Top Stories of the Week: Oct. 13-Oct. 17, 2025

Check out the latest stories, videos and podcasts from the week of October 13, 2025.
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A surface acoustic wave and unique metamaterial easily manipulate light at gigahertz rates.
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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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This year's Nobel Prize in Physics has direct relevance to an electronic phenomenon and a tangible component.
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The story of the first TV shows how a handful of bold experiments and strange contraptions set the stage for the screens we use today.

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Innatera’s Pulsar system-on-chip combines analog and digital spiking neural networks.

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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Discover how manufacturing breakthroughs, rising demand, new applications, and strategic partnerships are set to revolutionize the future of tactile sensors.
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Smart meters face silent data failures from flash wear and power loss. Software-level resilience is the fix.
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Nexperia’s clip-bonded FlatPower package offers a compact and cost-efficient option for bipolar-junction-transistor devices in industrial and automotive settings.
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The next wave of high-efficiency DC-DC converters will reshape power delivery in applications ranging from DC microgrids to EVs to AI data centers.
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With questions surrounding Li-ion batteries being able to meet energy density demands going forward, companies like CATL are turning to sodium-ion alternatives.
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Can hybrid-electric STOL-capable aircraft provide rapid freight, transport, and medevac services to remote conflicts that are difficult or impossible to reach with fixed-wing ...
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The op amp field is crowded, but new entrants offer additional subtle but important improvements.
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The funding helps advance Empower’s goal to address the power delivery challenges of the kilowatt-chip era.
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Organizations are looking closely at the potential advantages of implementing distributed process control, which can provide greater flexibility and adaptability to organizations...
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Alpha and Omega’s high-performance 60-A eFuse boasts low 0.65-mΩ on-resistance plus features optimized for server power rails.
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Uncover how mixed-signal ICs are transforming medical wearables with smaller and more power-efficient sensor integration, enabling real-time health monitoring.
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NVIDIA’s Vera Rubin Compute Tray streamlines liquid-cooled data center implementation.
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Developing your own machine-learning models is easy with TensorFlow.
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ASRock Rack aims to lower temperatures for AI-based industries in collaboration with ZutaCore and its HyperCool waterless system.
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Check out technology on display at the Open Compute Project summit.
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Agrivoltaics 2025 brings together engineers, farmers, and solar industry professionals to explore how this emerging sector will become a cornerstone of sustainable farming in ...

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. 

A while back, I mentioned that we needed a clean test fixture to measure an operational amplifier's input current in the low femtoampere region. But aside from a neat little integrating...
What are the basic principles involved with adding bidirectional capability to EV onboard chargers and the unique capabilities (V2G, V2H, V2V, etc...) they make possible?
The Stackelberg game—a strategic game in economics—involves a leader firm that moves first and then follower firms move sequentially. Such an approach can be applied to power ...
Arduino is an enormously popular platform for Makers and hackers. This TechXchange explores how the venerable Arduino can be used in professional developing.
Can we trust AI in our design and products? Electronic Design’s AI Takeover Week explores this heavyweight question.
What do you really know about selecting mechanical relays and switches? Are they still valid for today’s marketplace? Learn the advantages/disadvantages of mechanical vs. solid...
According to the research team leader, making it happen meant having to “push the boundaries in materials, manufacturing, thermal management, structures and rotordynamics, and...
Innovative fingertip biofuel cells and flexible thermoelectric devices enable non-invasive biomarker sensing and energy harvesting from human skin.
How wireless communication technologies such as Bluetooth LE, RFID, and NFC play a vital role in the Internet of Medical Things (IoMT).
Understanding the problem and possible solutions helps designers produce ICs in which noise performance doesn't hamper functionality.
Floorplanning, I/O placement, pinout, and power-stability issues round out the noise-reduction design considerations.

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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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