top PS5 SSD options to help you.

The FBI is probably concerned about the implication of a Chinese agent having influence over the leader of the U.S.'s leading AI chip manufacturer.

The allegations against Jensen Huang have brought new attention to the Nvidia CEO's potential influence over U.S. policy on chip sales to China.

There is growing momentum to pass a slate of major new export control bills targeting China, in the wake of the Democrats’ takeover of the US Congress and scrutiny over American chip giant Nvidia following CEO Jensen Huang’s admission of an extramarital affair.

US intelligence reportedly identified the woman as a Chinese spy, a claim that Beijing has rejected. Leading US politicians have been quick to jump on the news to put pressure on the White House and other lawmakers to approve three bills…

President Trump says FBI is "looking into" Huang while class action suit emerges

Seagate takes on high SSD storage prices with the Firecuda Force, a 8TB or 20TB hard drive that requires you to bring your own M.2 2280 SSD (ideally 1TB, with DRAM). It's a throwback to the days of hybrid drives, and the experience is pretty seamless once you install your SSD.

But if you don't already own an SSD that you can drop in, it's still quite expensive.

This Newegg bundle brings together the AMD Ryzen 7 9800X3D, 32GB of DDR5-6000 RAM, a Gigabyte X870 Aorus Elite Wi-Fi 7 motherboard, and a free ATX case for $1,090.98.

Intelligent power and sensing technology firm onsemi of Scottsdale, AZ, USA has introduced EliteSiC M4, its fourth-generation silicon carbide (SiC) platform built on a trench architecture and designed to set a new performance benchmark for next-generation power systems.

With what is claimed to be industry-leading conduction and switching performance, EliteSiC M4 allows greater design freedom to increase power density and efficiency up to 30% and lower losses by 35%, enabling more efficient, pow…

Tokyo-based Mitsubishi Electric Corp claims that, for the first time in the world, it has elucidated the effects of frequency dispersion (whereby current values and other characteristics of high-frequency devices vary depending on the operating frequency) caused by crystal defects in a gallium nitride (GaN) transistor (fabricated from a single-crystal GaN epitaxial layer on a single-crystal GaN substrate) and demonstrated that frequency dispersion can be significantly suppressed...

Infineon had Q4 FY 2026 revenue of €4.706 billion for profit of €1.119 billion at a margin of 23.8% For FY 2026 it had revenue of €16.353 billion, up 12up […] The post Infineon expects a €20bn 2027 appeared first on Electronics Weekly.

TSMC today announced a 59.7% rise YoY and a $14.7% rise MoM for its October revenue of $17.8 billion. Revenue for January through October 2026 totaled $136.2 billion, an increase […] The post TSMC October revenues up 59.7% YoY appeared first on Electronics Weekly.

Formerly New Silicon Corporation (NSC), Staera builds LED optical links inside silicon chips, so AI systems can move data faster and scale further without adding power or heat SAN FRANCISCO, Nov. 10, 2026 /PRNewswire/ -- Staera Semiconductor (Staera) today emerged from stealth with a...

Nvidia founder and CEO Jensen Huang has admitted to having an extramarital affair as the chipmaker investigates reported allegations that a Chinese businesswoman close to him may have been working for Beijing’s intelligence services.

Beijing has rejected the espionage claims as “baseless”, while Nvidia has said it had no reason to believe company secrets or US national security were compromised. The controversy wiped about US$190 billion off the chipmaker’s market value in a single day.

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Analog In-Memory Compute (IMC) is driving the promise of achieving energy efficiencies on the order of one femtoJoule per operation in a computing system for AI.

By performing certain computational tasks in place in memory, the need to shuttle data back and forth between the processing and memory units is avoided, slashing the energy consumption […] The post Analog in memory compute for low power AI inference appeared first on eeNews Europe.

The Jensen Huang story got worse for him on Monday; the real risk for Huang is governance, even more than national security. Who benefits?

Sandisk is introducing the SANDISK iNAND CL EM181 Embedded Flash Drive (EFD) for the physical AI and IoT markets. It officially announced the drive at electronica 2026.

Available in 64GB, […] The post Electronica: Sandisk iNAND CL EM181 Embedded Flash Drive for IoT appeared first on Electronics Weekly.

HSINCHU, Nov. 10, 2026 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- ChipMOS TECHNOLOGIES INC. ("ChipMOS" or the "Company") (Taiwan Stock Exchange: 8150 and Nasdaq: IMOS), an industry leading provider of outsourced semiconductor assembly and test services ("OSAT"), today reported its unaudited consolidated...

SoftBank Group announces fiscal second-quarter results for the year ending March 31, 2027.

Investors continue to weigh the potential fallout from CEO Jensen Huang's affair with an alleged Chinese spy.

NVIDIA, Korean AI chip developer Rebellions and SK Telecom are teaming up to develop sovereign AI infrastructure combining locally designed processors with NVIDIA’s NVLink Fusion interconnect technology.

The collaboration will see Rebellions’ next-generation R200 neural processing units (NPUs) integrated into NVIDIA’s MGX rack architecture, with deployment planned at SK Telecom’s AI data centers. The agreement […] The post NVIDIA NVLink Fusion brings Korean AI chips to rack-scale systems appear…

TSMC has reaffirmed its focus on logic-chip foundry services after a report that it was considering producing three-dimensional dynamic random-access memory (3D DRAM) at Nvidia’s request.

Such a move would put the world’s largest contract chip manufacturer in competition with established DRAM producers Samsung Electronics, SK hynix and Micron Technology. The Information reported on 6 […] The post TSMC 3D DRAM report linked to Nvidia draws response appeared first on eeNews Europe.

Taipei, Nov. 10 (CNA) Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co. (TSMC) reported record consolidated sales for October on Tuesday, up nearly 60 percent from a year earlier, as analysts attributed the growth to strong global demand for artificial intelligence (AI) applications.

Vision-language-action (VLA) models enable robots to understand and execute complex instructions, but their autoregressive (AR) action generation introduces significant latency on resource-constrained robotic platforms.

Speculative decoding can accelerate AR-based inference by parallelizing action generation and verification; however, existing approaches rely on costly draft models, which are inefficient on edge platforms. In this paper, we propose Zora, a hardware-software co-design framework …

This paper introduces a budget-aware, multi-objective framework (called PRISM) for RTL optimization that improves power, performance, and area (PPA) while sharply limiting expensive commercial synthesis tool calls.

Starting from a synthesizable baseline and functional testbench, the method iterates through LLM-driven rewrite generation, fast compile/simulation equivalence filtering, low-cost proxy feature extraction, and selective commercial synthesis tool (Synopsys Design Compiler (DC)) evalua…

Can high-bandwidth flash (HBF) make LLM inference cheaper than adding GPUs? By storing weights closer to the GPU than SSD, HBF may reduce the number of GPUs needed for model capacity.

However, this integration is only justified if it meets service targets and its cost is recovered. We simulate this integration using public component data across nine dense and mixture-of-experts (MoE) models, five workloads, two GPU platforms, and 1--100 GPUs.

At fixed demand, HBF reduces the minimum GPU count t…