The view from within the electronics industry – individual comment pieces from people working in the technology sector.
As global AI deployment accelerates, the Swiss approach can offer a clear blueprint for how the industry can develop chips and implement AI at scale, writes Alain-Serge Porret. As AI becomes ever more deeply woven into the fabric of everyday life, conversations continue to evolve around the importance of ‘responsible AI’. Those discussions have largely focused on the software itself ...
AI is transforming the next-generation advanced foundry for 2nm chips, thus reshaping the semiconductor industry, writes Rozalia Beica. The semiconductor industry is entering a historic inflection point, one driven by unprecedented demand, geopolitical shifts and the rise of AI. As nations re-evaluate their technology strategies and companies strive to localise advanced manufacturing, the traditional foundry model is being pushed to ...
One of the most significant advances in green transport has come from power electronics, says Chandana Patnaik, as she looks at what impact this may have on the electronics industry. As per the U.S. Department of Energy, the electric drive system accounts for roughly 18% of total energy losses in an EV. This directly places power electronics at the center ...
As global warming continues to burden the planet, sustainability continues to become a growing demand for enterprise and consumers operating in the modern world, writes Matthew Ekholm. In fact, it is clear that the modern consumer mindset is shifting when it comes to purchasing decisions when we note that 54% of global consumers now consider a company’s CSR practices when ...
All companies are at risk when they rely on a single-country manufacturer, but not for the reason you might think, says Marc Witzke. At the end of October 2025, India’s government announced the first $627 million of projects to boost its electronics components manufacturing capacity – only part of the country’s $2.7bn commitment to reducing its import dependencies. From around ...
As the fifth generation to have lived on and worked on her family’s farm in North Dakota, Katie Pinke has seen firsthand the technological evolution that is reshaping the future of agriculture. Manual, time-consuming processes that filled my grandparents’ workdays are now automated and easy to monitor. My 95-year-old grandmother loved the luxury of buying pasteurised milk at the grocery ...
Developing adaptive robotic swarm systems that communicate and act autonomously, remains a challenge, say Samuel Bateman and Chris Froud. Using swarms of drones to autonomously perform critical or labour-intensive missions, such as assembling structures in challenging environments (e.g. field hospitals), monitoring large expanses of agricultural land for pests, structural health surveys, or for security purposes (e.g. intercepting other drones in ...
Products dealing with children’s data should safeguard their data, urges Max Simmonds When my daughter was born, I was struck by a dilemma: I could either buy a basic ‘dumb’ baby monitor that kept our data private but did little more than relay sound and video, or I could buy a ‘smart’ monitor full of AI features that demanded I ...
How can UK electronics businesses get their fair share of the emerging electric vehicle market, asks Geoff Cousins Greek philosopher Heraclitus first coined the phrase, ‘the only constant is change’, which typifies the state of the European car industry right now. And while the shift from internal combustion engines to EV power provides opportunities for UK electronics businesses, they need ...
The ingredients for success in the age of AI are open minds, open code and open collaboration, says Mark Burton The pace of change in artificial intelligence (AI) has been nothing short of extraordinary and it’s now truly embedded in our daily working and personal lives; for better or worse. There are dissenting voices: “AI will take over”; and often ...
