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    Inside the electronics industry's efforts to create a more circular economy.
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    Industrial

    Can Advanced Recycling Close the “Rare Earth Gap”?

    Oct. 21, 2024
    Advanced recycling technologies offer great promise to reducing North America’s reliance on imported critical minerals. Dr. Ahmad Ghahreman, the CEO of Cyclic Materials, explains...
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    Industrial

    Copper: Conductivity Benefits and Environmental Impact

    Aug. 20, 2024
    Electronic products would not be possible without copper. Here, we discuss copper's vital role in electrification, its impact on the environment, and emerging alternatives like...
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    Power

    The New Era of Energy Harvesting in the IoT

    June 24, 2024
    Energy harvesting offers incredible potential to reduce the IoT’s reliance on batteries and create a smarter, more sustainable planet.
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    The Briefing

    Figuring Out the Carbon Footprint of a Chip

    June 14, 2024
    Infineon is calculating the carbon footprint of its individual products, giving engineers more transparency regarding the climate impact of its chips.
    University of Washington (Seattle)
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    Look Out, FR-4: Recyclable PCBs May be Coming After You

    June 11, 2024
    Standard printed-circuit-board material is technically excellent but non-recyclable. A new material may change that limitation.

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    EC Fans Make Cooling More Efficient and Sustainable

    May 22, 2024
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    Component Reuse: The Key to More Sustainable Electronic Devices?

    March 13, 2024
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    How to Build More Sustainable Electronics

    Feb. 15, 2024
    A new benchmarking tool called the “GreenTool” could help us create more sustainable electronic products in the future.
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    Biodegradable ECG Patch Paves the Way to a More Sustainable Medical Industry

    Feb. 6, 2024
    A new sustainable ECG patch brings us one step closer to creating less single-use plastic waste.
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    Semiconductor Attributes for Sustainable System Design

    Jan. 25, 2024
    Advanced, computationally intensive system topologies for sustainable applications will increase energy consumption through operation at higher power levels and bandwidth. Semiconductor...
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    Intel and Siemens Scope Out More Sustainable Future for Chips

    Jan. 9, 2024
    The joint effort will take a hard look at the negative impact of chipmaking on the environment, with the hope of finding ways to reduce the chip industry’s collective footprint...
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    5 Ways to Improve the Sustainability of Electronics

    Dec. 14, 2023
    New initiatives focused on electronics circularity are putting the pressure on manufacturers to create more sustainable flexible products. This article outlines five plans of ...
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    Engineers Look to Adopt a More Sustainable Approach to Electronic Design

    Oct. 5, 2023
    Avnet’s latest customer survey found that customer demand is driving engineers to embrace more of a “design for sustainability” ethos.
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    The Briefing

    Erasing E-Waste: Is a Circular Economy Possible for Power Electronics?

    Sept. 12, 2023
    Explore the feasibility of a circular economy for electronics in the latest edition of The Briefing. Can Infineon help make it happen using a new biodegradable PCB?
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    Galvanizing the Chip Industry to Go Green

    July 24, 2023
    Schneider Electric wants to help chipmakers curb their ever-expanding carbon footprint.
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    Backing Off Batteries as Our Default IoT Device Power Source

    May 30, 2023
    Small-scale connected devices have long relied on disposable coin-cell batteries as their power source. Now that we’ve got billions of these products, the problems wrought by ...
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