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- 12 electronics industry predictions for 2020 from ByteSnap Design (17/01/2020)
  
  Frontiers in the tech space have continued to expand during 2019 – with advances in deep learning accelerators, smart materials, AI, autonomous vehicles & cloud computing – to name just a few. But what can we expect from the electronics product design industry in terms of growth & trends during 2020?
- How Scrægg serves up healthy scrambled eggs with Schaffner EMC filters (10/01/2020)
  
  Modern cooking appliance manufacturers continue to strive to design more powerful, efficient & innovative products. Consumers are increasingly demanding healthy, high quality food and, at the same time, faster cooking processes.
- Next generation battery materials project exceeding expectations: Project SUNRISE update from Nexeon (06/01/2020)
  
  Nexeon, a UK company developing silicon materials for next generation Li-ion batteries, has reached the halfway stage in its £10million SUNRISE project, and has already produced silicon battery materials that have performed better than expected. Samples are now with potential customers for evaluation – and initial feedback has been very positive.
- STEM Matters: Guest column – Getting to the heart of technology (06/01/2020)
  
  Play is an important part of toddlers’ development and some of the most commonly used toys, like building blocks & puzzles, are based on the principle of assembly & disassembly, to help children acquire dexterity and understand cause & effect. The same idea can be applied to the study of technology.
- EPDT's H1 2020 IoT & Industry 4.0 supplement now available online (06/01/2020)
  
  Included in this month’s EPDT January issue, the first of this year's twice-yearly IoT & Industry 4.0 supplements is now available in print or digital editions.
- EPDT January 2020 issue (inc. Embedded & Mil/Aero features + IoT & Industry 4.0 supplement) now available online (06/01/2020)
  
  This month’s issue, now available in print or digital editions, contains features on Embedded technologies and Military & Aerospace applications, plus EPDT's twice-yearly IoT & Industry 4.0 supplement.
- 12 billion IoT devices – and why design engineers should care... (03/01/2020)
  
  According to Gartner, it was expected that by 2020 there will be more than 12 billion IoT sensors & devices in use. The market is ever growing, with applications in everything from flight path optimisation & tracking production in oil fields to robotic control & vertical farming.
- ecsn/afdec forecast for UK & Ireland electronic components market points to low growth in 2020 (05/12/2019)
  
  ecsn's forecast released today predicts that the UK & Ireland electronic components market will grow in the range -3% to +2% during the first half of 2020, with a mid-point of -1% decline year-over-year.
- PMW develops high altitude motor for year-long flights (03/12/2019)
  
  Providing the motors for an all electric aircraft intended to say aloft for a year at a time was the challenge offered to specialist motor design & manufacturer, Printed Motor Works (PMW) by the aircraft’s designers, Prismatic. The aircraft is the PHASA-35, a high altitude, long endurance unmanned aerial vehicle (HALE UAV) with twin bespoke electric motors directly driving high altitude propellers.

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