Hanoi – November 03, 2026 -- Vietnam's Government Cipher Committee and Viettel Group have unveiled VGC v1.0, a 28-nanometre security chip that runs a domestically developed cryptographic algorithm in silicon and performs encryption and decryption about 15 times faster than a software-only solution.

PITTSBURGH – November 03, 2026 -- Efficient Computer's Electron E1 processor delivers up to a 100X improvement in energy efficiency over low-power CPUs, and edgeAI has selected it for its physical AI and critical infrastructure products.

edgeAI runs large AI models on-device with lower power and cost

Efficient Computer says the Electron E1 outperforms many AI accelerators on both performance and energy efficiency. According to the company, this lets edgeAI run large AI models on-device while easing power, cost and form-factor constraints.

Oslo – November 03, 2026 -- Nordic Semiconductor has introduced the nRF71 Series of ultra-low-power systems-on-chip, which cuts standby power by up to 20 times compared with the current nRF70 Series Wi-Fi products. The chips combine Wi-Fi, Bluetooth Low Energy (LE), Thread and edge AI on a single device and are now sampling with selected customers.

HSINCHU – November 03, 2026 -- Wincomm, a Portwell company, will exhibit alongside Portwell Taiwan and Portwell Europe at MEDICA 2026 (November 16-19, Düsseldorf, Germany), with a joint stand at Hall 12, Stand C76 covering embedded computing, medical All-in-One (AIO) PCs and portable devices.

Haarlem – November 03, 2026 -- WyreStorm Technologies has opened a regional headquarters in Haarlem, the Netherlands, to run its EMEA, India and Pacific operations from a single permanent base. The New York-headquartered AV manufacturer opened the site in September.

MUNICH – November 03, 2026 -- Longsys (301308.SZ/09976.HK) will unveil its first industrial-grade, wide-temperature mSSD at electronica 2026, running November 10-13 in Munich, as demand for storage built for edge AI grows in automotive and industrial applications.

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.

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.

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.

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.