Six product releases from the November 5 wire, read for what is actually new and what is only packaging. Two of them are real engineering news. Two are distribution deals. The other two sit somewhere between.
Renesas RZ/T2N folds the robot controller and the drive into one MPU
This is the most substantial release of the day. The RZ/T2N pairs two Arm Cortex-A55 cores at up to 1.2 GHz, for Linux and application work, with two Cortex-R52 cores at up to 800 MHz for real-time motor control. Each R52 gets 576 KB of ECC-protected tightly coupled memory. It drives up to four axes, with two encoder interfaces per axis, and supports the usual encoder protocols from Tamagawa T-Format and HIPERFACE DSL through EnDat and BiSS.
The networking side has three Gigabit Ethernet MACs, an Ethernet switch and an EtherCAT SubDevice controller, with PROFINET RT and IRT, EtherNet/IP and Time-Sensitive Networking. Renesas says it can act as either the network controller or a device. That matters for the target buyers, makers of articulated, SCARA and delta robots, multi-axis servo drives and PLCs, who today often split those jobs across two or three chips.
The chip and evaluation board are available now. One gap to note: functional safety software is planned for the second half of 2027, so anyone building safety-rated drives will be waiting for it. Renesas will demo the part at electronica in Munich, November 10 to 13, Hall C5, Stand 479.
pSemi PE423213 covers 0.3 to 10.6 GHz in a 1.6 mm package
pSemi, the Murata company, added a reflective SPDT RF switch on its UltraCMOS+ silicon-on-insulator process. The range runs from 0.3 to 10.6 GHz, which puts Wi-Fi, Bluetooth, ISM and ultra-wideband on one part. Typical insertion loss is 0.4 dB at 6 GHz and 0.7 dB at 10.6 GHz. Isolation falls from 28 dB at 6 GHz to 18 dB at the top of the band, so the high end is usable but not generous.
The detail that matters for battery devices is supply current, 95 nA typical. The package is a 6-lead DFN at 1.6 by 1.6 mm, rated from minus 40 to plus 105 degrees C. pSemi points it at UWB access control, asset tracking, indoor navigation and wearables, where UWB at 6.5 and 8 GHz sits alongside the 2.4 GHz radios. The part number is PE423213A-Z with evaluation kit EK423213-01, and it debuts at electronica on the Murata stand, C4-179. No price was given.
Mirth Connect 4.8 adds OAuth, encryption at rest and a monitoring dashboard
NextGen Healthcare shipped version 4.8 of the integration engine that moves HL7 and FHIR data between hospital systems in more than 40 countries. The practical additions are OAuth 2.0 for connecting to protected HTTP and FHIR endpoints, encryption for exported configurations and data at rest, and updated core libraries including Jetty, Netty and Bouncy Castle. H2 replaces Apache Derby as the default database. The Command Center gets one dashboard for server and channel metrics with threshold alerts.
The AI assistant, Mirth Assist, now covers development, production monitoring and support. U.S. customers can also move historical message data into NextGen-managed cloud storage and pull it back for reprocessing.
What the release leaves out is licensing. Mirth moved from open source to a commercial license with the 4.6 line, and many hospitals are still deciding whether to pay, stay on old versions or migrate. Version 4.8 is NextGen’s argument for paying. It will be shown at its user group meeting in San Diego, November 8 to 11, and at HLTH in Las Vegas, November 15 to 18.
Kontakt.io bundles five clinic tools into KIO Clinic
Kontakt.io packaged its hospital products for outpatient sites. The center of KIO Clinic is KIO Access, which uses thermal occupancy sensors, staff badge data and EHR context to show how exam rooms are actually used, without tagging patients. It can alert staff when a patient has waited too long in a room and tell patients about provider delays before they leave home.
The other four parts are staff duress badges, equipment tracking, temperature monitoring for vaccines and drugs, and hand hygiene monitoring. Each already existed for hospitals. The news is the bundle and the outpatient pricing angle, and the release names no customers. It is available now.
Postman Private Cloud goes on Microsoft Marketplace
Postman’s single-tenant Private Cloud, a dedicated environment that Postman runs for customers with strict data residency or infrastructure rules, can now be bought through Microsoft Marketplace. For large Azure customers that means the spend can count against existing Microsoft commitments, which is usually the real reason for these listings. The release gives no technical detail on Azure integration, regions or pricing. Postman counts more than 50 million developers and 500,000 organizations as users.
Qumulo joins the AWS Workload Migration Program
Qumulo, the file storage company, joined the AWS program that funds and staffs migrations from on-premises storage to AWS. Customers moving large unstructured file sets can get AWS help with cost and timing. Cloud Native Qumulo runs in the customer’s own AWS account with NFS, SMB and S3 access, so applications don’t need rewriting. Qumulo claims up to 80 percent lower total cost of ownership than other cloud file services and more than 1,000 production customers. AWS funding amounts and eligibility weren’t disclosed, so the size of the incentive is unknown.
What to take from the day
Electronica week starts on November 10, and both chip releases are timed to it. Three of the four software releases are mostly about routes to purchase, which says something about how enterprise IT gets bought in late 2026. Cloud commitments and marketplace listings carry as much weight as the feature list. For more on the chip side, see our coverage on technologies.org.