Key Takeaways: Mouser Electronics won over 25 major industry awards in 2024, including global and regional Distributor of the Year honors. The company’s digital-first strategy—highlighted by E-Catalog and...

In The News | By Matthew Walker | 25-06-2025

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...

Insights | By Robin Mitchell | 24-06-2025

Key Takeaways: Wolfspeed is implementing a pre-packaged Chapter 11 restructuring with strong backing from over 97% of senior secured noteholders. The deal will reduce total debt by ~70% and cut annual interest payments by ~60%, imp...

In The News | By Matthew Walker | 23-06-2025

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....

Insights | By Matthew Walker | 23-06-2025

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...

Insights | By Matthew Walker | 20-06-2025

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...

Insights | By Robin Mitchell | 20-06-2025

Key Takeaways: Imec has achieved record RF performance with a GaN-on-Si E-mode transistor, reaching 27.8dBm output power and 66% PAE at 13GHz. The device uses an 8-finger gate layout and InAlN barrier laye...

In The News | By Matthew Walker | 19-06-2025

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...

Insights | By Robin Mitchell | 19-06-2025

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...

Insights | By Gary Elinoff | 18-06-2025

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

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

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