#Microsoft and #AMD have renewed their #partnership to co-engineer #silicon for next-generation #Xbox consoles, ensuring backwards compatibility with existing Xbox games. https://www.windowscentral.com/gaming/xbox/xbox-amd-partnership-next-gen-xbox-console-hardware?eicker.news #tech #media #news

Join me and Pat Deegan, today on the Open Source Silicon Stream!

Starts in ~45 minutes at 08:00 PT / 17:00 CEST / 20:30 IST

I'll cover the latest news and then we'll get a SpASICs update on our plan to put Tiny Tapeout TT06 chips into space!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dcbcfb5bOY0

#stream #opensource #silicon

Any experts in silicon photonics on mastodon? #silicon #photonics #science

What is the Total Accessible Market for silicon photonics? #photonics #silicon #marketsize

2D CMOS computer:
#2dmaterial #transistor #computing #silicon #innovation
💻

https://techxplore.com/news/2025-06-world-silicon-2d.html

Which is most commonly used in photonics? Silicon photonics or GaN photonics? #photonics #silicon #GaN

FSiC2025 is fully booked.

120+ engineers, hackers, and researchers will gather in Frankfurt an der Oder to discuss libre EDA, PDKs, on-going projects and more.

Check the program at:
https://wiki.f-si.org/index.php/FSiC2025

Video recordings will be published after the conference.

#openHardware #semiconductor #silicon #freeSilicon #FOSS #NGIZero

We're back after a 3 week pause! Join me today at 17:00 CEST for the next installment of the open source silicon stream.

After catching up on the news we'll take a look at the Renaldas Zioma's Z80 and try to run some programs.

#opensource #silicon #stream

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6ERvXv-ZU94

#Silicon is crucial for #plant health and stress resilience, but for #crops like #cucumber, where it is deposited on the #fruit surface as a white bloom, it's a consumer turn-off.
What if you could turn off bloom production AND enhance stress tolerance?🔓⬇️
https://doi.org/10.1111/jipb.13917
@wileyplantsci
#PlantSci #JIPB #botany

🚨Breaking News: #Germany plans to squeeze 10% out of #tech #giants for the audacity of existing in the #digital realm. Apparently, the country's economic strategy now includes shaking down #Silicon #Valley for spare change. 💰🔍 Meanwhile, German efficiency ensures this process will be completed shortly before the sun burns out. 🌞✌️
https://www.ft.com/content/39d4678d-a7e1-4fce-b8d8-eb799cfed3e6 #Tax #Economy #Tech #HackerNews #ngated

#Silicon transistor image where you can see the individual atoms. #physics #lithography
RT https://x.com/IanCutress/status/1927611558210797982

#Z80 #opensource #silicon

Electronic component scams: some companies are remarkably open about it.

If you buy components on AliExpress or similar online markets, you're probably already familiar with getting faux goods. If you're lucky, it's a clone of the actual part you wanted (transistor, opamp, whatever) with similar specs. If you're less lucky, you get a part that's the same general type, but not the one you wanted - order a transistor with particular characteristics, but receive another transistor type entirely, that doesn't work the same way.

And of course, if you're truly unlucky or you buy the cheapest listing you can find, you get a package with a completely random bit of silicon in it (order a JFET or MOSFET, receive a BJT, possibly with a different pinout...) or even a package with no actual electronics in it (receive a DIP package with proper leads on it, but cut it open and the leads aren't connected to anything, and there's no silicon die in it at all).

I happened to see this listing on AliBaba, the wholesale / manufacturer site related to AliExpress:
https://www.alibaba.com/product-detail/Screen-printing-TDA7729-TSSOP-28-Audio_1601262782430.html

If I read it right, they're offering to sell you a cloned part, but they'll silkscreen whatever fake info you want onto the package, so you can sell it as a genuine name-brand part. Or maybe they're offering to remark any component you want, who knows - I'm not going to contact them to find out.

Pretty brazen.

#electronics #hobby #AliExpress #fake #Chinesium #remarked #counterfeit #scam #silicon #component

🚨 BREAKING: #Google unveils "Teachable Machine" – because training a #neural network with cat photos is obviously a revolutionary concept that nobody in #Silicon #Valley saw coming. 🙄 Now you too can feel like a top-tier #AI engineer by dragging and dropping files with the proficiency of a toddler. 🍼✨
https://teachablemachine.withgoogle.com/ #Teachable #Machine #innovation #networks #HackerNews #ngated

MediaTek’s First 2nm Chip To Tape-Out In September 2025 #2nm #chip #computex2025 #dimensity #mediatek #mobile #mobilephones #production #ricktsai #semiconductorchips #silicon #tapeout

https://www.lowyat.net/2025/352259/mediateks-first-2nm-chip-to-tape-out-in-september-2025/

“#Nvidia is seeking to reduce its reliance on #BigTech companies by striking new partnerships to sell its artificial intelligence chips to nation states, corporate groups and challengers to groups such as #Microsoft, #Amazon and #Google.

This week, the #American chip giant announced a multibillion-dollar US chip deal with #SaudiArabia’s #Humain, while the #UnitedArabEmirates announced plans to build one of the world’s largest #DataCentres in co-ordination with the US government, as the #GulfStates plan to build massive #AI infrastructure.”

#ArtificialIntelligence / #silicon / #SiliconChips / #AIChips / #diversification <https://archive.md/NHg7O> / <https://www.ft.com/content/2ba1d064-242d-4a2a-a381-374d9643e23a> (paywall)

Uno de los líderes de #Silicon #Valley deja de contratar ingenieros por una triste razón: “ #Somos la #última #generación”

https://as.com/actualidad/sociedad/uno-de-los-lideres-de-silicon-valley-deja-de-contratar-ingenieros-por-una-triste-razon-somos-la-ultima-generacion-n/

Uno de los líderes de #Silicon #Valley deja de contratar ingenieros por una triste razón: “ #Somos la #última #generación” as.com/actualidad/s...

Uno de los líderes de Silicon ...

Random #AliExpress finding...

So today I discovered why I was getting weird results in a circuit I was testing the other day. It turns out that some of the 1N60P germanium diodes I have are fakes. They appear to be just a plain silicon diode with a forward voltage of ~0.6V, rather than the actual article's ~0.25V.

They're in the right DO-35 glass package and they've been marked as 1N60P, so someone's gone to the trouble of faking it well - but I can't see why. It can't possibly be that profitable to buy genuine silicon diodes, remark them, and then sell them for just a few pennies extra, can it?

It's not like the sellers that remark a ten-cent opamp as a $10 part - I can see how that's profitable.

Weird.

#electronics #fake #scam #germanium #silicon #diode #DO35 #1N60P #Ge #Si #SiGe #Chinesium