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Engineering Real-Time: Lessons Learned While Chasing Determinism Part 4

Andrei Gorine

December 11, 2025

In Part 1 and Part 2, we looked at how EDF and PI scheduling support real-time database behavior, and why true timing guarantees also depend on precise measurement, predictable rollback, well-placed verification points, and profiling on real hardware.

AI & Machine Learning

iOmniscient Partners with Intel for Lightweight Predictive Maintenance

Ken Briodagh

December 11, 2025

One of the toughest challenges with solving predictive maintenance, enabled by AI, is that there is usually no data available for training the system. Modern equipment may not break down for 5 years or more so there is insufficient data when the product is first launched on when and how it will break down. But AI systems using traditional methods such as Deep Learning can only operate when sufficiently large volumes of data are available for training the system and hence, they are incapable of addressing this problem.

IoT

Vigit International Helps Businesses Deploy Smart Signage, Powered by Intel

Ken Briodagh

December 10, 2025

One of the most impactful areas for businesses to deploy AI is in digital signage. AI-driven digital can deliver personalized content, respond instantly to changing conditions, and make every interaction more meaningful. A challenge that comes with deploying this kind of AI-powered digital signage is ensuring the content is flexible enough to adapt to different display sizes or settings, or to simplify the content so it can fit any display.

IoT

Iternal Offers Intel-Powered AirgapAI Chat for Edge UI

Ken Briodagh

December 9, 2025

AI is moving from the cloud to the edge. In product after product, we see ever more intelligence being brought to the edge, and to the devices that reside there.

Automotive

The Open AD Kit Blueprint is Accelerating SDV Development Across the Industry

Ken Briodagh

December 9, 2025

Autonomous vehicle capability has been advancing in the open for more than a decade, and now it sits at the center of the shift toward AI-defined vehicles.

Software & OS

Secure Boot and the Manufacturing Chain: Implementation and Impact

Frederic Hoerni

December 9, 2025

Let’s consider the general case where the development team and the manufacturer are two separate entities, possibly different companies in different countries. We will focus on products based on Arm processors.

Industrial

Product of the Week: AAEON’s de next-RAP8-EZBOX for Industrial Robotics

Tiera Oliver

December 8, 2025

The industrial robotics landscape is continually evolving in response to increasing demands. Today’s modern robots must meet the requirements and continuous needs for smaller, more compact solutions in space-constrained environments, reliable system memory with high-performance operation that minimizes excessive energy consumption, and solutions that can react faster and make optimized decisions in safety-critical environments.

IoT

Advantech Teams With AMD To Maximize Performance at the Edge

Rich Nass

December 8, 2025

High-performance computing at the Edge involves systems that bring server-class processing closer to where data is generated. Instead of sending private information to the Cloud, devices at the network’s Edge, gateways, sensors, industrial controllers, cameras, and embedded AI platforms, run complex workloads locally. This is beneficial for applications like medical imaging, Edge servers, networking, and enterprise-level LLM (Large Language Model) deployment, and includes markets such as healthcare, industrial automation, smart cities, robotics, automotive, and advanced consumer devices. Its growth is driven by tighter latency requirements, rising data volumes, stronger privacy demands, and the need for more efficient, scalable distributed compute architectures.

IoT

Pattern AI Uses Intel to Create Edge AI Tools for Smart Delivery

Ken Briodagh

December 5, 2025

In warehousing, manufacturing, robotics retail and other supply chain delivery arenas, one of the factors slowing down crucial delivery times is an apparent shortage of agents to move products, but Pattern AI says this isn’t the case. Instead, it’s idle clustering of agents that leads to what seems like a shortage.

Software & OS

Engineering Real-Time: Lessons Learned While Chasing Determinism Part 3

Andrei Gorine

December 3, 2025

In part 1 and part 2 of this series, we talked about two key real-time scheduling algorithms and how they fit into our real-time database goals. We also covered why scheduling alone isn’t enough, and how precise time measurement, predictable rollback, well-placed verification points, and a bit of real-world profiling are what actually make “on time” possible.

Processing

We Must Embrace Innovation Where it Matters Most—on the Fab Floor

Joseph Cestari

December 3, 2025

The domestic semiconductor industry is at a critical juncture — with substantial investments, supportive policies, and soaring demand for artificial intelligence. Yet as the U.S. ramps up domestic production, I can’t help but wonder: are we on the cusp of unprecedented growth? Or are we teetering on the edge of a cliff?

Analog & Power

Optimizing LDO Headroom Control with a Current Referenced Switching Regulator Design—Part 1: Noise Sources, Impact, and Strategies

Kyosuke Shimo , Ino Lorenz Ardiente , Aldrick S. Limjoco

December 2, 2025

This article explores the various sources of noise in switching regulators and their impact on different analog signal chain components. It highlights several noise mitigation strategies, including the use of low dropout (LDO) regulators as effective postregulation filters. The article also shows a range of solutions from Analog Devices (ADI) that deliver optimized LDO efficiency across varying load conditions and output voltages, while pairing good power supply noise rejection. One solution offers a new method for LDOs to control the headroom provided by switching regulators with current reference architectures.

IoT

Avalue and Intel Solve Discriminative AI Challenge

Ken Briodagh

December 2, 2025

What do the manufacturing, robotics, transportation, video, city safety, and security industries all have in common? They are searching for more efficiencies in the process of real-time object detection and dynamic tracking. The answer to that search could be discriminative AI for many companies.

Industrial

Avalue ECM-ASL3 Industrial Board Offers Intel Next-Gen Compatibility for Edge AI and Automation

Chad Cox

December 11, 2025

Avalue Technology Inc. announced the ECM-ASL3 3.5-inch industrial single-board computer compatible with Intel Alder Lake-N, Amston Lake, and even Twin Lake platforms permitting rapid upgrades to product lines with minimal adjustments. The solution is ideal for edge AI, smart manufacturing, automation, automotive equipment and medical monitoring.

Industrial

APLEX Introduces IP66/IP69K NuTAM-9E Touch Panel PC for Food, Chemical, and Pharma Automation

Chad Cox

December 11, 2025

APLEX Technology Inc. released its NuTAM series presenting the stainless-steel, fanless touch panel PC NuTAM-9E leveraging Intel Core Ultra 5/7 processors. Built on the Intel 4 compute tile technology, the Core Ultra features a hybrid architecture of Performance-cores (P-cores) and Efficient-cores (E-cores), integrated CPU, Intel Arc GPU, and NPU capabilities. The solution comes in three display sizes including 15”, 17”, and 21.5” TFT-LCD.