Electronic Design Weekly: July 20, 2026
In This Issue
- Editorial: Serendipity in the Age of AI
- Featured Content
- New Products
- Quizzes and More
- Multimedia on ElectronicDesign
- Editor's Choice: From the ElectronicDesign Archives
- Editor's Weekly Picks
- Illustrated Engineering
- Electronic Design Word of the Week
- New in Electronic Design's Member Library
- More Electronic Design Weekly
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Editorial: Serendipity in the Age of AI
Artificial intelligence (AI) has changed the nature of engineering and software development as well as the search habits of the world. Fewer people are clicking on links to referenced articles and taking the AI summary for granted. Usually, it’s pretty good, but sometimes it’s just AI slop that also seems to be permeating the content on the internet.
Of course, this article is a blatant push for you to regularly read or subscribe to Electronic Design Weekly. However, it’s a discussion about using AI, too, especially chatbots that have been integrated into every search engine, browser, and most applications. The key is the human in the loop.
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Quizzes and More
The problem with websites is you miss things if you blink. One of the fun things we do at Electronic Design is to remember and inform. Our Do You Recognize These? series is on of those you might like to check out. Here are a couple from that series as well as some other technology quizzes to challenge your expertise.
Editor's Choice: From the ElectronicDesign Archives
These articles were chosen by the editors at ElectronicDesign that complement the new articles above. They’re included in our regular newsletters.
Bill Wong's Picks of the Week
This week I decided to focus on security. Here are a few embedded focused articles on the topic you might find useful.
- Master Embedded Systems Security: A Step-by-Step Guide to Protect Critical Components @ Machine Design
How can you cover all the bases for embedded systems security? This step-by-step guide takes you through best practices. - The Perimeter Has Evolved From a Line Into a System @ Security Inforwatch.com
Based on the educational sessions at SIA's Perimeter PREVENT Conference, the fence is still there...it just stopped being the point. - Industrial security, thermal management and longevity for edge controllers @ Control Design
OEM checklist for balancing performance, protocols and lifecycle demands
Andy's Picks from Around the Web
MAN starts electric truck production in Kraków. Link
EV Sales Double in Japan in 1st Half; Toyota, Tesla, Nissan Have Biggest Shares. Link
[The headline:] Toyota’s next-gen Corolla EV takes center stage as a ‘sense of crisis’ reshapes the company. [The epic failure of status quo thinking:] It will be based on a new platform that supports all powertrain configurations, from battery electric (BEV) to plug-in hybrids to gas-powered vehicles. Link
SK On and Hyundai start battery cell production in Georgia. Link
Smart Glasses Are Getting People Charged With Crimes. Link
Click here to see Andy's full list of the latest articles and news.
Thousands of Google workers demand layoff protections amid AI boom in petition to CEO. Link
Windows 11 KB5121767 released to fix shutdowns, overheating, but you don’t need it unless you own these PCs. Link
LSU PHYSICISTS CREATE FIRST ROOM-TEMPERATURE QUANTUM MATERIAL: the quantum statistical plasmonic metacrystal. Link
An OpenAI exec's comments on China's Kimi K3 kicked off a big US tech debate. Link
Computer science enrollment fell for the first time in 20 years after ChatGPT's rise, a Stanford economist says. Link
Cloudflare's Prince: bots now outnumber humans online. Link
'VPNs are lawful technical tools,' says EU Court in landmark copyright ruling. Link
“A Company That Trades Privacy for Profit”: ACLU on Flock’s Growing Nationwide Surveillance Network. Link
Amazon data center in Bahrain struck and destroyed by Iranian cruise missiles. Link
Andy's Video Pick of the Week
This one harkens back to the point to point wiring we did in our high school electronics shop class, where we scratch built, including punching the aluminum chassis for tube sockets, a line-powered three-tube audio amp as well as a superhet AM radio set — again using vacuum tubes. Our transistor radio was built on a PCB.
Since taking an art class at the community college twice a year, recently, I'm starting to awaken the atrophied non-engineer brain half that appreciates this kind of stuff now...
Go Go Gadget... TREAT!
My inspiration and more about cyborgs in media after this link.
Or see my whole Engineering on Friday cartoon catalog here.
From AndyT's Inventors Comics Collection
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About the Author
William G. Wong
Senior Content Director - Electronic Design and Microwaves & RF
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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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Managing Editor - Electronic Design and Microwaves & RF
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Cabe Atwell
Technology Editor, Electronic Design
Cabe is a Technology Editor for Electronic Design.
Engineer, Machinist, Cartoonist, Maker, Writer. A graduate Electrical Engineer actively plying his expertise in the industry and at his company, Gunhead. When not designing/building, he creates a steady torrent of projects and content in the media world. Many of his projects and articles are online at element14 & SolidSmack, industry-focused work at EETimes & EDN, and offbeat articles at Make Magazine. Currently, you can find him hosting webinars and contributing to Electronic Design and Machine Design.
Cabe is an electrical engineer, design consultant and author with 25 years’ experience. His most recent book is “Essential 555 IC: Design, Configure, and Create Clever Circuits”
Cabe writes the Engineering Life & Engineering on Friday blog on Electronic Design.
See Cabe's cartoons & comic strips here.
James Morra
Senior Editor
James Morra is the senior editor for Electronic Design, covering the semiconductor industry and new technology trends, with a focus on power electronics and power management. He also reports on the business behind electrical engineering, including the electronics supply chain. He joined Electronic Design in 2015 and is based in Chicago, Illinois.
Andy Turudic
Technology Editor, Electronic Design
Andy Turudic is a Technology Editor for Electronic Design Magazine, primarily covering Analog and Mixed-Signal circuits and devices and also is Editor of ED's bi-weekly Automotive Electronics newsletter.
He holds a Bachelor's in EE from the University of Windsor (Ontario Canada) and has been involved in electronics, semiconductors, and gearhead stuff, for a bit over a half century. Andy also enjoys teaching his engineerlings at Portland Community College as a part-time professor in their EET program.
"AndyT" brings his multidisciplinary engineering experience from companies that include National Semiconductor (now Texas Instruments), Altera (Intel), Agere, Zarlink, TriQuint,(now Qorvo), SW Bell (managing a research team at Bellcore, Bell Labs and Rockwell Science Center), Bell-Northern Research, and Northern Telecom.
After hours, when he's not working on the latest invention to add to his portfolio of 16 issued US patents, or on his DARPA Challenge drone entry, he's lending advice and experience to the electric vehicle conversion community from his mountain lair in the Pacific Northwet[sic].
AndyT's engineering blog, "Nonlinearities," publishes the 1st and 3rd Tuesday of each month. Andy's OpEd may appear at other times, with fair warning given by the Vu meter pic. His cartoon series, "Inventors", appears each week in Electronic Design Weekly.
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