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Renesas Expands RA8 Series with 1 GHz Cortex-M85 MCUs for AI, Industrial and Graphics-Driven Applications

Renesas Electronics Corporation (TSE:6723), a premier supplier of advanced semiconductor solutions, introduced the RA8M2 and RA8D2 microcontroller (MCU) groups. Based on a 1 GHz Arm® Cortex®-M85 processor with an optional 250 MHz Arm®Cortex®-M33 processor, the new MCUs are the latest Renesas offerings to deliver an unmatched 7300 Coremarks of raw compute performance, the industry...

23 Oct 2025 | Thursday | NEWS

International Battery Metals Secures USD $2 Million Follow-On Investment from EV Metals

International Battery Metals Ltd.(“IBAT”) (TSXV: IBAT) & (OTCQB: IBATF), an advanced technology provider of modular direct lithium extraction (DLE) systems, announced a non-brokered private placement financing, marking the second follow-on investment under the Company’s previously announced binding Letter of Intent (“LOI”) with EV Metals 7 LLC (“EV M...

23 Oct 2025 | Thursday | NEWS

ShunYun Technology and NewPhotonics Forge Strategic OSAT Partnership to Accelerate High-Volume PIC Manufacturing

ShunYun Technology Ltd (SYT), a world-class manufacturer of optical transceivers, and NewPhotonics, a leading designer of highly integrated photonic integrated circuit (PIC) chips for data center optical interconnect, today announced a strategic OSAT partnership for volume manufacturing of the NewPhotonics NPG product line. Ethernet pluggable optics are forecasted to scale to >100 million by...

1 Oct 2025 | Wednesday | NEWS

Open Compute Project Advances Silicon Diversity with New Universal D2D Transaction and Link-Layer Spec Covering UCIe

The Open Compute Project Foundation (OCP), the nonprofit organization bringing hyperscale innovations to all, announces it has taken important steps in enabling silicon diversity for high-performance AI and HPC Clusters with the release of a new Universal D2D Transaction and Link-Layer specification that now also covers UCIe. This universal link layer will be an important part of the e...

28 Sep 2025 | Sunday | NEWS

PI Introduces High-Precision Air Bearing Linear Slides for Frictionless Motion and Sub-Micron Accuracy

PI (Physik Instrumente), a global leader in precision motion and positioning solutions, offers standard and custom air bearing linear slides. Based on decades of experience from PI's USA engineering and manufacturing teams, these air bearings are designed for applications requiring ultra-smooth, zero stick-slip linear motion and sub-micron straightness and flatness. Frictionless Performa...

28 Sep 2025 | Sunday | NEWS

d-Matrix Unveils JetStream™ I/O Card to Power Ultra-Low Latency, Scalable AI Inference at Data Center Scale

d-Matrix® announced the expansion of its AI product portfolio with d-Matrix JetStream™, a custom I/O card designed from the ground up to deliver industry-leading, data center–scale AI inference. With millions of people now using AI services – and the rise of agentic AI, reasoning, and multi-modal interactive content – the industry's focus is quickly shifting fro...