Top Stories of the Week: Dec. 1-Dec. 5, 2025

Check out the latest stories, videos, and podcasts from the week of December 1, 2025.
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Battery cell voltage is the most fundamental measurement made on the cell. While on the surface measuring voltage seems easy, challenges and accuracy considerations must be understood...
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DARPA just announced a prize pool of $6.5M to award to teams with the highest-payload drone design.
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Despite a booming global energy market, the U.S. is ceding its economic and technical leadership to other nations. A new report provides a detailed playbook on how to resume its...
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As AI transforms embedded systems, new security risks emerge. Developers must adopt advanced defenses to safeguard against cyberthreats.

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Latest 11 Myths articles

Our collection of 11 Myths articles covers a broad range of topics, with experts from across the industry debunking myths and misconceptions that have emerged about these technologies.

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This article debunks common audio myths, showing how MEMS and modulated ultrasound enable smaller, more powerful speakers with better bass and ANC performance.
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With next-generation superchips operating at 2,800 W and beyond, liquid cooling has become a critical component in data centers and AI factories. This article lays to rest some...
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The meteoric rise of NVIDIA’s GPU technology in accelerating AI has captivated the world and, in the process, given rise to persistent myths. This article tackles 11 of the most...
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Discover the truth about connectivity in multi-dwelling units and whether fiber is required.
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We explore common myths associated with chassis management in a SOSA-aligned system and examine ways to keep embedded systems healthy through a properly implemented chassis-management...

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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A data center by any other name will generate bits as sweet.
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Here are some suggestions for technology-oriented gifts for yourself, friends, or family.
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Treat yourself and other engineers in your life with my personal suggestion gift guide for this year.
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These non-magnetic inductive-sensor interface ICs offer high performance, features, and ease of use via coil-development tools.
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This special report dives into the challenges and engineering solutions behind today’s multiprotocol wireless IoT devices.

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

Make gift-giving a breeze with these gift ideas for that engineer, kid, Maker, electronics hobbyist, or geek who seems to have everything—including socks and sweaters.
From isolation measures to secure and first-stage bootloaders to DOTF, engineers can opt for a range of solutions to better safeguard their MCUs from outside threats.
This article examines the mitigation techniques that allow space equipment to cope with ionizing solar radiation.

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

Hopefully you have read through this table of contents for the week to get here. I always like to find something new and hope you do too. So here's this week's offering. 

The first is from Machine Design. Do you work with motors and gears? I have on occasion so this particular article was useful and informative. 

We talk about artificial intelligence (AI) and generative AI a lot in Electronic Design but here is a different perspective on agentic AI. 

Incorporating security is important when developing embedded, high reliability software. It is important over at Control Design as well.

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