January 2025 – Page 14 – ENGGtalks®

As EV Sales Stall, Plug-In Hybrids Get a Reboot

January 6, 2025
Electrical, Electronics & Instrumentation

Automakers got one thing right: Electrified cars are the future. What they got wrong was assuming that all of those vehicles would run on battery power alone, with gasoline-electric hybrid technology bound for the technological scrap heap. Now the automaking giants are scrambling to course correct. They’re delaying their EV…

January 5, 2025
Electrical, Electronics & Instrumentation, Mechanical, Production & Manufacturing

Earlier this year, we reviewed the SwitchBot S10, a vacuuming and wet mopping robot that uses a water-integrated docking system to autonomously manage both clean and dirty water for you. It’s a pretty clever solution, and we appreciated that SwitchBot was willing to try something a little different. At CES…

January 4, 2025
Electrical, Electronics & Instrumentation

This weekend, I’m on my way to Las Vegas to cover this year’s Consumer Electronics Show. I’ve scoured the CES schedule and lists of exhibitors in preparation for the event, where I hope to find fascinating new tech. After all, some prep is required given the size of the show:…

January 3, 2025
Electrical, Electronics & Instrumentation, Mechanical, Production & Manufacturing

Video Friday is your weekly selection of awesome robotics videos, collected by your friends at IEEE Spectrum robotics. We also post a weekly calendar of upcoming robotics events for the next few months. Please send us your events for inclusion.RoboCup German Open: 12–16 March 2025, NUREMBERG, GERMANYGerman Robotics Conference: 13–15…

03 Jan 25

Achieving Successful Timing, Power, and Physical Signoff for Multi-Die Designs

Electrical, Electronics & Instrumentation, Metallurgy & Material Science

Multi-die designs using 2.5D and 3D technologies are increasingly important for a wide range of electronics applications, including high-performance computing (HPC), artificial intelligence (AI), automotive, and mobile. The multi-die architecture enables designers to mix dies from different foundries and technology nodes, including existing dies from previous projects. The resulting density…

January 3, 2025
Electrical, Electronics & Instrumentation

Buried in the inner workings of your laptop is a secret blueprint, dictating the set of instructions the computer can execute and serving as the interface between hardware and software. The instructions are immutable and hidden behind proprietary technology. But starting in 2025, you could buy a new and improved…

January 2, 2025
Computer & Information Technology

Michael Frank has spent his career as an academic researcher working over three decades in a very peculiar niche of computer engineering. According to Frank, that peculiar niche’s time has finally come. “I decided earlier this year that it was the right time to try to commercialize this stuff,” Frank…

January 2, 2025
Electrical, Electronics & Instrumentation, Metallurgy & Material Science

In September, Canon shipped the first commercial version of a technology that could one day upend the making of the most advanced silicon chips. Called nanoimprint lithography (NIL), it’s capable of patterning circuit features as small as 14 nanometers—enabling logic chips on par with Intel, AMD, and Nvidia processors now…

January 1, 2025
Electrical, Electronics & Instrumentation, Metallurgy & Material Science

This story is part of our Top Tech 2025 special report.Methane Measurements for the MassesFrom high above us, satellites track devastating emissions of the greenhouse gases that will alter our climate. So far, their data has been private, shared only with companies or governments. MethaneSAT is changing that. Launched on…

Month: January 2025

As EV Sales Stall, Plug-In Hybrids Get a Reboot

SwitchBot Introduces Modular Mobile Home Robot

CES 2025 Preview: Needleless Injections, E-Skis, and More

Video Friday: Sleepy Robot Baby

Achieving Successful Timing, Power, and Physical Signoff for Multi-Die Designs

This Year, RISC-V Laptops Really Arrive

Reversible Computing Escapes the Lab in 2025

Nanoimprint Lithography Aims to Take on EUV

9 Intriguing Engineering Feats for 2025

Google won two major awards at MWC Barcelona 2025.

Expanding AI Overviews and introducing AI Mode

This MRI Can Run on Batteries

The Tiny Star Explosions Powering Moore’s Law