Barry Manz

by Barry Manz, Editor, Microwave Product Digest It’s December, which means it is time to look back and assess how the RF and microwave industry performed this year. Before digging into the technical details, however, it is important to recognize a trend I have observed over the last few years: The industry is undergoing a considerable consolidation. Investors have finally found just how important this industry will be in the future, and they’re looking to cash in.

by Barry Manz, Editor, Microwave Product Digest The wireless industry is engineering networks that will fundamentally change what “connectivity” means. 6G isn’t just about faster downloads or smoother video streaming—capabilities that 5G already handles reasonably well. The next generation of wireless technology is being designed to do something previous generations never attempted: become an intelligent, sensing platform that understands and interacts with the physical world around it.

By Barry Manz, Editor, Microwave Product Digest The topic of why America can’t build anything anymore has become very popular recently. In fact, in the last year or so, at least four bestselling books have been written about it. The bestsellers include “Abundance” by Ezra Klein and Derek Thompson, “Why Nothing Works: Who Killed Progress—and How to Bring It Back” by Marc Dunkelman, and “Stuck: How the Privileged and the Propertied Broke the Engine of American Opportunity,” by Yoni Applebaum.