Top Stories of the Week: Jan. 5-9, 2026

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The seductive appeal of in-road inductive charging, which means EVs no longer tethered to fixed charging stations, along with actual small-scale implementation, suggest that it...
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Andy questions the motive regarding the emergence of “Industrial AI” and a fusion reactor startup at this year’s Consumer Electronics Show (CES 2026).
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Discover how leading semiconductor companies are rethinking data sharing and why common fears around IP loss, complexity, and trust may be holding the industry back more than ...
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How the AI boom is quietly creating regional water crises and inflating consumers’ electricity bills.

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Synchronized sensor data is key to time-sensitive industrial control.
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Find out how e-peas’ PMIC supports energy harvesting from two sources.

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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Check out the latest tech at this year's CES from behind the scenes.
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Andy’s back with a CES special edition blog and has an opinion about the revolutionary Donut Lab’s solid-state battery that has made the press and influencers gush.
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After receiving a determination from the Department of War/Defense, the FCC updated its ban on foreign-made drones and components with exemption listings.
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This automotive-qualified analog isolation amplifier tolerates kilovolts and delivers a single-ended ratiometric output voltage.
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Allegro’s ACS37200 200-A Hall current sensor slashes power dissipation with its 50-µΩ shunt, offering 1,400 V of isolation in a compact PSOF package for high-voltage systems.
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These similar power-measurement ICs tackle the often necessary but energy-consuming task of continuous power measurement and alarming.
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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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Real-time hypervisors — the central technology for workload consolidation — enable the safe execution of multiple workloads on a single hardware platform.
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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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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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Rising electricity demand from EVs and AI is stressing a grid built of centralized, rotating generators. Renewables can provide fill the rising demand, but are they “grid friendly...
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Rutgers University's CAIT research center received a grant to test heavy-duty hydrogen fuel-cell trucks from Hyundai Motor Group.
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Nordic's nRF54L brings an NPU and production-ready edge AI tools to Arm and Bluetooth LE designs, integrating RF, sensing, and on-device intelligence.
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A recent study looks at the factors that led to keeping greenhouse emissions in check while the economy more than doubled, and how they might drive the transition to a sustainable...

"Don't Do It" Articles

Though some technologies and processes seem enticing to engage in, these articles point out the pitfalls and why you should avoid them.

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Vibe coding may be taking programming by storm, but it could be a dark day for embedded systems.
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Find out why radial-flux electric motors are becoming more important, especially with the rise of their axial-flux counterparts.
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Complying with these new set of rules and directives will help eliminate coding practices known to be hazardous.
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“The Code is more what you call guidelines, than actual rules,” Hector Barbossa, Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl.
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Building your own robotic arm can be risky, creating dangerous working conditions and ultimately becoming a wasted investment.

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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Defined as the amount of power used by lighting per unit of building area, lighting power density is typically measured in watts/square meter.
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Users are consuming audio from very small devices, but lithium batteries and low-voltage power supplies often can't deliver loud-enough audio. Boosted amps are becoming an increasingly...
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A simple linear voltage-controlled amplifier can be constructed with one op amp and two JFETs. The amplifier can achieve an 80-dB dynamic control range with less than ±0.2% linearity...
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The increasing demands for generative AI at the edge call for new solutions that can achieve high performance within the low-power requirements for edge apps.
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The biggest names in tech are laying out their thoughts on using AI in the tech industry, and how AI will impact the future of the tech industry.
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The system provides actionable insights and is able to deliver diagnostics comparable to those of human subject-matter experts.
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Born in the golden age of arcade games, Pac-Man turned a yellow circle and four quirky ghosts into a global obsession that’s still being played 45 years later.
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By combining optical trapping and frequency combs—two widely used but unrelated developments in advanced physics—researchers devised a way to measure micro-dimensions in opaque...
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Paul Rako had the opportunity to tour Kansas State University’s “TRIGA” nuclear reactor, which serves an educational facility for students and researchers alike.
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Delve into the technical differences between traditional passive charging systems and smart EV chargers that respond to varying conditions in the electric grid.

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