Nolan’s Notes: Finding Your Sweet Spot
Standard of Excellence: Delivering Excellence—A Daily Goal
Knocking Down the Bone Pile: Tin Whisker Mitigation in Aerospace Applications, Part 3
New Year Outlook: Electronics Hardware
February 4, 2016 | Dr. Jennie S. Hwang, H-Technologies GroupEstimated reading time: 1 minute
Five words should capture the essence of electronics hardware going forward: smartness, mobility, connectivity, wearability and innovation.
Thanks to all the innovators! In 2016, electronics will move to a higher level of wearability, connectivity and mobility for IoT applications. This thrust will offer "cooler" products to consumers as well as high-efficiency to businesses, propelling "mobility" to "wearable mobility with connectivity and intelligence." The level of coolness has a lot to do with the ease and convenience of wearability (e.g., the wearable time before recharging the battery). The ability to synchronize the battery technology with the usefulness of electronics will "move and shake" the industry.
The growth and volume of electronics hardware will be driven by mobile devices. High-reliability and high-performance electronics demand new material innovation and better process deployment.
Advanced materials that offer unique properties, be it a polymer, metal or ceramic, to deliver revolutionary performance using layer-by-layer assembly as a versatile bottom-up nanofabrication technique will move forward. This advancement of tuning the materials at the atomic scale in conjunction with multi-scale modeling enables the design of the target material properties, opening breakthrough probability and rewarding application and business opportunities.
Manufacturing, aiming at productivity, will adopt higher levels of lean and modular design, agility, and intelligent automation. Advanced manufacturing including 3D printing will not go unnoticed. In this regard, further technology development will materialize. In addition, increasing number of products/components/parts manufactured by using 3D printing will be rolling out across the industry sectors. In terms of country, China is becoming the largest user of 3D printers.
New development in intelligent robot technology and robot-human interaction to deliver synergistic performance will also make footprints on the advanced technology map.
Editor's Note: This article originally appeared in the February 2016 issue of SMT Magazine.
Share on:
Suggested Items
LITEON Technology Reports Consolidated June Sales of NT$13.6 Billion, Up 16% Y-o-Y
07/08/2025 | LITEON TechnologyLITEON Technology reported its June consolidated revenue of NT$13.6 billion. Thanks to the growth from power management in cloud computing, advanced server, and networking, the revenue is up 2% M-o-M, 16% Y-o-Y. The cumulative sales for January to June totaled NT$76.8 billion, up 24%, Y-o-Y.
Get the ‘Hole Truth’ in New June Issue of PCB007 Magazine
06/16/2025 | I-Connect007 Editorial TeamIn "The Hole Truth," the new June 2025 issue of PCB007 Magazine explores what it takes to build the “perfect” via—and how to ensure its reliability from the start. Featuring insights from Mike Carano, Stefan Rung, Giovanni Obino, and Happy Holden, this issue is packed with expert takes on advanced inspection, precision drilling (yes, we’re talking pico lasers), and whether it’s time to rethink the cross-section.
Cellular IoT Module Revenues Up 13% to $6B in 2024
06/13/2025 | Berg InsightAccording to a new research report from the IoT analyst firm Berg Insight, annual shipments of cellular IoT modules amounted to 514 million units in 2024, up 22 percent from the previous year.
UHDI Fundamentals: UHDI Drives Unique IoT Innovation—Smart Homes
06/03/2025 | Anaya Vardya, American Standard CircuitsThe combination of UHDI's high-bandwidth capabilities and IoT's real-time data processing can lead to more efficient, immersive, and smarter IoT systems. This convergence of two revolutionary technologies is enabling quantum advancements in some very “unconventional” applications.
LITEON Technology Reports Consolidated April Sales of NT$13.4 Billion Up 27% YoY
05/09/2025 | LITEON TechnologyLITEON Technology reported its April consolidated revenue of NT$13.4 billion. Thanks to the growth from power management in cloud computing, advanced server, and networking, the revenue is up 27% YoY.