Top Stories of the Week: Oct. 6-Oct. 10, 2025

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Qualcomm’s Acquisition of Arduino Creates a New Vibe—AI and Signal Processing on the UNO Q

Qualcomm buys Arduino—and a Dragonwing MPU and STMicro MCU now creates the latest board, Arduino UNO Q, with development support for Linux OS and vibe-coded AI solutions.

E-Mobility’s Shift to a More Efficient Future

Single-pair Ethernet and power over data line offer the capability to transform powering and connecting zonal control architectures.

Post-Quantum Crypto Secures FPGA Boot

Altera’s Agilex 5 D-Series FPGA improves performance and boots using post-quantum cryptography.

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A Plan for Strengthening Resilience in the Semiconductor Industry

Uncertainty is one of the semiconductor industry’s most daunting challenges. This article offers tips on how to develop business resilience.

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Here are our latest videos, podcasts, and quizzes for the week.

Quiz: What Do You Know About Li-ion Battery Management?

Monitoring and managing Li-ion batteries is key for extending runtime and minimizing risks like thermal runaway. Test your knowledge of BMS fundamentals.

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.

Panasonic Aims for Anode-Free EV Battery by 2027

The anode-free electric-vehicle battery could give the Tesla Model Y a 90-mile boost in range.

Chip Startup Empower Secures $140 Million to Address AI Power Boom

The funding helps advance Empower’s goal to address the power delivery challenges of the kilowatt-chip era.

Sounding Out Cool MEMS Technology

Piezoelectric MEMS technology can be applied to a range of novel applications, including implementation of a tiny speaker.

EDGE Awards 2025 Winners and Honorees

Here are the winners you selected for this year's awards.

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Shielded Power Inductor Features High Heating/Saturation Current

Bourns’ advanced power inductor design provides performance, efficiency, and safety features suited to point-of-load converters and data center environments.

Scandium-Doping Technique Extends Sodium-Ion Battery Life

Sodium-ion batteries that undergo scandium doping, which was shown to significantly improve their stability, could become the greener alternative to lithium-ion in EVs.

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.

5G Hype vs. Reality: Key Insights to Help Optimize 6G’s Launch

Will the mistakes of the 5G rollout repeat with 6G? Examining the reasons why 5G underperformed and avoiding the same pitfalls with 6G.

Streamlining Smart Buildings with PoE-Connected Lighting

One potential application for Power over Ethernet is connected lighting systems, which play a significant role in smart buildings.

Arduino Day 2025: Celebrating 20 Years

Today is Arduino Day, and it also happens to be Arduino's 20th anniversary. Here are some recent boards to note the occasion.

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 for the Week

How did you do on the Quiz: What Do You Know About Li-ion Battery Management? I didn't get 100% the first time around.

Here are a few more articles I saw this week that might interest you.

- Bill Wong

Timing Resilience from the Ground Up @ Microwaves & RF - The pursuit of resilient timing systems is more critical than ever as the RF spectrum becomes more contested by the day, threatening the performance of devices in the cloud.
Supply Chain Optionality: Reshoring, Nearshoring and Multi-Sourcing @ Supply Chain Connect / Podcast - Rosemary Coates of the Reshoring Institute breaks down the complex world of global trade as she covers tariffs, manufacturing and an unpredictable market.
The hardware problem that is stalling half of all digital transformation projects @ Smart Industry - More than 48% of industrial companies have had to delay or cancel operational improvements because their communications technology was too unreliable or outdated to support them, a new survey shows.
Legacy control panels and the journey of PLC upgrades @ Control Design - When to rip and replace programmable logic controllers and I/O in the panel