The Electronics Weekly team share some fingerposts – their picks of the week, in terms of announcements, developments, product releases, quotes, or anything else in the wide world of electronics, that caught their eye…
Caroline Hayes, editor
The mind boggles as to how James Watt School of Engineering first came up with the idea for this – Tree gum leads to longer lasting supercapacitors – but finding and using new natural materials is a fascinating mix of nature and science.
David Manners, components editor
What caught my eye this week was Nvidia continuing its remorseless rise to industry dominance with a plan to site an AI server manufacturing line in Texas with an exclusively US-based supply chain..
Steve Bush, technology editor
It is not often that an entirely new sensor is revealed, particularly one that is blazingly fast, but that is exactly what TDK did this week with an optical sensor based on a magnetic tunnelling junction that turns on in 20ps, developed using knowledge gained from the company’s work on hard disc drive read heads..
Alun Williams, web editor
What caught my eye was Northrop Grumman and Intelsat helping to avoid space debris. They are highlighting the first-ever undocking between two commercial spacecraft in geosynchronous orbit with the completion of a satellite life-extension mission. The Mission Extension Vehicle, which gave extended life to Intelsat’s satellite IS-901, was developed by Space Logistics, a Northrop Grumman company. IS-901 is now back in its ‘GEO graveyard’ orbit.
But what caught your eye in the world of electronics this week? Leave a comment below.
