Today’s electronic device market is characterized by two conflicting demands: more power, less space. As users come to expect ever more capabilities from ever smaller electronics, electrical engineers are in need of innovative and efficient new solutions for packing more components into shrinking board space. However, this pressure isn’t limited to iPhones, tablets, and other … [Read more...]

It seems that everybody knows that power density keeps increasing, inexorably. How are we going to manage that? In my discussions with otherwise knowledgeable folks, however, it becomes immediately apparent that there's a huge disconnect in what we mean by power. Case in point: someone mentioned to me last week a "1 cm cell phone." Now to be perfectly honest, I'm not really … [Read more...]