Barbara Mazzolai of IIT outlines a manifesto calling for robots designed from the start for reuse, recycling, or biodegradation, with implications for hardware material choices.
Rhizomatica's HERMES digital HF radio and Mercury modem push shortwave beyond voice, supporting encrypted file transfers for telemedicine and distress signaling 100-200 km offshore.
Micron's Taiwan union has voted 99-to-1 to authorize a strike over profit sharing. With DRAM demand already outstripping supply into 2028, design and procurement teams should brace for further memory cost pressure.
Quectel SE200ZC-AP module pairs Rockchip RV1126B/BJ SoC with a 3 TOPS NPU and up to five 12MP cameras for vision BOMs in security, robotics, and industrial lines.
Walnut Pi has launched a CM5-footprint Compute Module built on the Allwinner T527 octa-core Cortex-A55, with up to 4GB LPDDR4, 16GB eMMC, WiFi 6, and a 2 TOPS NPU.
Stefan Bond's Kickstarter kit swaps the Mac Pro 7,1 proprietary internals for ATX motherboards, full-length GPUs, and air or 240mm AIO cooling, without permanently modifying the case.
Littelfuse has issued an end-of-life notice for all remaining Zilog microcontroller families, with final orders by December 21 and shipments through June 2027.