A Look Ahead at electronica 2026

Alix Paultre and Bill Wong preview electronica 2026, touching on the redesigned exhibitor areas and trending technologies on tap.

Alix Paultre

William G. Wong

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Nov. 10, 2026

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What you'll learn:

electronica as an industry event.
Things we expect to see at the show.

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The electronica exhibition is one of the largest and most popular events in the electronic design engineering space. It features approximately 3,500 exhibitors across 18 halls, including SEMICON Europe, bringing together the industry's combined innovative power. This year, the exhibit area and hall layout are even more coherent, with an entire hall added to the semiconductor area.

Halls C5 and C6 have been redesigned based on feedback from exhibitors and visitors. Large joint stands were removed, and major semiconductor companies and distributors are deliberately spread across all of the halls in that area to create a balanced mix of exhibitors. Another new feature in C5 is edge lab LIVE!, a special area showcasing edge technologies in practical applications.

The show will address topics such as power electronics, embedded technologies, chiplets, and cybersecurity. And let’s not forget the diverse supporting program to share expertise and ideas. With the extensive program, it’s hard to single out specific highlights, but the key topics will focus on artificial intelligence, cyber resilience, and energy efficiency.

In this podcast, Electronic Design’s Alix Paultre and Bill Wong talk about the show, the electronics industry, and what topics may be covered at electronica.

About the Author

Alix Paultre

Editor-at-Large, Electronic Design

An Army veteran, Alix Paultre was a signals intelligence soldier on the East/West German border in the early ‘80s, and eventually wound up helping launch and run a publication on consumer electronics for the US military stationed in Europe. Alix first began in this industry in 1998 at Electronic Products magazine, and since then has worked for a variety of publications in the embedded electronic engineering space. Alix currently lives in Wiesbaden, Germany.

Also check out his YouTube watch-collecting channel, Talking Timepieces.

William G. Wong

Senior Content Director - Electronic Design and Microwaves & RF

I am Editor of Electronic Design focusing on embedded, software, and systems. As Senior Content Director, I also manage Microwaves & RF and I work with a great team of editors to provide engineers, programmers, developers and technical managers with interesting and useful articles and videos on a regular basis. Check out our free newsletters to see the latest content.

You can send press releases for new products for possible coverage on the website. I am also interested in receiving contributed articles for publishing on our website. Use our template and send to me along with a signed release form.

Check out my blog, AltEmbedded on Electronic Design, as well as his latest articles on this site that are listed below.

You can visit my social media via these links:

I earned a Bachelor of Electrical Engineering at the Georgia Institute of Technology and a Masters in Computer Science from Rutgers University. I still do a bit of programming using everything from C and C++ to Rust and Ada/SPARK. I do a bit of PHP programming for Drupal websites. I have posted a few Drupal modules.

I still get a hand on software and electronic hardware. Some of this can be found on our Kit Close-Up video series. You can also see me on many of our TechXchange Talk videos. I am interested in a range of projects from robotics to artificial intelligence.