At the end of last year, I received MatchX Matchbox LoRaWAN gateway, but only quickly checked out the hardware, as I was still unclear about regulations in South East Asia, and did not have any nodes...

Taiwan doesn't boast a huge commercial market that devours vast amounts of finished goods. Yet, for small economies seeking membership among the world's technology leaders, Taiwan has a key to the club.

Firefly team from T-chip company has send me some of their Rockchip development boards, and we’ve already checked the provided boards and accessories, so today I’ll report my experience...

ROCKPro64 is one of the most affordable Rockchip RK3399 boards, as you can purchase it for as low as $60 with 2GB RAM, and $80 with 4GB RAM. Pine64 – the company behind the board – also...

Machine learning is by default becoming the new guiding principal in semiconductors as Moore's law slows, said speakers at Semicon West.

While the U.S. and China are engaged in an escalating trade war, German and Chinese firms signed deals worth some $24 billion at the Sino-German Economic Forum in Berlin.

Aggressive EV program timelines are putting pressure on test engineers to complete more tests, of more complex systems, in less time to ensure hybrid vehicle designs are safe, reliable, and high-performing.

Libre Computer and Firefly Team previously collaborated on Renegade (ROC-RK3328-CC) board powered by a Rockchip RK3328 quad core Cortex A53 processor and mostly following Raspberry Pi 3 form factor. ...

Intel bid to buy eASIC, a small provider of low-cost alternatives to ASIC the x86 giant said could help differentiate its FPGA group from rival Xilinx.

Broadcom's stock price tumbled 15% after the chipmaker announced its latest acquisition bid, an $18.9 billion offer to buy an established vendor in the seemingly unrelated field of IT management software.

Catch Issues Earlier If your electronic product design fails EMC compliance testing for its target market, that product can’t be sold. That’s why EMC analysis is such an important step. In this article, Craig shows how implementing EMC analysis during...

When Orange Pi 3G-IoT SBC was launched, I looked at 3G USB dongles to make a comparison with a similar setup based on a Raspberry Pi Zero W board and an inexpensive 3G USB stick, and the cheapest I...

When people decided which development board to purchase for their project / use case(s), the often look at the processor, memory, storage, and the external ports, as well as I/Os. However, very few...

NVIDIA unveiled Jetson Xavier module and devkit last month, but the company did not release the full information, and for example we did not get any clear photo of the module and kit. Charbax did...

IHS Markit analyst's quick back-of-the-napkin calculation shows that Waymo robotaxi could bring in $6 billion a year. How in the world did he arrive at such a conclusion?

Editor's note: A RISC-V leader responds to Arm's recent online critique of the open-source hardware initiative. Arm declined an offer to make its case in a separate guest article.

Virtually every embedded processor vendor has a product or is working on one for accelerating deep-learning tasks on client systems at the network's edge.

NetBSD on Arm started in 2014 with the release of version 7.0, and last year device tree support was implemented and tested on some Allwinner H3 boards. But apparently, so far NetBSD only supported...

Chipmakers are enjoying another monster year, but it may well be the capital equipment makers who are best positioned to capitalize, according to a panel of analysts at Semicon West.

The 3.5mm audio jack may be slowly disappearing from new mobile phones, but I’ve recently discovered they were also used in some soldering irons such as the upcoming TS80 USB soldering iron...

A German automotive tag team of tier one Bosch and OEM Daimler announced Tuesday their choice of Nvidia as the AI platform for development of a robotaxi scheduled for mass production in the early 2020s.

It’s been possible to flash firmware to Rockchip devices in Linux with upgrade_tool command line tool for many years, but the utility is closed-source and only supports “RK...

So this week-end, I started to play with ROC-RK3328-CC (Renegade) board that I received from T-Chip / Firefly-Team and as always, I used Etcher to flash the firmware images to micro SD cards. Once...

Microsoft Surface devices are powerful but usually expensive ($2,000+) tablets and laptops, but the company has now launched an entry-level model called Surface Go, powered by an Intel Kaby Lake...