Washington Puts Quantum on the Fab Floor

by Microwave Product Digest | Jul 18, 2026 | Feature Article

by Barry Manz, Editor The U.S. government has decided that quantum computing is no longer a research line item. The Commerce Department said it would take equity stakes in nine quantum-computing companies tied to roughly $2 billion in funding, a move it framed as...

SCADA’s Weak Link Lives in the RF Layer

by Microwave Product Digest | Jul 11, 2026 | Feature Article

by Barry Manz, Editor Supervisory control and data acquisition (SCADA) systems have been in the news lately, and not in a good way. Programmable logic controllers (PLCs) across U.S. water, energy, and government facilities are being targeted by alleged Iran-affiliated...

EMC Testing Standards, Environments, and Best Practices

by Microwave Product Digest | Jul 9, 2026 | Feature Article

by Barry Manz, Editor Every electronic circuit radiates some degree of energy, draws current that can disrupt its own power lines, and ultimately must share its operating environment with other devices. Electromagnetic compatibility (EMC) testing prevents these...

Accelerating Semiconductor Innovation through Machine Learning-Driven Modeling

by Microwave Product Digest | Jul 3, 2026 | Feature Article

by Keysight Technologies A machine learning-driven extraction workflow has cut BSIM4 MOSFET parameter extraction from more than 100 steps to five or six, validated across 36 device geometries and over 80 simultaneously optimized parameters. A comparable workflow for...

Reflectarray Antenna Targets SATCOM Interference

by Microwave Product Digest | Jul 1, 2026 | Feature Article

by MIT Lincoln Laboratory Reliable satellite communications have become a central requirement for military operations, particularly as adversaries increase their ability to disrupt, intercept, or deny signals in contested environments. For tactical SATCOM users, the...

RF and Optical Characterization Challenges for Photonic Integrated Circuits

by Microwave Product Digest | Jun 13, 2026 | Feature Article

by FormFactor The rapid buildout of AI data centers is putting enormous pressure on the interconnects moving data among GPUs, accelerators, switches, and storage, and adding more racks and processors only gets you so far. The traffic between them also has to move...