TL;DR: AMD's RDNA 4 GPU launch, particularly the Radeon RX 9070 XT, has been well-received due to improved ray-tracing and FSR 4, closing the gap with NVIDIA. Despite no official reference models, ...

The term “reference design” can apply to a wide range of materials available to educate engineers and accelerate design cycles. Definitions of some of the terms surrounding reference designs follow: ...

Qualcomm has revealed its latest AR glasses reference design, which it offers up to other companies as a blueprint for building their own AR devices. The reference design, which gives us a strong hint ...

Microchip Technology’s MCP3909 energy-measurement IC and the MCP3909 3-Phase Energy Meter Reference Design enable designers to quickly design and develop energy meter designs. The IC combines low ...

Searching for reference designs on the Web can be a challenge. Inconsistent terminology makes keyword searches tricky, and often reference-design information is not even on the Web. The amount of free ...

Pegatron proudly announced the debut of its groundbreaking Augmented Reality (AR) smart glasses reference design, the Verge Smart Glasses, at COMPUTEX 2025 in Taipei. The Verge series integrated state ...

Qualcomm pulled back the curtain on a mixed reality headset design based on its high-powered XR2 chipset around this time last year, but it still isn’t done with the processor that precedes that one.

Silicon Labs’ reference design provides a complete solution for a USB Type-C to DisplayPort (DP) adapter, making it easy to communicate with legacy products that do not support USB-C. Available to ...

Qualcomm today announced the Snapdragon XR1 AR Smart Viewer reference design, which will help hardware designers create powerful AR smart glasses for the consumer and enterprise markets. Qualcomm's ...

Silicon Laboratories single-phase point of load (POL) reference design enables engineers to implement digitally controlled POLs for many end applications. This reference design is a 20-A POL suitable ...

While our guide to the best graphics cards can help you identify which hardware works best within your budget, simply knowing that you want to buy, say, a Radeon RX 5700 is only the start of the ...