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Electronic Specifier is reminding companies that the early bird discount for the Electronics Excellence Awards is closing soon, giving entrants just two weeks left to save £100 on their submission. The awards, which return to electronica 2026 following their debut appearance at the show in 2022, will have a winner’s ceremony on the Hall C6 stage on Tuesday, 10th November at 12:30pm.

Mouser Electronics is now shipping the new ESP32-P4X-EYE vision development kit from Espressif Systems. The ESP32-P4X-EYE is a compact, camera-focused development kit designed for smart surveillance cameras, vision model detection, and Edge computing in IoT applications.

Hirose has announced the commercial availability of its high-voltage ZE150HV Series wire-to-board connector. Ideal for electric vehicle (EV) and hybrid electric vehicle (HEV) powertrains, the connector features a 4.5mm pitch and supports 1000V AC/DC, 10A per pin, and operating temperatures up to 125°C. Engineered to meet IEC 60664 standards (Pollution Degree 2, altitude 6,000m), the ZE150HV combines reliable electrical performance with mechanical stability.

Vehicles have always needed to know where they are, but as autonomy advances, the accuracy and reliability of that knowledge becomes increasingly important. Modern navigation systems, therefore, do something more sophisticated than simply calculating a location. They also calculate how confident they are in that estimate. Here, Manuel Del Castillo, VP Business Development at Focal Point Positioning, explains why this is crucial for autonomous driving in urban environments.

At a time when UK employers are receiving an average of 140 applications per graduate vacancy, it’s not surprising that students and their families are worried that a degree alone is not enough to prepare for a post AI job market. In a climate of uncertainty, parents desperately want to know how their children can set themselves apart from the competition after graduation. As a result, universities and business schools are scrambling to offer new AI modules.

RTLS UWB Click board from MIKROE is a compact add-on board designed for high-precision real-time location, distance measurement, and motion-aware tracking using ultra-wideband communication. It is based on the DWM3001C from Qorvo, a two-way ranging (TWR) communication module that uniquely combines a DW3110 UWB transceiver with an nRF52833 BLE SoC and a LIS2DH12 accelerometer for all-in-one tracking solution.

Visible-range lasers are used in applications where spectral quality, stability, and repeatability are critical. In microscopy, spectroscopy, flow cytometry, quantum technologies, and LiDAR, even weak unwanted spectral components can affect measurement accuracy and system performance. Accurate spectral characterisation is therefore essential throughout product development and manufacturing.

Electronic Specifier is celebrating its 20th anniversary in 2026, marking two decades of change across the electronics industry and looking ahead to the technologies, people, and ideas that will shape the next 20 years. The anniversary will be celebrated through a special edition of Electronic Specifier Design, a new film bringing together voices from across Electronic Specifier’s history, and a programme of activity at electronica 2026 – inviting the industry to be part of the milestone.

Electronic Specifier is celebrating its 20th anniversary in 2026, marking two decades of change across the electronics industry and looking ahead to the technologies, people, and ideas that will shape the next 20 years. The anniversary will be celebrated through a special edition of Electronic Specifier Design, a new film bringing together voices from across Electronic Specifier’s history, and a programme of activity at electronica 2026 – inviting the industry to be part of the milestone.

Texas Instruments (TI) has introduced the industry’s first multiaxial coreless Hall-effect current sensor designed for all hybrid electric vehicle and electric vehicle (HEV/EV) traction inverter applications. The TMCS2100-Q1 sensor offers a first-of-its-kind approach to current sensing through the combination of multiaxial measurement and a proprietary algorithm, eliminating the trade-off between precision and system size in traction inverter designs.