Duane Benson

Pacific Northwest

(He/Him) Tech journalist | Futurist | Entrepreneur

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Rohm Breaks Ground With First Self-Contained, AI-Equipped MCU

1 week ago | allaboutcircuits.com | Duane Benson

Rohm has debuted the industry’s first MCUs that can use solely on-chip AI to predict equipment anomalies in industrial edge-AI applications. These chips, the ML63Q253x-NNNxx/ML63Q255x-NNNxx (datasheet linked), are the first that can perform both AI learning and AI inference in the MCU without contacting an external AI server. The devices target predictive maintenance for industrial control and monitoring needs.
EDA Companies Rally Support for Arm’s New Compute Subsystem Platform

2 weeks ago | allaboutcircuits.com | Duane Benson

Arm's processor architecture appears in more than 94% of automobiles. Now, the company is solidly positioning itself in the AI automobile market with the Arm Zena Compute Subsystems (CSS) platform for AI-supported vehicle design. Arm Zena is an Armv9-based pre-integrated and pre-validated, standardized AI silicon platform. Vehicles based on the Arm Zena will use AI to create a customized, safe, and efficient driving experience—all with minimal intervention from the occupants.
Zuken Brings AI Updates to Flagship PCB CAD Systems

3 weeks ago | allaboutcircuits.com | Duane Benson

Zuken recently announced updates to its flagship PCB design software packages, CR-8000 Design Gateway and Design Force. The updates are centered around speeding the design process, improving design integrity, and easing the burden that comes with increasingly complex high-speed, high-density electronics design. CR-8000 updates cover all aspects of circuit design and layout. Design Gateway is the engineering front end for schematic design.
Arm Unwraps Automotive Compute Platform Aimed at ‘AI-Defined Vehicles’

3 weeks ago | allaboutcircuits.com | Duane Benson

Today, Arm announced its first-generation Zena Compute Subsystems (CSS) platform for AI-vehicle design. The Zena CSS platform is pre-integrated and pre-validated to reduce silicon development time by up to 12 months, cut 20% from required engineering resources, and deliver a faster time-to-market.
AMD Rolls Up to Computex With New Threadripper and Radeon Processors

1 month ago | allaboutcircuits.com | Duane Benson

AMD did not disappoint at Computex 2025 in Taipei, Taiwan, announcing new versions of both Threadripper CPUs and Radeon GPUs targeted at the AI PC, workstation, and high-end desktop (HEDT) markets. New AMD Threadripper model introduced at Computex 2025.
AMD Powers Up Small Businesses With Cost-Effective EPYC Server CPUs

1 month ago | allaboutcircuits.com | Duane Benson

AMD has introduced the latest member of the EPYC CPU line, the 4005 series. The new series comes with six to 16 Zen 5 cores running from 3 GHz up to 5.7 GHz and up to 128 MB of L3 cache. I/O comes in the form of two-channel DDR5 ECC and up to 28 lanes of Gen 5 PCIe. As AM5 socket devices, the 4005 series enables easier migration from the prior EPYC 4004 series CPUs.AMD EPYC 4005 CPU. The 4005 targets small businesses and hosted IT server applications.
Siemens Enlists AI to Fill the IC Verification Time and Skills Gap - News

1 month ago | allaboutcircuits.com | Duane Benson

Today, Siemens announced the June 2025 availability of the Questa One AI-enabled smart verification solution. Questa One utilizes three different forms of AI across the scope of operation: analytical AI, predictive AI, and generative AI. Questa One Integrated Verification Solution. With workloads extending past available work hours, AI can help streamline complex chip verification.
Intel and AMD CPUs Prove Interoperable With Marvell’s CXL Portfolio

1 month ago | allaboutcircuits.com | Duane Benson

Marvell Technology recently announced that its Structera CXL platform is interoperable with AMD's EPYC CPUs and Intel's 5th Gen Xeon scalable platforms, marking a significant compute express link (CXL) memory performance feat. Cloud data centers often must deploy servers from multiple processing unit vendors.
‘Cameras Today Are Almost Blind’: Startup Eyeo Provides ‘Perfect Sight’

1 month ago | allaboutcircuits.com | Duane Benson

Startup Eyeo has announced a breakthrough optical waveguide technology that eliminates light-blocking filters on digital image sensors. The company has closed €15 million ($17 million USD) in seed funding to build development kits, expand partnerships, and scale manufacturing for a first commercial product. To learn more about Eyeo and the company’s technology, All About Circuits sat down with Jeroen Hoet, CEO of Eyeo.
NI Connect 2025: Emerson Announces Big Hardware, Software Upgrades to T&M

2 months ago | allaboutcircuits.com | Duane Benson

This week is NI Connect (April 28–30, 2025) at the Fort Worth Convention Center, "for the test leaders of tomorrow". NI Connect, organized by Emerson (which acquired NI in 2023), focuses on Emerson’s NI high-performance test and measurement (T&M) systems used throughout all industries. This year, the event will showcase integrated hardware and software T&M systems for increasingly complex products. Emerson NI USB-C CompactDAQ center stage on a lab desk.