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Humanoid robots are creating a new demand curve for precision actuators

Schaeffler and robotics start-up Humanoid have entered a multi-year partnership under which Schaeffler becomes Humanoid's ...
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Crystal Display Systems asks: is your manufacturing operation ready for Industry 4.0?

Crystal Display Systems, a franchised Astute manufacturer of rugged and embedded display technology, has published “Smart Factories: Is Your Manufacturing Operation Ready for Industry 4.0?”, an ...
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GaN and SiC adoption is accelerating — and a patent fight just showed how much is at stake

onsemi launched a new gallium nitride power portfolio in June and Wolfspeed sued rival Navitas over five GaN/SiC patents in July, seeking a US sales ban. Both moves confirm wide-bandgap semiconductors ...
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Axelera AI launches Voyager Wingman, an AI-assisted deployment tool for its edge AI hardware SDK

Axelera AI, a franchised Astute manufacturer and priority partner for edge AI acceleration hardware, has launched Voyager Wingman — a new AI-assisted deployment and tuning assistant built into its ...
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Amazon’s 7.65GW Texas power plant exposes the connector gap behind the AI buildout

Amazon is financing a 7.65GW gas-fired power plant in Pecos County, Texas, to run a new AI data-centre campus — one of more than 900 such projects now under way across the US. The physical ...
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Honeywell Aerospace cuts its 2026 forecast — the shortage is now the bigger risk than demand

Honeywell Aerospace lowered its 2026 organic sales growth forecast to 4–5% from 7–9% on 5 August, blaming component shortages rather than weak orders. The newly spun-off business is now prioritising ...
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Advanced Thermal Solutions launches hardware kits for NVIDIA Jetson thermal management

Advanced Thermal Solutions (ATS), a franchised Astute manufacturer of thermal management hardware, has launched a new range of hardware kits purpose-built for thermal solutions on NVIDIA Jetson edge ...
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Apple asked CXMT for a discount on DRAM — and got Samsung’s price instead

Apple sought preferential DRAM pricing from Chinese memory maker CXMT for China-market iPhones, but the supplier held prices at parity with Samsung and SK Hynix. The refusal shows how far bargaining ...
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PCTEL introduces portable case for its SeeHawk Monitor RF monitoring platform

PCTEL, a franchised Astute manufacturer of RF test and monitoring equipment, has introduced a new portable case for its SeeHawk Monitor platform, aimed at field engineers who need to deploy RF ...
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MLCC order books hit 2018 levels as AI servers swallow high-end capacitor capacity

Murata’s orders-to-backlog ratio has passed the peak that preceded the 2018 capacitor crisis, and lead times on AI-grade MLCCs have stretched from eight weeks to twenty-six. TrendForce expects the ...
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Tight DRAM Capacity Raises Procurement Risks for Standard Memory

Artificial intelligence infrastructure demand is changing the structure of the memory market, reducing the availability of conventional DRAM while strengthening pricing across multiple memory ...