The EU right to repair rules took effect on 31 July
Standardised repair quotes, spare parts obligations, a warranty extension for choosing repair, and a ban on unjustified parts pairing.
Edge AI on a microcontroller, minus the hype
What actually fits on a small part, what does not, and why memory rather than compute is the real constraint.
Why small embedded systems still avoid Linux
An operating system solves problems a small device does not have, and creates several it cannot afford.
Auracast is quietly turning up in real venues
Bluetooth broadcast audio has moved past demonstrations into theatres, stadiums and places of worship — and transport is next.
CD sales grew faster than vinyl in the first half of 2026
RIAA figures show CDs up 58.6% and vinyl up 17.7% in the US. The format everyone wrote off is the one growing fastest.
RISC-V is shipping around 2.5 billion cores a year
At Embedded World 2026 the open instruction set stopped being a curiosity and started showing up in automotive roadmaps.
Chiplets, explained without the marketing
Why the industry took one large die and cut it into several, and what that has to do with yield.
How a memory shortage reaches a bill of materials
You are not buying HBM. You are still paying for it. The mechanism, and what to do about it at design stage.
EMC is decided at layout, not at the test house
By the time a board fails a pre-compliance scan, most of the decisions that caused it were made weeks earlier.