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.
News
Company news and short professional updates.
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.
Optics are moving onto the chip package
Co-packaged optics reached volume production at Broadcom, but broad adoption is still several years out.
A neural accelerator in a microcontroller costing under a dollar
TI put a TinyEngine NPU into an Arm Cortex-M0+ part priced below $1 in volume, claiming 90x lower inference latency.
Welcome to the GorbLab Engineering blog
A short note on what will be published here: brief technical updates from ongoing electronics, PCB and firmware work.