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30 articles about electronics in AI news
Nvidia, LG Group Build AI Factory for Physical AI and Robotics
Nvidia and LG Group are building an AI factory for physical AI, robotics, and autonomous driving, integrating Nvidia's full-stack AI platform with LG's consumer electronics and manufacturing expertise.
Samsung Projects Record $14.6B Q1 Profit on 300% DRAM Price Surge
Samsung Electronics expects a record Q1 operating profit of 20 trillion won (~$14.6B), nearly triple YoY, fueled by soaring AI-driven demand and a 300% price increase for DRAM chips.
ROKAE's AR Robotic Arms Achieve ±1mm Force Control for Needle Threading
ROKAE has demonstrated its augmented reality (AR)-guided robotic arms repeatedly threading a needle, showcasing ±1 mm force-controlled precision. This capability targets high-precision tasks in electronics assembly and micro-manufacturing.
Silicon Photonics Breakthrough Enters Mass Production, Paving Way for Next-Generation AI Infrastructure
STMicroelectronics has begun mass production of its PIC100 silicon photonics platform, enabling 800G and 1.6T data rates critical for AI data centers. This breakthrough technology replaces copper with light for faster, more efficient data transmission between AI accelerators.
Schneider Electric & Foxconn Partner on AI Data Center Infrastructure
Schneider Electric and Foxconn announced a strategic collaboration to co-develop next-gen AI data center infrastructure, including reference architectures and modular power/cooling skids. Production begins later this year.
74% of Consumers Ready to Delegate Shopping to AI Agents, Study Finds
A study reports 74% of consumers are willing to let an AI agent shop for them. This signals a paradigm shift in retail, with growing trust in autonomous AI for purchasing decisions.
Foxconn and Intel Partner on AI Data Center Rack Systems
Foxconn and Intel partner on AI rack systems, integrating Intel components into Foxconn manufacturing for hyperscale customers. No financial terms disclosed.
Gemini Embeddings Beat ResNet50, SigLIP on Visual Search Benchmark
Gemini embeddings beat ResNet50 and SigLIP on visual product search with 92.3% recall@10, an 8.2-point gain.
Xiaomi MiMo 2.5 Pro Beats Opus 4.5 on Arena, MIT License
Xiaomi's MiMo v2.5 Pro, an open-source model under MIT license, has achieved a higher Arena score than Opus 4.5, signaling a major shift in competitive AI performance.
Vertiv Acquires Strategic Thermal Labs for Liquid Cooling
Vertiv acquired Strategic Thermal Labs to add cold plate design expertise to its liquid cooling portfolio, addressing the rising thermal demands of AI workloads in data centers.
New MoE Framework Tames User Interest Shifts in Long-Sequence Recommendations
Researchers propose MoS, a model-agnostic MoE approach that handles long user sequences by detecting session hopping – where user interests shift across sessions. The theme-aware routing mechanism filters irrelevant sessions, while multi-scale fusion captures global and local patterns. Results show SOTA on benchmarks with fewer FLOPs than alternatives.
MIT's Silent Artificial Muscle Fibers Lift 1kg Using Electrohydraulic Actuation
MIT engineers created artificial muscle fibers that contract silently when voltage is applied. Bundled fibers can lift over 1 kilogram by pumping charged fluid inside sealed tubes, mimicking antagonistic muscle pairs.
Microsoft's 2000 Nvidia Veto Rights Resurface Amid AI Chip Wars
A 2000 investment deal granted Microsoft veto rights over any acquisition of Nvidia. This historical clause gains new relevance as Nvidia's AI dominance makes it a potential target in the ongoing semiconductor consolidation.
Xiaomi's OneVL Uses Latent CoT to Beat Explicit CoT in Autonomous Driving
Xiaomi's Embodied Intelligence Team released OneVL, a vision-language model using latent Chain-of-Thought reasoning. It achieves state-of-the-art results on four autonomous driving benchmarks without the latency penalty of explicit reasoning steps.
AI Data Center Startup Phononic in Sale Talks at Multi-Billion Valuation
Phononic, a startup building liquid cooling systems for AI data centers, is in talks for a sale that could value it in the multi-billions. This reflects intense market pressure to solve the power and thermal challenges of scaling AI compute.
Foxconn to Mass-Produce 10,000+ CPO Optical Switches for AI in Q3 2026
Foxconn's manufacturing arm will begin volume production of advanced co-packaged optics (CPO) switches in Q3 2026, targeting over 10,000 units. This move directly addresses the critical bandwidth and power bottlenecks in next-generation AI data center infrastructure.
NATO Tests SWARM Biotactics' AI-Guided Cyborg Cockroaches for Recon
NATO is evaluating a biohybrid system from German defense startup SWARM Biotactics, which uses AI to guide live cockroaches fitted with sensor backpacks through complex environments for military reconnaissance.
TienKung Ultra Robot Wins Design Award at Beijing Humanoid Half-Marathon
The TienKung Ultra humanoid robot won the 'Best Design' award at the Beijing Humanoid Robot Half-Marathon, recognized for its natural running motion. It completed the full 21.1 km course in 1 hour and 15 minutes.
HONOR's Lightning Robot Runs 21km in 50:26, Beating Human World Record
At Beijing's 2026 humanoid robot half-marathon, HONOR's 'Lightning' robot finished the 21 km course in 50 minutes and 26 seconds. This time surpasses the current human men's world record of 57:20, marking a massive leap from last year's winning robot time of over 2 hours 40 minutes.
Adafruit's New MCP Server Lets Claude Code Control MicroPython Hardware
A new MCP server from Adafruit bridges Claude Code and MicroPython hardware, enabling conversational development for embedded systems and IoT projects.
AI Tool 'Build' Generates Wiring Diagrams & BOMs from English Descriptions
A new AI tool, 'Build,' automates the tedious front-end of hardware prototyping. Users describe a project in plain English, and it generates wiring diagrams, a bill of materials, and step-by-step assembly instructions instantly.
Nvidia to Ship 1.19 Exabytes of HBM in 2026, Apple iPhone Memory 2x Larger
An analysis projects Nvidia will ship ~1.19 exabytes of HBM memory in 2026 for AI infrastructure, while Apple will ship ~2.4 exabytes of LPDDR5 for iPhones, putting AI's massive hardware scale in consumer market perspective.
Pinterest's Request-Level Deduplication
Pinterest's engineering blog details 'request-level deduplication,' a critical efficiency technique for modern recommendation systems. By eliminating redundant processing of massive user sequences, they achieve 10-50x storage compression and significant training speedups, while solving novel training challenges like batch correlation.
AI-Powered Circuit Simulator Offers Free Hardware Prototyping
A new website provides a free, AI-assisted environment for designing and testing electronic circuits, featuring pre-built projects for learning. This lowers the barrier to entry for hardware prototyping and education.
Mac Studio AI Hardware Shortage Signals Shift to Cloud Rentals
Developers report a global shortage of high-memory Apple Silicon Macs, with 128GB Mac Studios unavailable worldwide. This pushes practitioners toward renting cloud H100 GPUs at ~$3/hr, marking a shift from the recent local AI trend.
Chinese Firm Unveils Dexterous Robotic Hand for Fine Motor Tasks
A Chinese tech company has unveiled a robotic hand designed for complex fine-motor tasks, including playing finger games and solving Rubik's cubes. This represents a step forward in robotic manipulation, a key challenge for real-world AI integration.
Clone Robotics CEO Critiques Motor Reliance, Touts Fluid-Actuated Humanoids
Clone Robotics CEO Dhanush Radhakrishnan criticizes the industry's reliance on motors and rigid structures, advocating for fluid actuation and Myofiber artificial muscles to achieve more human-like movement.
EngineAI Raises $200M Series B, Valuation Hits $1.4B for Humanoid Robots
Chinese robotics startup EngineAI raised $200 million in a Series B round, achieving a valuation exceeding $1.4 billion. The capital will accelerate the deployment of its humanoid robots across multiple industries.
ModelBest Hits $1B+ Valuation for On-Device Foundation Models
ModelBest, a Chinese developer of on-device AI foundation models, raised several hundred million RMB, reaching a valuation exceeding $1 billion. The funding will accelerate its push to deploy efficient models directly on smartphones and IoT devices.
Velxio Launches Free Browser-Based Emulator for Arduino, ESP32, Raspberry Pi
Velxio has launched a web-based emulator that runs code for Arduino, ESP32, Raspberry Pi, and RISC-V directly in the browser. The platform requires no hardware, installation, or account, and is completely free.