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Emerging Leather Alternatives - Mushrooms, Microbial and Lab Grown

IDTechEx explores the incumbent leather market and the motivations behind these emerging alternatives

The Impact of Automation on Additive Manufacturing

The role of automation is becoming more prevalent all the time, with the usage of AI and robotics potentially making the utilization and adoption of additive manufacturing more successful.

Flexible Smartphones: The Sobering Reality

Multiple consumer electronics giants, including Apple, Samsung, and Nokia, have previously shown interest in flexible smartphones. Indeed, it naturally seems like the next step after foldable and curved smartphones have seen development and commercialization in the last decade. However, the path to fully flexible smartphones is far from simple, and the reward for successful development is ambiguous.

Metalenses: The New Key to Computer Vision?

Refractive lenses are one of humanity's oldest and most ubiquitous technologies. They have developed to dizzying levels of sophistication in the last few hundred years, with today's tiny, high-quality lens assemblies found in smartphones often costing less than a dollar to produce.

Electromagnetic Metamaterials Market to Approach US$15B by 2034

Metamaterials use regular engineered patterns of subwavelength structures to interact with waves. Electromagnetic metamaterials promise to have transformative effects within the fields of optics and telecommunications. They could make biometric recognition cheaper and more accurate, make virtual reality more immersive and comfortable, and facilitate high-speed mobile internet with zero signal blackspots, yet adoption is in its infancy.

New Episode of 'Tomorrow's Tech by IDTechEx' Podcast: Quantum

IDTechEx have released a brand new episode of the 'Tomorrow's Tech by IDTechEx' podcast, 'Quantum Computing: Is It the Space Race of the Modern Age?'. Host Shazan Siddiqi and industry expert Dr Tess Skyrme will be discussing the up-and-coming trends in the upcoming quantum landscape.

STMicroelectronics: SiC Advantages and Supply Chain

In conversation with IDTechEx, STMicroelectronics discusses its intentions for insourcing SiC wafers, as well as the potential of SiC, GaN, and Si IGBTs in the automotive market. STMicroelectronics talks about its manufacturing capabilities and its choice of SiC MOSFET configuration.