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New workload demands are turning data handling into a system-level design challenge rather than a back-end afterthought.
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Mapping the fast-growing market for AI processors indicates the startup boom has peaked — or is very close to it.
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As Bluetooth and other wireless technologies enable continuous health monitoring, the lines between consumer and medical electronics are blurring.
With the proliferation of generative AI (GenAI) models, data centers are under pressure to deliver unprecedented computational power, energy efficiency, and thermal management...

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Ferric is positioning its integrated voltage regulators as “power chiplets" primed for co-packaging with high-performance GPUs and other chips.
Taking a close look at Diamond Systems’ rugged SabreCom embedded system.

Now and Then

These articles compare technologies from the past to how they stack up today... if at all.

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Now and Then: Minicomputers
For some time, minicomputers were a dominant force in computing. But where do they stand now?
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Magnetic cores had some interesting uses, but a lot has changed in memory technology.
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Editor Bill Wong reminisces about his many encounters with MS-DOS.
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Here’s a graphical look back and forward at display processing technology, from CRTs to ray tracing.
From the early CRT-based tools to the latest multifunctional powerhouses, the venerable oscilloscope has long been a mainstay of electronic design.
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Electronic Design’s Embedded Revolution survey reinforced the view of C and C++ dominance. Get some feedback from those involved in the development of popular embedded programming...

More of This Week's Articles

The Featured Articles above are just some of the content that's new this week on Electronic Design. Check out the rest here.

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Join Editor Bill Wong at the 2026 Chiplet Summit, which is being held on Feb. 17th through the 19th.
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In 2026, several key developments will impact Wi-Fi, from wider Wi-Fi 7 infrastructure adoption to new peer-to-peer capabilities and advances in sensing and locationing.
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An optimized, basic op amp offers precise sensor-output performance while negating temperature-induced drift and errors.
As safety-critical industries move beyond experimentation and toward production-grade adoption of Rust, 2026 marks a pivotal transition from promise to practical assurance.
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Tesla’s Semi Chargers for heavy-duty EV trucks will be installed by Pilot Travel Centers at a number of its centers during the first half of this year.
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A developer came up with a way to run an AI tool on a Z80, with the goal of determining whether it can be trained and fine-tuned under extreme constraints.
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CES presented some interesting tech on the floor — and behind closed doors.
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Old is new again as tiny mechanical contactors outperform solid-state switches, monolithic inductors for power conversion, and powering Nixie tube displays.
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This brief tutorial explains how the “Wiegand effect” can be used as a reliable, low-cost, energy-harvesting system to power a variety of IoT applications.
Unlock the future of semiconductor innovation with chiplets — enabling scalable, cost-effective designs and paving the way for a reusable chip marketplace.
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As tech giants race to turn voice into the dominant interface for AI, the company is positioning the HiFi iQ as a key building block.
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Virtualization helps overcome the limitations of traditional test systems. By consolidating multiple PCs into a single solution, the system becomes more compact, cost-efficient...
Skin-attached measurement is increasingly the research “platform” for medical monitoring and research.
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Chip fabs are key cogs in the technology supply chain, and according to TXOne Networks, they're facing increasing cyber threats.
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Improving density in circuit design is an ongoing challenge. One solution is to reconsider circuit layouts from the perspective of bandwidth optimization.
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As the move to physical AI speeds up, how do you make sure these capabilities become broadly accessible and not limited to only high-performance systems?
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A wide of array of advanced controllers arrived in 2025, marked by high integration and enhanced intelligence in solutions involving USB and other technologies.

Editor's Choice: From the Electronic Design Archives

These articles were chosen by the editors at Electronic Design that complement the new articles above. They are included in our regular newsletters.

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Prepare for the quantum computing era and its cybersecurity risks. We discuss how post-quantum cryptography (PQC) and secure-memory solutions protect industries and supply chains...
Flexible, stretchable electrodes give more degrees of freedom to battery design-in.
Electronic Design has curated a series of white papers that help you understand NVIDIA’s 800-V DC power architecture for “AI factories” and how the semiconductor community is ...
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Is high-voltage DC (HVDC) the future of power distribution in data centers? If so, power-supply designers will have to work through a lot of challenges to make it a reality.
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Speed, formats, and storage capacities are key factors that separate a microSD card from a microSD Express card.
Learn more about the UCIe 2.0 specification and how it could untangle the technical and business challenges holding back the future of chiplets.
Artificial intelligence (AI) has proven useful in a range of applications, even in the electronic-design-automation arena. And by the looks of things, AI will have a greater impact...
Arduino is an enormously popular platform for Makers and hackers. This TechXchange explores how the venerable Arduino can be used in professional developing.
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“Engineer at the Movies” takes on “Supercell,” a storm-chasing family endeavor coupled with fantastic storms and factual technology.
NRZ, NRZI, and Manchester are popular serial encoding mechanisms. Find out how they differ from each other.

Editor's Picks from Other Websites

We hope you enjoy the articles on Electronic Design, but there's a lot going on and we can't cover everything. In this section, Electronic Design editors highlight articles they found this week that you might be interested in as well.

Bill Wong's Picks of the Week

Here are some of the articles I was reading this past wek. 

What is a quantum switch? Check out this article at Laser Focus World.

  • Quantum switch? - Researchers discover a single quantum parameter—the size of its spin—acts as a switch that flips its magnetism. This discovery offers a new way to think about how quantum states can be controlled within complex materials. @ Laser Focus World

Over at Vision Systems Design, there is a great article on LiDAR. 

We cover securitiy issues and technology at Electronic Design but engineers and programmers can find some good articles at SecurityInfoWatch.com like this one.

Andy's Picks From Around the Web

Why Replacing Developers with AI is Going Horribly Wrong

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A Display Powered by Air: 3D Printed Microfluidic Multiplexing

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=VZ2ZcOzLnGg

"I Got EJECTED Off a Truck at 80 km/h". Crew builds a reverse rail launcher to eject a person from a flatbed truck running down a road at 80 km/h to land the human at zero ground speed.

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The 1% Rule: Why Elon Musk Never Finishes Anything

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=H-FkE7Siafw

First time in the history of The Birdman Contest - Japanese university team's human powered flight goes 60km.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=JNMgeE90q7c

US companies accused of ‘AI washing’ in citing artificial intelligence for job losses

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/feb/08/ai-washing-job-losses-artificial-intelligence

 

Benefits of a Unified I/O Architecture @ Automation World

Over at Automation World, editor David Greenfield provides his insight into I/O architectures. You can watch it here. 

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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. 

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