Electronic Design Weekly: Aug. 3, 2026 - FMS 2026
In This Issue
- Editorial: Memory and Storage in Turbulent Times
- Featured Content
- New Products
- More Memory and Storage
- Multimedia on ElectronicDesign
- Editor's Choice: From the ElectronicDesign Archives
- Editor's Weekly Picks
- Illustrated Engineering
- Electronic Design Word of the Week
- New in Electronic Design's Member Library
- More Electronic Design Weekly
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Editorial: Memory and Storage in Turbulent Times
This week is the 20th anniversary of FMS, the Future of Memory and Storage conference, previously known as the Flash Memory Summit. Multiple world conflicts and tariffs have messed with supply chains even as AI data centers do much of the same. Still, technology continues to advance, delivering higher bandwidth and capacities on all fronts. So, for me, this week will be spent in Santa Clara covering FMS 2026.
I expect to see more ways to take advantage of DDR5 in systems like Compute eXpress Link (CXL) as well as multiplexed rank DIMMs (MRDIMMs). The latter allows servers to pack in more and faster memory modules that use multiplexed ping-ponging and buffer registers to hide DRAM die on a memory module.
... and here is some more on the multimedia side of things like why RAID works differently when you have NVMe storage.
Editor's Choice: From the ElectronicDesign Archives
These articles were chosen by the editors at ElectronicDesign that complement the new articles above. They’re included in our regular newsletters.
Andy's Picks from Around the Web
Ferrari’s $640K Luce EV sells out 2026 allocation: ~500 units. Link
China's EV export boom is starting to show up in the gasoline market. Link
Denmark: EVs account for almost all new car registrations in July. Link
Germany Records Historic 12 Billion kWh Solar Feed-In in July 2026. Link
Linux just cracked 10% desktop usage in North America, but no one's sure why. Link
Click here to see Andy's full list of the latest articles and news.
White House to meet with top AI companies ahead of first big regulation push. Link
This Breakthrough Just Made Batteries Insanely Cheap. Video
AI Isn't as Powerful as We Think. Video
AI and the En$h!tt!f!cat!on Era w/ Cory Doctorow | The Weekly Show with Jon Stewart [warning: contains profanity]. Video
Andy's Video Pick of the Week
Professor Hannah Fry lends some interesting perspective on AI use and its future.
Cabe's Pick of the Week.
I’ve been on a huge Z80 kick recently. I thought I would roundup a handful of articles about it in celebration of its 50th anniversary.
- Pac-Man: The Revolutionary Video Game Turns 45. I go over the Z80-based hardware and programming behind the original arcade game. Engaging for seeing how limited processing power produced sophisticated gameplay and graphics.
- A Rising Star. Revisits the Z80-powered Epson QX-10 and its ambitious VALDOCS productivity software. It offers a firsthand view of early personal-computer development and programming.
- So...The Z80 is Rising from the Dead—with an On-Chip DAC? Explores recreating the discontinued Z80 with open-source chip-design tools and low-cost fabrication. Compelling for showing how individuals can turn a classic processor design into modern silicon.
- Updated 8-Bit Processor Drives System-On-A-Chip Web Server. Introduces the eZ80, which expanded the architecture with more memory, faster operation and integrated networking. Useful as a period look at Zilog adapting its processor for embedded web systems.
Projects we build often have unforeseen impacts. You never know what how a single blinking LED might change the world.
This one comes from those warm summer nights. Not many nights like this left…
See the full story behind this one after this jump.
Or see my whole Engineering on Friday cartoon catalog here.
From the Inventors Comics Collection
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William G. Wong
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I earned a Bachelor of Electrical Engineering at the Georgia Institute of Technology and a Masters in Computer Science from Rutgers University. I still do a bit of programming using everything from C and C++ to Rust and Ada/SPARK. I do a bit of PHP programming for Drupal websites. I have posted a few Drupal modules.
I still get a hand on software and electronic hardware. Some of this can be found on our Kit Close-Up video series. You can also see me on many of our TechXchange Talk videos. I am interested in a range of projects from robotics to artificial intelligence.
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Cabe Atwell
Technology Editor, Electronic Design
Cabe is a Technology Editor for Electronic Design.
Engineer, Machinist, Cartoonist, Maker, Writer. A graduate Electrical Engineer actively plying his expertise in the industry and at his company, Gunhead. When not designing/building, he creates a steady torrent of projects and content in the media world. Many of his projects and articles are online at element14 & SolidSmack, industry-focused work at EETimes & EDN, and offbeat articles at Make Magazine. Currently, you can find him hosting webinars and contributing to Electronic Design and Machine Design.
Cabe is an electrical engineer, design consultant and author with 25 years’ experience. His most recent book is “Essential 555 IC: Design, Configure, and Create Clever Circuits”
Cabe writes the Engineering Life & Engineering on Friday blog on Electronic Design.
See Cabe's cartoons & comic strips here.
James Morra
Senior Editor
James Morra is the senior editor for Electronic Design, covering the semiconductor industry and new technology trends, with a focus on power electronics and power management. He also reports on the business behind electrical engineering, including the electronics supply chain. He joined Electronic Design in 2015 and is based in Chicago, Illinois.
Andy Turudic
Technology Editor, Electronic Design
Andy Turudic is a Technology Editor for Electronic Design Magazine, primarily covering Analog and Mixed-Signal circuits and devices and also is Editor of ED's bi-weekly Automotive Electronics newsletter.
He holds a Bachelor's in EE from the University of Windsor (Ontario Canada) and has been involved in electronics, semiconductors, and gearhead stuff, for a bit over a half century. Andy also enjoys teaching his engineerlings at Portland Community College as a part-time professor in their EET program.
"AndyT" brings his multidisciplinary engineering experience from companies that include National Semiconductor (now Texas Instruments), Altera (Intel), Agere, Zarlink, TriQuint,(now Qorvo), SW Bell (managing a research team at Bellcore, Bell Labs and Rockwell Science Center), Bell-Northern Research, and Northern Telecom.
After hours, when he's not working on the latest invention to add to his portfolio of 16 issued US patents, or on his DARPA Challenge drone entry, he's lending advice and experience to the electric vehicle conversion community from his mountain lair in the Pacific Northwet[sic].
AndyT's engineering blog, "Nonlinearities," publishes the 1st and 3rd Tuesday of each month. Andy's OpEd may appear at other times, with fair warning given by the Vu meter pic. His cartoon series, "Inventors", appears each week in Electronic Design Weekly.
