On Nov. 10, 1975, TV anchor Dennis Anderson was preparing for the 10 p.m. news. John Crowley was at a Duluth bar with some Coast Guard shipmates. Their lives were about to change forever.

With a 4k1 collector resistor and 16mA drive into the led, the chosen (read ‘cheapest on ebay’) 6N135 is supposed to beat 1.5μs for both turn on and turn off, with typical figures of 90ns and 800ns.

A breakthrough in neuromorphic computing could lower the energy consumption of chips and accelerate progress toward artificial general intelligence (AGI). Researchers from the USC Viterbi School of En ...

"It's a disposable pipette system. The clear tubes are glass or plastic with markings for the volume inside. The orange/red ball is a hollow, collapsible ball with a hole over the pipette tip. The ...

Take tape measures, once a palm-sized object that housed a metal ribbon that could snap back enthusiastically -- has been transformed into a palm-sized device with with a laser inside. Yup, the ...

The Syracuse City School District is poised to pay $250,000 for two former high-paid officials to keep working for the ...

Researchers have developed a new type of artificial neuron that physically emulates the electrochemical processes of ...

For our 2025 Component Abuse Challenge there have been a set of entries which merely use a component for a purpose it wasn’t quite intended, and another which push misuse of a part into ...

Diamonds, lasers, and oil aren’t the first things you may think of when considering ways to keep chips and computers cool.

China said Saturday it will exempt some Nexperia chips from an export ban that was imposed over a row with Dutch officials ...

Reuters reported Friday that Nexperia suspended supplies of wafers to its Chinese assembly plant, according to a letter addressed to its customers, which could exacerbate a supply squeeze that is ...

A new roadmap links materials, design, and process to build stretchable synaptic transistors for soft, low-power AI and ...