Top Stories of the Week: Dec. 8-12, 2025

Check out the latest stories, videos, and podcasts from the week of Dec. 8, 2025.
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During research for a newly opening museum gallery in Germany, historian Ralf Buelow uncovers the origins of the moniker “Silicon Valley."
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A data center by any other name will generate bits as sweet.
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The 2-stage inverter technology could reimagine electric-vehicle acceleration, torque delivery, and daily driving performance.
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Enter the realm of radiation hardness and space-qualified power system designs that employ gallium-nitride power semiconductors.

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Latest TechXchanges

Our TechXchanges collect together articles, videos, and podcasts on hot-button technologies spanning the gamut of the electronics industry.

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Arduino is an enormously popular platform for Makers and hackers. This TechXchange explores how the venerable Arduino can be used in professional developing.
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Listen to the Inside Electronic podcast series on time-sensitive networking (TSN).
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Check out this TechXchange that examines the compact Zephyr Project RTOS.
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Single-pair Ethernet (SPE) targets embedded applications like automotive and industrial automation.
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RS-232 was a ubiquitous serial interface that still has its uses.

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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Analog Devices’ new suite of design, simulation, and analysis tools accelerate and optimize the process of designing power systems.
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The VC MIPI Multiview Cam combines nine image sensors and an onboard FPGA to provide multispectral and light-field imaging through a single MIPI CSI-2 interface.
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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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The road to creating a blue LED was long and rough, but in 1993, it burst onto the scene. Learn about the struggles and breakthroughs to find the right recipe.
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The NEC infrared protocol can be supported without the need for extra components or heavy coding.
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The single chip can serve as a pack monitor and communications gateway for high-voltage Li-ion batteries in EVs.
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The new technology and foundry collaboration aims to expand U.S. capacity for GaN power devices.
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Is the Portable Stimulus Standard (PSS) living up to its promise of portable verification and validation across levels of hierarchy and platforms?
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Goodbye to fixed-performance lumped-element filters: Programmable MMIC-based units offer flexibility in tiny packages.
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How degradable electronics could alleviate the environmental burden of the world’s e-waste problem.
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Find out where transistor technology is headed, as gate-all-around takes the next step beyond FinFETs.
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This article provides insights into the importance of an IC’s pin failure mode and effects analysis (FMEA) to comply with functional-safety standards such as IEC 61508 and ISO...
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The integrated GaN half-bridge gate drivers bring flexibility and smart protection to a wide range of applications running on industrial or telecom bus voltages up to 220 V.

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 wireless time-sensitive-networking ecosystem will be best served by a coordinated approach that allows multiple application protocols to share wired and wireless links through...
While EVs continue to grow in importance and charging infrastructure is improving, designers still must prepare for transients and other risks from external charging operations...
It’s not enough to have an air-gapped network—that network must be located in a secure facility, too.
Memory infrastructure gets a boost: OpenCAPI and its OMI subset, along with the CXL, ratchet up performance to address near-memory domain bottlenecks, while Gen-Z focuses on rack...
Can we trust AI in our design and products? Electronic Design’s AI Takeover Week explores this heavyweight question.
The meteoric rise of NVIDIA’s GPU technology in accelerating AI has captivated the world and, in the process, given rise to persistent myths. This article tackles 11 of the most...
Standard printed-circuit-board material is technically excellent but non-recyclable. A new material may change that limitation.
Quiescent, fixed-focus imaging will capture still images with no user input or control, other than having to set up the camera to record video motion or images.
Chris Hemsworth attempts to help treat early onset Alzheimer’s with his father by going on a road trip, revisiting past locations and friends.
Using a graphene-based electronic tattoo, standard electronics, and machine learning, researchers have devised a non-invasive, accurate way to continuously measure blood pressure...

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 This Week

Looking for a new technical podcast? Check out Justine Murphy's podcast series looking at vision and imaging technology. The latest is all wet, or at least taking a look at machine vision over and under water. 

Ok, this week has another podcast. I have been listening to Robert Schoenberger over at Industry Week for a while. This one highlights what a lot of Electronic Design developers are targeting with their work. 

While you can check out some of my podcasts in our Inside Electronics series you can also hear me sometimes on WDIY's weekly You Bet Your Garden. I've been on a few times since I have lots of questions about organic gardening. I'll let you find out which episode. You can't do software and hardware design all the time. 

With that, it is time to grind up some more leaves for my compost pile. Enjoy.

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