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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...

Insights | 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...

Insights | 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...

Insights | 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...

Insights | 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...

Insights | 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...

Insights | 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...

Insights | By Robin Mitchell | 12-06-2025

Electronics News Reimagined for Engineers and Buyers

Key Takeaways: Electronics news, reimagined: Weekly insights curated for engineers, buyers, and decision-makers. AI, EV, Lifecycle & ESG: Firsthand trend coverage from Electronica 2024 in one digital editi...

By Matthew Walker | 11-06-2025

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,...

Insights | By Robin Mitchell | 11-06-2025

NVIDIA Manufacturing Supercomputers in the US at Scale

Key Takeaways: NVIDIA to manufacture AI supercomputers entirely in the US — partnering with TSMC, Amkor, Foxconn and others, with large-scale facilities underway in Arizona and Texas. Up to $500 billion in AI infrastructure planned...

Insights | By Robin Mitchell | 09-06-2025

AI Killing Machines Regulation: UN Urges Global Ban by 2026

Key Takeaways: AI is transforming warfare in real-time: Ukraine’s deployment of autonomous drone swarms demonstrates how artificial intelligence is actively reshaping military strategies on the battlefield. Ethical concerns over AI...

Insights | By Robin Mitchell | 09-06-2025

Trump Coal Data Centers Plan Raises Power Grid Debate

Key Takeaways: AI and cloud computing are driving record-breaking power demands — Modern datacentres are consuming energy at unprecedented rates as workloads shift toward artificial intelligence and high-resolution media. Policy sh...

Insights | By Robin Mitchell | 06-06-2025