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Industry Weighs in With 2025 Forecasts—Part 1: General Predictions

Industry Weighs in With 2025 Forecasts—Part 1: General Predictions

On this New Years Day, we share 2025 predictions from leading companies in our industry.


News Jan 01, 2025 by Jeff Child
How Times Square’s New Year’s Eve Ball Got Its Sparkle

How Times Square’s New Year’s Eve Ball Got Its Sparkle

The Times Square Ball has come far from its first iron-and-wood model. Here's how the New Year's Eve icon has evolved over the past century.


News Dec 31, 2024 by Luke James
2024’s Top Technical Articles and More

2024’s Top Technical Articles and More

As 2024 comes to an end, we look back on the year's most popular technical articles, industry articles, and projects.


News Dec 30, 2024 by Abby Garfinkle
Casting a Light on Dennis Gabor, Inventor of Holography

Casting a Light on Dennis Gabor, Inventor of Holography

In a remark that aptly foreshadowed his career, the Hungarian-British electrical engineer and physicist famously said, "The future cannot be predicted, but futures can be invented."


News Dec 27, 2024 by Luke James
Happy 50th Birthday to Intel 8080, the Microprocessor That Started It All

Happy 50th Birthday to Intel 8080, the Microprocessor That Started It All

As we reach the end of 2024, we look back on 50 years of the Intel 8080, the first general-purpose microprocessor that could operate independently.


News Dec 26, 2024 by Luke James
Tradeshows Help Make This a People Business—A Look Back at Four 2024 Events

Tradeshows Help Make This a People Business—A Look Back at Four 2024 Events

Merry Christmas! Never forget that our business is a people business. Enjoy this review of four of the trade shows All About Circuits attended this year, and the great people we met.


News Dec 25, 2024 by Jeff Child
How Christmas Became Electrified: An Engineer’s Holiday Tale

How Christmas Became Electrified: An Engineer’s Holiday Tale

While the twinkling lights adorning Christmas trees and homes are a familiar sight at this time of year, their earliest iteration looked quite different than our modern LEDs.


News Dec 24, 2024 by Luke James
Everything Goes Up! Top Trends of 2024

Everything Goes Up! Top Trends of 2024

Three hot technologies are leading the way in continuing the Moore’s Law performance increases that can no longer be achieved by transistor scaling alone.


News Dec 23, 2024 by Dale Wilson
IBM Demonstrates First ‘Multi-Processor’ for Quantum Processing

IBM Demonstrates First ‘Multi-Processor’ for Quantum Processing

IBM divided and parsed the quantum solution into two connected quantum processing units, demonstrating greater processing capability than either individual unit.


News Dec 20, 2024 by Duane Benson
Our 2024 Favorites: Hand-Picked Highlights from the All About Circuits Team

Our 2024 Favorites: Hand-Picked Highlights from the All About Circuits Team

We publish hundreds of articles every year—too many even for our team to read them all. So, we decided to share our favorite 2024 news, technical articles, projects, and podcasts with each other and all of you. Enjoy!


News Dec 20, 2024 by Dale Wilson
Microchip Reveals CAN FD System Basis Chip in Tiny Footprint

Microchip Reveals CAN FD System Basis Chip in Tiny Footprint

The new series brings the power of CAN FD into a more highly-integrated solution.


News Dec 19, 2024 by Jake Hertz
Microchip Unwraps PolarFire Solution Stacks for Imaging and Robotics

Microchip Unwraps PolarFire Solution Stacks for Imaging and Robotics

The new software solution stacks target challenging applications such as smart robotics and medical imaging.


News Dec 18, 2024 by Duane Benson
Infineon and Rohm Advance Schottky Diodes for EVs and Renewables

Infineon and Rohm Advance Schottky Diodes for EVs and Renewables

The latest Schottky diodes can withstand higher voltages and provide enhanced insulation resistance.


News Dec 17, 2024 by Jake Hertz
Nexperia Introduces Tiny Leadless Logic ICs for Automotive Designs

Nexperia Introduces Tiny Leadless Logic ICs for Automotive Designs

Nexperia says the new packaging option provides 75% PCB area savings and supports optical inspections.


News Dec 17, 2024 by Charles Lee
Trio of InnoPhase IoT Collaborations Focus on 4K Wi-Fi Cameras and More

Trio of InnoPhase IoT Collaborations Focus on 4K Wi-Fi Cameras and More

Innophase IoT is teaming up with Ingenic Semiconductor, GreenWaves Technologies, TDK InvenSense to bring engineers low-power, edge AI devices.


News Dec 16, 2024 by Jake Hertz
Synaptics Serves Up Dual-Core SoC for Multiprotocol IoT Connectivity

Synaptics Serves Up Dual-Core SoC for Multiprotocol IoT Connectivity

The new SoC supports Bluetooth Classic, Bluetooth Low Energy, Zigbee, and Thread protocols concurrently on both cores for simultaneous connections.


News Dec 13, 2024 by Jake Hertz
ST Adds ‘Most Powerful ST MCU To Date’ to Edge AI Portfolio

ST Adds ‘Most Powerful ST MCU To Date’ to Edge AI Portfolio

The new MCU brings neural acceleration to edge vision, audio, and other consumer and industrial edge applications.


News Dec 12, 2024 by Duane Benson
Soundskrit to Democratize Directional Audio With New MEMS Microphones

Soundskrit to Democratize Directional Audio With New MEMS Microphones

The company claims the two new MEMS microphone modules incorporate "the world’s lowest-noise directional microphones."


News Dec 12, 2024 by Jake Hertz
Synopsys Unveils ‘Industry’s First’ Ultra Ethernet and UALink IP

Synopsys Unveils ‘Industry’s First’ Ultra Ethernet and UALink IP

Unveiled today, Synopsys' two new IP solutions allow up to a million nodes, each with 1,024 accelerators.


News Dec 11, 2024 by Duane Benson
3 New Connectors Push the Limits of Compact Size and High Performance

3 New Connectors Push the Limits of Compact Size and High Performance

In this final reflection on Electronica 2024, we round up three connectors from Samtec, Attend, and Same Sky Interconnect Group that stood out.


News Dec 10, 2024 by Darshil Patel