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As AI reshapes engineering work, continuous education is becoming the clearest path to staying relevant and indispensable.
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Parallel battery-management ICs provide new ways to stretch out the limited runtime of smart glasses and AR devices.
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FPGAs continue to gain ground in the edge AI arena thanks to their combination of reconfigurable hardware and deterministic, low-latency performance.
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In this Q&A, you will learn about some of the technologies and techniques that are making it possible to address advanced packaging challenges.

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When deploying connectors engineered to perform in extreme temperatures and harsh environments, it’s important to understand customer needs to deliver tailored solutions.

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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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Stay on top of the technologies and trends in focus at APEC 2026 and hear from industry insiders on the state of the power electronics industry.
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MediaTek’s Genio family expands with NPU-enhanced chips that can handle generative AI.
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Find out what NVIDIA is delivering in the AI space.
EndeavorB2B, Lee Goldberg, and Hugmans Oasis
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Three of Electronic Design’s most colorful editors will be attending North America’s leading power conference and would love to meet you if you’re planning to attend APEC 2026...
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Following a strategic approach to cooling, power delivery and rack-level integration will help data centers boost AI compute density.
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FPGAs continue to gain ground in the edge AI arena thanks to their combination of reconfigurable hardware and deterministic, low-latency performance.
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Check out the breaking news, videos, and podcasts at this year's Embedded World conference.
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"The code that shall not be named."
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The humble, ancient digital logic gate continues to play a key role in advanced applications.
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The SmartMCD TB9M001FTG driver board brings precision control to two brushed DC motors.
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Electric aviation is on the rise and Electronic Design’s Lee Goldberg will be on the road to cover the latest developments at two of this year’s most exciting air shows.
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The AGI CPU developed by Arm targets agentic AI hyperscaler server racks.
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A basic building block is often the key to completing an analog signal path in various applications, such as automated test equipment.
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In the patent application, CATL states it’s developed a positive electrode plate that uses a fluorine-containing lithium salt and sulfide solid-state electrolyte materials.
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Digital transformation is often misunderstood in manufacturing. Many myths keep factories tied to outdated methods. Here are 11 common misconceptions — and the reality behind ...
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The company’s new IsoShield technology can squeeze most of the building blocks of a bias power supply into the same package.
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Despite rapid adoption across modern vehicle platforms, myth busting is still required when highlighting the benefits of twisted-pair automotive Ethernet.
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The range of high-performance, power-efficient embedded computing modules has never been broader, making it more difficult for developers to find the best fit.
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When deploying connectors engineered to perform in extreme temperatures and harsh environments, it’s important to understand customer needs to deliver tailored solutions.
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The SL2001 and SL2002 laser firing system ICs for LiDAR and rangefinders integrate charging and firing on a single chip, cutting footprint by 80% and power losses by 70%.
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More engineers are turning to reinforcement learning to incorporate adaptive and self-tuning control into industrial systems. It aims to strike a balance between traditional process...

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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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Electric motors can be found in most types of machinery. Here we examine some of the common myths about their selection, operation, and future.
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Follow these best practices for PCB design and antenna placement to get the best performance out of your RF design.
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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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Magnetic sensors offer a convenient alternative to their mechanical counterparts. This article discusses the different types of these sensors, their operating principles, and ...
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This article looks at different methods applied to achieve ultra-low Iq in bandgap references, which are temperature-independent voltage references.
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“It’s a bug hunt”… A look at modern trace and debugging techniques such as static and dynamic analysis.
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Here’s a look at two commercially available e-trainers that are already flying and promise to lower the cost, and carbon footprint, of pilot training.
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Centered around model airplanes, one visionary is making STEM education a hands-on activity that’s so much fun whereby kids treat it as recreational.
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Part 2 discusses electrical design considerations for a purpose-built load device, including passive and active component selection, board layout, and techniques for precision...
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This article shows how to evaluate energy-harvesting technologies for IoT applications to minimize or eliminate the use of batteries.
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“Fake” chips present a huge issue for manufacturing companies trying to source ICs from non-traditional channels. One tool helps simplify the detection process.
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LoRaWAN is a low-power, low-cost wireless technology that can enable secure, highly reliable communications to smart buildings, smart cities, smart agriculture, and more.
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Ambarella’s latest technology offers an alternative for edge-based radar processing.
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Vision is an ever-improving aspect of machines and autonomous systems. The growing role of dedicated vision processors is likely to lead to faster vision systems.

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Editor's Weekly Picks 

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 this Week

Drones have changed the way war is waged and how packages are delivered. My first pick is from Military and Aerospace Electronics.

CONEXPO may not be at the top of your list like NVIDIA's GTC was for me, but Power and Motion editor Sara Jensen provides some great sensor coverage from the show that you might find very useful. 

You may not be heading to ISC West, but this article on SecurityInfowatch.com asks some questions you might want to add to your list when it comes to discussing AI and security. 

Andy's Picks From Around the Web

I had quite a few suggestions this week.

Toyota Will Invest $800 Million To Build A Second EV In The U.S. The Japanese automaker is pouring millions into EVs, while rivals pull back.

https://insideevs.com/news/790948/toyota-1-billion-kentucky-indiana-investment-evs/

OpenAI is shutting down its Sora video-creation app.

https://www.nbcnews.com/tech/tech-news/openai-shuttering-sora-video-generating-service-rcna264989

Sony Honda Mobility, the joint venture between Japanese electronics giant Sony and automaker Honda, said on Wednesday it would halt development of its Afeela electric vehicles after Honda joined rivals in scaling back its EV ambitions.

https://www.channelnewsasia.com/business/sony-honda-jv-scraps-afeela-ev-plans-after-honda-strategy-overhaul-6015921

Click to see Andy's latest article list.

Chery Reveals Rhino Battery with 8-Minute Charging and 1,500km Range Target

https://zecar.com/reviews/chery-rhino-battery-8-minute-charging-1500km-range

BYD plans 20 Canadian dealerships within a year as 6.1% tariff deal opens the floodgates

https://electrek.co/2026/03/24/byd-plans-20-canadian-dealerships-toronto-first/

Google unveils TurboQuant, a new AI memory compression algorithm — and yes, the internet is calling it ‘Pied Piper’

https://techcrunch.com/2026/03/25/google-turboquant-ai-memory-compression-silicon-valley-pied-piper/

Forget the RAM crisis — storage prices are spiralling, and processors could be next, as gaming PC maker warns 'CPU shortage is getting more serious'

https://www.techradar.com/computing/cpu/forget-the-ram-crisis-storage-prices-are-spiralling-and-processors-could-be-next-as-gaming-pc-maker-warns-cpu-shortage-is-getting-more-serious

Jensen Huang just painted the most bold image of AI’s future: 7.5 million agents, 75,000 humans—100 AI workers for every person—at Nvidia.

https://archive.is/iJylU

Meta is pulling the plug on its VR metaverse. [more Zuckerberg-as-a-visionary awesomeness].

https://www.techradar.com/computing/virtual-reality-augmented-reality/meta-is-pulling-the-plug-on-its-vr-metaverse-and-meta-quest-3-fans-dont-know-how-to-respond

How BYD Got EV Chargers to Work Almost as Fast as Gas Pumps

https://www.wired.com/story/how-byds-ev-charger-got-even-faster-and-it-might-not-matter-as-much-as-you-think/

Track every company citing AI for layoffs — and every company actively hiring for AI roles with direct job links. Updated weekly. Sources verified.

https://www.theaitechpulse.com/ai-layoffs-2026-tracker

The latest Donut Lab test by VTT has been released. Still no weight measurement, so no proof of the KEY claim in this - 400 Wh/kg. Still a NOTHINGBURGER.

https://pub-cbd24192d2f1419d824d5ae07a395452.r2.dev/VTT_CR_00178_26.pdf

""Solid-state" in this case is mostly a fantasy of the marketing department," Heiska booms in the direction of Donut Lab." [Article is written in Finnish, so use Google Translate]

https://www.kauppalehti.fi/uutiset/a/324befeb-76ea-4c2d-98ef-7b23e8dd0587

Trump Administration Yanks $1B From Offshore Wind, Redirects It to Oil and LNG

https://redstate.com/ben-smith/2026/03/23/trump-yanks-1b-from-offshore-wind-redirects-it-to-oil-and-lng-n2200547

 

 

   

 

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Electronic Design Show Coverage

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Stay on top of the technologies and trends in focus at APEC 2026 and hear from industry insiders on the state of the power electronics industry.
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Check out the breaking news, videos, and podcasts coming from this year's Chiplet Summit.
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Check out the breaking news, videos, and podcasts at this year's Embedded World conference.

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Check out the latest stories, videos, and podcasts from the week of Mar. 16, 2026.

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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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