Insights

The blog posts that delve into the electronics industry's trends, offering insights and commentary on topics like robotics, e-waste solutions, green energy, electric vehicles, and security. Additionally, the articles investigate innovative approaches to address global challenges.


RISC-V and AI: Innatera’s PULSAR Shakes Up the Edge

Key Takeaways: RISC-V is emerging as a flexible alternative to ARM for embedded and AI applications, but its ecosystem is still developing. Innatera's PULSAR is the first mass-market neuromorphic microcontroller, designed to bring...

By Robin Mitchell | 24-06-2025

Samsung UK Tech for Good at Big Bang Fair 2025

Key Takeaways: Over 1,500 students participated in Samsung’s tech-for-good design sprint at the Big Bang Fair 2025. 442 innovative ideas were submitted, including emotion-sensing wearables and health-tracking smart devices....

By Matthew Walker | 23-06-2025

Intel Xeon 6 HPC Supercomputer Chosen by Imperial College

Intel Xeon 6 6900P processors with Performance-cores will power Imperial College London’s new HX2 supercomputer, built on Lenovo’s liquid-cooled ThinkSystem SC750 V4 Neptune platform. Part of the ICICLE collaboration, HX2 launches this year to drive...

By Matthew Walker | 20-06-2025

Sustainable Humidity Sensor Uses Inkjet Printing Tech

Key Takeaways: Sensor waste is a mounting issue in the IoT era, with billions of short-lived devices contributing to global e-waste. Researchers at the University of Münster have developed a fully inkjet-printable humidity sensor m...

By Robin Mitchell | 20-06-2025

Reconfigurable Flexible CMOS Circuits Advance Modular Design

Key Takeaways: Rice University researchers have developed reconfigurable carbon nanotube transistors capable of switching between p-type and n-type behaviours. These polarity-configurable thin-film transistors (PC-TFTs) enable flex...

By Robin Mitchell | 19-06-2025

SiC Power Modules Driving Military Electrification

Laser Weapons will depend heavily on Silicon Carbide (SiC) Semiconductors. Key Takeaways about SiC Power Modules: The New Backbone of Military Electrification: Modern power converters based on wide bandgap semiconductors offer many advanta...

By Gary Elinoff | 18-06-2025

Mitsubishi Backs Next-Gen Tech for Electronics Recycling

While smartphones, laptops, and smart appliances have transformed modern life, their rapid turnover and complex construction have created a mounting environmental concern: electronic waste. Despite widespread awareness, most e-waste still ends up in landfills...

By Robin Mitchell | 18-06-2025

Open Source RISC-V Chips Fuel China’s Tech Ascent

Key Takeaways: China’s RISC‑V adoption is no longer grassroots — it’s now national policy, with all domestic IoT chips mandated to adopt the ISA by 2027. Open source is China’s strategic workaround to Western sanctions, allowing ra...

By Robin Mitchell | 17-06-2025

Fix Point Defects in Semiconductors at 200°C with MoS₂

Key Takeaways: A new low-temperature technique using PFBT has been developed to repair sulphur vacancies in molybdenum disulfide (MoS₂), a key material for next-generation semiconductors. The method restores the atomic structure of...

By Robin Mitchell | 17-06-2025

Tattooing Tardigrades with Nanotech for Living Devices

Key Takeaways: Researchers tattooed living tardigrades using ice lithography — a biocompatible nanofabrication process demonstrating unprecedented precision at the microscale. This technique may enable next-gen biodevices — potenti...

By Robin Mitchell | 17-06-2025

Intel Memory Market Reboot: SoftBank Partnership Plan

Key Takeaways: AI memory bottlenecks are slowing the progress of large-scale models, with current GPU limitations at the centre of the problem. Standard memory technologies like DDR4/5 can’t deliver the bandwidth AI workloads deman...

By Robin Mitchell | 13-06-2025

Space-Grade GaN: Powering Next-Gen Defence Satellites

Key Takeaways about Space-Grade GaN: Enabling the Next Generation of Defence Satellite: Gallium Nitride (GaN) is a type of wide bandgap semiconductor, alongside of SiC   The technology has inherently good resistance to radiation, w...

By Gary Elinoff | 13-06-2025

Environmentally-Friendly TENG Energy Harvesters Developed

Key Takeaways: Waste-derived TENGs use common bathroom waste materials like towels and scrubbers to generate electricity from everyday movements. Energy output of up to 34.5 μW demonstrates practical use in low-power applications l...

By Robin Mitchell | 12-06-2025

Electronic Skin with Unique Fingerprints for Robots

Key Takeaways: UNIST researchers develop electronic skin with unique, unreproducible fingerprints—offering a powerful solution for robotic traceability and identity verification. Electronic skin patterns are physically unclonable,...

By Robin Mitchell | 11-06-2025