Electronics Manufacturing

Austin – November 02, 2026 -- Abracon has launched free website accounts that let engineers request or purchase samples, download design files and track orders on abracon.com, extending the electronic components maker's push into digital sales tools.

Accounts bundle samples, design files and order tracking in one login

Account holders can request or purchase samples of eligible parts for evaluation. They can also download support files, including 3D models, symbols, footprints and simulation files.

The order history function shows status updates, including tracking information, for samples and purchases placed on abracon.com. Abracon says the combined features help engineers move from initial component research to design validation more efficiently.

Hsinchu County – November 01, 2026 -- Ceva, Inc. (NASDAQ: CEVA) retained the top spot in wireless interface IP with 68% market share by IP revenue, 12 times that of the next-largest vendor, according to IPnest's September 2026 Design IP report. The category grew approximately 14% in 2025.

Ceva's share has held at 67-68% across three IPnest reports

IPnest's earlier reports showed Ceva at 67% for 2023 and 68% for 2024. Ceva estimates its wireless connectivity IP is used in approximately 30% of the world's Bluetooth-enabled IoT devices and 15% of Wi-Fi-enabled IoT devices shipped annually.

Ceva-Waves licenses five wireless standards to chipmakers and OEMs

The Ceva-Waves portfolio covers Bluetooth, Wi-Fi, UWB, 802.15.4 and cellular IoT. Ceva's Bluetooth IP has more than 100 licensees and its Wi-Fi IP more than 60. More than 30 customers have adopted both.

ROCKVILLE – – November 01, 2026 -- Ceva (NASDAQ: CEVA) has secured the first production deployment of its NeuPro NPU family, with Seoul-based Mobilint integrating the NeuPro-Nano NPN32 NPU and SensPro AI DSP into its REGULUS edge AI system-on-chip (SoC).

REGULUS delivers 10 TOPS at under 3W with up to 8GB of memory

REGULUS is a standalone processor for on-device AI. It targets power- and space-constrained applications including robotics, drones, machine vision, smart cameras and IoT devices.

Multi-engine design splits sensing and inference workloads

SensPro handles programmable sensing and signal-processing workloads. NeuPro-Nano handles always-on neural inference. Both sit alongside Mobilint's proprietary AI processing architecture, so each workload runs on the engine best suited to it.

WATERLOO – November 02, 2026 -- Applied Brain Research (ABR) has made its speech AI software development kit generally available on Zephyr RTOS for Alif Semiconductor's Ensemble family of edge AI processors. On the Ensemble E8, its Niagara ASR engine delivers 133 ms average latency from first audio to first token while drawing 15 mW of active power above baseline.

SDK bundles streaming recognition and synthesis that run without a cloud connection

The kit combines two engines. Niagara ASR provides full-vocabulary streaming speech recognition with low latency, transcribing speech continuously as it is spoken. Nith TTS provides low-latency streaming speech synthesis.

The SDK also offers native Zephyr RTOS support for battery-powered and air-gapped products, plus ongoing model updates and expansion.

DONGGUAN – November 02, 2026 -- Dongguan Taixun Electronic Technology Co., Ltd. (TaixunPOS) says its 6,000-square-meter plant in China's Guangdong province can produce about 10,000 POS terminals a month for OEM/ODM partners building their own brands.

TaixunPOS replaces plastic housings with unibody aluminum-alloy chassis

The manufacturer says plastic POS terminals are prone to poor heat dissipation and housing wear under intensive use. Its aluminum-alloy chassis is designed to improve thermal performance and durability. The fanless design removes mechanical cooling fans, which the company says can reduce dust and grease ingress, depending on enclosure design, and cut maintenance costs over time.

The terminals use industrial PCAP multi-touch screens and high-brightness, wide-viewing-angle IPS displays. TaixunPOS targets restaurants, cafes, stores and hotels.

Kuala Lumpur – October 31, 2026 -- Malaysian electrical accessories brand reTOUCH has recorded SIRIM-verified results for its BS 1363 13A double-pole socket of 69,400 plug cycles against a 15,000-cycle standard, the highest margin of three tests in which it exceeded requirements. ASEAN Records recognised Broadlink Marketing Sdn Bhd, the company behind the brand, for the results.

Socket exceeds standard thresholds in fire, voltage and endurance tests

In the glow-wire test, the socket reached 960°C against the 850°C standard, a 110°C margin.

For electrical strength, it withstood 4kV a.c. dielectric strength for one minute, twice the 2kV requirement.

In plug endurance testing, it completed 69,400 cycles, about 4.6 times the 15,000-cycle benchmark. ASEAN Records describes the product as the first BS 1363 13A double-pole socket verified beyond standard in all three areas.

DAKAR – October 31, 2026 -- TCL donated a solar-powered 75-inch display delivering 4,000 nits of brightness at roughly 300W to Université Amadou Mahtar Mbow (UAM) in Senegal. The system uses about half the power of comparable outdoor displays, according to the company.

FSC panel drops color filters to lift light transmittance above 15%

The screen is built by TCL CSOT on Field Sequential Color (FSC) technology. It removes conventional color filters and generates color by sequentially switching red, green and blue light. This lifts transmittance above 15%. At UAM it will serve as an outdoor information hub, designed to stay legible in direct sunlight.

SEOUL – October 31, 2026 -- NIDS Co., Ltd., a South Korean environmental sensor maker that says it has supplied more than 10 million sensors cumulatively, has confirmed it will exhibit at CES 2027 to convert product introductions into overseas supply contracts.

The company is targeting global home appliance makers, HVAC specialists and robotics companies. Its customer base already includes Dyson, Samsung Electronics and Hyundai Motor.

NIDS Claims 5 Million Units of Annual Mass-Production Capacity

NIDS designs the core air quality measurement components in-house and says it has a system in place to mass-produce 5 million units a year. Its portfolio covers particulate matter sensors measuring PM1.0, PM2.5 and PM10, and non-dispersive infrared (NDIR) optical gas sensors for carbon dioxide and carbon monoxide. It also sells composite environmental sensors and electronic nose modules that detect odors, gas leaks and fires.

San Antonio – October 31, 2026 -- Electronics manufacturing services provider SMTC has received Frost & Sullivan's 2026 North America Company of the Year Recognition in mid-tier EMS, the third consecutive year it has won the award, according to CEO Mike Buseman.

Frost & Sullivan cited SMTC's strategy effectiveness and strategy execution. The award comes as OEMs put more weight on supply chain resilience, regionalized production and faster response to market changes.

SMTC combines small-provider agility with Tier 1 capabilities, analyst says

Sujan Sami, Senior Research Director at Frost & Sullivan, said SMTC pairs the "flexibility and responsiveness of a smaller EMS company" with capabilities typically associated with larger Tier 1 players. He credited the company's direct access for customer decision-makers from the outset of an engagement.

ANSAN-SI, South Korea – October 30, 2026 -- A single 10-millisecond light pulse produced molybdenum disulfide (MoS2) gas-sensing material with a 23.6-fold stronger response to 5 parts per million of nitrogen dioxide (NO2) than material made by a conventional solvothermal method, according to researchers at Hanyang University-ERICA and KAIST.

Platinum-doped sensor reaches 100.8% response to NO2 at room temperature

Adding 1.2 weight% platinum raised the sensor response 22.8-fold. The response reached 100.8% at 400 parts per billion of NO2 at room temperature. The platinum-enhanced sensor detected NO2 at concentrations as low as 17.2 parts per billion.

The device was selective for NO2 against several other tested gases and held a stable response through 25 exposure-and-recovery cycles. After three weeks in ambient air, its response had declined by only 2.6%.