Standards organizations face growing pressure to develop reliable guidance quickly enough to support emerging technologies without compromising quality.

As technology continues to advance at an accelerating pace – turning what once seemed impossible into widely adopted reality almost overnight – it raises questions about how quickly future innovations will emerge. It also prompts consideration of whether this rapid development could eventually make standards impossible to develop in time for implementation or render them obsolete altogether.

Despite rapid advances in artificial intelligence, humanoid robots still face major hurdles in mobility, communication and energy efficiency.

With all the attention, headlines, discussion, expectations, hopes, fears and, yes, hype surrounding artificial intelligence (AI), there is one area that appears far from ready for prime time: humanoid robotics.

Vendors are shifting capacity from traditional PCB materials to advanced dielectrics. They should be increasing both.

I have some good news, and some bad news. (Spoiler alert: This should be a wake-up call to all companies that produce materials and supplies that go into printed circuit boards.)

Growing use of AI in design and inspection workflows introduces internal security risks, as improper tools may expose sensitive data and compromise compliance.

Security has become a major issue for the industry over the past couple decades. Long gone are the times when information could be shared without concern that it would be intercepted, copied or stolen during the course of “normal” operations. Communications technology has changed and evolved, and new threats have emerged. The regrettable result is that security is front-and-center of any company’s day-to-day concerns.