The maxTouch chips originated from Atmel’s acquisition two years ago of Quantum in the U.K. Atmel combined its own microcontroller technology with Quantum’s analog sensors. Over time, Bajaj said that ...

Wayne Cunningham reviews cars and writes about automotive technology for CNET's Roadshow. Prior to the automotive beat, he covered spyware, Web building technologies, and computer hardware. He began ...

Touchscreens are everywhere now, but they still don’t work as good as they should. They remain frustratingly unresponsive to finger taps, consume a lot of power, and are bulky. So Silicon Valley chip ...

Arduino is a microcontroller designed for real-time hardware control with very low power use. Raspberry Pi is a full computer that runs operating systems and handles complex tasks. Arduino excels at ...

Today the first Raspberry Pi microcontroller was released for approximately $4 USD. This device is the Raspberry Pi Pico, built on RP2040, a "brand-new chip" developed at Raspberry Pi. This device ...

NXP announced that its secure contactless microcontroller chip – SmartMX, has been selected by the VDV-Kernapplikations to power future electronic transport ticketing schemes in Germany. NXP announced ...

Raspberry Pi is now offering its RP2040 chip that powers the Raspberry Pi Pico at discounted bulk prices. The ARM-based RP2040, its first microcontroller, was available for $1 a piece when it launched ...

(Bloomberg) -- Elon Musk said the chip shortage is wreaking havoc on Tesla Inc.’s supply chain and blamed companies ordering more microcontrollers than they need, much like consumers hoarded toilet ...

CAMBRIDGE, United Kingdom, April 02, 2025 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- lowRISC C.I.C., the open silicon ecosystem organisation, together with SCI Semiconductor, a leader in CHERI solutions and both CHERI ...

The S3F94C4EZZ-RH94 is a single chip 8-bit microcontroller featuring SAM88RCRI CPU core and an internal multi-time program Flash memory. The microcontroller is designed for A/D converter application ...

Just like the broader automotive industry, the ongoing global microchip shortage has had a profound impact on General Motors, forcing the automaker to cut production and reduce features across its ...

Inside Contactless is buying the secure microcontroller business from chip maker Atmel Corp., France-based Inside announced today. Terms of the deal were not disclosed, but Inside says it is paying ...