Electrical Engineering News The Electrical Engineering category at The Robotics Media covers the hardware layer of robotics and AI: motor drivers, power electronics, batteries and energy management, sensors, PCB design, embedded systems, and actuator control. Readers find news on component releases, chip and semiconductor developments, circuit-level innovations in robots and drones, and research advances in areas like wireless power and low-power computing. Coverage spans industrial, consumer, and research robotics platforms.
Applied Materials Hits Record $9.12B Q3 As AI Fab Spend Surges — Aug 14, 2026 — Applied Materials posted record fiscal Q3 revenue of $9.12B, guided Q4 to $10.25B, and said it aims to double semi-systems output by 2028 as AI drives...SMIC Lifts Chip Prices As AI Demand Pushes Fabs To 93.7% Utilization — Aug 14, 2026 — China's SMIC posts first-ever $3B quarter, triples profit to $479M, and raises Q3 wafer prices as AI-fuelled demand keeps its factories running near c...AMD Launches Ryzen AI Embedded X100 and Kria AI SoM to Challenge Nvidia in Robotics — Aug 1, 2026 — AMD is bringing Zen 5, RDNA 3.5 and 50-TOPS NPUs to the robotics edge with the Ryzen AI Embedded X100 family and a new Kria AI SoM that scales up to 1...TSMC Builds EMIB-Like Advanced Packaging With Kinsus To Ease CoWoS Chokehold — Jul 31, 2026 — Taiwan's TSMC has quietly begun engineering an EMIB-style embedded-bridge packaging platform with substrate maker Kinsus, admitting Intel's approach c...TSMC To Lift Chip Prices Up To 10% From 2027, HPC Orders Face Extra 10-15% Surcharge — Jul 26, 2026 — TSMC has told Nvidia, Apple, AMD, Qualcomm and other lead customers it will raise wafer prices by 5-10% across advanced and mature nodes starting Janu...Alva Industries Raises €16M to Scale FiberPrinting Electric Motors — Jul 4, 2026 — Norwegian deep-tech firm Alva Industries has raised €16 million led by Nysnø Climate Investments, Sandwater and Emerald Technology Ventures to industr...Raja Koduri's Oxmiq Raises $35M for Unified AI Chip IP — Jul 2, 2026 — Oxmiq Labs raised a $35 million Series A led by Samsung Catalyst Fund and Fundomo to merge GPU, CPU and tensor functions into one licensable AI chip a...Tower and Marvell Ship 5 Million Photonic Chips for AI — Jul 1, 2026 — Tower Semiconductor and Marvell have shipped over five million coherent photonic integrated circuits, scaling optical connectivity for bandwidth-hungr...Elmo Motion Control launches new controller and Titanium servo drives — Jun 22, 2026 — Elmo Motion Control has rolled out a new multi-axis controller and expanded its drives lineup with a Platinum update and a new Titanium line built for...Nvidia to Spend $150B a Year in Taiwan as Constellation HQ Launches — May 30, 2026 — Jensen Huang launched Nvidia's first overseas headquarters, Constellation, in Taipei and said annual Taiwan supply-chain spending will climb from $100...Tata Electronics, ASML Sign MoU on India's First 300mm Chip Fab — May 28, 2026 — Tata Electronics and ASML signed an MoU to bring ASML's lithography tools into India's first commercial 300mm semiconductor fab at Dholera, the $11B a...Huawei Unveils LogicFolding to Close Chip Gap With TSMC — May 27, 2026 — Huawei says its new LogicFolding technology will let it make 1.4nm chips by 2031 without ASML's EUV machines, aiming to narrow the gap with TSMC.STMicroelectronics Unveils 700V PowerGaN Chips for AI Servers — May 26, 2026 — STMicroelectronics has added seven new 700V PowerGaN transistors to its STPOWER range, targeting the rising power demands of AI servers, robotics and...