Manufacturing & Industrial Technology

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.

HELSINKI – November 01, 2026 -- UPM-Kymmene Corporation's partial demerger was registered with the Finnish Trade Register on October 31, 2026, clearing the way for WISA Group Plc to start trading on Nasdaq Helsinki on November 2 under the code "WISA".

Plywood assets and liabilities move to newly established WISA Group

Under the demerger plan, UPM announced its approval on April 29, 2026. All assets and liabilities that belong to, or mainly serve, the UPM Plywood business area transfer to WISA Group, a company established through the demerger.

Nasdaq Helsinki approves WISA listing under ISIN FI4000603345

Nasdaq Helsinki Ltd approved the application to admit WISA Group's shares to trading on its regulated market. The shares carry the ISIN code FI4000603345.

UPM shares continue to trade on the same market under the code "UPM". Their ISIN changes to FI4000603337.

LOS ANGELES – November 01, 2026 -- FF EAI Robotics Ecosystem Inc. (NASDAQ: FFR) sold and shipped a record 351 robot devices in October, lifting cumulative sales and shipments past 1,000 units to 1,168 since deliveries began at the end of February. The company says it continues to deliver at a positive unit gross margin.

FFR expects more than 400 monthly units in November and December

Founder and Global CEO YT Jia, in his first weekly report since becoming FFR's CEO, said October growth was in line with expectations. The company expects average monthly sales and shipments of more than 400 units in both November and December. Management links that run-rate to its full-year guidance of approximately 2,000 devices sold and shipped by the acquired robotics business, measured on a standalone basis.

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.

TORONTO – November 02, 2026 -- Aclara Resources (TSX: ARA) has completed its first Cooperative Research and Development Agreement with Argonne National Laboratory. The agreement produced a validated steady-state model of the rare earth separation circuit planned for Project Dynamo in Vinton, Louisiana.

The CRADA was signed on January 13, 2026. The model was calibrated against the full set of operating data and chemical assays from Aclara's demonstration plant at the Virginia Tech Corporate Research Center in Blacksburg, Virginia.

Model predicts concentrations across 478 coupled stages

Project Dynamo's separation plant is designed as a network of 478 interconnected mixer-settler stages. Solvent extraction separates the individual rare earth elements in counter-current flow. A change at any point, even a minor adjustment to an acid or base flow rate, shifts the equilibrium of surrounding stages and propagates across the circuit.

PISCATAWAY – November 02, 2026 -- Researchers report that the optical structure beneath a 10 nm gold film changes how laser-induced dewetting unfolds, offering a new lever for controlling nanostructure formation in metallic thin films, according to a study in IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Quantum Electronics.

Two of four substrates produced previously unreported dewetting features

The team fabricated four samples with identical chemical compositions but different optical structures, varying the thickness of the underlying silica and gold layers. Two samples showed the expected solid-state dewetting behavior. The other two exhibited broad nano- and micron-scale particle size distributions and complex spatial patterns not reported before.

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.

Tempe, Ariz. – November 02, 2026 -- The ISM Manufacturing PMI rose to 55.5 percent in October from 54.5 percent in September, marking the 10th consecutive month of expansion in U.S. manufacturing. The Institute for Supply Management (ISM) reported that the overall economy has now expanded for 24 consecutive months.

Production Index jumps 2.3 points to 59 percent, highest since November 2021

The Production Index rose from 56.7 percent to 59 percent, its highest reading since November 2021 (60.5 percent). It has expanded for 12 months in a row, and the ratio of positive to negative comments improved to 2-to-1 from 1.6-to-1 in September.

The New Orders Index expanded for the 10th straight month after four consecutive contraction readings, registering 55.5 percent versus 55.3 percent in September. The Backlog of Orders Index fell 1.8 points to 54.6 percent. The New Export Orders Index gained 0.3 point to 51.2 percent.

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.