Trouble in Your Tank: Organic Addition Agents in Electrolytic Copper Plating
Marcy’s Musings: Can You Hear the Voices?
Facing the Future: Successfully Navigating the Uncertain Path Ahead
CES 2016 Wrap-Up, Part 1
January 12, 2016 | Dan Feinberg, Technology Editor, I-Connect007Estimated reading time: 9 minutes
CES 2016 is now history and most of us are home, or at our next port-of-call. I have seen various attendance numbers but it’s somewhere in the range of 175,000; it was busy, crowded and impossible to see everything.
In my opinion the main categories this year were:
Autonomous vehicles stole the show. We covered the NVIDIA announcements and the commitment by Volvo to use the new NVIDIA supercomputer in a cigar box for their first autonomous auto offering. Even though it has not been announced, we saw evidence that the NVIDIA PX-2 unit is going to be used in many auto offerings over the next few years. We will continue to cover self-driving cars.
Drones continue to generate a great deal of attention. There were even more models offered by even more companies, but there is a back story that has little to do with the hardware—more on that in my next article.
Of course there is the IoT, the Internet of Things. It is now possible to connect anything and everything, from your underwear to your toothbrush, to your music library and your TV or phone. While there are many new and upcoming connected things, the absolute leaders of the pack are health and fitness devices.
Also ascending in popularity, offerings and uses is virtual and augmented reality. The first commercial units are now available, and a number of concept and pre-commercial units were shown. My opinion is that virtual reality will be popular for gaming and for entertainment, but I predict that the uses for augmented reality will greatly exceed those of VR. AR will be useful for entertainment, and also be widely used for industrial, communications, demonstrations and much more.
3D printing has made great strides lately. This year, we went back to see the folks at Voxel 8. They have made a great deal of progress, especially in the area we are interested in, which is the use of 3D printing to manufacture PCBs. Overall, they have gone from a startup company that had just received its first significant funding to a growing, maturing company that is gaining market share in an exploding industry segment in just one year. (Our interview with one of the founders of Voxel 8 should be live in a week or so.)
Page 1 of 4
Share on:
Suggested Items
INEMI Sustainable Electronics Tech Topic Webinar: Enabling New Life in Storage Devices
04/17/2025 | iNEMIHard disk drives (HDDs) and solid state drives (SSDs) are ubiquitous in electronic products and a large number enter the end-of-life stream prior to their true end of life.
Würth Elektronik ICS at PCIM Europe 2025
04/14/2025 | Wurth ElektronikWürth Elektronik ICS will be exhibiting at PCIM in Nuremberg from 6 to 8 May 2025. The specialist for PCB connection solutions in the high-current sector and inventor of Powerelements will be focussing on power electronics at exhibition stand 337 in hall A6.
LITEON Technology Reports Consolidated March Sales of NT$13.4 Billion Up 22% M-o-M, 24% Y-o-Y
04/10/2025 | LITEON TechnologyLITEON Technology reported its March 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 22% M-o-M and 24% Y-o-Y.
INEMI Sustainable Electronics Tech Topic Webinar: Enabling New Life in Storage Devices
04/07/2025 | iNEMIHard disk drives (HDDs) and solid state drives (SSDs) are ubiquitous in electronic products and a large number enter the end-of-life stream prior to their true end of life.
NUS Physicists Discover a Copper-free High-temperature Superconducting Oxide
03/28/2025 | PRNewswireProfessor Ariando and Dr Stephen Lin Er Chow from the National University of Singapore (NUS) Department of Physics have designed and synthesised a groundbreaking new material—a copper-free superconducting oxide—capable of superconducting at approximately 40 Kelvin (K), or about minus 233 degrees Celsius (deg C), under ambient pressure.