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.


Gamgee Uses Your Home's Wi-Fi as a Burglar Detector

Gamgee, a company specialsing in innovative home security solutions, has introduced a unique concept of utilising Wi-Fi signals to detect intruders within households. By analysing disruptions in Wi-Fi signals caused by human movements, Gamgee aims to create a...

By Robin Mitchell | 18-07-2024

OCI Chiplet by Intel: High-Speed, Low-Power AI Infrastructure

Intel has introduced a groundbreaking optical technology, the OCI chiplet, at the Optical Fiber Communication Conference 2024. This innovative chiplet supports bidirectional data transmission over longer distances with significantly reduced power consumption,...

By Robin Mitchell | 17-07-2024

Embedded Components in PCBs: The Future of Compact Electronics

Many trends are driving change across the electronics industry, but few are as pervasive as the push for miniaturisation. Demand for more compact form factors is rising across all electronics segments, leading engineers to rethink long-held design principles....

By Ellie Gabel | 15-07-2024

3D Stretchable Electronics: A Game-Changer for Wearables

The strip's 3D structure enhances its flexibility, making it stretchable. Nottingham Trent University is exploring the realm of washable, stretchable electronics for medical wearables, with 4mm diameter elastomer fibres showing promise as a substrate for elec...

By Robin Mitchell | 12-07-2024

Digital Twins Technology: Advancing Preventive Healthcare

Digital twins are emerging as a groundbreaking technology in the healthcare sector, offering personalised care and predictive capabilities based on patient data. This innovation has the potential to significantly enhance disease prevention, particularly in ar...

By Robin Mitchell | 09-07-2024

2nm Chip Technology: Intel, Samsung, and TSMC's New Race

Intel, Samsung, and TSMC are at the forefront of a race to implement backside power delivery technology in their 2-nanometer nodes, aiming to enhance their competitiveness in the AI chip market. This innovative technology is poised to enhance chip efficiency...

By Robin Mitchell | 08-07-2024

GaN and SiC Markets: A Boom in Wide Bandgap Semiconductors

GaN, SiC and Silicon compared. Image source: Infineon  Key Takeaways about Riding the Wave: The Boom of GaN and SiC Markets:   Gallium Nitride (GaN) and Silicon Carbide (GaN) are members of a new class of power semiconductors known as Wide Bandgap semicon...

By Gary Elinoff | 05-07-2024

Huawei AI Chip Rivals Nvidia A100 in Performance Claims

Artificial intelligence has seen massive growth over the past few years, and those involved with its development and deployment are continually looking for new opportunities to integrate the technology. However, as large-scale AIs require Nvidia GPUs to be ef...

By Robin Mitchell | 03-07-2024

Flow Computing's PPU Claims to Boost CPU Power by 100x

CPUs have long been the dominant computational device in electronics thanks to their ability to handle any computational task, but due to the specific nature of some key applications, other processor types, such as GPUs and NPUs, have also emerged. Considerin...

By Robin Mitchell | 02-07-2024

Advanced 3D Printing for Stretchable Microfluidic Electronics

3D printing has often been hailed as the manufacturing method of the future, being easy to deploy, work with countless materials, and most importantly, produce almost any 3D shape that one can imagine. However, one idea that engineers are particularly interes...

By Robin Mitchell | 25-06-2024

Taming Wind and Sun with Silicon Carbide & GaN

Key Takeaways about Silicon Carbide and Gallium Nitride Tame the Wind and the Sun:   The wind's speed and the sun's intensity at ground levels are, of course, highly variable. As a result, the electrical outputs of wind turbines and solar farms are not s...

By Gary Elinoff | 24-06-2024

Cyber Trust Mark: New Certification for IoT Security

In less than a decade, the number of IoT devices has exponentially grown, and they are found in almost all places, including homes, offices, and factories. But while these simple internet-enabled devices have proven themselves to be extraordinarily useful, th...

By Robin Mitchell | 20-06-2024

NHS Urgently Seeks Blood Donations Post Ransomware Attack

Recently, an NHS hospital in London was the victim of a large-scale ransomware attack, with patients missing out on much-needed procedures and preventing staff access to key records. As the hospital comes to grips with the consequences of this latest attack,...

By Robin Mitchell | 18-06-2024

Silicon Carbide and Gallium Nitride for EV Power Efficiency

Wide Bandgap Semiconductors deliver the power for EVs. Image source: Infineon  Key Takeaways about Power Semiconductors for Electric Vehicles:  Generating the energy needed by EVs isn’t without ecological consequences.  The employment of Wide Bandgap...

By Gary Elinoff | 06-06-2024