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Semiconductors & Electronics 24 Oct 2026
What did Nikola Tesla invent? His patents, and what he did not
Tesla patented the AC induction motor and the Tesla coil. He did not invent AC or the light bulb, and radio is murkier. His patents, dated.
Data Centers 18 Oct 2026
Software Is Disappearing. Your Data Centre’s Data Is What’s Left
AI agents make software cheap. A site's years of operating data are what stays scarce: own it, keep it under EU law and check who may train on it.
Software & AI 14 Oct 2026
Why one AI training run can make the power grid wobble
AI training makes GPUs swing power together, and data centres can drop off the grid. What causes both, what each fix costs, and what to ask your utility.
Connectivity 13 Oct 2026
Why data in optical fibre is 32% slower than light
Data in fibre is often said to move at the speed of light. In standard fibre it moves at 204,107 km/s, 68.1% of it, because the glass slows the pulse.
Software & AI 11 Oct 2026
The interest rate of intelligence: what sets the price of an AI token
Cheap tokens may do for AI what cheap credit did for start-ups. Taken apart, a token's cost depends heavily on how long a chip lasts and how busy it is.
Software & AI 14 Sep 2026
AI Energy Per Query: Same Prompt, Two Different Numbers
AI energy per query differs 2.4x for the same median prompt depending on method, and the popular figure answers a narrower question.
Software & AI 8 Sep 2026
AI Model Collapse Is a Curation Failure
AI model collapse comes from uncurated synthetic data, and the text shortage only pushes labs toward it. Curation decides which labs keep improving.
Semiconductors & Electronics 29 Aug 2026
MoS2 Radio Survives Nine Months in Orbit: What It Shows
A 2026 orbital MoS2 radio experiment ran for nine months. Its measured error rate supports a promising result, with mission qualification still ahead.
Semiconductors & Electronics 15 Aug 2026
Intel Glass Core Substrate: Why It’s Not Shipping
Intel's glass core substrate is not in Clearwater Forest, which uses organic substrate and EMIB. What ECTC 2026 showed, and why glass is years away.
Semiconductors & Electronics 25 Jul 2026
3D Chip Stacking’s Thermal Limit Splits Cache From Cores
3D chip stacking's thermal limit lets cache stack almost free, but logic-on-logic still cooks itself — a split that won't close for years.
Semiconductors & Electronics 15 Jul 2026
Data Center SSD Shortage 2026: Why NAND Lost to DRAM
The 2026 NAND and SSD shortage comes from fabs moving lines to DRAM and HBM. NAND contract prices rise 15 to 20% in 4Q26; plan for tight supply into 2027.
Semiconductors & Electronics 3 Jul 2026
Wafer-Scale Inference Ends the GPU Cluster Era
Everyone's cheering GPT-5.6 Sol's 750 tokens per second. They're missing it: wafer-scale inference means OpenAI is quietly retiring the GPU cluster for its frontier model, and rewriting the physics…
Connectivity 1 Jul 2026
Co-Packaged Optics Is Killing the Pluggable Transceiver
Everyone is cheering co-packaged optics for saving power. They are missing the real story: the pluggable transceiver, the most-swapped part in any AI data center, is being quietly executed.
Semiconductors & Electronics 22 Dec 2024
Optoelectronics for High Energy Experiments: Evolution and Emerging Capabilities
Over 30 years of applying optoelectronic links in high energy physics experiments reveal key lessons. Discover which one.
Semiconductors & Electronics 21 Dec 2024
The Future of Particle Detection: Diamond Pixel Sensors
Discover how Diamond Sensor are changing the world of high energy physics forever
Connectivity 26 Oct 2024
Fibre Optic Infrastructure for Data Centres: Optics, Cabling and Testing
Compare four 400G optics, work through a 120 m fibre channel, and specify connectors, routes and acceptance tests.
Connectivity 20 Oct 2024
Meet-Me Room (MMR) in a Data Center: How It Works
What a meet-me room does, what the standards say, and a worked loss budget showing when a cross-connect path through it stops working.
Semiconductors & Electronics 6 Oct 2024
Improving Spatial Resolution in Silicon Particle Detectors: How Physicists Do It
An overview on spatial resolution and on the capability to reconstruct the crossing point of a particle in silicon sensor
Semiconductors & Electronics 14 Sep 2024
How Nvidia’s AI Chips Change Computing with Unique Power
Nvidia's dominance in the AI chip market stems from its unmatched innovation in GPU technology. Learn how Nvidia continues to lead the industry.
Semiconductors & Electronics 5 Jun 2024
Epitaxial Layer in CMOS: How It Shapes Pixel Sensor Performance
What the epitaxial layer in a CMOS device is, why charge in a pixel sensor stays inside it, and how its thickness and resistivity set the signal.
