Ben Emmerich

Embedded C & ASM 🛠 | .NET & C# tinkerer | Firmware + hardware + maker vibes | Turning coffee into code & circuits ⚡| Conjurer of magic smoke 💨

[Tom's Hardware @tomshardware]

Micron's $24 billion Singapore fab could need 500 transformers, more than double the output of any single manufacturer — heavy electrical infrastructure the latest AI buildout bottleneck https://t.co/NZ8FuFSrSc

[Piyush Itankar @_streetdogg]

Baremetal Programming and Debugging.

https://t.co/mCTEUvoPBL

Get a deeper insight into the ARM 64 Bit CPUs by booting and programming the aarch64 based Cortex-A72 on the Raspberry-Pi4B - from scratch!

You will code both in Assembly and C to get the CPU to print ‘Hello, World!’ on the UART. There will be no IDE used.

Everything right from the Linker script to the Makefile for the automation will be written from scratch.

Assumes no prior knowledge. Recommended for anyone wanting to understand how a application grade CPU boots from scratch.

[Keysight Device Security Testing @Riscure]

Even a “locked‑down” UART can be opened with the right fault‑injection technique.

[Seb Johnson @SebJohnsonUK]

BREAKING: A Norwegian company has just raised $40m to revolutionise chipmaking and take on ASML!

To make chips manufacturers use a process called lithography which uses light to draw complex circuits that form the foundation ​of advanced artificial intelligence chips.

Lace Lithography has developed a new approach that uses a helium atom beam.

The cofounders, Bodil Holst and Adrià Salvador Palau, have spent their careers working across atomic beam physics, instrumentation engineering, and applied AI.

Today the company has announced a $40m Series A led by Atomico (Sasha Vidiborskiy), with participation from M12 (Michael Stewart), Linse Capital, SETT, and Nysnø.

The startup has ⁠developed prototypes with the aim of having a pilot up and running by 2029.

VERY COOL - congrats!

[Ben Emmerich @BenEmmerich]

Yeeesh @mikrotik_com , QC much???

When you receive your new Hex S RB760 and a MLCC capacitor drops out of rattling housing !!! It would be a nice freebie but I suspect it should be soldered to the pcb inside 🤣

[NIK @ns123abc]

“Sir, Elon Musk is poaching our senior process integration engineers with 10+ year experience for his 2nm TERAFAB… he’s offering 3x TSMC salary plus equity in Tesla and SpaceX…”

[Tom's Hardware @tomshardware]

Microsoft-backed start-up raises $40 million for helium atom beam lithography that could print chips at atomic resolution — 0.1nm beam is 135 times narrower than ASML's EUV light https://t.co/mc5Ii78zR7

[Ben Emmerich @BenEmmerich]

@cqcqcqdx Looks like wheat! Does that make you FET?! 😂

[RossRadio @cqcqcqdx]

Analog Devices Accelerometer from 1995...interesting!

[Mark Ermolov @_markel___]

I'm amazed at Intel's ability to downplay the severity of published vulnerabilities.
They described CVE-2018-3640 (Rogue System Register Read) as simply an ASLR bypass, but this vulnerability in fact allows the CPU internal CRBUS to be read (at least for Goldmont/Plus uarch)

[Tuki @TukiFromKL]

🚨 Do you understand what this man just pulled off..

> a guy from North Carolina used AI to generate hundreds of thousands of songs.. uploaded them to Spotify, Apple Music, Amazon.. then botted billions of streams on his own tracks and walked away with $8 million

> 660,000 fake streams per day.. spread across thousands of AI songs so nobody noticed.. $1.2 million a year.. for music no human ever actually listened to

real artists are out here grinding for 0.003 cents per stream.. promoting on TikTok.. begging for playlist placements.. and this guy just had AI make the music AND the audience

first-ever criminal streaming fraud case.. he's paying back $8 million.. but the playbook is out there now.. and AI just got better since he started

the music industry spent 10 years fighting piracy.. now they have to fight songs that don't exist being listened to by people who don't exist.

[Emre Can Kartal @eckartal]

> be Asimov
> buys a Unitree G1
> starts testing policies
> knee breaks
> waits 2 months for one replacement part
> realizes closed humanoids kill development speed
> builds its own humanoid robot
> makes it open-source
> puts everything on GitHub, from policies to parts
> launches a humanoid DIY kit with a $499 deposit
> does almost $1M in sales in 30 days
> starts setting up manufacturing
> begins shipments in the next few months

Asimov gives every AI and robotics builder a fully customizable humanoid robot.

Open.

[Brian Roemmele @BrianRoemmele]

3D printing of glass!

Using Direct Glass Laser Deposition.

[TMZ @TMZ]

🕊️ Chuck Norris has died at 86. https://t.co/iEc9C997Ik

[Interesting Engineering @IntEngineering]

The technology could transform biological research in the same way that parallel processing reshaped computing and DNA sequencing. https://t.co/HFlnrpUlat

[Edgar Friendly ⬛️🟨 @RealEdFriendly]

RIP

[Don Keith @RealDonKeith]

🤣This is a hilarious montage of Chuck Norris jokes.

If you think about it, he really was the first 80’s action hero and pretty much started the genre of 80’s and 90’s action movies.

[anand iyer @ai]

This feels like physical product design's ChatGPT moment.

This team just ran an autonomous agent against the entire chip design process: 219-word spec in, tape-out-ready silicon layout out, 12 hours later. The agent ran continuously against a simulator, found its own bugs, rewrote its own pipeline, and iterated to a working CPU!

Chip design costs well over $400M and takes up to 9 years. Not because writing hardware code is hard (it is actually brutally hard) but because a respin costs 10 of millions. So teams spend more than half their total budget just verifying the design is correct before a single transistor is placed. That cost structure is why most chip designs never get built.

Entire product categories that were previously too low-volume to justify a tape-out are now buildable.

[SETI Park @seti_park]

https://t.co/Yu5A9oqIWj

[Simplifying AI @simplifyinAI]

🚨 BREAKING: Someone just open-sourced a full suite for tracking satellites and decoding their radio signals locally.

You don't even need the internet. It uses an SDR to pull weather images and raw data straight from space to your hard drive.

100% Open Source.