Top Stories of the Week: Oct. 6-Oct. 10, 2025

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Here are this week's articles on Electronic Design. Keep checking back as more content is added every day during the week. You can sign up for our daily newsletter to see the latest articles as they're posted. Check out the latest newsletters. You can also check out archived versions of Top Stories of the Week. 

Featured Content

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Qualcomm buys Arduino—and a Dragonwing MPU and STMicro MCU now creates the latest board, Arduino UNO Q, with development support for Linux OS and vibe-coded AI solutions.
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Single-pair Ethernet and power over data line offer the capability to transform powering and connecting zonal control architectures.
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Uncertainty is one of the semiconductor industry’s most daunting challenges. This article offers tips on how to develop business resilience.
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Jon Peddie traces the evolution of GPUs from fixed-function pipelines to today’s AI-era shader giants and shows how the improvements have outpaced Moore’s Law.

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Here are our latest videos, podcasts, and quizzes for the week. 

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Monitoring and managing Li-ion batteries is key for extending runtime and minimizing risks like thermal runaway. Test your knowledge of BMS fundamentals.
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What tools do you need to design a software-defined vehicle?
Power Efficient Processor Uses Novel Dataflow Architecture
Efficient Computer’s Electron E1 runs conventional C code on a dataflow architecture.
Blecon Delivers Bluetooth IoT Without Pairing
Blecon modules deliver IoT connectivity without Bluetooth’s traditional pairing.

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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The anode-free electric-vehicle battery could give the Tesla Model Y a 90-mile boost in range.
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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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Piezoelectric MEMS technology can be applied to a range of novel applications, including implementation of a tiny speaker.
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Here are the winners you selected for this year's awards.
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Bourns’ advanced power inductor design provides performance, efficiency, and safety features suited to point-of-load converters and data center environments.
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Sodium-ion batteries that undergo scandium doping, which was shown to significantly improve their stability, could become the greener alternative to lithium-ion in EVs.
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The isolated IGBT/MOSFET drivers offer stable propagation delay in severe thermal environments endured by green-energy and factory-automation applications.
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Enhancing power density inevitably means dealing with heat. Fortunately, advances in material sciences, especially thermal interface materials (TIMs), continue to yield substances...
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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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Learn how adaptive motion-control techniques significantly enhance the accuracy and stability of peristaltic pump-based, liquid-handling systems.
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Altera’s Agilex 5 D-Series FPGA improves performance and boots using post-quantum cryptography.
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A new strategy for manufacturing battery electrodes is said to enable charging in 10 minutes in temperatures as cold as −10°C.

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. 

Will the mistakes of the 5G rollout repeat with 6G? Examining the reasons why 5G underperformed and avoiding the same pitfalls with 6G.
One potential application for Power over Ethernet is connected lighting systems, which play a significant role in smart buildings.
Today is Arduino Day, and it also happens to be Arduino's 20th anniversary. Here are some recent boards to note the occasion.
Using the THz-range resonance of a molecule rather than of atoms led to the development of a clock with nearly the performance of atomic clocks but fabricated as an IC.
Wire and contact resistance, which can lead to voltage drops, will wreak havoc when testing cells. Here are some tips that can help you alleviate those headaches.
Anticipated to arrive by 2028, the PCI-SIG's PCIe 8.0 spec will likely double bandwidth to 256 GT/s to drive next-gen future applications.
The amplifier within a standard A/V receiver can become a fully adjustable, three-phase power supply by adding a general-purpose op amp, a few passive components, and some standard...
This article seeks to show how nonsynchronous converters with discrete catch diodes can still achieve low emissions. It introduces different types of converters, layouts, and ...

Editor's Picks from Other Websites

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. 

Bill Wong's Picks for the Week

How did you do on the Quiz: What Do You Know About Li-ion Battery Management? I didn't get 100% the first time around. 

Here are a few more articles I saw this week that might interest you. 

- Bill Wong

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