Top Stories of the Week: Jan. 19-23, 2026

Check out the latest stories, videos, and podcasts from the week of Jan. 19, 2026.
Jan. 20, 2026
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How the AI boom is quietly creating regional water crises and inflating consumers’ electricity bills.
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What’s being done to reduce the extremely high water consumption needed to cool ever-more-powerful AI data centers? Part 2 delves into the innovative technology and other efforts...
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CES 2026 was a flagship event for anyone shaping the future of transportation.
What was trending in automotive electronics at CES? Some of the standouts were connected vehicles using cellular IoT and satellite communications, centralized computing platforms...
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Switching has almost always meant “hard" switching, which is simple but comes with all kinds of electrical and thermal stresses. Soft switching employs more sophisticated design...

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Latest Ideas for Design

An always-popular section of Electronic Design, these short, focused articles offer innovative circuits and other ideas to help ease design tasks.

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Frederik Dostal explains the rise of the ideal diode and how it can be used to develop more robust power systems.
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This new control-loop architecture, usable with both linear and switching regulators, is designed to generate very low noise voltages and the level of noise becomes independent...
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Different tolerances influence the precision of SMPS output voltage regulation. This article explains the different sources of inaccuracy and shows how the total tolerance range...
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This power-management tip introduces the two different circuits for a positive-to-negative voltage conversion and a negative-to-positive voltage conversion.
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The digital low-dropout (LDO) linear regulator is one of the latest innovations in the power industry, bringing telemetry and adjustability to a linear power supply in a very ...

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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Marelli is bringing one of the most powerful tools for lab-testing EV batteries—electrochemical impedance spectroscopy (EIS)—under the hood.
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A 99.9999% yield is imperative in manufacturing microLED displays to make them economically feasible. Achieving this high yield is challenging, but advanced process control can...
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Designing electronics for a circular economy requires companies to communicate more openly and collaborate more closely, said Accenture’s Teun van Wetten.
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Celebrate VCR Day with a look at the past, how the beloved platform came into existence, and where it ended.

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.

 


 

 

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