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EPDT's H1 2020 IoT & Industry 4.0 supplement now available online

EPDT January 2020 issue (inc. Embedded & Mil/Aero features + IoT & Industry 4.0 supplement) now available online

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ecsn/afdec forecast for UK & Ireland electronic components market points to low growth in 2020

- 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.
- EPDT December 2019 issue (inc. Components & Industrial features + Distribution supplement) now available online (03/12/2019)
  
  This month’s issue, now available in print or digital editions, contains features on Component technologies & Industrial applications, plus EPDT's twice-yearly Electronics Distribution supplement.
- EPDT's H2 2019 Electronics Distribution supplement now available online (03/12/2019)
  
  Included in this month’s EPDT December issue, the second of this year's twice-yearly Electronics Distribution supplements is now available in print or digital editions.
- ecsn electronic components 2019 market update... (02/12/2019)
  
  After a 5-year period of sustained sales revenue growth, global electronic component markets unexpectedly stalled in 2019, and now look likely to end the year with single digit growth at best. Here, chairman of the Electronic Components Supply Network (ecsn), Adam Fletcher reviews industry performance in the first three quarters of 2019 – and shares his thoughts on the likely outcome for the full year & beyond...
- Evolving challenges of powering industrial IoT applications (02/12/2019)
  
  There seem to be no limits for new ideas & potential business models based on evolving IoT technologies & solutions. But, while much IoT attention is focused on consumer electronics, as Florian Haas, Director of Marketing at power supply specialist, TRACO Power, contributing for Digi-Key Electronics tell us, in the industrial environment too, there is rapidly increasing demand for professional IoT applications.
- Engineers among Britain’s most trusted professions, according to Ipsos MORI poll (27/11/2019)
  
  Engineers are the 5th most trusted profession from a list of 25 in Great Britain, according to market research company, Ipsos MORI's latest Veracity Index – the longest-running poll on trust in professions in Britain, having been asked consistently since 1983.
- Semiconductor silicon wafer market to see 5.7% pa growth through 2023, boosted by IoT innovation (27/11/2019)
  
  Sensor-based IoT innovation & the drive toward big data & AI (artificial intelligence) are two factors driving growth in the global semiconductor silicon wafer market, according to a report by BCC Research, “Global Semiconductor Silicon Wafer Market”.
- Project to pave way for first wearable textiles computer, powered by E-yarns (08/11/2019)
  
  T-shirts used as mobile phones might sound like the stuff of science fiction – but a research project led by Nottingham Trent University could turn such future-gazing tech into everyday reality.
- Electronics professionals identify their top design trends for 2020: extending battery life, 5G & sustainability (06/11/2019)
  
  Extending battery life, 5G & sustainability have been identified as the biggest trends driving electronic product design in 2020, according to new survey research conducted at this year’s Engineering Design Show by thermal simulation provider, 6sigmaET.

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