Most products travel a long and winding road from raw material to a customer's cart, and those materials pass through a lot of hands along the way. At each stage of this process, there's a company ...

Abstract: This article discusses future trends in the design of smartphones and other consumer products. The discussion focuses on the importance of integration, which saves valuable PCB space and ...

The shift towards higher levels of component integration is not a new trend, as I noted in a previous blog, but it has taken on increased momentum. (See: Getting Over My New Integration Fears.) There ...