Europe's largest conference for electronic displays and their applications, edC, will take place on 11 and 12 March 2026 in Nuremberg, Germany. Engineers, researchers, users and manufacturers are invited to present their innovative spirit, the key to great displays and systems.

The Continental group sector Automotive has established an Advanced Electronics & Semiconductor Solutions (AESS) organization. This new organization has been established to design and verify automotive semiconductors.

Quantum sensors for prosthesis control, robots that treat lung collapses in flight, the automated production of X-ray scanners or precise skull opening using a laser arm - the trade fair triple with the MedtecLIVE pavilion offered exciting MedTech systems for production, inspection and surgical use.

Renesas Electronics introduced the RA8P1 microcontroller (MCU) Group targeted at Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Machine Learning (ML) applications, as well as real-time analytics.

Crystal Display Systems Ltd. (CDS)partners with PQ Labs bring cutting-edge infrared touch technology to customers across the UK and Europe.

Siemens has finalised the acquisition of ebm-papst's industrial drive technology business announced in March 2024. In future, it will be managed by Siemens under the name ‘Mechatronic Systems’. The portfolio will be integrated under the ‘Simotics E’ brand.

STMicroelectronics has unveiled STPay-Topaz-2, its next-generation contactless payment card system-on-chip (SoC), offering more flexibility to support a wider variety of payment brands and ease stock management for customers.

Skywork´s new families of family of jitter attenuating clocks and ultra-low jitter clock generators enable any-frequency, any-output clock generation and single-IC clock tree solutions for the most demanding networking, data center and industrial applications.

The SPS - Smart Production Solutions trade fair is making further inroads into international markets: In addition to SPS - Smart Production Solutions Guangzhou and SPS Italia, this year sees the debut of SPS - Smart Production Solutions Atlanta and the “SPS Stages” in Bangkok and Kuala Lumpur.

TXOne Networks, a specialist in OT native security, is now working with Bosch Rexroth as part of the partner network ctrlX World. We talked about this with TXOne, represented by Dr Terence Liu and Giorgio Santandrea, and with Bosch Rexroth, represented by Steffen Winkler and Hans Michael Krause.

Effective July 1st, Rohde & Schwarz has acquired ZES Zimmer Electronic Systems GmbH. The privately owned company based in Oberursel with around sixty employees will be fully integrated into the Rohde & Schwarz group. The location will be retained and will stay used for power measurement equipment.