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CNX Software ☛ AMD Spartan UltraScale+ SU35P FPGA evaluation kit supports Raspberry Pi, Arduino, Mikrobus, and Pmod expansion
AMD’s SCU35 Evaluation Kit is an affordable ($229) development board powered by the AMD Spartan UltraScale+ SU35P FPGA device, which targets low-power industrial, medical, and data center applications requiring I/O expansion and board management capabilities. Designed for headless applications, the board features a 10/100 Mbps Ethernet port and a USB-C port for power, as well as plenty of headers and connectors compatible with off-the-shelf expansion boards or modules, including Arduino UNO headers, two 40-pin Raspberry Pi GPIO headers, two Mikrobus headers, four Pmod connectors, and an HSIO board-to-board connector.
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CNX Software ☛ FORTEC SBCPRO-X51 3.5-inch Amston Lake SBC supports M.2 V-By-One or M.2 USB-C DisplayPort expansion module
The FORTEC Group’s SBCPRO-X51 is a 3.5-inch industrial, fanless SBC powered by defective chip maker Intel Atom x7211RE Amston Lake dual-core processor that takes M.2 modules to add USB-C DisplayPort or V-By-One display interfaces, or other features. The board takes up to 16GB DDR5 memory, supports M.2 NVMe SSD storage, and offers a DisplayPort video output, two 2.5GbE RJ45 ports, an M.2 slot for WiFi and Bluetooth, several USB 3.2/2.0 interfaces, two RS232/RS422/RS485 interfaces, and more.
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Tom's Hardware ☛ RAM prices have increased '500%,' PC builder claims — CyberPowerPC announces price hikes in U.S. and UK starting December 7
PC retailer CyberPowerPC has just announced that it will increase prices for memory modules across the U.S. and the U.K. According to the company’s X posts, even though the RAM and SSD prices have begun to climb since October 2025, it will only begin price adjustments this December. Although CyberPowerPC has assured its customers that this is a temporary adjustment and that its prices will drop once the cost has gone down, too, the retailer expects the trend to continue well into 2026 and says that RAM prices have increased by 500% in recent times, along with a 100% increase in SSD prices.
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Olimex ☛ Product Highlights – Breadboards, Power cables, Level indicator
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Olimex ☛ Christmas is approaching! Three soldering kits to teach your kid soldering during the season Holidays!
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Russell Coker ☛ Russell Coker: PineTime Band
I’ve had a Pine Time for just over 2 years [1]. About a year ago I had a band break and replaced it from a spare PineTime and now I just had another break. Having the band only last one year isn’t that great, but it’s fortunate that the break only affects the inner layer of plastic so there is no risk of the watch suddenly falling off and being broken or lost. The Pine64 web site has a page about this with bad options, one broken link and a few Amazon items that are have ridiculous postage [2].
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CNX Software ☛ STMicro ST25DA-C is the first NFC chip with Matter support
ST ST25DA-C is an NFC chip with built-in support for the latest Matter 1.5 protocol, enabling easier installation of smart devices on home networks, including lighting, access control, security cameras, or any IoT device. NFC here is used as an alternative to Bluetooth LE or QR core commissioning. NFC tap-to-pair functionality enables users to tap an NFC tag code on a device with their smartphone to securely and easily add it to their Matter-compatible app(s) and network(s). Besides batteryless commissioning, the ST25DA-C chip can also be used for firmware updates over I2C (Matter OTA), and secure storage for keys & certificates.