The view from within the electronics industry – individual comment pieces from people working in the technology sector.
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 ...
A personal viewpoint by Ash Madni, MD Madni Technologies, in an interview with Miles Kirby. Over my several decades in microelectronics, I have always appreciated venture capitalists for their ability to invest in risky projects they envision will become highly successful. My guest is someone I have been following on LinkedIn and greatly admire as one such a venture capitalist. ...
Circularity, once viewed as an end-of-life product concern, is emerging as a powerful lever for extending their useful life, writes Dr John W Mitchell. Smart rings that track your sleep and heart rate, advanced robotics enabling precision surgery, solid-state batteries set to transform how we store power – electronics are at the heart of innovation. Electronics are not just powering ...
The Cyber Resilience Act, due to be in force in December 2027, is an opportunity not an obstacle, but preparation is key, says David Pashley. If you are involved in designing and developing electronic products and embedded systems, no doubt you’ll have heard plenty of discussion in the industry recently around the EU Cyber Resilience Act (CRA). The CRA became ...
Paul Dempsey believes that the US president wants to quickly manoeuvre Greenland into a ‘sweetheart’ minerals deal. US President Donald Trump is in a hurry. Four months into his second term, he is enacting policies with a bumptious bravado that has startled everyone outside his MAGA movement. Greenland Among the more contentious is his acquisitive gaze towards Greenland, the world’s ...
