Semiconductors

The new IDTechEx report, Future Powertrains 2016-2031 concerns the twenty year future of powertrains for land vehicles, including reference to water and airborne vehicles as appropriate.

LG Display is currently the only manufacturer of large OLED panels. But it is not just the rivalry with LG that will drive Samsung to invest in OLED production capacity.

The first industrial robot, Unimate, went into operation at a General Motors plant in 1961. Over the next few decades the use of industrial robot arms in the automotive industry matured.

Ever since Sony launched the first television with quantum dots in 2013, these highly engineered materials have been back in the spotlight.

Advanced microelectronics are moving on from the Moore's Law era to be More-than-Moore. Denser chips have higher internal and external clock rates, and higher power dissipation.

Large investments have been made to enable flexible, thin sensors rather than rigid sensors.

The power electronics business as applied to electric vehicles is becoming so huge that very divergent approaches become viable.

Overheating is the most critical issue in the computer industry.

The new IDTechEx report, "Electric Motorcycles and Three Wheel Electric Vehicles 2015-2025" reveals gaps in the market as e-motorcycles and their three wheel derivatives become a multi-billion dollar market. One gap is the crossover between bikes and motorcycles created as a premium-priced product.

The printed electronics industry shows a huge interest in sensors as it seeks to forget the failures from the past.